Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[robleflaneur]

£1m Buendia cost from Getafe. Would love to see us identify young signings like that, loan them out and then them to come back as the fully developed player instead of having to pay £40m.

Didn't we sign Luna from Getafe or another middling Spanish team?

As much as it looks hilarious transfer strategy now we did try that sort of thing between 2012-14. Westwood and Lowton now established prem starters for team that stays up every season, Benteke obviously brilliant and we sold for massive profit and Okore was a genuinely rated young prospect at CB when we got him before he did his ACL in his 3rd game.

Just don't expect to get anwhere near top 6 just having that as your only transfer policy.

I didn't say to stick them in the first team...I said loan them out until they've developed and added value so we can either sell or integrate into the squad if they're good enough. Buendia was my example of where that would have been really clever business (admittedly with hindsight in my case but I would hope we have people who can spot talent like his). Wouldn't it be great to start integrating a 24-year old player, who we had loaned out for 3 years and was now worth £40m who we had bought as a 21 year old for only £1m? The work we're doing in the academy is fantastic and we may see the same end result in future years but this approach is a slight tangent towards the same end goal.

This could be the approach or a slight variation of it with Wes Edens in supposed talks about investing in Portugese club ,Vitoria Guimares(?)

[Ian.]

Having read half a dozen pages of the main Norwich forum's thread on Buendia's potential transfer somewhere, it's basically identical to the Grealish thread when we got promoted. All "sell him to Atletico because I couldn't bear to see him play against us",  "he's better than anyone of his style in the Premier League" and "I feel sorry for Villa fans, being led into thinking they'd have a chance of signing him"#


Bring him in.

Norwich are the archetypal 'get promoted occasionally, act billy big bollocks' rancid second division fans.

Huh...I didn’t even know they had a football team in Norwich. Go figure

Something in those carrots that make them deluded 

I guess if you spend all your life somewhere so flat you lose perspective.

Doesn't quite explain the Dutch National team then!

No, but it does explain why they're so tall.

The last time I went to Holland I struggled to reach the urinals or the slot for money in the fag machines.

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McNeil seems a bit of a flat target. Not particularly exciting and not likely to make Grealish think we mean business. Disappointing.

[LeeB]

McNeil seems a bit of a flat target. Not particularly exciting and not likely to make Grealish think we mean business. Disappointing.

He excites me, I'd love us to sign him.

[LeeB]

And, may I add, the last left winger that arrived from Burnley turned out to be half decent.

[Lastfootstamper]

He's only 21. Aye, not a statement signing, but if the price is right, then on top of other signings he'd be a "daft not to".

[Steve67]

McNeil seems a bit of a flat target. Not particularly exciting and not likely to make Grealish think we mean business. Disappointing.

He excites me, I'd love us to sign him.

I agree.  I think he's quite a cultured player and I can see him going somewhere like Liverpool if we don't snap him up.  He will get better with age too.  Not a sexy signing but one that will work out in the end.

[Drummond]

McNeil seems a bit of a flat target. Not particularly exciting and not likely to make Grealish think we mean business. Disappointing.

He excites me, I'd love us to sign him.

I agree.  I think he's quite a cultured player and I can see him going somewhere like Liverpool if we don't snap him up.  He will get better with age too.  Not a sexy signing but one that will work out in the end.

We've done a lot of those of late..

[PaulWinch again]

I think McNeil is a good player. But I haven’t seen anything that suggests we’re in for him?

[Drummond]

I mentioned elsewhere that I'd complained to the BBC Sport website about the Richards article about Man City and Grealish. This is their response:

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What a crock of shit. It completely ignores the fact that they recruit pundits from the 6, and by writing more about them, and nothing about other clubs, they will of course generate more interest.

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We need our Robinho. Doesn't matter if it works out, we just need to show our teeth.

[Toronto Villa]

Gregg Evans seems to think we have done a lot groundwork on both McNeill and Buendia. Wouldn’t be the worst start to the summer at all if we can secure both of those players quickly.

[OCD]

Seem to fit the 'smart bit of business' line.

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As long as the third is a balls out flashy bastard that makes everybody go 'aye-aye' the Villa have turned up.

[Toronto Villa]

And that we don’t rate Pereira as highly as those two.