Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[Flin5tone]

If midfield is not sorted we will be in a Relegation fight,Mark my words.

I can't believe how bad this summer has been.

Where's the money??

[ASHTONVILLA]

if before the summer, someone had said:

Grealish out
Young, Tuanzebe loan, Bailey, Ings, Buendia in.

I think most of us would have been underwhelmed.

I'd have been worried.

I don't have an issue with the net spend, as I want us to be a well run club that can wash its face financially. I do have an issue with the disjointed squad the summer will have left us with if no more transfers come in. We could have spent the same and improved the balance of the team, but thus far we have created more problems.

Letting our best player go who played LW and then replacing with two RW and a striker whilst not addressing any of the longstanding problems in midfield is borderline negligent and is setting us up for a lower end of the table finish.

Still think we will sign someone decent to shore up midfield, but have to admit I am starting to worry we wont.

[SoccerHQ]

If midfield is not sorted we will be in a Relegation fight,Mark my words.

I can't believe how bad this summer has been.

Where's the money??

Bit OTT. Yes midfield is unbalanced currently but they're not bad players and McGinn and Luiz on form are decent enough for where we are as a club presently.

Bailey, Ings and Buendia are pretty exciting signings for club that's just finished 11th. Hopefully it was just a bad first half at Watford and defence will show in next few games the standard it did in 20-21.

Still plenty of positives but we obviously need that first win soon to dispel any nervous tension that is building up because of what happened two weeks ago.

Think biggest problem is the manager working out what to do with all the options he now has, not convinced DS will come up with a reliable formation and system for next 5 months tbh.

[Ads]

If midfield is not sorted we will be in a Relegation fight,Mark my words.

I can't believe how bad this summer has been.

Where's the money??

Can't you do something better on the Web like have a posh wank instead of trolling us, you irritating belter.

[Legion]

If midfield is not sorted we will be in a Relegation fight,Mark my words.

I can't believe how bad this summer has been.

Where's the money??

Seriously?

[OzVilla]

I wouldn’t be touching JWP if the price is £50 million. Much rather Maddison if it’s in that territory.

[cdbearsfan]

The only thing I can see being good about not signing a central midfielder is maybe they've seen enough to convince them that (Carney) Chukwuemeka is going to be amazing, or they really haven't given up on Sanson yet.

It does seem like we always want to leave out transfer windows (at least) one signing short after trying to wing the last two seasons without a backup centre forward we now find ourselves in the position whereby, seemingly, every Villa fan except the one currently managing the team can see what we need.

Ah well, as someone else said I suppose it gives us room to improve in the winter if things have gone to shit in the meantime.

[Legion]

Chukwuemeka is unproven at this level and Sanson has shown very little.

[Legion]

We really do need a modern-day version of Andy Townsend.

[cdbearsfan]

I don't disagree. We seem to be gambling unnecessarily. Had we adopted the same approach up front we'd have given Samatta another try and never bothered splashing the cash on Watkins. That doesn't really bear thinking about.

[Legion]

I don't disagree. We seem to be gambling unnecessarily. Had we adopted the same approach up front we'd have given Samatta another try and never bothered splashing the cash on Watkins. That doesn't really bear thinking about.

Shudders.

[Percy McCarthy]

I wouldn’t be touching JWP if the price is £50 million. Much rather Maddison if it’s in that territory.

Maddison would be £60/70m I reckon. But I’d sell virtually anybody if it got us a central midfield of him, JWP and Bissouma.

[Footy-Vill]

We really do need a modern-day version of Andy Townsend.

Andros went to Everton.

[KRS]

We really do need a modern-day version of Andy Townsend.

Andros went to Everton.

I’m not sure if your reply was intentionally sarcastic and hilarious?

[Legion]

We really do need a modern-day version of Andy Townsend.

Andros went to Everton.

Andy Townsend. Never heard of him?