Boubacar Kamara - out for the season

[Richard E]

Just waiting for some salty tears from Athletico Madrid now.

Fantastic news. Now Suarez on a free and we’ve been very very smart with under £20 million!

We're after Tarkowski on a free as well apparently.

There are some extremely upset Man U fans on Twitter this morning, pissed off that we've landed Kamara.

Tarkowski would be an excellent signing. I really rate him.

[Scovilla]

Wonderful news..Welcome to you..Bouba

[Brazilian Villain]

Excellent news. Another signing that the manager's name will have attracted I reckon, the challenge now is to organise them into a successful team, as that pull won't last forever.

Agreed, turning down CL football with the 'Mattress Makers' to join us doesn't make much sense on the face of it.

Next season will be a big one for the club and Gerrard and will need to see tangible progress. Very exciting to have 2 quality signings in already though.

[darren woolley]

Welcome to Aston Villa Boubacar.

[Flin5tone]

Great signing for the Football Club but I thought the same about Leon Bailey at the time, we have a terrible habit of turning excellent footballers into poor ones.

Gerrard can clearly attract a good calibre of player. Kamara,Chambers and Coutinho for 17m sounds superb really , let's hope he can attract a world class striker as we would have won the last 3 games if we could put the ball in the net

[RamboandBruno]

Although from the highlights, he gets the initial tackle in, but then needs to have good players around him to pick up the ball he has made loose and play it away. That is the bit he will quickly realise he doesn't have anymore.

Beundia and Coutinhio.

Finally the lesser seen CDM. Well happy we’ve got this business done early. A new CB and a striker and job done for me apart from shipping a few non first teamers out.

[chrisw1]

Well done Villa.  Arsenal fans are fuming!

[DB]

This and the Coutinhio signed could see a few more players looking at us now to.come and play.

[Clampy]

Well done Villa.  Arsenal fans are fuming!

Aren't they always?

Never heard of him until we were linked with him but welcome. I hope he's good.

[Brazilian Villain]

To the tune of Jesus Christ Superstar...
"Boubacar Kamara, came to the Villa on a free transfer. He's intense, and immense, blocks all the holes in our shit defence."

Inspired tune choice. Maybe
"Boubacar, he's a superstar. He's just immense in front of our defence."

[PhilVill]

Good stuff, do the business early, try and clear the deadwood and get an excellent pre season done with plans and formations worked on so we hit the ground running. A great signing for the club.

[Villan82]

We really don't mess around do we? Great bit of business.

When we came up in 2019 we heard a lot about building three different sides- one to stay up, one to consolidate and one to kick on. I think we are quietly swapping in quality now for ones that did a job in establishing us in the League but probably not good enough to be regulars in the 16-18 for a top 10 side: Digne for Targett, Buendia for El Ghazi/Trez, Kamara for Marv/Luiz, Chambers for Hause, and Coutinho  is probably the unintended one coming in for Joe

[Border villan]

Great signing for the Football Club but I thought the same about Leon Bailey at the time, we have a terrible habit of turning excellent footballers into poor ones.

Gerrard can clearly attract a good calibre of player. Kamara,Chambers and Coutinho for 17m sounds superb really , let's hope he can attract a world class striker as we would have won the last 3 games if we could put the ball in the net

We put the ball in the net twice in the last game if I recall correctly.

[chrisw1]

Can also play centre back if needed.

[ASHTONVILLA]

I don't watch any French football, and rarely watch European football unless we are in the competition so only have reports in the press and the opinions of others on how good he is. However he does seem to play in the elusive DM position we are desperate for a better player in. Also can hop back into defence if needed. Good tackler, plays safe in distribution of the ball.

Certainly looks the right kind of player and on a free as well - can't see past it being a good signing. Lets hope he does better than the past signings from France have.