Summer 2022 Transfer Thread

[sid1964]

Gerrard hoping for 2 signings and 3 to leave before the end of the transfer window.

[LeeB]

Gerrard hoping for 2 signings and 3 to leave before the end of the transfer window.

Would be a good window if he's in the latter group.

[ozzjim]

You have to hope we are pulling a big midfield presence out of our arse in the next 48 hours.

[villadelph]

You have to hope we are pulling a big midfield presence out of our arse in the next 48 hours.

Its going to be Bednarek and Ryan Kent.

[paul_e]

Sure. But it doesn't mean that he "obviously" has no intention of re-signing.

and certainly doesn't suggest he's being allowed to take the piss, or trying to.

Wasn't it reported 3 weeks ago that he was signing a 3-year extension?

He did not look happy when he came off on Sunday. Especially when it was a senseless double-switch that led to nothing after the fact.

It didn't lead to nothing, it led to Fornals finding decent space on the edge of the box for the first time all game and getting lucky with the pot shot he took as a result.

[aev]

You have to hope we are pulling a big midfield presence out of our arse in the next 48 hours.

Its going to be Bednarek and Ryan Kent.

Painful, for all sorts of reasons.

[Rory]

In Gerrards first interview with Michelle Owen on Villa TV, she asked him how he wanted the team to play - his response was "that it would take too long to tell her his plan and way of playing" he was bull shitting he should of said " ask Michael Beale as he is the one who does the coaching etc..."

Looks like it has taken too long for the players as well.

I thought at the time that was a dismissive and condescending response, but on reflection it's worse than that. Even giving him the benefit of the doubt that there was a plan, if it would take too long to explain to somebody whose job it is to understand and summarise football, how fucking convoluted is it?!

And again, if there actually was a plan and if it was indeed too complicated to explain, was it ever realistic to expect a bunch of twenty-somethings, many of whom don't speak English as a first language and had to put so many hours into becoming professionals that they sacrificed much of their secondary education, to remember and stick to it in an incredibly high-pressure environment with 40,000 people shouting at them?

[LeeB]

It's not that the plan is too complicated, it's just we haven't been able to find a quality goalscoring goalkeeper to make it work. Martinez is not good enough to arrive late in the box to finish the full backs crosses and needs to be replaced, but once that's sorted we'll be cooking.

[JUAN PABLO]

You have to hope we are pulling a big midfield presence out of our arse in the next 48 hours.

Its going to be Bednarek and Ryan Kent.

Barkley and Boly

[Rory]

It's not that the plan is too complicated, it's just we haven't been able to find a quality goalscoring goalkeeper to make it work. Martinez is not good enough to arrive late in the box to finish the full backs crosses and needs to be replaced, but once that's sorted we'll be cooking.

Ah that makes sense. And Watkins races back to cover the goal for Martinez? Fiendish.

[LeeB]

It's not that the plan is too complicated, it's just we haven't been able to find a quality goalscoring goalkeeper to make it work. Martinez is not good enough to arrive late in the box to finish the full backs crosses and needs to be replaced, but once that's sorted we'll be cooking.

Ah that makes sense. And Watkins races back to cover the goal for Martinez? Fiendish.

Yes, it's an inverse gengenpress with a fase '1', made famous during TPS Turku's legendary 1957 title winning campaign.

[Rory]

It's not that the plan is too complicated, it's just we haven't been able to find a quality goalscoring goalkeeper to make it work. Martinez is not good enough to arrive late in the box to finish the full backs crosses and needs to be replaced, but once that's sorted we'll be cooking.

Ah that makes sense. And Watkins races back to cover the goal for Martinez? Fiendish.

Yes, it's an inverse gengenpress with a fase '1', made famous during TPS Turku's legendary 1957 title winning campaign.

Makes you proud that our manager is such a student of the game. We're lucky to have him. FACT

[paul_e]

It's not that the plan is too complicated, it's just we haven't been able to find a quality goalscoring goalkeeper to make it work. Martinez is not good enough to arrive late in the box to finish the full backs crosses and needs to be replaced, but once that's sorted we'll be cooking.

Ah that makes sense. And Watkins races back to cover the goal for Martinez? Fiendish.

Yes, it's an inverse gengenpress with a fase '1', made famous during TPS Turku's legendary 1957 title winning campaign.

Makes you proud that our manager is such a student of the game. We're lucky to have him. FACT

Well i thought you were completely wrong until you added that in massive letters and now I'm completely on board and regret ever doubting his genius.

[LeeB]

It's internet law that the case and font size are directly linked to truth. The elders of the internet would never allow the word 'fact' to type out on screen were it not the truth.

[Rory]

It's not that the plan is too complicated, it's just we haven't been able to find a quality goalscoring goalkeeper to make it work. Martinez is not good enough to arrive late in the box to finish the full backs crosses and needs to be replaced, but once that's sorted we'll be cooking.

Ah that makes sense. And Watkins races back to cover the goal for Martinez? Fiendish.

Yes, it's an inverse gengenpress with a fase '1', made famous during TPS Turku's legendary 1957 title winning campaign.

Makes you proud that our manager is such a student of the game. We're lucky to have him. FACT

Well i thought you were completely wrong until you added that in massive letters and now I'm completely on board and regret ever doubting his genius.

Thanks Paul, I knew I'd made a persuasive case.