Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[Toronto Villa]

Less than JPA 20 years ago.

This kid is very exciting if indeed these rumours are true. And at the price being suggested Lange has committed a crime.

[Steve67]

Radio chatter in the background from Argentina says Alvarez is agreed for around €9 million.

Really hope so with the reference he got from Tim Vickery.

[Toronto Villa]

For anyone who doesn’t know what Tim Vickery said; he compared Alvarez to some bloke called Gary Shaw.

[Hockley Lion]

stats can make El Ghazi look like a top player.

I thought he was a top player last season. Dug is out of a whole a fair few times.

he did well at times - but stats don't tell the whole story...

Goals help though.

[Steve67]

Right, the tournaments have finished, let's get on with bringing in three players please.  Start with Alvarez please.

[PaulWinch again]

Yup.

[Hockley Lion]

And Messi who's want's to know what his Argentina team mates know that he doesn't, and why they're all
 heading to Villa 😁

[darren woolley]

I hope we sign Alvarez.

[sid1964]

Alvarez will fit into our under 23 side or go out on loan and maybe next season (22-23) we will see him starting a few games

[eamonn]

Maybe we could go back to Arsenal and get Saka. The last thing the poor bugger will want is going back to his parent club.

[PaulWinch again]

Alvarez will fit into our under 23 side or go out on loan and maybe next season (22-23) we will see him starting a few games

I’ll confess to not knowing a great deal about him. But I would be staggered if a player who was in the Copa America winning squad would come to Villa to be in our youth team or immediately be loaned out. If he’s coming it’ll be to be part of the first team.

[Monty]

He does look like he's got that hard-to-define thing, that class on the ball.

[algy]

Alvarez will fit into our under 23 side or go out on loan and maybe next season (22-23) we will see him starting a few games

I’ll confess to not knowing a great deal about him. But I would be staggered if a player who was in the Copa America winning squad would come to Villa to be in our youth team or immediately be loaned out. If he’s coming it’ll be to be part of the first team.

Same.  Far more likely he'll be eased in slowly over the course of this season (like Traore was last year).  You don't buy 21 year olds to go in to the U23.  IMO if they're not good enough to be on the fringes of the first team at 21, 99% of the time they ain't going to be good enough to be in a starting berth when they're 24 either.

[Dave]

Alvarez will fit into our under 23 side or go out on loan and maybe next season (22-23) we will see him starting a few games

I’ll confess to not knowing a great deal about him. But I would be staggered if a player who was in the Copa America winning squad would come to Villa to be in our youth team or immediately be loaned out. If he’s coming it’ll be to be part of the first team.

Indeed. If 20 year old Ramsey has been around the first team for 18 months and Chukwuemeka is getting minutes at 17, we're not buying 21 year old internationals to do anything other than using them in the first team.

[mr underhill]

If we didn't think he could cut the mustard, we wouldn't be buying him - if indeed, we have an interest.