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Offline rob_bridge

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #8460 on: September 30, 2020, 04:17:04 PM »
I liked the summer of Southgate, Draper and Milosevic.

Was very happy with Draper, Southgate meh and Savo was total unknown.

I was underwelmed with Charles and Johnson prior winter but very happy with Taylor

The formation and putting Yorkie up front got the best out of all of them.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #8461 on: September 30, 2020, 04:32:55 PM »
I wonder how it would have turned out had we not signed Collymore that summer of 97. Don’t get me wrong, I was absolutely buzzing at the time but as we found out he was a costly disaster.

I was never that arsed with Collymore, I wanted us to sign Andy Cole, who we had been linked with but was probably realistically never available. But had we done that, we'd have had him and Yorke and we'd have been in the title race.

We could have signed him but at the expense of Yorkie going t'other way.

Collymore was the ultimate damp squib but it was a Statement Signing at the time
We'd have probably been better off going back for Les Ferdinand. Might have been hard tempting ahead of his boyhood club but I reckon we were probably paying Collymore more than what Spurs were paying Les.

Offline tomd2103

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #8462 on: September 30, 2020, 04:34:10 PM »
I wonder how it would have turned out had we not signed Collymore that summer of 97. Don’t get me wrong, I was absolutely buzzing at the time but as we found out he was a costly disaster.

I have always wondered what we would have been like if we had signed Dion Dublin a few years earlier, probably around the time we signed Savo.  He scored a lot of goals for an often struggling Coventry side and think he would have done the same for us.

Offline N'ZMAV

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #8463 on: September 30, 2020, 04:37:02 PM »
If we'd have signed someone other than Heskey it may have turned out differently too then

Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #8464 on: September 30, 2020, 04:37:55 PM »
Didn't we play Yorke in midfield for the first part of that season? Then Savo got dropped but Yorke and Collymore never really clicked as a combination compared to him and Savo.

SBL said in his book he looks back now and couldn't understand why he switched from 3-5-2 for start of that year which had served us very well for the previous two years.

The euro run was still fun though.

Offline N'ZMAV

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #8465 on: September 30, 2020, 04:52:37 PM »
Soz.

Offline manic-road

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #8466 on: September 30, 2020, 04:52:39 PM »
If we'd have signed someone other than Heskey it may have turned out differently too then
That's how I felt about Cascarino.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #8467 on: September 30, 2020, 04:54:03 PM »
If we'd have signed someone other than Heskey it may have turned out differently too then
That's how I felt about Cascarino.

And Fashanu.

Offline oldtimernow

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #8468 on: September 30, 2020, 04:55:14 PM »
This is a transfer thread for summer 2020 . Excuse me for suggesting a discussion on current transfer policy and strategy.
I give up I'm not going to bother.
My discussion for this transfer window is finished and will leave to it

OMG , part of being a Villa fan is the ability to reminisce, we don't have a lot more


at the moment

Online VILLA MOLE

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #8469 on: September 30, 2020, 04:56:24 PM »
Yes love a good reminisce!

Anyway maybe one more in if we can get a couple out 🤔

Offline N'ZMAV

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #8470 on: September 30, 2020, 05:07:24 PM »
Striker and a centre back ideally.

Offline Bryan

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #8471 on: September 30, 2020, 05:15:35 PM »
Ademola Lookman signs for Fulham on loan for the rest of the season from RB Leipzig he would have been a decent addition to the wide forward role
Good player .

Bullet dodged, one goals in 2 seasons and a million miles away from the Leipzig first team. We can do far, far better

Offline enigma

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #8472 on: September 30, 2020, 05:22:18 PM »
Are we still in for Victor Nelsson or was that bollocks?

Offline tomd2103

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #8473 on: September 30, 2020, 05:55:05 PM »
Striker and a centre back ideally.

Yeah a versatile striker like King would be a decent addition, but think we will only be looking at a CB if Engels leaves.

Offline paul_e

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #8474 on: September 30, 2020, 06:11:23 PM »

Really similar for me.  For that BFR-Little-Gregory period it felt like Villa were always in a position where winning the league was within touching distance (most of the time).  And yeah, loads of seemingly really good transfers pre-season.  Then, I don't know why, I've not felt the same after that FA Cup Final defeat in 2000.  Even with the relative good years with MON.

Have to say, though, that this season ... I am really optimistic about the future.  Love Dean Smith, love the players at the club, love the atmosphere around the dressing room.  I'm more optimistic than I've been for many, many years.
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This is exactly how I feel.  Even last season when we were in trouble I always felt optimistic about this group of players and staff - it just feels like for the first time in 20 years we have people at the club who don't just see us as an easy route to a big paycheque.  There have been individuals over the last 20 years who we could get behind (Mellberg, Laursen, Milner etc), but never a team where I've felt there isn't at least a handful who weren't arsed about us as a club.
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Agreed, I thought last summer was as good as could be expected and assumed we'd need to be patient with some of the players that came in. One of the most frustrating things about last season was the amount of players being written off as shit after 10-15 games. Most people realised that signing a squad full of experienced 28-30 year olds was the wrong approach but seemed to expect the players we did get to not need any time to settle in. From the team now there were plenty of people slagging off Luiz and Konsa around the turn of the year and yet they're 2 of the most consistently good players in the team now.

 


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