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

[Clampy]

I'm with a lot of others on here that we should be looking to add quality to the starting 11, that does need to happen and I'm sure it will. At the same time, if Smith sees a player who he has previously worked with and thinks may be worth adding to the squad, I think that's fine as well. He saw something in Konsa for example to think he could make the step up and he's not been a bad buy so far.

[Mister E]

From footballwhispers.com:

Swift has played 145 games in the blue and white hoops to date, scoring 20 times. But a closer look into his performances this season shows why there’s far more to the midfielder’s game than simply the number of goals he scores.
For starters, Swift’s record of ten assists in 2019/20 works out at 0.3 per 90 – the 12th most of any player in this season’s Championship. That perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise when you consider just how many chances the box-to-box midfielder creates. He is averaging 2.51 chances created per 90, only bettered by six of his peers in English football’s second tier.
They are extraordinary numbers when you factor in that the England Under-21 international isn’t one of Reading’s most advanced midfielders and contributes defensively as well as simply when the team is attacking. His ball-winning ability in the centre of the park is particularly notable, winning back possession in the middle third of the pitch a commendable 3.96 times per 90.
Swift therefore regularly finds himself on the ball (75.05 touches per 90), distributing it carefully and accurately. That’s not to suggest he is cautious when in possession though. Quite the opposite in fact. One of the playmaker’s most impressive attributes is the accuracy of his long balls, with a success rate of 63.54 per cent putting him inside the league’s top 25 players

[Gareth]

Preparing a bid, so they get together, someone has to get the right piece of paper out, you know the Aston Villa header notepaper because if we sent it on a get well soon card that would not work. Shit, what font shall we use, who we going to address it to, shall we type it then or scan it or put it in the post, a second or first clas stamp.Make sure we use a white envelope.
Don’t put SWALK on the back unless JT is sending it for a Chelsea player.
Fuck Dean when you wrote here is our bid, you forgot to mention how much we are bidding. ..........

Relax, there is no such thing as ‘preparing a bid’ - any article / post that contains that phrase is utter BS - by saying that you are making something up but not committing to anything so tomorrow you can make something new up. 

Nobody knows our business & thankfully those in charge of the purse strings don’t appear to be panicking, if it takes till deadline day but we get the right players we will see the benefits through the whole season not the mad panic to get it done for the first game.

 

[kippaxvilla2]

Preparing a bid is like doing a capex requisition.  You explain the rationale then send it to Risso who rejects it for a typo omission.

[Risso]

I'm with a lot of others on here that we should be looking to add quality to the starting 11, that does need to happen and I'm sure it will. At the same time, if Smith sees a player who he has previously worked with and thinks may be worth adding to the squad, I think that's fine as well. He saw something in Konsa for example to think he could make the step up and he's not been a bad buy so far.

Jota has been a terrible signing though, so he's 50:50 I guess.

[N'ZMAV]

Preparing a bid is like giving the toilet seat a wipe before you sit on it....
All well and good, but if you're constipated, then it's a waste of time

[Damo70]

Preparing a bid is like doing a capex requisition.  You explain the rationale then send it to Risso who rejects it for a typo omission.

Preparing a bid is rather like making love to a beautiful woman. You have to get in there before somebody else does. Yes I have been watching repeats of The Fast Show on UK Gold.

[Clampy]

Preparing a bid is like doing a capex requisition.  You explain the rationale then send it to Risso who rejects it for a typo omission.

Preparing a bid is rather like making love to a beautiful woman. You have to get in there before somebody else does. Yes I have been watching repeats of The Fast Show on UK Gold.

You mean this week, you've been mostly watching repeats of  The Fast Show.

[brontebilly]

Based on the obligatory YouTube clips*....Swift looks a little lightweight for playing regularly in a top division midfield. Any concerns there from our regular Reading watchers? Ideally the type of midfielder we bring in is an upgrade on Nakamba I would have thought to sit next to Luiz and let's the likes of McGinn and Grealish worry less about defending. Better than Lansbury or Jota isn't the benchmark we should be setting.

