Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread

[SaddVillan]

BBC Sport's website is carrying a story that Chelsea want to raise £65m from player sales to fund the purchase of Declan Rice from Wet Spam.

Time for a Bid for Tammy Abraham?

[Jon Crofts]

BBC Sport's website is carrying a story that Chelsea want to raise £65m from player sales to fund the purchase of Declan Rice from Wet Spam.

Time for a Bid for Tammy Abraham?

£65 million? The world has gone mad, Declan Mince more like.

[Percy McCarthy]

Davis is a very accomplished target man, something that some players never learn, I’m confident he will be a very good Centre-forward one day, as long as he stops being so injury prone.

[WilliamStanding]

My postman is an accomplished talker and is a lovely chap - I still however require him to post letters in the correct doors.

[exigo]

Most players are on holiday. Can't see any big transfers for a week, then it'll probably be a revolving door job for most clubs.

[Risso]

Davis is a very accomplished target man, something that some players never learn, I’m confident he will be a very good Centre-forward one day, as long as he stops being so injury prone.

And works out what the white posts with the net hanging off them are.

[Border villan]

Bournemouth job gone. Terry remains with us ....... for now.

[Dante Lavelli]

BBC Sport's website is carrying a story that Chelsea want to raise £65m from player sales to fund the purchase of Declan Rice from Wet Spam.

Time for a Bid for Tammy Abraham?

What’s Loftus Cheek like? 
Did well at Palace, getting into the England squad and might be available considering how many other options they have.

[Damo70]

Bournemouth job gone. Terry remains with us ....... for now.

The Bournemouth job is a poisoned chalice in my opinion. Their fans have got used to Premier League football and they will want a swift return to the top flight. But in reality they are a small club even by Championship standards like Luton, Millwall, Rotherham and Wycombe. They will have the parachute payments but I think it might be a long road back for Bournemouth and they may struggle to go back up quickly. I also think their managerial appointment lacks ambition given the amount of proven Championship managers there are around.

[Randy Gurner]

BBC Sport's website is carrying a story that Chelsea want to raise £65m from player sales to fund the purchase of Declan Rice from Wet Spam.

Time for a Bid for Tammy Abraham?

What’s Loftus Cheek like? 
Did well at Palace, getting into the England squad and might be available considering how many other options they have.

A Tammy & Loftus Cheek double swoop would as impressive as it is unlikely, unfortunately.

Loftus Cheek alongside McGinn, in front of Luiz, is right up my straße

[jwarry]

Can’t see any signings for a couple of weeks as the owners have said they want a review of what happened last year and the new team will need to get their heads together so I guess  we need to be patient

[eamonn]

Davis has all the hall marks of a top centre forward?

I think he's confusing him with Silva.

Leaves defences more stationary than a birthday card.

how does a birthday card leave stationary?

Mine have been on the mantelpiece for almost six months.

[Border villan]

Davis has all the hall marks of a top centre forward?

I think he's confusing him with Silva.

Leaves defences more stationary than a birthday card.

how does a birthday card leave stationary?

Mine have been on the mantelpiece for almost six months.

I have some pieces of silver that have hallmarks and like Kienan they are better outside the box.

[SoccerHQ]

Considering the season starts in a few weeks, business seems slow. Been two weeks since we confirmed survival. Announce something exciting please Villa.

We need to remember there's still plenty of teams in CL and europa. Let's say we did seriously want Tammy back then we need to wait for Chelsea to finish their season. Then he'll be on holiday for a few weeks. I'd like to think we'll be targeting 2-3 players from teams currently playing in europe.

In normal teams I think this period is a bit like mid June when there's either an international tournament on or loads of players are away on holiday.

I assume we're back in training on Monday August 17th so think business will pick up significantly from that point and we'll sign a player or two that week or before.

At worst we start the new season with the same squad and I'm sure we could pick up a win or two and a few draws like we did in the run in.

[andyh]

Declan Rice.
Now there’s a player I wish we were able to go for.
Might be a year or two yet though.