collapse collapse

Please donate to help towards the costs of keeping this site going. Thank You.

Follow us on...

Author Topic: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread  (Read 864389 times)

Offline cdbearsfan

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 61464
  • Location: Yardley Massive
  • I still hate Bono.
  • GM : 03.02.2025
Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2055 on: August 11, 2020, 01:32:18 PM »
He isn't the "wow" signing I'm hoping for, tbh.

Offline Ads

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 39424
  • Location: The Breeze
  • GM : 17.04.2024
Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2056 on: August 11, 2020, 01:50:07 PM »
Anyone else sub to The Athletic? Article there reckons we're looking to raid Brentford rather than Juventus.

Says we're hopeful of getting him for less than £20m and that we will be more agressive with ages and fees.

Offline AsTallAsLions

  • Member
  • Posts: 8521
  • Location: Everywhere
Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2057 on: August 11, 2020, 01:56:22 PM »
I don't honestly understand our obsession with age. I get it in theory, but it doesn't really work in application does it? Who are we more likely to get a decent fee for, in the current market - Davis, or Samatta? Obviously the latter

We were crying out for experience last season and missed out on it due to the strategy of signing younger potential almost exclusively. Are we really going to make that same mistake again?
« Last Edit: August 11, 2020, 02:09:01 PM by AsTallAsLions »

Offline john e

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 19207
  • GM : 28.06.2024
Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2058 on: August 11, 2020, 02:12:50 PM »
He isn't the "wow" signing I'm hoping for, tbh.

I wouldn’t be holding your breath for that mate

Offline ozzjim

  • Moderator
  • Member
  • Posts: 29983
  • Location: Here.
  • GM : 30.08.2022
Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2059 on: August 11, 2020, 02:15:57 PM »
I think Watkins is the one that could be the most use though. Quite quick, scores a few from out wide, decent down the middle. Ideal utility forward that would cover all 3 front positions to a better level than what we have.

I would still want a good winger and a starting centre forward though. And a box-box midfielder. And a centre half. And a left back lol....

Offline Ads

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 39424
  • Location: The Breeze
  • GM : 17.04.2024
Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2060 on: August 11, 2020, 02:16:17 PM »
I'd rather take Watkins than Benrahma. He's got pace and strength, plus versatility.

Offline Damo70

  • Member
  • Posts: 30877
Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2061 on: August 11, 2020, 02:17:10 PM »
It's a no for me on Ramsey.

We have to stay well clear from players who may either see Villa as a step-down or their last paycheque. Paying stupid amounts for players in their twilight years has been very much part of our downfall over the years. The likes of Lescott, Richards, Ireland and Pires, to name but a few.
When such names as Ramsey or Lingard are mentioned I put those players in the same bracket of the above and would probably show a lack of motivation too, yet still command a big salary.
exactly how I see it.

That is how I see it too. Plus the fact that in eleven years at Arsenal Ramsey played 262 games and missed 156 games. Admittedly some of those absences were when he wasn't picked but most of them were because he was injured. And given that he turns thirty in a few months his injury issues are not going to improve much.
« Last Edit: August 11, 2020, 02:19:47 PM by Damo70 »

Online Dave P

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 14070
  • Location: The Ditch
  • GM : PCM
Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2062 on: August 11, 2020, 02:38:11 PM »
Davis, or Samatta? Obviously the latter

Are you trying to write a poem?

Online Border villan

  • Member
  • Posts: 1253
  • Location: Guarding Offa's Dyke.
  • Carrying out missionary work on the Welsh border.
Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2063 on: August 11, 2020, 02:40:11 PM »
When looking at the age of signings we should remember that God was 29 before he first put on a Villa shirt and he turned out to be a fair signing.

Offline mike

  • Member
  • Posts: 2236
Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2064 on: August 11, 2020, 02:42:34 PM »
He isn't the "wow" signing I'm hoping for, tbh.

I wouldn’t be holding your breath for that mate

I think that is very sound advice.

Offline AsTallAsLions

  • Member
  • Posts: 8521
  • Location: Everywhere
Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2065 on: August 11, 2020, 02:46:10 PM »
Davis, or Samatta? Obviously the latter

Are you trying to write a poem?


Freestyle innit 😏

Offline OCD

  • Member
  • Posts: 32543
  • Location: Stuck in the middle with you
    • http://www.rightconsultant.com
  • GM : May, 2012
Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2066 on: August 11, 2020, 02:47:00 PM »
I'm not fussed about 'wow' signings. I would rather see good signings that gel quickly and fit the side well.

Online Sexual Ealing

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 18857
  • Location: Bulgaria
  • GM : PCM
Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2067 on: August 11, 2020, 02:49:26 PM »
I'm not fussed about 'wow' signings. I would rather see good signings that gel quickly and fit the side well.

You boring git!

Offline mr underhill

  • Member
  • Posts: 8493
Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2068 on: August 11, 2020, 02:55:25 PM »
You knw the silly season is at hand when we are yet again linked to Sturridge and Borini

Offline OCD

  • Member
  • Posts: 32543
  • Location: Stuck in the middle with you
    • http://www.rightconsultant.com
  • GM : May, 2012
Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #2069 on: August 11, 2020, 03:14:19 PM »
I'm not fussed about 'wow' signings. I would rather see good signings that gel quickly and fit the side well.

You boring git!

:) Wow signings generally underwhelm. We've barely survived one season in the Prem, it's a bit early to be getting ahead of ourselves. Solid/decent/boring signings is what we need to be making and are more realistic. I don't see us signing some galactico on £200k+ pw for some time yet.

 


SimplePortal 2.3.6 © 2008-2014, SimplePortal