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

[Hookeysmith]

Its a bit embarrassing how we're still signing players like under Xia four years ago. Overpriced Championship stars.

We should have signed Toney and loaned him out to Brentford for a season. Would save us a packet when we go after him next summer.

We moan when we dont, we moan when we do, we moan when we dont break our transfer fee, we moan*.....

Leys hope he lives up to it - there have been worse dud that premiership teams have spent way more on

*not directed at you Eamonn

[ozzjim]

It probably explains why it's taken so long for him to move. That price will have understandably put clubs off.

Agreed. I am big enough to say I would have been waiting out if I was Villa to try and get it down.

6m of that goes straight to Exeter though, so I can see why Brentford have been holding out.

I do wonder if we will try and run the clock on Benrahma now.

[kippaxvilla2]

Am I the only one that finds the phrase ‘having our pants pulled down’ uncouth in the extreme?

[eamonn]

Its a pity we couldn't part-ex any of our fringe players (Lansbury, Jota, Kalinic and Hogan) for Cash or Watkins.

[sickbeggar]

well whatever way you look at it, Dean has put all his eggs in the Watkins basket. Lets hope this season's hopeful punt is a better bet than the last two attempts.

Well, Dean, the Head of Recruitment, the Sporting Director and the CEO have.

yep without a doubt, although probably only Dean will get the tin-tack if it fails

[Sexual Ealing]

Am I the only one that finds the phrase ‘having our pants pulled down’ uncouth in the extreme?

You are, although I don't like it. It's all fart and no sh... no, I can't do it.

[hilts_coolerking]

Am I the only one that finds the phrase ‘having our pants pulled down’ uncouth in the extreme?

Would you prefer the phrase 'being given a wedgie'?

[paul_e]

28m for a championship striker? One born every minute.

Are you more upset about who he is/where he's coing in from or the fact that you'll have to stop using the £20m golden voucher 'joke' now?

[Sexual Ealing]

well whatever way you look at it, Dean has put all his eggs in the Watkins basket. Lets hope this season's hopeful punt is a better bet than the last two attempts.

Well, Dean, the Head of Recruitment, the Sporting Director and the CEO have.

yep without a doubt, although probably only Dean will get the tin-tack if it fails

Suso called, he wants his Nakamba back. And as far as I'm concerned, he can have him.

[Border villan]

Am I the only one that finds the phrase ‘having our pants pulled down’ uncouth in the extreme?

You can take the boy out of Solihull (Hall Green) but .......

[aj2k77]

Brentford have pulled our pants down yet again, we would be far better advised getting in their negotiating team instead on Benhrahma! Watkins looks a player with real potential but as others have said is under huge pressure to deliver now with that fee.

Unfortunately there's virtually no one a middling to lower Prem club can get for this kind of money who guarentees anything. It's just the state of the market. Pressure is part and parcel of Premier League football, as long as we back him up with another forward to share the burden and don't leave him carrying the can like we did with Wesley, to his detriment, then he has all the physical qualities to do fine.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Its a pity we couldn't part-ex any of our fringe players (Lansbury, Jota, Kalinic and Hogan) for Cash or Watkins.

Did think they might like Jota. They know Hogan is rubbish, so won't go near him

[sickbeggar]

28m for a championship striker? One born every minute.

Are you more upset about who he is/where he's coing in from or the fact that you'll have to stop using the £20m golden voucher 'joke' now?

Said all along I wanted a striker with experience at the top level. That i'm not dancing on the ceiling because we bought the worlds most expensive championship striker, shouldn't be all that surprising.

[mr underhill]

I like having my pants pulled down, as long as its done correctly and by the right person. As to Olly I'm thrilled that Exeter are set for a gigantic windfall, it's what richer clubs should be doing anyway, as a matter of course.

[LeeB]

28m for a championship striker? One born every minute.

Are you more upset about who he is/where he's coing in from or the fact that you'll have to stop using the £20m golden voucher 'joke' now?

Said all along I wanted a striker with experience at the top level. That i'm not dancing on the ceiling because we bought the worlds most expensive championship striker, shouldn't be all that surprising.

We should have signed Andy Carroll instead.