Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread

[Damo70]

This is a pretty good and balanced assessment on things so far from Sky if you haven’t watched it

https://twitter.com/lassemange/status/1149702927663194112?s=12

Typical SKY w*nking off over the Vilers, just like every time they were on live last year.

[OCD]

With these players in difficult away games we could play Heaton - Targett - Mings - Engels - Guibert - Luiz - Phillips - McGinn - Grealish - Wesley - Trezeguet.

[dave shelley]

Please excuse my ignorance but, are any of these players mentioned today actually signed?  Genuine question.

[cdbearsfan]

No. Last player we signed was Kozra yesterday. Sounds like the Engels deal is very near completion, I reckon we will hear tomorrow. Luiz may be announced soon, subject to a work permit. But judging by how long Wesley's work permit took to arrive I wouldn't expect to see him stretching the shirt for a few weeks yet. Not sure on whether Trezeguet is likely to happen any time soon.

[dave shelley]

Thanks for that.  Here's hoping.

[cdbearsfan]

According to SSN, Burnley thought our offer for Heaton was "derisory" and we are also interested in an as-yet-unnamed alternative goalkeeper.

[themossman]

I’d be interested to know what it was because to my mind an offer for a 33 year old keeper with 1 year on his contract would have to be pretty low to be derisory.

[PeterWithesShin]

I’d be interested to know what it was because to my mind an offer for a 33 year old keeper with 1 year on his contract would have to be pretty low to be derisory.

We offered Neil Taylor as a swap

[pooligan]

Hopefully the dogheads will suffer in the same way as Burnley did last season ,Playing in the Europa League of a Thursday night and in the league of a Sunday will stretch what is not a very big squad

[clash city rocker]

They say that somedays you can be a pigeon and somedays you can be a statue.  The way our signings are going I reckon this season we will be pigeons.

[villadelph]

I'm itching for a shirt stretch.

[OCD]

Hopefully the dogheads will suffer in the same way as Burnley did last season ,Playing in the Europa League of a Thursday night and in the league of a Sunday will stretch what is not a very big squad

They need to be signing players. Shame their MD's gone then.

[pauliewalnuts]

Haha they've not signed anyone and now members of their board are leaving. They'll be clinging to "The Vile are doing a Fulham or none of these players would be get into our starting XI" more than ever as the panic sets in.

I wonder if their Chinese owners are struggling with the capital flight issue which seems to have buggered all of the other Chinese owners that bought clubs a few years back?

That would be a shame.

I doubt it. They're just about to buy Thomas Cook Travel for £750m.

The Chinese government clampdown on capital moving abroad was not a blanket one, it was aimed at 'frivolous' uses like football clubs.

[CT]

I'm itching for a shirt stretch.

Maybe a train arrival is the new shirt stretch....

[four fornicholl]

We are signing Doug?

The question is who is better at overhead kicks? This guy or the bloke who invented them?

You know what I wish the old bugger had have lived to see the last few weeks happenings at Villa

Me too. I can see and hear him now. He would be well pleased.