Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[Mister E]

ESR had been anonymous at Brentford so far...

[not3bad]

While I think Smith does want to sign more players in this window I think he is also prepared to stick if the right deal doesn't come up.

[VILLA MOLE]

Yes, he said "I Can't Well talk about other clubs' players".

where super fookin Pep talked about harry kane last week but won’t this week .  he is a different class you know

[Percy McCarthy]

Yes, he said "I Can't Well talk about other clubs' players".

Yes. And ‘other clubs are Ward-ing off our interest’.

[Des Little]

I still think we’ll get a couple in, plus a keeper.

[Drummond]

He's probably happy with the way we've approached other deals too. Without landing them yet.

[Risso]

Dean said in his presser that ‘we are  quite satisfied with where we are at the moment’ on the transfer front which seems to indicate nothing is imminent

That’s not exactly a firm “we’re done”.

He was asked if there'd be any more incomings, and said "No, we're satisfied with where we are." The no made it sound a lot more definite that we're done.

[Steve67]

Not to be picky, but according to the Villa website, Smith didn't say no.  He said: 'we're quite satisfied with where we are with the squad at the moment'.  I'm satisfied too, for today, but come Monday, I want us to be heavily involved with a couple more players incoming please!

[OCD]

Even if Smith had started the sentence with 'No', I would have put it down to the way he speaks.

ESR still looked quality to me, I can see why we were in for him. We move on though, good to see Arsenal get beaten and still showing historic vulnerabilities.

[sickbeggar]

I think if we've offered 25m for JWP then its not gonna happen.  i'd imagine as far as Southampton are concerned prices have been ratboyed. He's 26, on a long contract, on the edge of the England squad, they don't want to sell him, I'd be looking at 50+m if I was them.

[ozzjim]

Smith said that the money from Ratboy allowed us to sign Bailey and Ings. If we end up not spending another penny this summer, IMO our ambition doesn't appear quite what is being exclaimed, unless FPP has caught up with us.

[sickbeggar]

If we take them at their word that they got in the ratboy replacements before we sold him then that sort of hints that they realised clubs would try and take us for a ride once we sold him. Cantwell for 40m anyone? Just bad value I think. I'm not sure about the whole FPP thing. Some people say its been relaxed or is dead, but i'm still seeing articles about the likes of Man City and Chelsea looking to offload players to meet FFP.

[Clampy]

Smith said that the money from Ratboy allowed us to sign Bailey and Ings. If we end up not spending another penny this summer, IMO our ambition doesn't appear quite what is being exclaimed, unless FPP has caught up with us.

If we don't spend anymore money, it might not have anything to do with ambition but maybe the players we want not being available. We've spent nearly £90m so far this window. That's hardly a lack of ambition.

[ChicagoLion]

Smith said that the money from Ratboy allowed us to sign Bailey and Ings. If we end up not spending another penny this summer, IMO our ambition doesn't appear quite what is being exclaimed, unless FPP has caught up with us.

100mil in against 90 which is amortised over 4+ years so a 20mil cost per year. Don’t see how FFP can be an issue.

[Chris Smith]

Smith said that the money from Ratboy allowed us to sign Bailey and Ings. If we end up not spending another penny this summer, IMO our ambition doesn't appear quite what is being exclaimed, unless FPP has caught up with us.

If we don't spend anymore money, it might not have anything to do with ambition but maybe the players we want not being available. We've spent nearly £90m so far this window. That's hardly a lack of ambition.

Exactly, there’s no point buying players for the sake of it, squad fillers that block the progress of the youngsters. The players we’ve signed so far give us more options in defence, midfield and attack. If we can improve the squad then great, but I think we’ll be competitive as we are.