Summer transfer, gossip, speculation thread

[JUAN PABLO]

Did I just see Blose trying to sign Villalba

Ha ha .. they just cant stop being obsessed with us

[KevinGage]

I'll confess to being one of those massively unconvinced by Jack 2-3 years ago although  don't recall advocating we should cash in, just that he was being over hyped based on what he'd done up to then and needed more end product than just winning a few free kicks.   Which is pretty much what he's done.   Sadly for John's theory I'm not also one of those who doesn't rate Davis.  I think he's a great player and would have scored goals if given a proper run of starts.  I still say the same abut Hogan though. 

Hogan has looked well off the pace for most of his time at Villa.

Davis - for a period  in 17/18 - looked an absolute monster to play against. His impact in the second half of the season fell away, but part of that must have been down to bringing in closer to a sure thing in Grabban.  He looked decent against Brighton when he came on in the season before that - against a centre half pairing that are now supposedly worth £50-60 million.

All that said, I do think at this point in time he would be far better off getting a run of games in the Championship. At 21 years of age, that goalscoring ratio can shoot up fairly lively.

Scott Hogan will be 28 next year. He's about as good as he's going to get.

[Drummond]

Star have us linked with Augustin.

[ozzjim]

Benrahma and Augustin come in tomorrow by the look of them we will have had an incredible window. We will have added skill, pace, strength and guile to our attack, steel and mobility to our midfield, cover and quality to the defence and seriously upgraded our keeper.

Even without them it has been a 9/10 window, but we need an extra couple of bodies in.

[paul_e]

Grealish has said himself his attitude was questionable when he first came through. When we first got relegated this was evident in his performances. It wasn’t ridiculous to have concerns that he was going to be one of those players who didn't live up to his obvious potential.

It’s great that he turned it around and started firing on all cylinders - but it doesn’t mean people who had concerns about him at the time are idiots or that those who didn’t are geniuses.

Totally agree and many of us said the same at the time.  There was a time when Grealish floated around the pitch and went to ground far too easy and wasn't adding a great deal to the team.  People called it as it was at the time.  Since then, we got relegated, he got injured and then came back superbly.  he grew up, was given more responsibility and is now a highly valued player.

I don't think John is criticising the people who had concerns about him needing to become more consistent (the argument there was between people who expected it to happen and people saying it needed to), it was the handful of people who said they'd sell him whilst we could still get decent money who deserve criticism. There were a couple on here and I remember arguing with a few somewhere else as well.

[Sexual Ealing]

With Hogan gone on loan to Stoke, we only have 3 strikers left? Any injuries to them and we're fucked up front!

Calm down.

Panick Buye expected to sign before tomorrow's deadline. All over Twitter.

Bastard. I thought it said Patrick, was just about to google him.

My name is Patrick and I will not hand in a transfer request.

We're going to swap you for somebody really good from smallheàthalliance.com

I've always been a that lot.com fan and it has been a chore to post several thousand times over twelve years to you fanny's.

[john e]

Grealish has said himself his attitude was questionable when he first came through. When we first got relegated this was evident in his performances. It wasn’t ridiculous to have concerns that he was going to be one of those players who didn't live up to his obvious potential.

It’s great that he turned it around and started firing on all cylinders - but it doesn’t mean people who had concerns about him at the time are idiots or that those who didn’t are geniuses.

Totally agree and many of us said the same at the time.  There was a time when Grealish floated around the pitch and went to ground far too easy and wasn't adding a great deal to the team.  People called it as it was at the time.  Since then, we got relegated, he got injured and then came back superbly.  he grew up, was given more responsibility and is now a highly valued player.

but that’s the difference while you saw a player who was floating around the pitch and as you say called it as you saw it
others including me saw a great player in the making

I remember arguing on the Grealish thread at the time with people maybe you who thought he in your words ‘didn’t add a great deal to the team’
Whereas i was watching the best player in the pitch

so I’m  just making the same comparison to Davis
while some see a non scoring player who isn’t good enough and needs to be loaned out
others including me see a great player in the making he’s already a good player and will improve into a very good player for us

anyone can predict things when they’ve happened, it’s seeing them before they’ve happened that’s the key

[wittonwarrior]

Davis when he’s on his game is a great prospect, but obviously not ready for week in week out action at this level.  My own pref would be to get someone like Sturridge or even Tammy back on loan. We need a couple more English football ready players to really kick on.   

[ChicagoLion]

Yeh, some of the comments on here and also at VP about Grealish are pretty embarrassing.

[villabear]

Josh Onomah going to Fulham as part of the Ryan Sessegnon deal. How times change. Remember when we got him on loan.

[Pete3206]

I'm amazed that anyone is interested in Onomah.

[sid1964]

If we can sign  a forward today, let Davis go out on loan for the season, and lets see what he can do at a Championship level side

[Clampy]

I'm surprised that Davis hasn't gone out on loan before now. He hasn't quite hit the the heights of his debut appearance (he was immense that day) but I still think there's a decent player in there. I'm not sure if it will be in the top flight though.

[Dazvillain]

Ben Yedder rumours doing the rounds £30M + , decent scoring record and touted as one of top 10 strikers in Europe . In meantime great to have 2 of our own in this team at the start of today .....

[sid1964]

Ben Yedder - never heard of him, read that he is 29 - I would have thought that with the age of the players we have signed so far this summer (apart from Heaton) this would go against our policy of signing younger players with the potential of a sell on value in the future.