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

[Ian.]

If we end up spending the best part of £50 million on 3 championship players: Cash,Watkins and Swift  , then would you be happy with that?

As long as it wasn't the only business we did.

If the rumours are to be believed that leaves another 70 Million to spend.

[aj2k77]

You have to think logically it would be at least half our budget spent.

[SheffieldVillain]

If we end up spending the best part of £50 million on 3 championship players: Cash,Watkins and Swift  , then would you be happy with that?

As long as it wasn't the only business we did.

To be fair, that's a good point. If we still spent £100m+ on a striker, winger, centre mid and left back then Cash and Swift were just paid for out of cash the owners found down the back of their sofa as speculative signings for the future then yeah ok.

[LukeJames]

Im  skeptical about most of these links, last season pretty much all of our signings came without the press having any prior knowledge. But if there is any truth in the Cash, Watkins, Benrahma, Swift links, then I will find it massively underwhelming and it would feel too me as though we are attempting to build a squad too get out of the Championship.

[The_ads]

Probably the wrong thread really but quite a substantial amount of people said they’d take 17th place last season and those same people are moaning that we finished 17th

[old man villa fan]

I have always felt that, if you do not lose any of your 1st XI players from the previous season, you should be looking for 2 or 3 of your new signings to go straight into your 1st XI.  That way, you should keep on moving forward.  This means that your key signings have to be significantly better than those they are replacing.

[jcsutv]

Probably the wrong thread really but quite a substantial amount of people said they’d take 17th place last season and those same people are moaning that we finished 17th

Maybe that’s a glass half full thing?

[Jockey Randall]

If we end up spending the best part of £50 million on 3 championship players: Cash,Watkins and Swift  , then would you be happy with that?

No. Neither Cash nor Swift improve the first team or even really make the bench substantially stronger (Watkins would). That's what we need to be doing. Is Swift much better than Hourihane or Nakamba? Is Cash better than Guilbert or even AEH (of course he's younger but at the present moment)? Nah, not for me.

I think it's hard to say with Cash. He seems to be similar to Watkins in that he's been converted to a new position last season and has flourished at right back with 3 goals and 5 assists while also being part of one of the league's better defences. It could just be that he's finally found a position he can excel in and this time next year £10m/£12m could look a bargain.

[ozzjim]

A full back that is arguably not as good as Fred, a midfielder that probably won't start. Another week ticks by. We need 3 forward players, probably 4 in truth. The other areas are the ones that actually can wait.

[kieron]

Percy states we're in advanced talks for Cash, £12m.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

What position did Cash play before being moved to right back?

[Richard E]

Winger.

[kieron]

Percy states we're in advanced talks for Cash, £12m.

Hmm, actually, Villareport states that Percy states. However I don't see that on Percy's feed. Villareport has also blocked replies to said tweet.


https://twitter.com/villareport/status/1299421011180425216

[SheffieldVillain]

Percy states we're in advanced talks for Cash, £12m.

Hmm, actually, Villareport states that Percy states. However I don't see that on Percy's feed. Villareport has also blocked replies to said tweet.


https://twitter.com/villareport/status/1299421011180425216

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/08/28/aston-villa-move-ahead-race-sign-nottingham-forests-matty-cash/

[kieron]

Was just going to also post that, cheers SV.