January 2023 Transfer Rumours, Discussions and Done Deals Thread

[Mister E]

Thing is, if we can't get our targets this month, for whatever reason, and then start getting bodies in the door just because, we're back at square one.

You assume that we'll "start getting bodies in the door" but that may not be the Emery approach.
FWIW, I think they'll get Guendouzi in - anything else will be a bonus or a last-minute, value-enhancing opportunity.

[eamonn]

Saint Maximin has gone all Traore, relegated to the bench cos he's not effective enough from the start. He'll be gone if they get Gordon.

[Dave]

Thing is, if we can't get our targets this month, for whatever reason, and then start getting bodies in the door just because, we're back at square one.

But at the moment we are slightly further behind square one, having removed one defender, one midfielder and two strikers, while adding one defender and one striker.

So if our aim for January was to remain at square one (and it probably shouldn't have been if so), wouldn't it have made more sense to leave at least one of Archer and Ings kicking around?

I'm sure this is academic, as I expect we'll bring in at least one and probably two before Tuesday.

[algy]

The negativity is really strange. I haven't felt this good about villa since about 2008.

For a transfer to happen the club the player is contracted to has to be willing to release the player for your valuation and the player contracted to the club has to be willing to join your club for the money you are willing to pay him. And there will be other clubs sniffing around, maybe more desperate than you are.

January has always been a tricky month. We probably over paid for Digne last year, for example.

January wasn't too tricky to prevent Liverpool buying Suarez or Van Dijk. Or Man Utd buying Vidic or Evra. Or Spurs buying Kulusevski and Bentacur. Or us buying Young and Carew.

Or West Ham buying Ings. Or Middlesbrough borrowing Archer.

Can't really comment on non-Villa transfers as I have little-to-no interest in the details of football clubs other than Villa.  However, with our transfers:
- At the time, it was widely seen that we paid well over the odds for Young (£9.75m for a player with no pedigree)
- Carew was unwanted at Lyon
- Ings was unwanted at Villa
- Digne had fallen out with Benitez at Everton
- Barcelona wanted Coutinho off their wage bill
- Archer is (I assume) seen as not ready for first team football yet

You either buy players that the parent club doesn't want, or you pay over the odds for them, or you find one that's undervalued because of their buy out clause.

[Gareth]

Chelsea are definitely distorting this months market….you do wonder if some clubs (& we are amongst them) are hoping to pick up one of their unwanted players on deadline day.

I also think (if finances allow) that anyone we can get in this month rather than waiting for summer is a bonus…if we could get 2/3 in before deadline then hopefully come summer they will be integrated & it will be tinkering rather than looking for 5/6

[Bad English]

I get the feeling that there are a number of deals that when/ if they go through will have a domino effect.
Not sure if we will be the beneficiary of this but the window has not really taken off yet.

Are there any butterflies flapping their wings in the Amazonian rainforest, or what is left of it?

[OCD]

The success of the Kamara deal may have had an impact on our philosophy.

[tomd2103]

Seeing as we've known for a couple of weeks that we wouldn't be in action this weekend, I wonder if some things might have been put aside to sort over the next couple of days.   

[Villatillidie25]

no Deulofeu due to surgery required on knee, which personally I feel is a good thing

[Risso]

It's a shame Footy's taken a break, I'd be interested in his views on this Football Insider revelation:

"27th Jan, 2023 | 7:30am

Sources: Aston Villa ready to pounce and seal last-gasp Matteo Guendouzi deal

Aston Villa are ready to pounce and look into sealing a late-window deal for Marseille star Matteo Guendouzi, sources have told Football Insider.

The former Arsenal man is one of Villa’s top targets as Unai Emery works on recruiting a top-class central midfielder ahead of next Tuesday’s cut-off.

The Midlands outfit have held talks with Marseille over a deal for Guendouzi, who is valued at around the £30million mark, and discussed offering a player in part-exchange.

It is believed that Villa have suggested Morgan Sanson as part of a cash-plus-player deal."

Oi, Football Insider, if you're going to make up rubbish then at least be aware of the fact that Sanson went to Strasbourg a few days ago.

Divs.

[Legion]

Not Villa but transfer related and very good:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMY8ThvAb/

[LeeB]

I thought it was shit, but everybody seems to be going mad over it

[VILLA MOLE]

I thought it was shit, but everybody seems to be going mad over it

ha ha you misog   

[LeeB]

I thought it was shit, but everybody seems to be going mad over it

ha ha you misog   

I know, it's things like this that remind me I'm getting old

[pauliewalnuts]

I thought it was shit, but everybody seems to be going mad over it

I thought it was impressive work to garner so many views and comments - someone in Burnley's social media team is getting a decent bonus this year - but I tend to agree with you, I found it perhaps not shit, but nothing amazing.