Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[robbo1874]

We should have learned the reality of transfer fees with Benteke and Wesley. When we were relegated £30 million bought one of the best strikers in Europe. Three years later it got you potential. In the summer better strikers than Tammy will be available but the big question is will they want to come to us, and if they do they'll cost a lot more than £40 million. 

another quite big question is will they fit in / settle at the club quickly. Tammy’s very low risk in that regard for me. I’d pay 40m for him if he was genuinely keen on the move. Better still would be a loan with an option to buy at the end of the season. We may not need him for longer if  Ollie keeps firing, Wes maintains his fitness and Barry comes through as he looks like doing.

[Toronto Villa]

Ash Preece has just done a live Q&A thing, and in his view statement signings don't sound very likely. No interest in Abraham, rather we'll see 6-7 incomings to replace the fat being trimmed away and more use of the academy. NSWE want to make Villa sustainable, hence the academy investment. No mention of transfer spend, and no real denial that they wouldn't make big signings if needed, but Preece did say that if we went for Buendia, it would have to smash our transfer record, with the inference that we wouldn't. Bulk of business mid-late July.

Found it a little deflating, tbh.

That is a little deflating. Sounds like the kind of plan that involves selling Grealish.

This is what Dean Smith less than two weeks ago

“We’ve been planning for a long time. The people in the recruitment department & the sporting director have certainly had their finger on the pulse. The targets will make me excited, so it should make the supporters excited as well.”

[Monty]

I dunno...last player we signed from Poland was Tonev.

To be fair, before McGinn the last player we signed from Hibs was Ulises de la Cruz.

Ash Preece has just done a live Q&A thing, and in his view statement signings don't sound very likely. No interest in Abraham, rather we'll see 6-7 incomings to replace the fat being trimmed away and more use of the academy. NSWE want to make Villa sustainable, hence the academy investment. No mention of transfer spend, and no real denial that they wouldn't make big signings if needed, but Preece did say that if we went for Buendia, it would have to smash our transfer record, with the inference that we wouldn't. Bulk of business mid-late July.

Found it a little deflating, tbh.

That is a little deflating. Sounds like the kind of plan that involves selling Grealish.

This is what Dean Smith less than two weeks ago

“We’ve been planning for a long time. The people in the recruitment department & the sporting director have certainly had their finger on the pulse. The targets will make me excited, so it should make the supporters excited as well.”

It's true, that was more cause for optimism. Let's hope eh!

[eamonn]

Wasn't Tonev from Bulgaria or is that just where his shots ended-up ?

[Monty]

He was Bulgarian, played in Poland, and aimed for outer space.

[curiousorange]

Wasn't Tonev from Bulgaria or is that just where his shots ended-up ?

Yeah, but he was playing in Poland when we signed him.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I dunno...last player we signed from Poland was Tonev.

To be fair, before McGinn the last player we signed from Hibs was Ulises de la Cruz.

Maybe we should do all our shopping in Scotland. Oh and we probably won't be able to sign Aleksander Buksa due to his age and Brexit.

[curiousorange]

Ash Preece has just done a live Q&A thing, and in his view statement signings don't sound very likely. No interest in Abraham, rather we'll see 6-7 incomings to replace the fat being trimmed away and more use of the academy. NSWE want to make Villa sustainable, hence the academy investment. No mention of transfer spend, and no real denial that they wouldn't make big signings if needed, but Preece did say that if we went for Buendia, it would have to smash our transfer record, with the inference that we wouldn't. Bulk of business mid-late July.

Found it a little deflating, tbh.

That is a little deflating. Sounds like the kind of plan that involves selling Grealish.

This is what Dean Smith less than two weeks ago

“We’ve been planning for a long time. The people in the recruitment department & the sporting director have certainly had their finger on the pulse. The targets will make me excited, so it should make the supporters excited as well.”

Just passing what I read on. Like I said in an earlier response, I feel it's more likely they'll excite because they fit into the way Smith wants to play rather than because how much we paid. Ash Preece didn't seem like he was exercising caution over optimism this summer so we could all be wide of the mark. There's simply nothing to go on either way than this kind of thing.

[brontebilly]

Ash Preece has just done a live Q&A thing, and in his view statement signings don't sound very likely. No interest in Abraham, rather we'll see 6-7 incomings to replace the fat being trimmed away and more use of the academy. NSWE want to make Villa sustainable, hence the academy investment. No mention of transfer spend, and no real denial that they wouldn't make big signings if needed, but Preece did say that if we went for Buendia, it would have to smash our transfer record, with the inference that we wouldn't. Bulk of business mid-late July.

Found it a little deflating, tbh.

Tammy and Watkins just wouldn't work really. They are both number 9s and the days of teams going with two big name strikers up front are gone. Watkins is a better fit for us. Tammy will be plenty of other options this summer, maybe he didn't impressive just enough last season when given his chance under Lampard. Has certainly been harshly treated by Tuchel who seems to be backing Werner to the bitter end.

Wherever Kane goes and I'm assuming it's either Manchester club will weaken their pockets for other business. I'm wondering would someone like Sancho or Bellingham be gettable? They would be statement signings.

Going to be a bit of a merry go round this summer with transfers, something like Haaland - City, Kane - United, Rice/Lingard - United/WHU, Mbappe - Chelsea, Tammy - Leicester,

[Percy McCarthy]

Also, as I said before, 5 of those goals were against Luton and Barnsley.

The wide player thing needs to be put to bed, if he'd never said it in an interview would anyone look at him and think "he'd make a good winger"?

I think people started thinking he’d make a good wide attacker when he put that cross in that Jack headed in. Away game, can’t mind where.

Do you class Salah and Mane as wingers?

[Scott Nielsen]

Why are we putting so much stock into what Ashley Preece is saying? Does he have a stellar Villa track record? Genuine question.

[curiousorange]

Preece seems, like Kendrick, to be Villa through and through and does quite a lot of these Q&As. I guess whether you think he's got loads of credibility is up to you, but he seems closer to the club than, say, a national reporter.

[chrisw1]

Ash Preece has just done a live Q&A thing, and in his view statement signings don't sound very likely. No interest in Abraham, rather we'll see 6-7 incomings to replace the fat being trimmed away and more use of the academy. NSWE want to make Villa sustainable, hence the academy investment. No mention of transfer spend, and no real denial that they wouldn't make big signings if needed, but Preece did say that if we went for Buendia, it would have to smash our transfer record, with the inference that we wouldn't. Bulk of business mid-late July.

Found it a little deflating, tbh.

Ashley Preece knows fuck all.  He is a kid who works for a click-bait rag who can hardly string two spoken words together.  Everything he's said above is either common knowledge (the owners want to make us sustainable and are keen on the academy) or pure guesswork.  I don't for a moment think he knows much more about our plans than the average poster on here.

[paul_e]

Also, as I said before, 5 of those goals were against Luton and Barnsley.

The wide player thing needs to be put to bed, if he'd never said it in an interview would anyone look at him and think "he'd make a good winger"?

I think people started thinking he’d make a good wide attacker when he put that cross in that Jack headed in. Away game, can’t mind where.

Do you class Salah and Mane as wingers?

I think they are both the definition of modern wingers, happier coming inside and joining the attack but will go outside players and try to get balls into the box, I want a player like those 2, Tammy isn't that sort of player at all.

[OCD]

I thought they were 'wide forwards'.