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

[sickbeggar]

well  who cares if he's 29. if they stay in the premiership its money well spent. plus he's not really a striker. the point i'm making is a top  performer from spain and portugal joined a team coming up from the championship. There are forwards who score regularly  in france, spain, germany, italy at smaller clubs than valencia who are gettable

[Risso]

Now this puts our wondering about paying £25m for Watkins into perspective.

Wolves have broken their transfer record to sign 18-year-old Fabio Silva from Porto for £35.6m.

That Silva guy looks damn good. Very pacy and takes shots early, he reminds me of Fernando Torres in the early 2000's.

He might become a good player but can you imagine the outcry on here if we spent 35m on a striker who has scored one goal in the Portugese league.
Alun Evans and Luke Moore had both scored hattricks in the top division as teenagers.This could backfire bigtime on the Dogheads.Can they afford a 35m reserve or such an inexperienced striker to lead their attack ?

I guess they're still going to have Jiminez leading their attack, and the new lad will be his understudy.

[ozzjim]

Agree. I think Watkins gives you a bit of both, so you can sign 3 players in those areas rather than 4 to give similar depth, but if we only got a winger and a striker it's the bare minimum providing Jack stays. Ideally you don't want to put that sort of pressure on Watkins to immediately adapt either, which is why Wilson actually makes a fair amount of sense too. I guess this is the moment Lange and Purslow earn their money, can they attract players over other similar clubs in terms of potential league placing next season.

[pauliewalnuts]

We need a striker capable of getting into double figures.  Wesley may well have done that, and might be again but we don't know when he's going to be back, and then how long it will take to be up to speed after the injury.  Neither Samatta or Davis are capable of it.  Then you need your other attacking players to chip in as well.  Jack did his part, and Trez wasn't far off, but El Ghazi was massively wanting.  An out and out striker and an attacking player who can play wider or up front are the bare minimum we need then.

Exactly.

And worth remembering, this to improve on a squad which managed to stay up only by pulling off one of the great escapes, and spent the last seconds of last season crowded around a radio on the pitch at West Ham waiting to see if we'd survived.

We need to be much better than that next season.

Wolves are showing ambition. I don't give a toss if it is to do with Mendes, but they have a talented squad which is significantly better than ours. This is Wolves, ffs, not Spurs or Everton or some other club we used to compete with, it's the fucking Dingles.

[sickbeggar]

yeah, i have no problem with watkins as long as its not just him.. IF the money is there then i don't see a problem with buying him and a striker from abroad with  top level experience just below 30 or just past it.  Together i make that 50m. If on the other hand watkins is this years golden punt  because we haven't the money then lets hope Smith gets it right

[Louzie0]

If Callum Wilson lands, great for the recruitment team, hope he is what we need.
Quoted as preferring Newcastle.
I hope we have a brilliant Premier / international  option to get in as well.

[ozzjim]

But that's where you would hope we would still ensure we had scouted well to get pace into the squad in the wide areas so we can cause different problems next season. At this moment it looks very disjointed, but it might all be fine and come up good in the next 4 weeks.

As Paulie rightly stated, huddled round a radio relying on other results to stay up. Others just above us are strengthening.

[Goldie.7]

Now this puts our wondering about paying £25m for Watkins into perspective.

Wolves have broken their transfer record to sign 18-year-old Fabio Silva from Porto for £35.6m.

That Silva guy looks damn good. Very pacy and takes shots early, he reminds me of Fernando Torres in the early 2000's.

He might become a good player but can you imagine the outcry on here if we spent 35m on a striker who has scored one goal in the Portuguese league.

Maybe true, but he's actually only played 216 minutes. Divide that by 90 equals one goal in 2.4 games, which is pretty decent. I'll bet money on him becoming good, he's playing with Jota, Jimenez and Traore.

[sickbeggar]

to be honest i'm not sure i'll live long enough to see us pay 35m for anyone.

[aj2k77]

Another week closes and still nothing. Shambles.

[OCD]

Except Matty Cash.

[dave17]

We need a striker capable of getting into double figures.  Wesley may well have done that, and might be again but we don't know when he's going to be back, and then how long it will take to be up to speed after the injury.  Neither Samatta or Davis are capable of it.  Then you need your other attacking players to chip in as well.  Jack did his part, and Trez wasn't far off, but El Ghazi was massively wanting.  An out and out striker and an attacking player who can play wider or up front are the bare minimum we need then.

Exactly.

And worth remembering, this to improve on a squad which managed to stay up only by pulling off one of the great escapes, and spent the last seconds of last season crowded around a radio on the pitch at West Ham waiting to see if we'd survived.

We need to be much better than that next season.

Wolves are showing ambition. I don't give a toss if it is to do with Mendes, but they have a talented squad which is significantly better than ours. This is Wolves, ffs, not Spurs or Everton or some other club we used to compete with, it's the fucking Dingles.

to be fair to them the have recruited well. Talented younger players and some proven talent. We got lucky that grealish came through. The harsh reality is without him we’re in a miserable spot. To get near the top six we need to upgrade everyone outside of grealish and perhaps mings.

If only we’d kept hold of that Drinkwater chap

[steamer]

please, dont tell me Drinkwater has gone !
And I doubt the sanity and would not want anyone who says they prefer Bruce and the Toon to us.

[dave17]

please, dont tell me Drinkwater has gone !
And I doubt the sanity and would not want anyone who says they prefer Bruce and the Toon to us.

https://shop.avfc.co.uk/en/aston-villa-away-shirt-2019-20-womens-with-drinkwater-4-printing/p-2323766297928520+z-967-4028474488?_ref=p-DLP:m-GRID:i-r0c0:po-0 the memories

[bjfoster]

I haven’t read all of the other comments so apologies if I’m repeating others.

I’m not usually one to panic but I’m getting slightly worried now, as we sit here two weeks before our first game and only a £15m Championship right-back purchased.

For all the noise of needing reinforcements after the final whistle against West Ham, we still haven’t got the quality in to ensure we don’t struggle next season.

No way can we start the first game with Samatta up front, even I’d fancy getting more shots on target than him. If this Watkins fee was going to be dragged out, we should have moved in ages ago. Same with any other targets. I hope Villa manage to prove us wrong and get people in, but I’m starting to not see it happening.