January 2023 Transfer Rumours, Discussions and Done Deals Thread

[PaulTheVillan]

After watching that today. I think it’s time to move Countinho and Bailey on to start with.

[pauliewalnuts]

I have been of the ‘see what UE can get out of him’ camp but if someone offered us an option after today I think I’d pot Coutinho.

I am also sick of Bailey. He can fuck off as well. Pathetic today yet again.

[astonvilla82]

On today performance you can give some players so many chances, with Bailey's I think his time is up

[AGRIPPA]

I think we have to understand that most people posting in here are delusional…..that team should have pissed that game and talk of massive changes are ridiculous, We have some decent players who with the right management/ coaching can/ may improve.
Instant success is hardly ever going to be maintained so we build……. From a foundation of decent players and improve.
If we are in twelfth now and improve one place in the next 8 years we win the league….. get realistic!!

But Olsen does look crap….

[Clark W Griswold]

I think we could buy players for literally every position if the right player comes along at the right price and wants to come. Goalkeeper and full backs would be young up and coming players but everywhere else can be to go straight in. I think we knew that before today though.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I have been of the ‘see what UE can get out of him’ camp but if someone offered us an option after today I think I’d pot Coutinho.

I am also sick of Bailey. He can fuck off as well. Pathetic today yet again.

It makes you understand why UE has top of his wish list a winger.

[Nii Lamptey]

In our current squad, there are only three positions where I think we're 'good enough' for our current status/short term aims.

Martinez in goal, Mings at a push (*he's been our best player by a mile recently imo) and Kamara. The rest of them need an upgrade and I wouldn't be sad to see any of them go tbh (*not seen enough of Diego Carlos to make a call).

Priority has to be down the sides and up front - Fullbacks, wingers and a goalscorer.

Coutinho has to go - We were all over the moon when he signed, but a season in (with age against him), he is absolutely the busted flush everyone was telling us we'd bought.
I'd lump Digne in there too - Overpriced, super expensive on the wage bill, and lightweight and ineffective on the pitch. Augustinsson actually looked the better player when he came on against Wolves.

Emery has some serious sorting out to do.

[Villan82]

We got relegated after years of bad decisions and over paying for mediocre players. We had our reset in the Championship. I am a little bit surprised that we haven't been a bit 'smarter' since we came back. We sort of got back up on that cycle of splashing the cash and over-hyping what we were buying.

That said, we do all tend to catastrophize after a bad result! We were hailing our team as world beaters on New Year's Day! However, there have to be questions over Buendia, Bailey and Coutinho. So much money spent on that lot and have we really seen enough? Not even close.

Most disappointing of all, however, is the fact that the players we have brought in seem to have the same mental weaknesses that blighted us for years before we went down. I want us to buy players with more resilience who aren't so bloody inconsistent. Players who want to win and don't shy away when the going gets tough. I don't really know what I am trying to say but I just feel I have seen too many mentally weak players at the villa.

[adrenachrome]

We got relegated after years of bad decisions and over paying for mediocre players. We had our reset in the Championship. I am a little bit surprised that we haven't been a bit 'smarter' since we came back. We sort of got back up on that cycle of splashing the cash and over-hyping what we were buying.

That said, we do all tend to catastrophize after a bad result! We were hailing our team as world beaters on New Year's Day! However, there have to be questions over Buendia, Bailey and Coutinho. So much money spent on that lot and have we really seen enough? Not even close.

Most disappointing of all, however, is the fact that the players we have brought in seem to have the same mental weaknesses that blighted us for years before we went down. I want us to buy players with more resilience who aren't so bloody inconsistent. Players who want to win and don't shy away when the going gets tough. I don't really know what I am trying to say but I just feel I have seen too many mentally weak players at the villa.

We came back from going a goal down at in-form Brighton early doors due to a catastrophic error.

Then we won 2-0 at Sperms who were on the cusp of entering the top 4.

I would not overplay the the mental weakness card. It is catastrophism, if you will.

[Villan82]

Fair point! But that was an exception. Over a twelve month period our record from coming back from a goal down is very poor.

[brontebilly]

The Grealish money...a lot of our current problems go back to what we did with that. Bailey, Buendia, Ings, Coutinho.... the four of them collectively haven't replaced the impact Grealish had on the team. I think we should be brave and let Ings go this month given there seems to be plenty of interest from desperate teams. Coutinho is done. The first two need to start delivering.

[FatSam]

Maguire on loan apparently is on, brother played golf by the Belfry Maguire and Scott Mctominay playing in front of him

Did he ask Maguire why he was there or is it just 2 + 2?

just asking him,I be back as Arnie would say

definitely not on,ex-brother (dickhead)got it wrong,I will discuss it when we meet up

He gave you the wrong advices

[adrenachrome]

Fair point! But that was an exception. Over a twelve month period our record from coming back from a goal down is very poor.

Yes. It has been a problem.

[sid1964]

Who is going to take any of these squad players off our hands, they will not leave until their contracts are up, playing for Aston Villa is too easy and a unbelievably well paid job, there is no pressure as long the club finish between 10th an 15th they are all happy.

If we sign another left back Digne won't leave permanently he will stay until the end of his contract - which other European club is going to pay him £135k a week. 
The same with Coutinho, he is not leaving - Barcelona had to virtually give him away (the £17 million fee probably was paid to him as compensation for loss of salary.)

[Mister E]

The Grealish money...a lot of our current problems go back to what we did with that. Bailey, Buendia, Ings, Coutinho.... the four of them collectively haven't replaced the impact Grealish had on the team. I think we should be brave and let Ings go this month given there seems to be plenty of interest from desperate teams. Coutinho is done. The first two need to start delivering.

Buendia was bought to play in a Grealish team, and it made sense at the time. Coutinho was one of Gerrard's smart ideas, along with Digne.
The other 2 -Bailey and Ings - were gambles (the former had not been picked up by clubs in European competitions - wonder why?! The latter was a knee-jerk reaction from Purslow).

Ings won't be going anywhere this month, what with Archer on loan. Buendia can still contribute to the team. Bailey and Couts are dead meat, in my opinion, and we need replacements.