Summer 2022 Transfer Thread

[LeeB]

I'd be buying a top notch striker. It's a simple game football. Score more goals and you'll generally do better. So far our striker purcases have been a lump from Brazil, a truly hopeless case from Tanzania, a Championship trier with the first touch of a medieval trebuchet and Grandpa Ings. Thick end of £90m on that little lot.

I disagree with bit in bold but it's too funny.

[pauliewalnuts]

I'd be buying a top notch striker. It's a simple game football. Score more goals and you'll generally do better. So far our striker purcases have been a lump from Brazil, a truly hopeless case from Tanzania, a Championship trier with the first touch of a medieval trebuchet and Grandpa Ings. Thick end of £90m on that little lot.

I disagree with bit in bold but it's too funny.

I agree with it AND found it very funny!

[eamonn]

I'd be buying a top notch striker. It's a simple game football. Score more goals and you'll generally do better. So far our striker purcases have been a lump from Brazil, a truly hopeless case from Tanzania, a Championship trier with the first touch of a medieval trebuchet and Grandpa Ings. Thick end of £90m on that little lot.

Giggles 

Good winger in his day but past it now and was up in court yesterday.

[ChicagoLion]

I'd be buying a top notch striker. It's a simple game football. Score more goals and you'll generally do better. So far our striker purcases have been a lump from Brazil, a truly hopeless case from Tanzania, a Championship trier with the first touch of a medieval trebuchet and Grandpa Ings. Thick end of £90m on that little lot.

Giggles 

Good winger in his day but past it now and was up in court yesterday.

His first touch an elbow, followed up by a headbutt allegedly

[brontebilly]

I'd be buying a top notch striker. It's a simple game football. Score more goals and you'll generally do better. So far our striker purchases have been a lump from Brazil, a truly hopeless case from Tanzania, a Championship trier with the first touch of a medieval trebuchet and Grandpa Ings. Thick end of £90m on that little lot.

Every team looks for a top notch striker but for starters there aren't many out there for mid table clubs. More important is how any player fits with the overall style of play. Ronaldo's stats last season were very good but he ruined every other attacking player they had and destroyed the team morale. Man City won a league without a striker.

The first two were useless fair enough, Ings is the classic big name but poorly scouted signing. Watkins was more than fine running onto play from Grealish but whether he fits what Gerrard seems to want is open to question. At this stage, I'd be happy to go until January with Watkins, Archer and Davis. If Forest or someone else come back in for Davis then maybe we could look at getting in a decent hold up striker instead. Ings is done and we should be making every effort to move him on. The likes of Buendia, Coutinho, Bailey, Ramsey et al are all capable of scoring and creating. Just need to get a lot better balance behind them in midfield.

[dicedlam]

I'd be buying a top notch striker. It's a simple game football. Score more goals and you'll generally do better. So far our striker purcases have been a lump from Brazil, a truly hopeless case from Tanzania, a Championship trier with the first touch of a medieval trebuchet and Grandpa Ings. Thick end of £90m on that little lot.

I disagree with bit in bold but it's too funny.

I agree with it AND found it very funny!

Quality!

[Clark W Griswold]

I'd be buying a top notch striker. It's a simple game football. Score more goals and you'll generally do better. So far our striker purcases have been a lump from Brazil, a truly hopeless case from Tanzania, a Championship trier with the first touch of a medieval trebuchet and Grandpa Ings. Thick end of £90m on that little lot.

I disagree with bit in bold but it's too funny.

Make me chuckle.

But yes, Ings was a bloody good player for Southampton, still technically in his 20s so a good purchase, Watkins was the Championship player of the year. Overall they've not quite hit the heights so far but you never know. They've had their moments, Watkins more than a few.

I will agree that Samatta and Wesley must have been scouted by someone who had drunk 10 pints and forgot to put his contacts in.

[Villan82]

Yeah, in June 2021 things looked really rosy. In August 2022 we have failed to match that.

However, I blame Joe Grealish, not the owners. Grealish is the one who torpedoes our ambitions by failing to buy into the project and shitting all over the club. £100 m aside, that was a major psychological blow as it went to the heart of what we have been building since we got promoted.

AVFC surely is bigger than one (former) player?

I'd agree we haven't remotely recovered from losing him but that's hardly the fault of Joe G.

We built our recovery around him. We built the new villa around him. He fucked us over. If you can't see the difference between June 2021, when we were rattling a few cages and looking to add to a growing team, and what has transpired since last August then....

[Hookeysmith]

If I was them I would be talking to Poch and seeing if there is anything we could do to get him to come

I really do not get this fascination with him - what has he ever won?

He made Southampton a little better than awful
He turned the famous "Bridesmaid never the Bride" Spurs into exactly that
He had Mbappe, Neymar, Ramos and then even Messi and still could not win the European cup

Another Emperors new clothes Manager like Bielsa

[brontebilly]

Yeah, in June 2021 things looked really rosy. In August 2022 we have failed to match that.

However, I blame Joe Grealish, not the owners. Grealish is the one who torpedoes our ambitions by failing to buy into the project and shitting all over the club. £100 m aside, that was a major psychological blow as it went to the heart of what we have been building since we got promoted.

AVFC surely is bigger than one (former) player?

I'd agree we haven't remotely recovered from losing him but that's hardly the fault of Joe G.

We built our recovery around him. We built the new villa around him. He fucked us over. If you can't see the difference between June 2021, when we were rattling a few cages and looking to add to a growing team, and what has transpired since last August then....

The same player that tried to leave twice previously before then? Very risky strategy to build the club's fortunes around such a player, remember Purslow assured us last summer that it was something they had always planned for.

