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Offline Damo70

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1980 on: August 10, 2020, 09:49:31 AM »
Petrov turned himself into a very good holding midfielder whilst at Villa under MON. Kevin Richardson also did a great job in the role for a few seasons under BFR. Des Bremner was excellent in the role as part of the side that won the league and European Cup.

Offline Dick Edwards

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1981 on: August 10, 2020, 10:21:46 AM »
Benteke available for £8m according to the Daily Mail.

Offline TonyD

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1982 on: August 10, 2020, 10:38:04 AM »
Bloody quiet. 

Offline AsTallAsLions

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1983 on: August 10, 2020, 10:45:45 AM »
I forgot how tedious the transfer window was.

Offline frank black

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1984 on: August 10, 2020, 12:43:53 PM »
Benteke available for £8m according to the Daily Mail.

We’ve got Keinan.

Offline mr underhill

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1985 on: August 10, 2020, 01:00:51 PM »
the last thing we want is two non-scoring forwards

Offline rob_bridge

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1986 on: August 10, 2020, 01:04:26 PM »
Defo no for Benteke.

Online Stu

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1987 on: August 10, 2020, 01:11:15 PM »
Bit quiet, but players are on holiday still, I suppose. Grealish and McGinn's bromance continues, going by the formers tweet yesterday.

Looking at other clubs, only Man City and Southampton have done much so far.

Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1988 on: August 10, 2020, 01:24:20 PM »
Petrov turned himself into a very good holding midfielder whilst at Villa under MON. Kevin Richardson also did a great job in the role for a few seasons under BFR. Des Bremner was excellent in the role as part of the side that won the league and European Cup.

Townsend was excellent at it aswell. Doubt we'd sign that type nowadays with our transfer policy, think he was 30 when we got him from Chelsea.

Offline Toronto Villa

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1989 on: August 10, 2020, 01:24:36 PM »
It’s hard in the market right now. Man City can just lash out whatever they want so we can eliminate them from conversation and Chelsea after not being able to sign anyone were always going to get in some early deals. For most of the rest, season isn’t done for certain players, just got done for others. Window closes in October so will see lots of deals done well into the start of the campaign. We need to start well, but we also need to continue what we were doing at the end of last season. Be defensively strong and resolute while we address the forward options. If the season started tomorrow I think we’d be fine doing that, but we just need to make sure we fix the key areas prior to the windows closing.

Offline WilliamStanding

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1990 on: August 10, 2020, 01:39:29 PM »
There’s been more pandemics in the last two years than goals between Benteke and Davis.

Offline RamboandBruno

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1991 on: August 10, 2020, 02:17:06 PM »
Petrov turned himself into a very good holding midfielder whilst at Villa under MON. Kevin Richardson also did a great job in the role for a few seasons under BFR. Des Bremner was excellent in the role as part of the side that won the league and European Cup.

Townsend was excellent at it aswell. Doubt we'd sign that type nowadays with our transfer policy, think he was 30 when we got him from Chelsea.

Out of sheer boredom I’ve been watching some extracts of old seasons in the early to mid 90s, lately, a bit of trip down memory lane from my late teens/early twenties. That first season Townsend came, 93-94, he was excellent. Even though we lost too many games at home and only finished 10th compared to the heights of 2nd the season before, he looked fairly dynamic from that deep role, more than I remember, and got some important goals too, last minute winner at Arsenal, happy days those! And yes he was 30 when we signed him, must of got 3-4 seasons out of him though. Love someone of that Ilk now

Offline aldridgeboy

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1992 on: August 10, 2020, 04:23:02 PM »
Sky are reporting that Sancho is staying with them for this season.
This can’t be good for us keeping Jack 😒

Offline AsTallAsLions

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1993 on: August 10, 2020, 04:33:18 PM »
Sky are reporting that Sancho is staying with them for this season.
This can’t be good for us keeping Jack 😒

Probably not, but it does mean United will be increasingly desperate now.

If you believe what's written in the press (pinch of salt time), they won't pay Dortmund's asking price of £109m for Sancho or our asking price of £80m for Jack.

If that holds any truth we should wind them up by telling them that the price for Jack is now £109m and will increase with every day that they don't meet it, due to the lost time in us finding a replacement.

Fuck the fuckers.

Offline WRVilla

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1994 on: August 10, 2020, 04:49:18 PM »
Why should we bend over and allow them to buy our best player for a generation just because they failed with their preferred option?
Selling Jack now would be a big setback in so many ways - he is worth far more to us than he is to them. There’s probably never been a better time to tell them to get lost and prove to everyone that we aren’t here to make up the numbers and hand over our best players when the ‘big clubs’ come calling. And also to get their media buddies to go and wind up some other club for a bit!

 


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