Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread

[Mister E]

Here is an obvious lazy piece of journalism with a twist: the journo actually agrees that we're not doing a Fulham.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/who-scored-blog/2019/jul/11/aston-villa-mistakes-fulham-summer-transfer-window-signings#comment-130970349

[Mister E]

If Engels signs, I'll get de cartes out and pick him up myself.

[garyshawsknee]

Here is an obvious lazy piece of journalism with a twist: the journo actually agrees that we're not doing a Fulham.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/who-scored-blog/2019/jul/11/aston-villa-mistakes-fulham-summer-transfer-window-signings#comment-130970349

I follow him on Twitter, he's a Villa fan, pretty knowledgeable, article is spot on.

[eamonn]

Who or what is Bjorn Engels? Centre back apparently. Hope he Marx his opponent well.

Who or what is Bjorn Engels? Centre back apparently. Hope he Marx his opponent well.

The best Walker Brothers/ABBA covers crossover you never knew you wanted to hear.

[jwarry]

I've never seen anything to convince me that Robinson is anywhere near a Premier League player.

Me neither but I bet he’s still cost them a fortune so let’s hope we have a sell on clause 🧐🤔🙄

[jwarry]

Clickbait suggesting we are in for Ryan Woods if we can’t get Phillips. Funny isn’t it, 2 years ago I would have snapped their hand off but now I’m not sure he’s good enough!

[oldtimernow]

Can someone summarise Allan's post with emojis please? I'm late for a meeting

Happy to oblige;

 

All clear now? 

Haha, well done

ideal for those with limited attention spans too

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Can someone summarise Allan's post with emojis please? I'm late for a meeting

Happy to oblige;

 

All clear now? 

Haha, well done

ideal for those with limited attention spans too

Can I get it on Kindle?

[AsTallAsLions]

For those who care or read into these things - Phillips is currently on the field for Leeds and wearing the captain's armband.

[SoccerHQ]

The positive in me says, great signings we really are building a something good here. The other (smaller) bit is thinking, are we just building a really good Championship squad?

I'll be honest, I am a bit worried about that, too.

I had the same conversation last night.
Every single player we have signed so far ( except Targett), plus most of the existing squad, needs to make a massive step up in standard.
Whilst I am delighted with the signings so far, we really need a couple of quality, experienced players.

It pains me to say it but players like Sturridge and (really sorry) Delph could do a job for us.

It's clear we're building in stages. First season is to stay up (comfortably I hope) and you can do that even if many of your 11 haven't played much in premier league, Burnley and Brighton shown that in last 3 years.

We can still add proven experience with the keeper and defensive midfielder. I'd also like a proven top level striker in as we're very light on cover and to me it's a risk just to rely on Wesley straight away given the hit and miss of strikers signed from Dutch and Belgian leagues down the years.

Going forward and for people expecting us to be competiting for top 4 in 3-4 seasons then we would need to up the stakes and go out and sign the best players from some of our premier league rivals as Man. City did to us a decade ago. That's a long way ahead of course.

[Nastylee]

Delph signed a contract...

[SoccerHQ]

I've never seen anything to convince me that Robinson is anywhere near a Premier League player.

He was having a pretty good season for PNE up to November last year and then did his hamstring which kept him out for four months.

Sheffield United having a similar strategy to us, Wilder likes signing players on the up and with something to prove. They also signed Luke Freeman from QPR who's been a decent player in the championship for couple of years now.

I give them more chance of staying up than Norwich who'll be exposed defensively in premier league imo. And they'll struggle in home games with lack of 15 minutes injury time.

[Steve67]

We really need a solid central midfielder in.  Probably two of them.

[AsTallAsLions]

We really need a solid central midfielder in.  Probably two of them.

Yep. And Bjarnason and Angela out the door.

[Steve67]

I wonder if Ipswich might want to spend their Mings windfall on James Bree.   We could throw Nyland in for free?