Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread

[clash city rocker]

Surely Purslow can get one of his PL ceo mates to fire off a £12m bid to Bournemouth for Mings and then we'll quite happily match it.

And Bournemouth will just reject both. They're not bound to accept any bid, the deal was that if they happen to feel a bid from another club acceptable, they would give us the opportunity to meet it. They might just as easily dig their heels in and hold onto him

But players do have a lot of say these days as to their preferred destinations.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

He's got a great left foot on him, likes to get forward, can defend, is young, is an upgrade on Taylor and is Premier League quality. Ticks the boxes.

Except one, he's too slow according to the Southampton fans. I guess we'll soon find out.

[Brend'Watkins]

An upgrade on Taylor isn’t too hard to find. It’s certainly an area we need to improve.

[Toronto Villa]

He's got a great left foot on him, likes to get forward, can defend, is young, is an upgrade on Taylor and is Premier League quality. Ticks the boxes.

Except one, he's too slow according to the Southampton fans. I guess we'll soon find out.

And I wonder what Bournemouth fans think of Mings? I bet it differs from how we see him.

[Villafirst]

17 million is nothing to our owners, though. And it's nothing in the Premier League these days.

Onwards to the next signing.

Agree. Some people need to realise that the new mega TV deal  has caused a huge surge in transfer fees and wages. John Stones went for nearly £50m from Everton to Man Citeh and he's complete garbage! £20m plus deals in the PL are nothing these days.

[paul_e]

17 million is nothing to our owners, though. And it's nothing in the Premier League these days.

Onwards to the next signing.

Agree. Some people need to realise that the new mega TV deal  has caused a huge surge in transfer fees and wages. John Stones went for nearly £50m from Everton to Man Citeh and he's complete garbage! £20m plus deals in the PL are nothing these days.

I suspected before any signings that we'd end up getting 3-4 players that broke our transfer record, I stand by that, we've got 1 so far and Philips and Butland have both been heavily linked for big fees as well. A lot gets made of Fulham spending £100m but what gets missed is that they probably needed to do it to stand a chance.

[dave shelley]

I don't disagree but, it's the areas in which they spent it that comes into question which is why we need to heed the lessons there and don't just buy for buying sake.  I don't think we will.

[AsTallAsLions]

17 million is nothing to our owners, though. And it's nothing in the Premier League these days.

Onwards to the next signing.

Agree. Some people need to realise that the new mega TV deal  has caused a huge surge in transfer fees and wages. John Stones went for nearly £50m from Everton to Man Citeh and he's complete garbage! £20m plus deals in the PL are nothing these days.

With respect, you say that as if "some people" have paid attention to nothing outside of Villa for the last 3 years, I would say everyone here to a man is aware of the TV deal, Stones, Van Dijk, Pogba and all the myriad ways in which PL football has changed since Villa were last competing in it. I don't think people's ignorance of this stuff is the problem, some of us are just very wary of seeing our club ripped off for average players given what's happened in the past.

[Gareth]

17 million is nothing to our owners, though. And it's nothing in the Premier League these days.

Onwards to the next signing.

Agree. Some people need to realise that the new mega TV deal  has caused a huge surge in transfer fees and wages. John Stones went for nearly £50m from Everton to Man Citeh and he's complete garbage! £20m plus deals in the PL are nothing these days.

I suspected before any signings that we'd end up getting 3-4 players that broke our transfer record, I stand by that, we've got 1 so far and Philips and Butland have both been heavily linked for big fees as well. A lot gets made of Fulham spending £100m but what gets missed is that they probably needed to do it to stand a chance.

And we do too as I think we all knew that Jack & McGinn were the only two we own that we would want in our first XI in the Premier League.

I’d like to get to next summer without being relegated and be in the same place as Wolves & Watford are this year knowing that 1 or 2 better players being brought in is fine.

[SoccerHQ]

Did Targett play much for Southampton last season, everytime I saw them Bertrand was still their regular LB apart from a spell he had out injured.

[AsTallAsLions]

Did Targett play much for Southampton last season, everytime I saw them Bertrand was still their regular LB apart from a spell he had out injured.

I've read 16 league appearances mate, not sure how many were starts.

[brontebilly]

Hopefully Smith is seeing something in Jota and Targett that most of us on here, including myself, aren't seeing. We haven't had much luck with left backs in a very long time.

[SoccerHQ]

Did Targett play much for Southampton last season, everytime I saw them Bertrand was still their regular LB apart from a spell he had out injured.

I've read 16 league appearances mate, not sure how many were starts.

Have to say Yann Valery on other side looks top prospect for them.

[JUAN PABLO]

been work all day

Targett at 14

blimey ive watched him ten times last season and he makes a few Huttonesque   cock ups at the back , does seem very steep .   

Philips would be worth 30 then on this price.   

Ill go back and carry on reading the forum

[AsTallAsLions]

been work all day

Targett at 14

blimey ive watched him ten times last season and he makes a few Huttonesque   cock ups at the back , does seem very steep .   

Philips would be worth 30 then on this price.   

Ill go back and carry on reading the forum

Ouch. That's an indictment...