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Offline ASHTONVILLA

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #75 on: September 08, 2020, 07:56:36 PM »
Cheap considering fees for strikers in this League. Havertz to Chelsea for £85m? Haller a flop to West Ham at £45m? Joelinton a flop to Newcastle at £40m? I think Ollie will do well for us. He is young, has pace, can hold the ball up and a decent scoring rate.


When you look at them this guy could be a bargain

Yeah the JoeLinton fee was insanely poor value.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #76 on: September 08, 2020, 08:02:21 PM »
Sod the money, that’s the way of the premier league world now, obscene but there you go. I’m really pleased, be happy enough if we could get josh king in as well to support the kid. Things looking up to me

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #77 on: September 08, 2020, 08:10:29 PM »
I suppose it puts those penny pinching claims to bed.
I wish it would put you to bed.

Ouch! Are you responsible for said claims perchance?

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #78 on: September 08, 2020, 08:19:07 PM »
A lot of money, but if we can push the boat out, get Benrahma in as well as he was the top player in the Championship and combined so often with Watkins.

Watkins will certainly need a better supply than our current wide players provide, assuming that Smith sticks with his usual formation.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #79 on: September 08, 2020, 08:45:34 PM »
I like this boy and agree that he is a much better  buy at £28M than Nowandthen Wilson at £20M.

That was my thought too. Expensive but hopefully in year we'll look back on it as a bargain.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #80 on: September 08, 2020, 09:09:23 PM »
We scraped through last season so top established players are out of the question, this lad is a gamble at the price but much prefer him to Wilson who has two dodgy knees. Villa have to support him with pace on the wings which we don't have at the moment.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #81 on: September 08, 2020, 09:28:43 PM »
Really don't get our strategy sometimes. We've waited weeks seemingly low balling Brentford with bids and now we're signing him for potentially 10m more than most of us predicted (if he does as well as we all hope some of the add ons will be met).

Also with the fee I get the feeling he's our starting striker this year so huge pressure on him to hit the ground running as we need a striker with that sort of price tag to get more than 4 or 5 goals.

Hope he's up to it.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #82 on: September 08, 2020, 09:43:41 PM »
Really don't get our strategy sometimes. We've waited weeks seemingly low balling Brentford with bids and now we're signing him for potentially 10m more than most of us predicted (if he does as well as we all hope some of the add ons will be met).

Also with the fee I get the feeling he's our starting striker this year so huge pressure on him to hit the ground running as we need a striker with that sort of price tag to get more than 4 or 5 goals.

Hope he's up to it.

We don't know what Brentford's original asking price was at the end of the season. It explains why it's taken so long to do the deal though. Some of the price is because Exeter have a sell-on clause.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #83 on: September 08, 2020, 09:44:51 PM »
I suppose it puts those penny pinching claims to bed.
I wish it would put you to bed.

No need for that, is there?

No. Please be civil.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #84 on: September 08, 2020, 09:45:43 PM »
Medical tomorrow morning at BMH scheduled and hopefully followed by a shirt stretch.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #85 on: September 08, 2020, 10:21:36 PM »
A lot of money, but if we can push the boat out, get Benrahma in as well as he was the top player in the Championship and combined so often with Watkins.

Watkins will certainly need a better supply than our current wide players provide, assuming that Smith sticks with his usual formation.

After watching his goals from last season, nearly every one comes from wide areas, we defo need to improve our wide to get the best from him.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #86 on: September 08, 2020, 10:36:25 PM »
I’ve never understood why us fans talk about the money aspect like
It’s our money - it isn’t - it’s the clubs whether it’s revenue based or owners holdings.

If he does the job I couldn’t careless how much he costs.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #87 on: September 08, 2020, 10:39:31 PM »
I’ve never understood why us fans talk about the money aspect like
It’s our money - it isn’t - it’s the clubs whether it’s revenue based or owners holdings.

If he does the job I couldn’t careless how much he costs.

Agreed. This is an excellent signing in my book, not sure why we insist on qualifying that with 'yeah, but we paid too much'.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #88 on: September 08, 2020, 10:41:13 PM »
A lot of money, but if we can push the boat out, get Benrahma in as well as he was the top player in the Championship and combined so often with Watkins.

Watkins will certainly need a better supply than our current wide players provide, assuming that Smith sticks with his usual formation.

After watching his goals from last season, nearly every one comes from wide areas, we defo need to improve our wide to get the best from him.

Sounds a bit like Hogans video, I’m sure we’ve learned.

Offline enigma

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #89 on: September 08, 2020, 10:50:29 PM »
I’ve never understood why us fans talk about the money aspect like
It’s our money - it isn’t - it’s the clubs whether it’s revenue based or owners holdings.

If he does the job I couldn’t careless how much he costs.

Agreed. This is an excellent signing in my book, not sure why we insist on qualifying that with 'yeah, but we paid too much'.

Because we ther we like it or not we live in an era of FFP so it has an impact on the budget for future signings.

 


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