Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread

[dave.woodhall]

If the rags are entitled to 20% sell on clause for Butland, it’s time to look elsewhere.

Why?

Would you really want a deal to be rejected just because another team gets part of the fee ?

If it’s those fuckers then yes.
I’d rather have Heaton anyway.

That's the sort of thing you'd expect from them.

[UK Redsox]

If the rags are entitled to 20% sell on clause for Butland, it’s time to look elsewhere.

Why?

Would you really want a deal to be rejected just because another team gets part of the fee ?

If it’s those fuckers then yes.
I’d rather have Heaton anyway.

So I take it that you also think Villa should not have signed Jota

[Damo70]

I would much prefer Butland to Heaton. Good luck to Small Heath when it comes to mounting a promotion challenge with the sell on clause, but I won't hold my breath.

[cdbearsfan]

Butland is my top choice, too.

[AsTallAsLions]

I like Steer a lot and I think he'll continue to improve under Cutler, but I've come around in a big way to the idea of a new GK. Not because of anything Steer has/hasn't done in pre-season, but I love the look of our spine for this season and I think a strong experienced PL goalkeeper would round things off perfectly.

Either Butland or Heaton would do for me, seeing Jack's stats from the last couple of seasons gave me food for thought on him. Would understand if we went for Heaton for financial reasons though. Really depends on the fee.

[UK Redsox]

Tish to Doncaster ?

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/24-year-old-aston-villa-man-poised-to-make-efl-switch/

[AsTallAsLions]

Mitch Clark to Leicester has me quite disappointed tbh. Given where we are now, we need to be holding on to our prospects, and he looked like one who might do well for us in the future.

[paul_e]

Is Walter Benitiz a real person ? The Wiki page is a bit sparse to say the least

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Daniel_Ben%C3%ADtez

If he's not real then give me a fake goalie any day:

[VILLA MOLE]

I thought after Trezeguet.  Purslow said 2 or 3 more in so I don't think we will get both a new striker and a keeper

[paul_e]

I thought after Trezeguet.  Purslow said 2 or 3 more in so I don't think we will get both a new striker and a keeper

That really depends on if he was counting Luiz as done at that point though, given the deal was pretty much done and got announced not long after I don't think we can say for sure. At a guess I'd say Marvellous was probably the 'or 3' and a striker and keeper were always planned.

[not3bad]

Former Aston Villa defender Mitchell Clark has joined Leicester City.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/leciester-city-mitchell-clark-signs-16653691

[SoccerHQ]

Technically it's Leicester under 23s. He'll play for them and get a loan spell to championship and get the odd call up to first team if they have injuries.

Was disappointed we released him so interesting move for him.

[Duncan Shaw]

myself and my lad were talking about Clark on Saturday at the game, both disappointed in letting him go and interesting that a PL club has signed him up, albeit in a "wait and see" sort of way.  Surely we could have done that?!

[danno]

Obviously the story was in THAT rag, but why would Birmingham being due 20% of any transfer fee for Butland be a stumbling block?

Is there any reason (if we were that petty) why we couldn't make the initial fee nominal, and then pay the bulk of the money via add ons?

[SoccerHQ]

Obviously the story was in THAT rag, but why would Birmingham being due 20% of any transfer fee for Butland be a stumbling block?

Is there any reason (if we were that petty) why we couldn't make the initial fee nominal, and then pay the bulk of the money via add ons?

Stoke probably wouldn't accept that sort of arrangement. If the fee was 20m, they'd probably want about 15m upfront.