Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[sickbeggar]

Being linked to Watford's Will hughes all over the place on that there Twitter. 

Would be one of the most underwhelming signings ever, up there with Kinsella and Leonhardsen.

To be fair the original source doesn't look up to much. It's trending on Twitter mainly because of villa fans saying "god, not him" 

[ozzjim]

Will Hughes is as "meh" a signing as we could make.

[LeeB]

He feels like the heir apparent to Henri Lansbury's throne.

[levico]

I rarely react to signing rumours, good or bad but I just can’t resist this Will Hughes one.

This would be a totally baffling signing and would be in conflict with the current ambition of our glorious owners and competence of everyone running the club.

Hopefully just a cruel rumour spread by our rivals. If so they’ve sunk pretty low with this one.

[cdbearsfan]

No to Winks, no to Hughes, no to Ramsey. Go get someone that will have the rest of the league cowering in fear not doubled over in laughter.

[not3bad]

To be fair not even Newsnow has picked up on this one.

[sickbeggar]

To be fair not even Newsnow has picked up on this one.

Daily Express journo is the source I think. Ryan Taylor (whooo?)

[cdbearsfan]

I'm reading the end of your post like you're a scary ghost.

[sickbeggar]

heh. probably the best way to read it to be fair.

[LeeB]

I'm reading the end of your post like you're a scary ghost.

In fairness,  he does haunt the politics thread.

[OCD]

To be fair not even Newsnow has picked up on this one.

It did but a couple of weeks ago.

[oldtimernow]

It seems to me that if McNeill is a hybrid of ElGhazi and Trez then Everton have come up with the correct buying valuation which is nowhere near the seller's valuation

[paul_e]

It seems to me that if McNeill is a hybrid of ElGhazi and Trez then Everton have come up with the correct buying valuation which is nowhere near the seller's valuation

He might end up being a very good player but right now he has nothing like enough end product to be worth more than the £25m suggested by Everton.

2 goals and 5 assists last season so roughly 1 goal involvement every 4 games and that's pretty much the same for his career to date so it's not like he's improving year on year either. Right now he's not an upgrade on any of the 5 wide players we have in the squad and I'd rather see Philogene-Bidace get game time that spend huge money on him on the chance that he's better than he's shown at Burnley.

[SoccerHQ]

No surprise from Burnley. West Ham wanted Tarkowski last summer and they quoted 50m for him!

If we're spending 40-50m ever on wide player it needs to be someone proven in top league with many international caps/tournaments and fair few seasons in europa/CL.

These players don't even cost that much either given Traore ticked some of those boxes and he was under 20m. Think Saint Maximn at Newcastle was about 23m.

That's the downside of buying domestic sometimes. They're good players but for the prices quoted simply won't be the game changers we need in the long term.

Reminds me of just over a decade ago Spurs getting in Van Der Vaart and Modric and leapfrogging us pretty quickly.

[ozzjim]

In fairness at £25m I think for his age it would be a decent buy. At £45m I would hope to do exactly what you are saying Soccer, buy 2 established players from a top European team. If Locatelli is £34m and Auoar £25m, then there is value to be had. There is also the profile aspect. We are in danger of hitting the Martin O'Neill wall if we don't buy outside that criteria. Traore proved that there is value, his goal/assist return for the money was exceptionally good in fairness to him.