Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread

[Richard E]

Various local journos reporting that Hogan is off to Stoke on loan.

[KRS]

Good news if true. We need to shift a few more out on loan or preferably sell.

[Holy Trinity]

Dean said something about things 'aligning'.  I wonder if the Benrahma transfer is linked to swaps or other outgoing transfers being done?  John Percy called it last night and he's not wrong too often.  Benrahma belongs to Brentford, so why wouldn't he train with them?  Tshibola, Hogan, Kalinic and BB perhaps tied up somewhere because Villa have a squad of around 30 first team squad players at the moment.

That was a fake account pretending to be percy.

[Villafirst]

Just concerns me that RHM & now Hogan likely to go on loan and no replacements? Forward options are low on numbers. Surely a striker is coming in?

[algy]

Dean said something about things 'aligning'.  I wonder if the Benrahma transfer is linked to swaps or other outgoing transfers being done?  John Percy called it last night and he's not wrong too often.  Benrahma belongs to Brentford, so why wouldn't he train with them?  Tshibola, Hogan, Kalinic and BB perhaps tied up somewhere because Villa have a squad of around 30 first team squad players at the moment.

I was thinking that, maybe the transfer relies on us getting someones wages off the books.

[KRS]

We should all know how this transfer deadline stuff works by now...there’s 2 days to go and a lot of business to be done by a lot of clubs so I suspect our final piece(s) of the jigsaw are work in progress and may be reliant on other teams transfers happening. This would be consistent with Deans comment about things aligning.

edit: ...and yes, could also involve some of our surplus players being sold, loaned or as part of the deals.

[Dazvillain]

No matter that Mbaye is 28, his scoring stats should make him an exception to our policy of recruitment.
103 goals in 166 appearances....get him

[cdbearsfan]

Various local journos reporting that Hogan is off to Stoke on loan.

Was hoping it would be a permanent deal but at least it's one off the books. Hopefully that means we have another striker incoming, and if Hogan wants to score the goals to keep Leeds/send Small Heath down... all the better.

[Gareth]

Regarding Diagne....does anyone watch any Turkish league football? You hear about Galatasaray, Fenerbahce & Besiktas but is it like Scotland where every other team is poor or is it competitive where you have to earn goals?

[ADVILLAFAN]

Kind of hoping Benrahma still signs for us, he sounds really good.

[cdbearsfan]

There's at least four good teams now. Istanbulspor are an Erdogan vanity project.

I don't know how good the clubs from outside Istanbul are, mind.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Not much between Galatasaray, Instanbulspor, Besiktas and our old friends Trabzonspor last season. Fenerbahce a very distant 6th place.

Worryingly Trezeguet's bunch finished 14th out of 18.

[villadelph]

Kind of hoping Benrahma still signs for us, he sounds really good.

Same. What sound does a footballer make? 

[cdbearsfan]

Kind of hoping Benrahma still signs for us, he sounds really good.

Same. What sound does a footballer make? 

Ker-ching.

[paul_e]

Not much between Galatasaray, Instanbulspor, Besiktas and our old friends Trabzonspor last season. Fenerbahce a very distant 6th place.

Worryingly Trezeguet's bunch finished 14th out of 18.

but they were right up near the top of the league until Galatasaray signed Diagne from them in January, and then they fell apart.