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Offline murgsy

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Re: Ollie Watkins - Villa’s PL record goalscorer.
« Reply #8025 on: July 03, 2025, 05:41:43 PM »
He’d be mad to go to United

Online Smirker

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Re: Ollie Watkins - Villa’s PL record goalscorer.
« Reply #8026 on: July 03, 2025, 05:44:10 PM »
Hopefully going. Then we get a proper striker in.

Offline rougegorge

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Re: Ollie Watkins - Villa’s PL record goalscorer.
« Reply #8027 on: July 03, 2025, 05:47:38 PM »
He’d be mad to go to United
But he wouldn't be mad to go, especially as it would likely be a pay rise and a good contract.

Players nearly always put the contract and the money first and the Champions League stuff is secondary. It's just more usual that the teams paying the top wages are the ones who happen to be in the Champions League

Online pelty

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Re: Ollie Watkins - Villa’s PL record goalscorer.
« Reply #8028 on: July 03, 2025, 06:14:11 PM »
Hopefully going. Then we get a proper striker in.

Watkins is not without his flaws, but please name a realistic striker for us that guarantees staying fit and getting close to 30 goal involvements each year? I am all for bringing in a young talent, but we need goals *this year* to have a shot at returning to the CL and Ollie is our best option.

Offline N'ZMAV

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Re: Ollie Watkins - Villa’s PL record goalscorer.
« Reply #8029 on: July 03, 2025, 06:15:21 PM »
If he goes, then we need to replace with better - as well as he's done, those big chances he misses are costly

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Re: Ollie Watkins - Villa’s PL record goalscorer.
« Reply #8030 on: July 03, 2025, 06:15:45 PM »
Hopefully going. Then we get a proper striker in.

Watkins is not without his flaws, but please name a realistic striker for us that guarantees staying fit and getting close to 30 goal involvements each year? I am all for bringing in a young talent, but we need goals *this year* to have a shot at returning to the CL and Ollie is our best option.
John Duran ;) :D

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Re: Ollie Watkins - Villa’s PL record goalscorer.
« Reply #8031 on: July 03, 2025, 06:17:50 PM »
Hopefully going. Then we get a proper striker in.

Watkins is not without his flaws, but please name a realistic striker for us that guarantees staying fit and getting close to 30 goal involvements each year? I am all for bringing in a young talent, but we need goals *this year* to have a shot at returning to the CL and Ollie is our best option.

I'm not a member of the scouting staff or recruitment team. There will be plenty of strikers out there who can score more goals than Watkins.

Online pelty

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Re: Ollie Watkins - Villa’s PL record goalscorer.
« Reply #8032 on: July 03, 2025, 06:18:28 PM »
Ha! He is available it would appear!!

Online pelty

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Re: Ollie Watkins - Villa’s PL record goalscorer.
« Reply #8033 on: July 03, 2025, 06:20:29 PM »
Hopefully going. Then we get a proper striker in.

Watkins is not without his flaws, but please name a realistic striker for us that guarantees staying fit and getting close to 30 goal involvements each year? I am all for bringing in a young talent, but we need goals *this year* to have a shot at returning to the CL and Ollie is our best option.

I'm not a member of the scouting staff or recruitment team. There will be plenty of strikers out there who can score more goals than Watkins.

OK, if it was that easy, everyone would do it, no?

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Re: Ollie Watkins - Villa’s PL record goalscorer.
« Reply #8034 on: July 03, 2025, 06:32:21 PM »
Hopefully going. Then we get a proper striker in.

Watkins is not without his flaws, but please name a realistic striker for us that guarantees staying fit and getting close to 30 goal involvements each year? I am all for bringing in a young talent, but we need goals *this year* to have a shot at returning to the CL and Ollie is our best option.
I'm not a member of the scouting staff or recruitment team. There will be plenty of strikers out there who can score more goals than Watkins.
ridiculous response, and one that the Watkins-detractors seem to orient towards. The critical question, when discussing Watkins, is who else will provide his input and is affordable?! No one has answered that credibly as yet.

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Re: Ollie Watkins - Villa’s PL record goalscorer.
« Reply #8035 on: July 03, 2025, 06:35:14 PM »
Hopefully going. Then we get a proper striker in.

Hope you’re wrong about him going as you’re definitely wrong about him not being a proper striker. I’d say it’s very naive to think we’ll get someone better than what he does for the team. We may do, most likely we wouldn’t.

Offline AV84

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Re: Ollie Watkins - Villa’s PL record goalscorer.
« Reply #8036 on: July 03, 2025, 06:35:35 PM »
If i wasn't invested in Villa I'd swap Watkins for Hojlund, just to see what happens.

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Re: Ollie Watkins - Villa’s PL record goalscorer.
« Reply #8037 on: July 03, 2025, 06:39:22 PM »
Hopefully going. Then we get a proper striker in.

Coops level of trolling. At least in how nonsensical it is.

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Re: Ollie Watkins - Villa’s PL record goalscorer.
« Reply #8038 on: July 03, 2025, 06:40:23 PM »
If i wasn't invested in Villa I'd swap Watkins for Hojlund, just to see what happens.

Oh yeah, me too. If there was no investment from me, I’d replace all of them with toddlers, just for shits and giggles. Quite literally.

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Re: Ollie Watkins - Villa’s PL record goalscorer.
« Reply #8039 on: July 03, 2025, 06:49:59 PM »
Hopefully going. Then we get a proper striker in.

Coops level of trolling. At least in how nonsensical it is.

Yeah it’s just daft.

 


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