Summer 2022 Transfer Thread

[eamonn]

Colin Calderwood, ha, nice shout. I think he's better than him and Carl Tiler for that matter.

[Mellin]

Thanks Sendo!!!

Now kindly take your "5th choice", 50 appearances last season, plodding centre half and stick him you know where.

Catastrophic signing.

[edgysatsuma89]

Thanks Sendo!!!

Now kindly take your "5th choice", 50 appearances last season, plodding centre half and stick him you know where.

Catastrophic signing.

'Catastrophic' is a bit steep.

[eamonn]

Dawson has more centre back wisdom than Mings and Konsa may probably ever possess.

[Mellin]

Thanks Sendo!!!

Now kindly take your "5th choice", 50 appearances last season, plodding centre half and stick him you know where.

Catastrophic signing.

'Catastrophic' is a bit steep.

Purrfect description imo.

[edgysatsuma89]

Thanks Sendo!!!

Now kindly take your "5th choice", 50 appearances last season, plodding centre half and stick him you know where.

Catastrophic signing.

'Catastrophic' is a bit steep.

Purrfect description imo.

That's Zouma.

[Mellin]

No shit.

[edgysatsuma89]

So a pun for a different defender? Was blatantly obvious, I apologise.

[Villafirst]

I doubt David Moyes will allow Dawson to leave. He's probably a bit more sensible not to weaken his defence unlike Gerrard. I see Hause sat on the bench for Watford yesterday and didn't get on at all.

[villabear]

Finding it strange in all this transfer window madness that no one is looking at Ward-Prowse.

[FatSam]

Dan Bardell made a lot of sense on the Villa View podcast regarding the CB situation. He said that we had a list of 10 CBs at the start of the window, and brought in Carlos who was at the top of the list. Since then 7 of the others have changed clubs, and the other 2 have signed new deals. So that list is now irrelevant. Whilst I like the idea of bringing in another top CB to slot in above those we already have, that effectively means writing-off Carlos, which I don’t think we should do. So we are looking for a third/ fourth choice CB, and a loan is probably the best solution. Yes, Hause could be that player, but there is clearly an understanding that he wouldn’t be happy to play that role in the squad and wants first team football.

[FatSam]

I would like to see us bring another imposing midfielder in. I think Gerrard said earlier in the window that we might bring in a couple of midfielders, but we’ve obviously only brought Kamara in at the moment. I’m assuming that the difficulty in offloading players has prevented this happening. I think Purslow said that this summer would be more about re-shaping the squad than anything else. I’ve got sympathy with the club on this, as I don’t want to see us with expensive talent under-utilised on the fringes of our squad. Especially if we don’t manage to make the step-up to European football anyway.

Looking at the business other clubs have done, I think Bissouma, Onana, Phillips and Palhinha would have fitted the bill. Of these, we have held an interest in Phillips, but we’re never going to compete with Man City for his signature. It sounds like we tried to get Bissouma in January, but I’m not sure I would’ve wanted us to sign him with the legal case hanging over him, and again we weren’t going to compete with Spurs for his signature. I thought Palhinha looked good in the Euros and have said on here previously that he might be a good fit for us. I know nothing about Onana, but his cameo against us was quite impressive.

Hopefully there are other similar players out there who are available, but I’m worried that the lack of outgoings, and the understandable focus on CB will mean we don’t bring in another midfielder. The other problem is that McGinn seems to be the most obvious weak link, and he is now captain.

[FatSam]

I’m not too concerned if we don’t bring another striker in. I agree with others who have said that a consistent 20 goal a season  EPL striker doesn’t exist, especially outside of the top six. I think Watkins and Ings are probably as good as we could currently expect. I’d like to see these two get 15 or so goals each, but considering that will probably play one up front for most of the season, they won’t both achieve this. We should be getting more goals from around the team instead.

I’m interested to see how Scamacca gets on at West Ham. I don’t know anything about him, but I can remember Michael Cox saying that he thought the reason that Italian strikers hadn’t done that well in England was that clubs tended to sign ‘English-style’ forwards from Italy, whereas signing more typically ‘Italian-style’ ones would present EPL defences with a different proposition. I don’t know who relevant that comment is anymore, as European football becomes increasingly homogenised. I think Dan Bardell was also saying on the Villa View that there seemed to be a move towards physicality with lone forwards. He was referring to Haaland and Nunez. I think that although he isn’t as ruthless in front of goal, Watkins does offer this physicality, and keeps CBS occupied.

[andyh]

Is Dawson better than Hause ? Probably. So, as cover, I’m not too concerned about bringing him in either on loan or for a small fee. I wouldn’t want us spending £15m+ on a CH when there are far more pressing positions to fill.

[coreyfeldman]

Finding it strange in all this transfer window madness that no one is looking at Ward-Prowse.

I think it's more that he signed a new contract last summer and inflated prices would probably put him in the 50-70m bracket, which he obviously isn't worth