Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread

[Toronto Villa]

£91 MILLION so far... NINETY ONE MILLION POUNDS.

I said a while back that I thought we might spend something in the £130-150m range. Might not be too far off. We will ask a couple I imagine but the net spend will be something that a year ago was beyond our wildest dreams.

[PeterWithe]

It’s an incredible, obscene amount of money but, when chatting before the play off game,  most said we’d need to spend that kind of money to have a squad with any chance of competing.

[Steve67]

If we sign these two, we still need a keeper and right winger, probably another 25 mill.  I reckon we will do north of 150 mill.

[Toronto Villa]

What we are doing is creating a very solid base. I don’t think any of the players we are buying are above our station so to speak. We are not lashing out money on players that are luxuries. The most we have spent on any one player remains Wesley. When you consider that Leicester have spent more than that twice already and West Ham once let alone Spurs/Man City shows we are filling vital needs. Now it would be nice once all the key buys are made to get in one top player but I’m just as happy if we keep on the path we are on. Let’s get ourselves sorted again as a PL club before taking our signings to the next level.

[Villafirst]

91 million is small change to our mega rich owners! If Naseef Sawiris needs a bit of family help he could tap into the Sawiris family wealth which stands at $42 billion! A mind boggling figure!

[Ad@m]

91 million is small change to our mega rich owners! If Naseef Sawiris needs a bit of family help he could tap into the Sawiris family wealth which stands at $42 billion! A mind boggling figure!

Sadly FFP is specifically designed to stop Naseef from dipping into his gazillionaire fortune.

[ktvillan]

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.

Yep, well pleased that someone else is paying.

[chrisw1]

If we sign these two, we still need a keeper and right winger, probably another 25 mill.  I reckon we will do north of 150 mill.

We need another striker.  Having spent this much money I can’t believe we’d be prepared to gamble our season on Wesley hitting the ground running, which to me seems unlikely.

[Toronto Villa]

How different does this look to just a few weeks ago? And with more to come the opening day line-up at Spurs will feel quite new in many ways

So if nothing changes between now and August 10th my prediction would be as follows:

STEER
GUILBERT
TARGETT
ENGELS
MINGS
DOUGLAS
MCGINN
GREALISH
EL GHAZI
JOTA
WESLEY

SUBS

ELMOHAMADY
KONZA
KODJIA
HAUSE
GREEN
KALINIC
LANSBURY

We are still light as a squad in midfield and up front, and I expect a new keeper to be signed also. So it's possible that line up has up to 2 changes and on the bench 1 new face.

[paul_e]

How different does this look to just a few weeks ago? And with more to come the opening day line-up at Spurs will feel quite new in many ways

So if nothing changes between now and August 10th my prediction would be as follows:

STEER
GUILBERT
TARGETT
ENGELS
MINGS
DOUGLAS
MCGINN
GREALISH
EL GHAZI
JOTA
WESLEY

SUBS

ELMOHAMADY
KONZA
KODJIA
HAUSE
GREEN
KALINIC
LANSBURY HOURIHANE

We are still light as a squad in midfield and up front, and I expect a new keeper to be signed also. So it's possible that line up has up to 2 changes and on the bench 1 new face.

Hourihane from the bench as the first replacement is fine, I reckon Konsa is cover for DM as well as CB and Jota will be the cover for Grealish so we're ok in there, especially if the Trezeguet rumour is right.

[Toronto Villa]

Holy cow how did I forget Conor? Yes him over BB and Lansbury every time

[Richard]

Good team that and it contains 5 of the play off final starting XI so some continuity.

I'd say Targett, Engels, Douglas and Jota are upgrades on Taylor, Axel (just), Conor and Albert.

Guilbert or Elmo pretty equal.

Tammy over Wes at present which is why I'd like just one more signing to be another striker.

[aldridgeboy]

I’m not sure If this counts at ITK.

BUT

I’m randomly in a bar with the Burnley players in
Portugal. Joe Hart is one of them. He reckons Tom Heaton is a  done deal.he Certainly he isn’t here with then.

[aldridgeboy]

[aldridgeboy]

Just in case you think I made it up ^^