Mahmoud Hassan (Trezeguet) - SOLD

[Mister E]

I think we now have more fans on the social media pages from Cairo than Birmingham.

Expect a pre-season over there next summer

Further fuel for the Blooses to claim that their support is from the authentic B'ham!!
Said in jest, BTW.

[JUAN PABLO]

Must admit some of the comments on YT from Egyptians looks very promising .  They reckon we got a top player . 

Welcome Trev  I mean Trez

[JUAN PABLO]

blimey you are right

the amount of new Egyptian fans posting on AVFC FB and YT etc

bloody el ghazi , theres gonna be some merchadise sold and they love him.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Welcome Mahmoud. I watched his first interview with a smile on my face, and reckon he will be a hero for us. I just have that feeling.

Same here. A winger that can cross, what's not to like. Mentioned it before but watching his highlights, he really does remind me of Luis Figo.

[Edvard Remberg]

blimey you are right

the amount of new Egyptian fans posting on AVFC FB and YT etc

bloody el ghazi , theres gonna be some merchadise sold and they love him.

He has 3.7 million followers on Instagram - assuming our exposure will grow (Aston Villa in comparison has 363K followers)

Villa have 1.2 million on Twitter - Trez has 1.9 millon....

Jeez! What if it is Trez that has signed us?

[brontebilly]

Do we know how the real Trezeguet feels about this Trezeguet ?

It's all very well having a nickname of someone else's real name when it's used informally, but having it on your shirt seems weird to me.

Unless, he's actually changed his name perhaps ?

Sincerely hope he drops the nickname, it's ridiculous

He can be our Hassan, hoping he is a lot more successful than our previous Hassan option out wide (Kachoul).

Good that he is signed earlyish so time to bed in with the squad, I dont think we can expect too much from him early on this season.

Lot of air miles and football played in the off season, tends to catch up with players.

[chrisw1]

I doubt he'll drop the nickname - even commentators have been using it for a while now.  And whilst it may irk our very English sensibilities, if the guy has 1.9m followers on Twitter who are now potential Villa fans, do we really want to fuck about with his name etc just because we don't like it?

[villa `cross the mersey]

Having seen the thousands of Egyptian Hassan fans swarming over Pravda official social media pages, I reckon this could be good commercial business if they all start buying merchandise. He may have millions of fans in the Arabic-speaking world.

And two Egyptian players in the squad, I wonder if Sawiris sphinx we can exploit this as you mentioned.

They'll probably set up a pyramid scheme....

I just hope the club turns a prophet on this signing .....I'll get me cloak

[Toronto Villa]

I love his aggression and acceleration. AEG is the same. Andre Green he is not

[Border villan]

Having seen the thousands of Egyptian Hassan fans swarming over Pravda official social media pages, I reckon this could be good commercial business if they all start buying merchandise. He may have millions of fans in the Arabic-speaking world.

And two Egyptian players in the squad, I wonder if Sawiris sphinx we can exploit this as you mentioned.

They'll probably set up a pyramid scheme....

I just hope the club turns a prophet on this signing .....I'll get me cloak

There are more miles of canal in Birmingham than Suez.

[Mister E]

I love his aggression and acceleration. AEG is the same. Andre Green he is not

And, maybe Green will benefit from having a better class of playr around him in the squad? Lots to learn, if the kid wants to learn.

[Toronto Villa]

I love his aggression and acceleration. AEG is the same. Andre Green he is not

And, maybe Green will benefit from having a better class of playr around him in the squad? Lots to learn, if the kid wants to learn.

He might. But I just doing think he’s that type of player. But he’s had Snodgrass, he’s had AEG. Heck even Bolasie had pace, aggression and a few tricks, just wildly inconsistent. Green for me has ability. It just isn’t PL quality.

[itbrvilla]

'Akhenaten,
Fuck them up'...

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I like the fact he can play on both wings. If El Ghazi fails to step up, we have options, at least until January when we can look to replace. Green has never struck me as a winger. His strength is probably in the middle but would need a partner. Right now that doesn't seem to be how we'll set out. That could change of course should be bring in another striker to play alongside Wesley and one winger.

Green would be cover for the new striker, El Ghazi for Trezeguet, Kodja for Wesley. Though Jota can play on the wing I imagine he's been  bought in for cover for Jack. It's all falling into place quite nicely.

No where's that bloody Brazilian?

[PeterWithesShin]

I'd forgotten about Anwar. ;-)

Yes, I was thinking that Sawiris may have had some influence. Anyway, Hassan has a fair old number of fans.

Do you mean Elmo?