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

[Steve67]

The only thing I ever look at on Twitter is John Percy's one, as he tends to be pretty reliable

I wish he'd post a few more times about Villa. 256 pages and nothing close to a signing at the moment.  I'm sure we are preparing, weighing up, getting ready to make bids this week though.

He posted yesterday about being in advanced talks with Forest for Matty Cash with a £12m bid made and Watkins probably going through this week, so hopefully the first two are incoming very soon.

I hope that he tweets about us signing a good quality defensive midfielder quite soon as well then.

[PaulWinch again]

Douglas Luiz is pretty good.

[kippaxvilla2]

Shucks £100k per week. 

[gpbarr]

Leeds and Everton making impressive moves last 24 hours. Hopefully we will catch up but concerns remain about what’s going on behind the scenes

[robbo1874]

I don't see the point in predicting the number of goals scored by individuals because it doesn't really matter much.

If we play the same 433 we did after the lockdown then 10-15 from the defence, similar from the midfield and 20-30 from the striker/wingers gets us to the 50-60 goals that normally sees you safely into midtable.

After all this is a transfer thread about bringing in specific players as well as the specific positions.

This thread is 99%+ made-up nonsense as it is year after year.

as low as that do you think ?

99.99%+ would have been more accurate.

we usually have 1 or 2 reliable ITK posters as I recall. Although I guess with the risk of deals getting hijacked there may be tighter security around info leaking from clubs these days. Even the hacks don’t seem to have much inside track anymore.

[robbo1874]

Leeds and Everton making impressive moves last 24 hours. Hopefully we will catch up but concerns remain about what’s going on behind the scenes

Deano did an interview on VillaTV last week where he talked about postponing a holiday to Scotland so he could sit down with Lange, map out the plan for the season and identify the kind of players he wants. Presumably Lange isn’t just sitting in his office playing Solitaire?

[gpbarr]

They can talk and plan all they like - just like the game itself, results are all that matters. And so far with a week before the start of the season, the results are what’s concerning. Yes it could all change this week but the facts are that several of our competitors have got business done and we have not

[aj2k77]

Nixon is running a story tomorrow. 

We are offering £70k per week to beat Fulham to Watkins.  We are still interested in Benrahma and Henry. And apparently we are going to offer £10k per week for Jack to stay.

Leeds and Everton making impressive moves last 24 hours. Hopefully we will catch up but concerns remain about what’s going on behind the scenes

Deano did an interview on VillaTV last week where he talked about postponing a holiday to Scotland so he could sit down with Lange, map out the plan for the season and identify the kind of players he wants. Presumably Lange isn’t just sitting in his office playing Solitaire?

Well I hope the mapped plan wasn't just former players he's worked with at Brentford because if they were that good they would have been promoted at some point and a team full of Championship players tends to end up in one place.

[brontebilly]

There doesn't seem to be a queue of clubs trying to kick down the Palace door to sign Zaha this summer. Might be gettable for us at a reasonable price and a bit of a statement signing. His pace on the counter attack would be a significant asset.

[paul_e]

On the most recent evidence a team full of championship players finished 9th.

[aj2k77]

On the most recent evidence a team full of championship players finished 9th.

I assume you are referring to Sheffield, who finished 2nd in the Championship and got promoted as opposed to Brentford, who didn't because they weren't good enough.

[SoccerHQ]

Dean's always signed lots of  his old players. At Walsall he signed about 3 who'd been on loan two years before although of course minimal budget there.

At Brentford he quickly got in Rico Henry and Romaine Sawyers and here he's already signed Jota and Konsa. Didn't realise Swift was on loan at Brentford.

Pros and cons to it like any transfer strategy. He obviously likes to get in players who already knows his ways but it does limit things in a way MON's buy British approach did in the long run.

Still he'd argue after last summer and half of the signings probably not being his choice he's earnt the choice to have more say in targets this summer after keeping us up.

[eamonn]

I'm dubious about the story saying we're offering huge wages to Watkins in order to ward-off Fulham. He is reported to be happy to rejoin Dean and I wager the obstacle is the transfer fee that Brentford are asking for. You'd think they might show some humility for how they robbed us with Hogan or at least give us a regular customer discount.

[Toronto Villa]

They can talk and plan all they like - just like the game itself, results are all that matters. And so far with a week before the start of the season, the results are what’s concerning. Yes it could all change this week but the facts are that several of our competitors have got business done and we have not

We don’t play our first league game for 3 weeks.

[ChicagoLion]

I heard say, that the reason he keeps signing players from clubs he has managed is because they are the only ones who know who he is.
Cruel but.......