Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[Dante Lavelli]

A real tricky one this, attracting another player happy to play 2nd fiddle to Ollie , yet ability wise not a million miles away. Good luck recruitment team !

That’s where Lange needs to earn his money.  Finding players from random Scandinavian leagues, or wherever, that are both excellent yet happy to be reserves initially.  Striker, left back, right back and random wonder kids should all be under his remit this summer.

[SoccerHQ]

According to The Guardian we're interested in Chelsea's young full-back Tino Livramento. The YouTube clips are impressive, but shy on the defensive part of his game.

If he's as good as Lamptey was when Brighton signed him after his one sub cameo for Chelsea then get him in.

Makes sense to get in young player as back up LB rather than spending 15-20m on someone who'll only play cups.

[robbo1874]

Was nosing through the players whose contracts are up in 2022.

Giroud would be an excellent addition, experience to help Watkins,wouldn't necessarily expect to start and would actually be a dangerous option off the bench.

Or we could sign Bamford to piss Leeds off.

I read in the Graun yesterday Giroud is staying at Chelski

[Dave]

Was nosing through the players whose contracts are up in 2022.

Giroud would be an excellent addition, experience to help Watkins,wouldn't necessarily expect to start and would actually be a dangerous option off the bench.

Or we could sign Bamford to piss Leeds off.

I read in the Graun yesterday Giroud is staying at Chelski

They had an option to extend his contract by a year, so took it.

Apparently he's quite annoyed as he wanted to move.

[Matt C]

Giroud for a year would be perfect for us but I guess he’s not coming to us to play back-up when he’s already that at Chelsea.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Think his contract runs until 2022

[Demitri_C]

King on a free seems to bw doing the rounds. Didnt do really well at Everton  and at 29 not sure he is any better than wesley

[sid1964]

Just read about the Josh King deal - if we sign him then he would be back up to Ollie and there would be no need to sign another forward

Hopefully if true it is only a 1 season deal

[andyh]

King has a slightly better scoring rate than Keinan Davis and will no doubt command 10 times his salary.
I thought we were done with journeymen strikers who don’t score.

No thanks

[sickbeggar]

eh? King has scored double figures twice in the Premiership so he's hardly Davis. He's back-up for Watkins and would fight it out with Wesley which on a free transfer isn't a disaster imo.

[UK Redsox]

Someone needs to come in as backup centre forward so that Keinan can be loaned out to play games. I don't think that it's doing him or Villa any good playing the odd few minutes.

[dutchvilla]

As a back-up striker, I'd rather have King on a free than Wood at £XXM. I really don't see how Wood would fit our style of play at all.

[andyh]

I felt the same. Wood seems a world away from how we play and how we try to play.
Then I had a moment of realisation…..Wood scores goals.
With the right service in an attacking team, he could be quite a handful.

Reminds me of Peter Withe and being the ‘final piece in the jigsaw’.

[jwarry]

eh? King has scored double figures twice in the Premiership so he's hardly Davis. He's back-up for Watkins and would fight it out with Wesley which on a free transfer isn't a disaster imo.

But hardly the bark of a club with top 4 aspirations

[sickbeggar]

eh? King has scored double figures twice in the Premiership so he's hardly Davis. He's back-up for Watkins and would fight it out with Wesley which on a free transfer isn't a disaster imo.

But hardly the bark of a club with top 4 aspirations

I'm not sure who people expect as a 3rd choice striker. Apart from the CL clubs who can keep the likes of Cavani and Giroud happy with  the extra European games, I don't think that option was open to us. The only other alternatives was either a punt on a  unproven foreign player in the Samatta/Wesley category or  a lower league guy, or possibly an expensive promising youngster, but again its an expensive risk.