In terms of rattling cages, I think Jan 2021 was the last time I felt we were on the right track. We lost 2-1 at Old Trafford but I thought we played them off the park for a lot of that game. Grealish got injured soon after and we only picked it up once he returned. That was worrying even back then that the rest of them couldn't cope. Konsa, McGinn, Luiz, Watkins have all regressed as players since too.

[chrisw1]

Yeah, in June 2021 things looked really rosy. In August 2022 we have failed to match that.

However, I blame Joe Grealish, not the owners. Grealish is the one who torpedoes our ambitions by failing to buy into the project and shitting all over the club. £100 m aside, that was a major psychological blow as it went to the heart of what we have been building since we got promoted.

AVFC surely is bigger than one (former) player?

I'd agree we haven't remotely recovered from losing him but that's hardly the fault of Joe G.

We built our recovery around him. We built the new villa around him. He fucked us over. If you can't see the difference between June 2021, when we were rattling a few cages and looking to add to a growing team, and what has transpired since last August then....

He didn't fuck us over.  He left for a British record transfer fee after contributing more to the club than any other individual player probably since 1982*.  His legacy was promotion to and survival in the PL and a transfer pot that would protect us from FFP for 3 seasons or more.   

*I know people will say McGrath, Taylor etc but their achievements were more of a team effort and in my opinion not as important to the club as re-establishing ourselves in the PL at a time when the money gap was widening so fast there was a danger of being cut adrift for a long time.  Our promotion wining and PL surviving team were as close to a 'one man team' as you can get.  I think one player who comes close would be Benteke, as he proabably saved us from relegation for two seasons, but really only delayed the inevitable.

[ChicagoLion]

Yeah, in June 2021 things looked really rosy. In August 2022 we have failed to match that.

However, I blame Joe Grealish, not the owners. Grealish is the one who torpedoes our ambitions by failing to buy into the project and shitting all over the club. £100 m aside, that was a major psychological blow as it went to the heart of what we have been building since we got promoted.

AVFC surely is bigger than one (former) player?

I'd agree we haven't remotely recovered from losing him but that's hardly the fault of Joe G.

We built our recovery around him. We built the new villa around him. He fucked us over. If you can't see the difference between June 2021, when we were rattling a few cages and looking to add to a growing team, and what has transpired since last August then....

He didn't fuck us over.  He left for a British record transfer fee after contributing more to the club than any other individual player probably since 1982*.  His legacy was promotion to and survival in the PL and a transfer pot that would protect us from FFP for 3 seasons or more.   

*I know people will say McGrath, Taylor etc but their achievements were more of a team effort and in my opinion not as important to the club as re-establishing ourselves in the PL at a time when the money gap was widening so fast there was a danger of being cut adrift for a long time.  Our promotion wining and PL surviving team were as close to a 'one man team' as you can get.  I think one player who comes close would be Benteke, as he proabably saved us from relegation for two seasons, but really only delayed the inevitable.

He is still a twat

[chrisw1]

Well yeah, I'll give you that.

[john e]

Yeah, in June 2021 things looked really rosy. In August 2022 we have failed to match that.

However, I blame Joe Grealish, not the owners. Grealish is the one who torpedoes our ambitions by failing to buy into the project and shitting all over the club. £100 m aside, that was a major psychological blow as it went to the heart of what we have been building since we got promoted.

AVFC surely is bigger than one (former) player?

I'd agree we haven't remotely recovered from losing him but that's hardly the fault of Joe G.

We built our recovery around him. We built the new villa around him. He fucked us over. If you can't see the difference between June 2021, when we were rattling a few cages and looking to add to a growing team, and what has transpired since last August then....

The same player that tried to leave twice previously before then? Very risky strategy to build the club's fortunes around such a player, remember Purslow assured us last summer that it was something they had always planned for.

In terms of rattling cages, I think Jan 2021 was the last time I felt we were on the right track. We lost 2-1 at Old Trafford but I thought we played them off the park for a lot of that game. Grealish got injured soon after and we only picked it up once he returned. That was worrying even back then that the rest of them couldn't cope. Konsa, McGinn, Luiz, Watkins have all regressed as players since too.

The last time I felt we were on the right track was 1 minute to 3.00 last Saturday

[Villan82]

Yeah, in June 2021 things looked really rosy. In August 2022 we have failed to match that.

However, I blame Joe Grealish, not the owners. Grealish is the one who torpedoes our ambitions by failing to buy into the project and shitting all over the club. £100 m aside, that was a major psychological blow as it went to the heart of what we have been building since we got promoted.

AVFC surely is bigger than one (former) player?

I'd agree we haven't remotely recovered from losing him but that's hardly the fault of Joe G.

We built our recovery around him. We built the new villa around him. He fucked us over. If you can't see the difference between June 2021, when we were rattling a few cages and looking to add to a growing team, and what has transpired since last August then....

He didn't fuck us over.  He left for a British record transfer fee after contributing more to the club than any other individual player probably since 1982*.  His legacy was promotion to and survival in the PL and a transfer pot that would protect us from FFP for 3 seasons or more.   

*I know people will say McGrath, Taylor etc but their achievements were more of a team effort and in my opinion not as important to the club as re-establishing ourselves in the PL at a time when the money gap was widening so fast there was a danger of being cut adrift for a long time.  Our promotion wining and PL surviving team were as close to a 'one man team' as you can get.  I think one player who comes close would be Benteke, as he proabably saved us from relegation for two seasons, but really only delayed the inevitable.

He did. We were seriously on course at the end of 2020-21. Him wanting out was a hammer blow, and he is a supposed villa fan.

It was like Yorke in 1998- or Barry in 2009 only it was 'one of our own' and at a time when we were trying to buy players from An Arsenal in disarray and we had a chance to capitalize. Arsenal got their act together, Grealish fucked off and here we are wondering if we have a toxic dressing room again and a manager out of his depth.