Ollie Watkins

[Dick Edwards]

In days gone by, as soon as Villa were getting close to challenging the 'top four', one of those clubs would leak an interest in one of better players.  I wonder if this time it'll be Watkins, despite the new contract. 

Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham (assumed Kane is leaving) will no doubt all be linked.

And if Kane moves abroad you can add Manchester United to that list.

[Hookeysmith]

Something i had never attributed to Ollie was pace but now he is running in more straight lines he is bloody quick. He left Botman for dead in his first chance (that hit the post) after starting off a yard behind him.

He must go into every game now thinking he is going to score as confidence should be mile high.

Hope they announce a new deal pretty soon

[john e]

Grealish ripped the heart out of the club for a time when he left he was irreplaceable,
no matter what we think of him now he was the best player we’ve seen for nearly a generation

The owners don’t sell cheap Grealish would not have been sold if the buy out figure hadn’t been met in full, they tried their best to keep him, but couldn’t do anything about it in the end

apart from Martinez I don’t think any player we have now is irreplaceable
I don’t want to sell our best players but say Watkins went he’d fetch 60-70m McGinn 50m same story for some of the others,
this money would be put straight back into the ‘war chest’  add our own funds to it and we could go out and buy anyone who would realistically come

so I’m not that worried to be honest
the 2 most important keeps for me are Martinez and Uni himself

[frank black]

Never happy when we sell our best players, as we rarely replace them with better. Let’s hope this isn’t tested anytime soon.

[Clampy]

Blimey, we're not going to sell him just because he's on a good scoring run. Just enjoy what he's doing.

[Rigadon]

Grealish ripped the heart out of the club for a time when he left he was irreplaceable,
no matter what we think of him now he was the best player we’ve seen for nearly a generation

The owners don’t sell cheap Grealish would not have been sold if the buy out figure hadn’t been met in full, they tried their best to keep him, but couldn’t do anything about it in the end

apart from Martinez I don’t think any player we have now is irreplaceable
I don’t want to sell our best players but say Watkins went he’d fetch 60-70m McGinn 50m same story for some of the others,
this money would be put straight back into the ‘war chest’  add our own funds to it and we could go out and buy anyone who would realistically come

so I’m not that worried to be honest
the 2 most important keeps for me are Martinez and Uni himself

Yep.  Weirdly, I'm not worried either!

[Brazilian Villain]

Anyway, in other Ollie news. https://twitter.com/AVFC_espanol/status/1648769464236666880

Hope this doesn't affect his focus for the 2 big games this week (although understandable if it did a little bit).

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Anyway, in other Ollie news. https://twitter.com/AVFC_espanol/status/1648769464236666880

Hope this doesn't affect his focus for the 2 big games this week (although understandable if it did a little bit).

A little bit? We all know what happened when his first child was born, he was never the same player until Emery arrived. That's it, season over!

[pauliewalnuts]

Anyway, in other Ollie news. https://twitter.com/AVFC_espanol/status/1648769464236666880

Hope this doesn't affect his focus for the 2 big games this week (although understandable if it did a little bit).

He spawns when he wants
He spawns when he wants
Ollie Watkins
He spawns when he wants

[Villa Lew]

It's from the Daily Mail, so I do apologise in advance for any distress this may cause, but it is a good article on Ollie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11999721/Aston-Villas-Ollie-Watkins-taken-game-level-thanks-Unai-Emery.html

[algy]

It's from the Daily Mail, so I do apologise in advance for any distress this may cause, but it is a good article on Ollie.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11999721/Aston-Villas-Ollie-Watkins-taken-game-level-thanks-Unai-Emery.html

One thing I've liked about the Villa from the Smith era, and on in to Emery (we'll forget about the short interlude between those...) is how much I genuinely like the players we have. Tyrone Mings, John McGinn, Ollie Watkins, ... all seem really nice, well-rounded people. Emi Martinez seems like a lunatic, but I always think you want your goalkeeper to be a bit of a head case. They're the footballer equivalent of the drummer in a band.

[ROBBO]

That got me thinking how reliant we are on him, no back up but an untried youngster who will take a while to be able to compete at this level.

[mrfuse]

I don't worry too much about having to sell players as I think Uni and his team are such good coaches that their is bigger queue to get in than out.
 
In saying that Ollie is the hardest to replace just because there just isint a large amount of strikers these days. Arsenal might be the team to come knocking, but I still think we have the power and current setup for even players like Ollie to possibly stay rather than join the team he supports.

[Percy McCarthy]

I hope he’s not getting post-natal depression again

[SoccerHQ]

Been starved of service last few games. He was on the fringes today but I think he taps in first half if it's dry conditions. Lovely first time lay off to Jacob for that shot that got blocked in second half and he was going to meet that Young cross before it was headed away at last second.

He'll be back scoring next weekend I reckon.