Summer 2022 Transfer Thread

[Flin5tone]

Very quiet
What's going on ?? Purslow needs to come out and tell us what the new plan is as the utter garbage he spoke about pre season clearly isn't happening

We've been lied to! Where's the ambition? Where's the signings? It's all bloody talk!

[Skerra]

SG getting really desperate now as he has said that, as supporters, we need to realise that after 27 games last season we were 9th in the league. What has that got to do with what’s happened since. It’s like saying we took the lead in most matches but eventually lost!

[eamonn]

Don't worry - as Jim White's voice booms over the Big Ben bongs tomorrow night, Santa will be squeezing his chubby cheeks down Bodymoor Heath's chimney with a couple of beltin' footballers tied-up in his sack (not "sac", perverts) - they'll have air-holes to breathe so should come through the medicals ok 

[caster troy]

Remember when Ratboy left to play in the Champions League and Dean Smith said we were 18 months away from that level? The Championship looks more likely at this point.

[nick harper]

Waiting until tonight’s result to decide whether to back him tomorrow or sack him.

[Skerra]

Assuming we lose our next 2 matches, we then have Leicester and Southampton. Can see us getting 1 point from those 2 matches. We have been sold a pup, not for the first time, regarding how well we were expected to do this season. As usual, the reality is we have been crap again with our transfers and just hope that we are not in a relegation battle again.

[Clark W Griswold]

Very quiet
What's going on ?? Purslow needs to come out and tell us what the new plan is as the utter garbage he spoke about pre season clearly isn't happening

We've been lied to! Where's the ambition? Where's the signings? It's all bloody talk!

One possibility is that they've realised they've made a balls up with Gerrard and want to get that sorted first. They really do need to get the next one right, and i'd take that over any signings in the immediate future.

[paul_e]

Waiting until tonight’s result to decide whether to back him tomorrow or sack him.

That's not an either or. Regardless of what happens with Gerrard we need to bring in some players, especially if Sanson and/or Luiz go out. The whole point of having a head coach instead of a manager is that you don't have to stop everything and let the squad collapse if a manager is on the brink like this. We follow our process and bring in good players that have been well scouted alongside making a decision on who uses those players.

[CT Villan]

The Sanson saga is puzzling in the extreme, the only thing I can think of, and its a stretch, is that there is a large appearance-based payment due if he plays one more time for us. Wiki says he's played 19 times in the league, maybe we have to pay Marseille a few quid at 20 league appearances. After being heavily involved in pre-season and to my mind performing well, it is very strange that he has been ostracized especially given the problems in midfield.

On a different topic, whilst watching the presser it was evident how Gerrard's demeanor has changed and he looked like shit. Clearly feeling the pressure and knows he's in trouble.

[algy]

Around about 11 months ago, I saw Sanson, amongst our reserves, put in a performance so accomplished and polished for 45 minutes down at Stamford Bridge, that I've not seen Luiz do in several years. Inevitably Sanson got injured. He also gave a goal away against Man United, but fuck me, if dodgy passes were a reason to ostracise a player McGinn would have been fired of a giant trebuchet moons ago, the great balloon.

Absolutely. I just don't get why Sanson doesn't get a run. He's shown under both managers that he's fucked off if be gets replaced and that's about all I can see that he's done wrong.

To be fair to Smith, when Sanson came in that January he did get a number of chances, admittedly in a Grealish less struggling team, but he looked half a yard short. Maybe to be expected coming in mid season from the French league.

Last season under both coaches his absence always seemed a puzzling one with the likes of Luiz and McGinn regularly struggling. Ramsey was obviously being promoted and later under Gerrard it was Chucky who was often first on. Definitely a strange one and I wonder has it anything to do with a bit of a political power struggle between Lange and the head coach(es)? Sanson was a Lange value for money type signing as opposed to likes of Barkley and Coutinho which were very much coach driven.

Just speculative on my part here, but maybe:
- Deano says he needs a second McGinn-type midfielder.  Sanson's identified and brought in.
- We play him a bit.  He's clearly not up to speed at that point (to be expected), so used sparingly with the intention of bringing him in more the following season
- Joe leaves, we don't have a direct replacement, so we end up trying to find a new style to play without him.
- 2021/22 season, we're in disarray to begin with, Deano's massively under pressure and doesn't want to risk playing a player he doesn't know well, in a brand new system.
- Deano sacked, Gerrard in.  Sanson isn't Gerrard's player, and for whatever reason Gerrard doesn't trust Sanson.

I mean, I'm almost certainly a million miles off there - but to me, there's at least the possibility that Sanson has come to the club at just the wrong moment - he was brought under the assumption of a 4-5-1 with Joe playing in the side ... but before he's got up to speed we've changed formation, then changed manager.

[Goldie.7]

Waiting until tonight’s result to decide whether to back him tomorrow or sack him.

It would be typical Villa to go there and get a result to paper over the enormous cracks.

[Rory]

Waiting until tonight’s result to decide whether to back him tomorrow or sack him.

It would be typical Villa to go there and get a result to paper over the enormous cracks.

Yep, I reckon we'll nick a point.

[Beard82]

SG getting really desperate now as he has said that, as supporters, we need to realise that after 27 games last season we were 9th in the league. What has that got to do with what’s happened since. It’s like saying we took the lead in most matches but eventually lost!

Yeah - at 10 o'clock I was funny and people thought I was the life and soul of the party

Its now 6am, I am wearing soiled clothes, I'm still drunk and it hurts to open my eyes.  The people on the bus I am driving arent happy either. 

[richtheholtender]

Remember when Ratboy left to play in the Champions League and Dean Smith said we were 18 months away from that level? The Championship looks more likely at this point.

At the time Dean probably didn't expect the cutting, self sufficient model to start. Probably what got him the Norwich job "Don't worry Delia, I've worked in these conditions before"

[richtheholtender]

Still getting the notifications to buy the third kit though.