Jacob Ramsey

[Rigadon]

4 out of ten, sorry bore out of ten.

Haha, carry on doing you, Clampy. 

[Rigadon]

Just had a quick peek at a Newcastle forum and they're pretty excited over there. Probably just happy to have found someone out there finally willing to sign for them.

They should be, they're signing one of our most exciting prospects. 

[Tony Daleys Shorts]

Unfortuantely - this is what football has become.  Its shit - and is basically just the latest installment into turning Premier League Football into WWE Wrestling.  It isnt the same sport that any of us fell in love with. 

The problem is it isnt actually a sport anymore, its light entertainment.  Content.  Football isn't measured by homegrown talent, or fairness, or the quality of the game.   Its measured in likes and clicks.  They want any kind integrity removed from it so it can be packaged and streamed to as many people as possible. The world wants to see Man Utd v Liverpool every week.  And we're just bit part players in the story.   

I don’t get this ‘modern football is shit’ angle. Since when have we not sold our best players?

[Clampy]

We don't know the ins and outs of this deal or the circumstances surrounding it and I get the point PWS makes about losing someone who's come through the ranks. He's very good on his day but we're not losing a world beater. I don't think we'll miss him much personally, mainly because its all been pretty much stop start with him. Let's just hope it helps us bring another couple in.

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

An agent can be very persuasive in these instances but a football club must draw a line when it comes to players demands. Good luck to him but I think he might do more sitting on the bench than playing.

[LeonW]

Ultimately, I think the club were not convinced enough about Ramsey to give him what he wanted and Ramsey was not convinced enough by what he was offered that his future was with Villa. That’s reflected in his status and output over the last 2 seasons. I’m not surprised tbh and the fee is good for where he has been for the last two seasons and his contract status. The real question will be who ultimately wins this one. We haven’t really been stung on the sales front. Targett, Grealish, Ings, Duran, Diaby, Luiz; I think we’ve won on all fronts and been smart. But this one could be different.

[Brazilian Villain]

Here are your top 20 (from Transfermarkt - in euros)

1   Amadou Onana   €59.35m
2   Moussa Diaby   €55.00m
3   Ian Maatsen   €44.50m
4   Emi Buendía   €38.40m
5   Ollie Watkins   €34.00m
6   Pau Torres   €33.00m
7   Leon Bailey   €32.00m
8   Diego Carlos   €31.00m
9   Lucas Digne   €30.00m
10   Evann Guessand   €30.00m
11   Jhon Durán   €29.50m
12   Danny Ings   €29.40m
13   Donyell Malen   €25.00m
14   Wesley Moraes   €25.00m
15   Tyrone Mings   €22.30m
16   Darren Bent   €21.50m
17   Philippe Coutinho   €20.00m
18   Bertrand Traoré   €18.40m
19   Emiliano Martínez   €17.40m
20   Douglas Luiz   €16.80m

some names on there you quickly gloss over

No Matt Cash there either.

[andyh]

Unfortuantely - this is what football has become.  Its shit - and is basically just the latest installment into turning Premier League Football into WWE Wrestling.  It isnt the same sport that any of us fell in love with. 

The problem is it isnt actually a sport anymore, its light entertainment.  Content.  Football isn't measured by homegrown talent, or fairness, or the quality of the game.   Its measured in likes and clicks.  They want any kind integrity removed from it so it can be packaged and streamed to as many people as possible. The world wants to see Man Utd v Liverpool every week.  And we're just bit part players in the story.   

I don’t get this ‘modern football is shit’ angle. Since when have we not sold our best players?

I think the modern football angle has some validity.

When a club is as well run as ours, when it has wealthy owners who want to invest and make us the very best we can be, but there are pathetic financial rules that prevent us operating as we want, then it feels that the modern game is bollocks.


And then to compound the problem, you have a number of clubs who can spend money like it’s going out of fashion.
And then you have Man City !!!!!!

[N'ZMAV]

11   Jhon Durán   €29.50m


wrong

[Somniloquism]

Just had a quick peek at a Newcastle forum and they're pretty excited over there. Probably just happy to have found someone out there finally willing to sign for them.

They should be, they're signing one of our most exciting prospects.

Although some were giving it the £40mil for 2 goals and injury prone/ we can do better.

As with our signings, the show reel accompanying him would get lots excited.

[villadelph]

Just had a quick peek at a Newcastle forum and they're pretty excited over there. Probably just happy to have found someone out there finally willing to sign for them.

They should be, they're signing one of our most exciting prospects.

I like JJ, but he's 24 and a known commodity at this point.

[TopDeck113]

Always disappointing to see one of our own go, especially one who has shown that he can cut it on the big stage.  However, I'm in the "it's probably good for all parties" camp.  I don't doubt he'll have a purple patch at some point, which will see much wailing ang gnashing of teeth on these pages, but I'd rather imagine that over the piece, his Newcastle career will look not dissimilar to his time in the Villa first team squad: a few highs interspersed with injuries and bench-warming.

[john e]

Just had a quick peek at a Newcastle forum and they're pretty excited over there. Probably just happy to have found someone out there finally willing to sign for them.

They should be, they're signing one of our most exciting prospects.

Although some were giving it the £40mil for 2 goals and injury prone/ we can do better.

As with our signings, the show reel accompanying him would get lots excited.

I bet Baileys show reel makes him look like Ronaldinho

[PeterWithesShin]

He's 24 with more than 150 first team appearances, he's not a prospect. 4 years ago he was a prospect.

[Percy McCarthy]

Unfortuantely - this is what football has become.  Its shit - and is basically just the latest installment into turning Premier League Football into WWE Wrestling.  It isnt the same sport that any of us fell in love with. 

The problem is it isnt actually a sport anymore, its light entertainment.  Content.  Football isn't measured by homegrown talent, or fairness, or the quality of the game.   Its measured in likes and clicks.  They want any kind integrity removed from it so it can be packaged and streamed to as many people as possible. The world wants to see Man Utd v Liverpool every week.  And we're just bit part players in the story.   

I don’t get this ‘modern football is shit’ angle. Since when have we not sold our best players?

Since before Trevor Ford went I think.

But we’ve done better at bucking the trend recently. Tielemans, Kamara, Watkins, Martinez and Rogers are our best players and we haven’t sold any of them (yet).