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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #210 on: September 09, 2020, 01:21:11 PM »
Do we know how much Exeter City gets from this deal? I would hope it's a fair chunk of money.
Did I read somewhere it’s something like £6 million?
I might be way off though.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #211 on: September 09, 2020, 01:23:56 PM »
Do we know how much Exeter City gets from this deal? I would hope it's a fair chunk of money.
Did I read somewhere it’s something like £6 million?
I might be way off though.
That's promising if true. I've tried to look and see but can't see anything reported yet.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #212 on: September 09, 2020, 01:24:17 PM »
Best of british luck ollie. In 5 years time may we find you with 100+ goals, sleeping in a pile of 50 pound notes  and with a ridiculous WAG in tow, rather than in the priory between dogging adventures and fights with weathergirls

This is weird.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #213 on: September 09, 2020, 01:26:01 PM »
Is Watkins the first former Weston-Super-Mare player that Villa have signed ?
That's just such an ace fact. I've grown up since moving to Devon in 83 with this being my main source of football.

With an ex-Chippenham Town player in Mings, it's pretty good for South West (ish) representation

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #214 on: September 09, 2020, 01:29:32 PM »
Do we know how much Exeter City gets from this deal? I would hope it's a fair chunk of money.
Did I read somewhere it’s something like £6 million?
I might be way off though.
That's promising if true. I've tried to look and see but can't see anything reported yet.

Per 'Devon Live' ......"The Grecians received a fee of around £1.8m when they sold Watkins three years ago and negotiated a 15 per cent sell-on clause when selling him to Brentford."

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #215 on: September 09, 2020, 01:37:42 PM »
Is Watkins the first former Weston-Super-Mare player that Villa have signed ?
That's just such an ace fact. I've grown up since moving to Devon in 83 with this being my main source of football.

With an ex-Chippenham Town player in Mings, it's pretty good for South West (ish) representation
Get on, I never knew that. I have great memories watching Dawlish Town play in the 80's in the Western League, playing the likes of Chippenham and Western-Super-Mare.  I managed to skipper the seconds for a while and the odd sub appearance for the first team in the 90's. They have folded now, such a great shame.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #216 on: September 09, 2020, 01:39:12 PM »
Crazy money. He will get my 100% support but I sure hope this ends better than our recent history of buying overly expensive strikers from the Championship - Hogan, McCormack, Gestede, Kodija ......

Bit harsh on Kod he did perfectly well for us.
How many of the above bought by Smith. Wes and sammatta yes, but none of these.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #217 on: September 09, 2020, 01:40:41 PM »
Is Watkins the first former Weston-Super-Mare player that Villa have signed ?
Practically Brum-On-Sea. So, a homegrown player.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #218 on: September 09, 2020, 01:42:46 PM »
How many goals do we think represents a decent season, and how many do we think he will score.

I am going for 12 to be a good season (1 in 3) and he will get 14.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #219 on: September 09, 2020, 01:52:49 PM »
Do we know how much Exeter City gets from this deal? I would hope it's a fair chunk of money.
Did I read somewhere it’s something like £6 million?
I might be way off though.
I read that Exeter would get 15% of the fee; so, just over £4m.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #220 on: September 09, 2020, 01:58:34 PM »
Reading other fans reactions on Reddit and other places, pretty much everyone seems to think it is very good business and rates him very highly.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #221 on: September 09, 2020, 02:00:22 PM »
Really pleased with this signing, think Ollie will do really well. Feel a lot calmer about where we’re going this season now, another forward/winger, central midfielder and keeper and job done

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #222 on: September 09, 2020, 02:26:04 PM »
Can we all be friends and agree that the club video on Twitter announcing his arrival was more than a bit raunchy?

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #223 on: September 09, 2020, 02:54:00 PM »
Welcome Young Man - be a legend like Peter the Great, Little, Shaw and Yorke if you will.

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Re: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa & England)
« Reply #224 on: September 09, 2020, 02:54:54 PM »
I’m delighted we’ve signed him and delighted that we have helped secure Exeter’s future for a few years.  The lower league clubs would be a lot mkre financially secure if clubs weren’t obsessed with buying up all the best overseas prospects.  There’s plenty of affordable talent that have started out at the lower levels.

 


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