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

[hilts_coolerking]

Watkins done. Who's next?

Looks like we're signing the best players of their position in the championship so Jon Swift or Todd Cantwell next !

I wouldn't mind Cantwell actually.  He's been decent whenever I've seen him, bit of flair and has a bit of mongrel in him too.

[LeeB]

Watkins done. Who's next?

Looks like we're signing the best players of their position in the championship so Jon Swift or Todd Cantwell next !

I wouldn't mind Cantwell actually.  He's been decent whenever I've seen him, bit of flair and has a bit of mongrel in him too.

I think Cantwell is going to be a very good player indeed.

[chrisw1]

Watkins done. Who's next?

Looks like we're signing the best players of their position in the championship so Jon Swift or Todd Cantwell next !

I wouldn't mind Cantwell actually.  He's been decent whenever I've seen him, bit of flair and has a bit of mongrel in him too.

I think Cantwell is going to be a very good player indeed.

Me too, he's an excellent prospect, but not really a priority position assuming we keep Jack.

[maidstonevillain]

Watkins done. Who's next?

Looks like we're signing the best players of their position in the championship so Jon Swift or Todd Cantwell next !

I wouldn't mind Cantwell actually.  He's been decent whenever I've seen him, bit of flair and has a bit of mongrel in him too.

I think Cantwell is going to be a very good player indeed.

Buendia first please. Instead of Benrahma.

Edit. Quote fail.

[Clampy]

Watkins done. Who's next?

Looks like we're signing the best players of their position in the championship so Jon Swift or Todd Cantwell next !

I wouldn't mind Cantwell actually.  He's been decent whenever I've seen him, bit of flair and has a bit of mongrel in him too.

I think Cantwell is going to be a very good player indeed.

Me too, he's an excellent prospect, but not really a priority position assuming we keep Jack.

That's a point I was going to make. Where would he play?

[chrisw1]

He's the sort of player an established PL team like Everton could pick up and use as a quality squad option.  We just don't have that luxury at the moment.

[OCD]

If we did go in for Cantwell, I'm not sure I could bare all the speculation about Jack leaving that it would bring.

[ozzjim]

Benrahma or Buendia and King. Now we have Watkins and when back Wesley down the middle, a utility forward like King, and a proper creative winger like Benrahma or Buendia transforms our attacking play from last season.

Then see what we have left and go all out for a quality number 8.

Martinez in goal would be a cherry, but I would sooner have the cake sorted.

[paul_e]

I like Cantwell but I don't see where he fits. He's similar to Grealish in that it's hard to work out where he'd be best but comes with the disadvantage that he's not good enough to build a team around (yet, he will be very good in a few years) whereas Jack clearly is.

[Mister E]

Sanchez went downhill stupid fast. He played a wonderful cross field pass on his debut and never did anything similar again.

I've said it a number of times on here, but Sanchez is the worst player I've ever seen play for us.

We've had some absolute stinkers in the last ten years.  Sanchez was awful, but I at least did see him have some decent games for his national team.  Tonev didn't even look like a real footballer, and will probably turn out to be an unemployed plumber from Jaywick Sands who pretended to be a Bulgarian winger for a laugh and to see if he could get on TV.

I'm still scarred from the 5-0 at Arsenal where the ball seemed to bounce off Sanchez's shins every few minutes (between Arsenal goals). Perhaps I ought to re-evaluate and just say that it was the worst performance I've ever seen.

Sanchez was a strange one. At the same time he looked so poor for us he looked a completely different player at international level. I remember he played a great game marking Messi in a Colombia v Argentina game.

For what it's worth, Rudy Gestede is the worst player I've seen in a Villa shirt, and I've been watching Villa since the really dark days of the late 1960s.

Drinkwater for me- and I've been watching since the dark days of the 1960's!
Gestede and the Twins is also a good shout, though.

[Mister E]

Benrahma or Buendia and King. Now we have Watkins and when back Wesley down the middle, a utility forward like King, and a proper creative winger like Benrahma or Buendia transforms our attacking play from last season.

Then see what we have left and go all out for a quality number 8.

Martinez in goal would be a cherry, but I would sooner have the cake sorted.

Buendia would be neat.
I still think L-Cheek would be a valuable addition .... SJM still isn't looking up to pace yet.

[Risso]

I like Cantwell but I don't see where he fits. He's similar to Grealish in that it's hard to work out where he'd be best but comes with the disadvantage that he's not good enough to build a team around (yet, he will be very good in a few years) whereas Jack clearly is.

Assuming Jack stays as one of the forward attacking players, you'd play Cantwell with Luiz and a decent replacement for Nakamba as the midfield 3.  Luiz can put a shift in as well as playing some quality football, so no chance the midfield would be left a bit lightweight.

As it stands that would then give us:

Heaton/Steer/Nyland
Cash Konsa Mings Targett
Nakamba
Cantwell Luiz
Trez Watkins Jack

A massive improvement on last year, with better strength in depth with the likes of Guilbert, Elmo and Hourihane as decent options from the bench.

[danno]

So McGinn out Cantwell in?

[Risso]

So McGinn out Cantwell in?

Yep.  Haven't been very impressed with SJM for quite a while, even before his injury.  He was largely awful after the break.

[Des Little]

Benrahma or Buendia and King. Now we have Watkins and when back Wesley down the middle, a utility forward like King, and a proper creative winger like Benrahma or Buendia transforms our attacking play from last season.

Then see what we have left and go all out for a quality number 8.

Martinez in goal would be a cherry, but I would sooner have the cake sorted.

Saved me typing my preferred list out! Agree with all of this.