Aye, I'm not sure the Portuguese league is that much better than the Belgian one. Good record there won't necessarily translate here. Jovetic I'd consider, if the deal was right. He won't need to get around the pitch as much as Drinkwater needed to. And obviously couldn't.
Villa's January transfer market according to the beeb:Aston Villa Don't expect any big-money moves here but manager Dean Smith may look at his attack. Ollie Watkins, the £28m club-record signing from Brentford, has been outstanding but Keinan Davis has not produced enough goals when he has had a chance.January is a fraught market, especially for acquiring the priceless commodity of goals, as Villa discovered with the failed £8.5m signing of Genk's Mbwana Samatta last year. He is already out on loan at Fenerbahce.Villa have long been linked with Werder Bremen's Milot Rashica but at this stage there are no plans for any serious spending.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55428143
Our bench is desparately short of forward options to either change things or rotate. If we can get a forward that will do the running and hold up that Ollie does in reserve, we should do it. Otherwise, we my well be better waiting till the summer.
Watkins is clearly first choice at the moment, so anyone coming in is likely going to be on the bench to begin with. Just not sure how an attractive proposition that would be unless it is someone nowhere near a first team, someone from a lower division moving up, someone who has perhaps seen better days or someone from abroad who we can offer more money to.Depending on his fitness, I would be happy enough with giving Wesley a go as second choice for the remainder of the season, with Davis as third choice.
We have given ourselves our great platform with the start we’ve made this season. I think signing a striker is really important for us to keep on improving and maybe stay around that top 6. I wound try and sign someone to challenge Ollie for the starting spot. He’s been great and a wonderful improvement on Wesley last season, but he has only scored in 3 individual games so far. I know he’s been unlucky with VAR, but he does miss a fair few too. Let’s cease the opportunity and go for it.
Quote from: KevinGage on December 30, 2020, 08:16:52 PMArkadiusz Milik at Napoli and Moussa Marega at FC Porto are both out of contract this summer. Former Citeh striker Stevan Jovetic n'all. Marega was one of the names linked with us had we gone up in 2018. Haven't really followed his career since, TBH. Jovetic has barely played for 3 seasons, I worry he'd be similar to Drinkwater.Marega doesn't look good enough to me, would have been an ok signing to add a bit more experience whilst Wes settled but he's Samatta level in my opinion and we're better than that now.Milik is a very good player, I suspect he'll have a lot of options, him in and Davis out on loan then review in the summer would be exceptional business.
Arkadiusz Milik at Napoli and Moussa Marega at FC Porto are both out of contract this summer. Former Citeh striker Stevan Jovetic n'all. Marega was one of the names linked with us had we gone up in 2018. Haven't really followed his career since, TBH.
When all said and done Aston Villa are a different proposition in the transfer market this time round no longer are we relegation favourites but now looking to push on into the European spotsThat makes a very big Difference to the players you can attract