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

[exigo]

Call me old school and boring (both of which I am) but I like full backs that can defend. Anything in addition is a bonus

We're going to be trendsetters. Four keepers playing in front of our keeper.


Game's changed. If your full-backs can't attack your chances of scoring basically ever go down dramatically these days.

Was going to make the same point as Monty. However Clive mentioning 'old school' put me in mind of Clive Thomas who reassuringly is alive and kicking at 84.

Not quite the  Tony Pulis style 4 centre backs covering the 4 defensive positions gambit ?

We're going to be trendsetters. Four keepers playing in front of our keeper.

[Londonvilla]

REPORTED £13M ASTON VILLA TARGET LEFT OUT OF SQUAD; NOT IN MANAGER’S PLANS

Franco Cervi was left out of Benfica’s Champions League qualification clash with PAOK this week as the reported Aston Villa target falls out of favour at the Estadio da Luz,

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/09/17/reported-13m-aston-villa-target-left-out-of-squad-not-in-managers-plans/

Not sure this is a real link .......may be cheaper plan B for the left wing

[SaddVillan]

This is what Deano said in an article in the Guardian regarding our recruitment plans:

"As soon as Johan came into the club we sat down and profiled the positions we needed and then it’s a case of me adding some names I liked in those positions. Then it’s down to the recruitment department, headed by Rob and with Johan’s input, to come up with players that a) fit the profile, b) fit the personality profile and c) are actionable. They come up with a list and I sit down with the coaches and decide the best ones.”

So I expect we've drawn up a list of potential targets for the positions we need to improve, both short and long term, and it's a question of who we can bring in.

At

[GordonCowansisthegreatest]

REPORTED £13M ASTON VILLA TARGET LEFT OUT OF SQUAD; NOT IN MANAGER’S PLANS

Franco Cervi was left out of Benfica’s Champions League qualification clash with PAOK this week as the reported Aston Villa target falls out of favour at the Estadio da Luz,

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/09/17/reported-13m-aston-villa-target-left-out-of-squad-not-in-managers-plans/

Not sure this is a real link .......may be cheaper plan B for the left wing

What a greedy b@stard! Not one cross, lay off or through ball.

[LukeJames]

How many times does he want to take the same player on. Fuck that.

[ktvillan]

See I disagree, Taylor's just so bad on the ball that he's kind of defensively bad as well, as you'll just find yourself on the back foot so often the likelihood is you'd give more chances away even if your defensive skills were Maldini-level (and, to state the obvious, his ain't).

So bad on the ball with the goal assist for Watkins against Burton, so so bad? Mings was responsible for numerous goals conceded last season - is he so bad too? Taylor is nowhere near as bad as some on here make out.

One goal assist does not make Taylor a decent player on the ball. How many other examples can you think of?  There must be hundreds of counter examples to demonstrate the opposite.  He is generally poor, very poor, on the ball going forward, and defensively I'd say not good enough for  top half PL team which is where we should be aiming.  I'd agree with you about Mings though, great bloke and all that but overrated by some and for me a bit of a Zat Knight mark II.

[Skerra]

Let’s offer Delph a 5 year contract with £100k a week and then pull out of it at the last minute like he did with us.

[ktvillan]

Delph is a good player but seems to have spent at least half of his career crocked.  May as well sign Wilshere.

[sid1964]

Let’s not go for Delph he has had his time with us!

[eamonn]

Let’s offer Delph a 5 year contract with £100k a week and then pull out of it at the last minute like he did with us.

And then wink at him.

[Lastfootstamper]

See I disagree, Taylor's just so bad on the ball that he's kind of defensively bad as well, as you'll just find yourself on the back foot so often the likelihood is you'd give more chances away even if your defensive skills were Maldini-level (and, to state the obvious, his ain't).

So bad on the ball with the goal assist for Watkins against Burton, so so bad? Mings was responsible for numerous goals conceded last season - is he so bad too? Taylor is nowhere near as bad as some on here make out.

Re. the assist the other night, where was he running to, what was he hoping would happen? Because he seemed very surprised indeed to discover that the ball was in fact in front of him on his left foot, and that there wasn't something else altogether going on somewhere over his right shoulder.

[chrisw1]

See I disagree, Taylor's just so bad on the ball that he's kind of defensively bad as well, as you'll just find yourself on the back foot so often the likelihood is you'd give more chances away even if your defensive skills were Maldini-level (and, to state the obvious, his ain't).

So bad on the ball with the goal assist for Watkins against Burton, so so bad? Mings was responsible for numerous goals conceded last season - is he so bad too? Taylor is nowhere near as bad as some on here make out.

Re. the assist the other night, where was he running to, what was he hoping would happen? Because he seemed very surprised indeed to discover that the ball was in fact in front of him on his left foot, and that there wasn't something else altogether going on somewhere over his right shoulder.

I thought Jacks pass took a deflection? 

[LeeB]

See I disagree, Taylor's just so bad on the ball that he's kind of defensively bad as well, as you'll just find yourself on the back foot so often the likelihood is you'd give more chances away even if your defensive skills were Maldini-level (and, to state the obvious, his ain't).

So bad on the ball with the goal assist for Watkins against Burton, so so bad? Mings was responsible for numerous goals conceded last season - is he so bad too? Taylor is nowhere near as bad as some on here make out.

Re. the assist the other night, where was he running to, what was he hoping would happen? Because he seemed very surprised indeed to discover that the ball was in fact in front of him on his left foot, and that there wasn't something else altogether going on somewhere over his right shoulder.

I thought Jacks pass took a deflection? 

I just thought it was that outrageous he couldn't quite believe it had landed where it did.

[john e]

have we been linked to Jesse Lingard yet

nailed on to happen at some point in his career

[Monty]

I will accept that Taylor is good enough on the ball to be a threat against Burton Albion, as long as a world class attacking midfielder is feeding his runs with balls even he is surprised are possible.