*YouTube infamously made KEA look a superstar

[LeeB]

Th th th th th th, Ollie Watkins.

[Jon Crofts]

Preparing a bid is like doing a capex requisition.  You explain the rationale then send it to Risso who rejects it for a typo omission.

Preparing a bid is rather like making love to a beautiful woman. You have to get in there before somebody else does. Yes I have been watching repeats of The Fast Show on UK Gold.

You mean this week, you've been mostly watching repeats of  The Fast Show.

Which was nice.

[Mister E]

Based on the obligatory YouTube clips*....Swift looks a little lightweight for playing regularly in a top division midfield. Any concerns there from our regular Reading watchers? Ideally the type of midfielder we bring in is an upgrade on Nakamba I would have thought to sit next to Luiz and let's the likes of McGinn and Grealish worry less about defending. Better than Lansbury or Jota isn't the benchmark we should be setting.

*YouTube infamously made KEA look a superstar

On YT, he looks quite a tough tackler; not lightweight.
Hence my earlier thought that he would be a McGinn type of signing

[OCD]

From footballwhispers.com:

Swift has played 145 games in the blue and white hoops to date, scoring 20 times. But a closer look into his performances this season shows why there’s far more to the midfielder’s game than simply the number of goals he scores.
For starters, Swift’s record of ten assists in 2019/20 works out at 0.3 per 90 – the 12th most of any player in this season’s Championship. That perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise when you consider just how many chances the box-to-box midfielder creates. He is averaging 2.51 chances created per 90, only bettered by six of his peers in English football’s second tier.
They are extraordinary numbers when you factor in that the England Under-21 international isn’t one of Reading’s most advanced midfielders and contributes defensively as well as simply when the team is attacking. His ball-winning ability in the centre of the park is particularly notable, winning back possession in the middle third of the pitch a commendable 3.96 times per 90.
Swift therefore regularly finds himself on the ball (75.05 touches per 90), distributing it carefully and accurately. That’s not to suggest he is cautious when in possession though. Quite the opposite in fact. One of the playmaker’s most impressive attributes is the accuracy of his long balls, with a success rate of 63.54 per cent putting him inside the league’s top 25 players

Nice find. The info I found was just a simple google search. It's encouraging too that Sheffield United have been watching him for some time as their recruitment has been very good for the last few years.

May be nothing to it but if it came to be, I wouldn't be moaning about a lack of ambition or signing championship players or whatever people want to throw at it.

[Risso]

Preparing a bid is like doing a capex requisition.  You explain the rationale then send it to Risso who rejects it for a typo omission.

Preparing a bid is rather like making love to a beautiful woman. You have to get in there before somebody else does. Yes I have been watching repeats of The Fast Show on UK Gold.

You mean this week, you've been mostly watching repeats of  The Fast Show.

Which was nice.

I think we should look north of the border for some value, maybe Edinurgh City's Andrew Black.

Johnny.....

The blackness! The end! Where are we sleeping tonight, Mother? In Father's Grave!  We're not signing anybody again, except for Drinkwater on a ten year contract, and we're swapping Jack for a set of corner flags!

[Toronto Villa]

I'm not going to lie, if our first transfer is a player from a lower half of the table Championship side then I'm very underwhelmed. Who is he supposedly displacing in the side? We don't need anymore players that will be alright filling in for 10-15 games. We need solid, walk straight in to the team improvements who displace current players to the bench.

We finished 17th, stayed up by 1 point and by and large were poor the entire season. Squad players from the Championship aren't good enough in my opinion.

I agree mostly.  We've been linked with Swift from Reading and Cash from Forest this morning.  They might be decent players, and it doesn't really matter what order you get players in I suppose, but if true, it's not much of a statement of intent.  I do wonder if playing for Smith is much of a draw.

They will be playing for Villa. And think of the players we have bought under Sherwood or TSM 1 and 2. We still got good players as much as we wasted those opportunities. I still think we will get our players. Unless like Chelsea you just pay the cash and get on with it the rest of the clubs in the middle and lower down are in the same boat as us. Very few transfers in or out.