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

[Ads]

I'm sure we will.

I'll go with Watkins by Friday and maybe Wilson too.

[Dave]

Fucking 'ell.  Is Doug Ellis back in the building and doing the negotiating? 

Robbie Keane. £500k - the rest is history.

Still Gregory, not Ellis.

[PaulWinch again]

With Wilson, if we want him we should be paying the money to get him (within reason). There is a risk that you end up missing out for relatively small differences in cost.

[dicedlam]

I still think this is more to do with what the player is asking for rather than to do with the transfer fees.
At the end of the day, ultimately the decision lies with the player not the club and you will find most players priorities these days are in this order:

1 - What is the maximum salary any club are willing to offer me?
2 - How long can I get them to do that?
3 - The clubs ambition.

[RamboandBruno]

Newcastle look like their getting Jamal Lewis, good player.
We should really be getting Wilson in before they do

[algy]

I still think this is more to do with what the player is asking for rather than to do with the transfer fees.
At the end of the day, ultimately the decision lies with the player not the club and you will find most players priorities these days are in this order:

1 - What is the maximum salary any club are willing to offer me?
2 - How long can I get them to do that?
3 - The clubs ambition.

You're probably right there. Without being behind the scenes it's hard to say, but i'd guess that involves as much, if not more, haggling than the transfer fee. And waiting for clubs to get a replacement lined up too.

[Goldie.7]

And we could also get rid of Lansbury if someone could agree to pay his wages.

We need to stop handing out contracts over 4 years. It breeds players like Lansbury who are quite content playing 10 minutes once a month. No club will take him on loan either, unless we're subsidising most of his wages.

He'll be here to the very last day of his lottery win.

[Ger Regan]

And we could also get rid of Lansbury if someone could agree to pay his wages.

We need to stop handing out contracts over 4 years. It breeds players like Lansbury who are quite content playing 10 minutes once a month. No club will take him on loan either, unless we're subsidising most of his wages.

He'll be here to the very last day of his lottery win.

Disagree. We need to stop giving long term contracts to players like lansbury, but tying promising young players down makes perfect sense.

[fbriai]

Newcastle look like their getting Jamal Lewis, good player.
We should really be getting Wilson in before they do

I'm not sold on Lewis. I saw him a few times in the last few games of the season and thought he was often caught out of position. He's only young though and maybe it was just the few games I saw.

[kippaxvilla2]

According to some obscure source we’ve offered £21m for Wilson now.

[Dante Lavelli]

I still think this is more to do with what the player is asking for rather than to do with the transfer fees.
At the end of the day, ultimately the decision lies with the player not the club and you will find most players priorities these days are in this order:

1 - What is the maximum salary any club are willing to offer me?
2 - How long can I get them to do that?
3 - The clubs ambition.

You're probably right there. Without being behind the scenes it's hard to say, but i'd guess that involves as much, if not more, haggling than the transfer fee. And waiting for clubs to get a replacement lined up too.

Not to mention that all the haggling has to be between shady third parties the clubs cannot officially speak to any players until an offer is accepted.

[Steve67]

According to some obscure source we’ve offered £21m for Wilson now.

And that Newcastle have offered 20 and Wilson wants to go to Newcastle.  We are also being linked with the Celtic fella again.  A measly 45mill.

[nodge]

“Suggestions he prefers a move to nufc”. Maybe he’s one of those rabid Villa hating Coventry fans? To be fair I’ve never met one who isn’t.

[kippaxvilla2]

It’s funny what crap you hear or what is spun depending on who you write for because the other day Wilson was keen on returning to his midlands roots.

[Toronto Villa]

It’s funny what crap you hear or what is spun depending on who you write for because the other day Wilson was keen on returning to his midlands roots.

All kinds of ITK’s write conflicting information to get reactions and follows.