2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[Gareth]

Tielemans is a great signing, and like Kamara a brilliant bit of business for free. Whilst I'd obviously like all signings to cost nothing, I hope we're not just limiting ourselves to looking round for freebies. If we need to soend £50m+ on a player, I hope we're in a position to do just that.

Do you know what, I think we are ready to splash the cash for the right player

Some of the links are with elite type players and we are struggling to entice them to Villa Park at the moment, but I’m sure we will pay up when the time comes

My fear is that we are linked with some super players around Europe. I just don’t want to end up with Oxlade-Chamberlain or some player from Leeds etc as the sum total of our efforts

I think you might be right John, I suspect the awareness of our progress in this country is there but players in other leagues will just see a club who snuck 7th and are playing in 3rd tier European competition….Emery is our trump card and hopefully the prospect of working for him will snare 1 or 2 star players.

[RamboandBruno]

Tielemans is a great signing, and like Kamara a brilliant bit of business for free. Whilst I'd obviously like all signings to cost nothing, I hope we're not just limiting ourselves to looking round for freebies. If we need to soend £50m+ on a player, I hope we're in a position to do just that.

Do you know what, I think we are ready to splash the cash for the right player

Some of the links are with elite type players and we are struggling to entice them to Villa Park at the moment, but I’m sure we will pay up when the time comes

My fear is that we are linked with some super players around Europe. I just don’t want to end up with Oxlade-Chamberlain or some player from Leeds etc as the sum total of our efforts

Chiesa would be a wow signing for me, but from you read he doesn’t want to come….yet anyway.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Chiesa would certainly be a sign of intent. Reports suggesting Juve want just over £50m which in todays market is a reasonable fee, thought he would command a higher fee. Someone of that ilk would really turn heads and be akin to when Man City got Robinho.

[SamTheMouse]

There's absolutely no point signing (or keeping, for that matter) players who regularly miss chunks of the season through injury. It's a huge waste of money and fucks up stability.

[jwarry]

Tielemans is a great signing, and like Kamara a brilliant bit of business for free. Whilst I'd obviously like all signings to cost nothing, I hope we're not just limiting ourselves to looking round for freebies. If we need to soend £50m+ on a player, I hope we're in a position to do just that.

Do you know what, I think we are ready to splash the cash for the right player

Some of the links are with elite type players and we are struggling to entice them to Villa Park at the moment, but I’m sure we will pay up when the time comes

My fear is that we are linked with some super players around Europe. I just don’t want to end up with Oxlade-Chamberlain or some player from Leeds etc as the sum total of our efforts

I think you might be right John, I suspect the awareness of our progress in this country is there but players in other leagues will just see a club who snuck 7th and are playing in 3rd tier European competition….Emery is our trump card and hopefully the prospect of working for him will snare 1 or 2 star players.

I would agree except why do top players still keep going to Chelsea?

[enigma]

I'd love it if we signed Chiesa but we've got no chance. He'll have his pick of elite clubs to choose from.

Have to wonder why Juve are willing to sell though, and why so cheap? Was his injury worse than we thought?

[N'ZMAV]

a problem is; it's difficult to predict who this big signing could be - too many clickbait articles and people who make up ITK bullshit - you can't see the woods for the trees.... but, as usual, we'll surprise everyone and pull a rabbit out of the hat. I trust the setup we have now.

[N'ZMAV]

I'd love it if we signed Chiesa but we've got no chance. He'll have his pick of elite clubs to choose from.

Have to wonder why Juve are willing to sell though, and why so cheap? Was his injury worse than we thought?

he's not been the same since his injury, that's according to a few sites. He's an upgrade on Buendia and Bailey.

[enigma]

I'd love it if we signed Chiesa but we've got no chance. He'll have his pick of elite clubs to choose from.

Have to wonder why Juve are willing to sell though, and why so cheap? Was his injury worse than we thought?

he's not been the same since his injury, that's according to a few sites. He's an upgrade on Buendia and Bailey.

He absolutely would. He was on course to becoming one of the best in the world so I'd be gobsmacked if we got him. Be a real shame if the injury means he can never become as good as he could have been though.

[Holy Trinity]

The reality is that we are a step below the top top clubs and as such are unlikely to attract the best players if one of the big boys ate after them.
Once the bigger clubs have made their moves and things settle we will see the right players coming in. I will be gobsmacked if we don't see a striker and coutinho/bailey replacement. But we are in a position now where the only obvious improvements are the players the champions league clubs hoover up as squad fillers.

[Clark W Griswold]

Not sure I like the term ‘bigger clubs’. Prefer ‘recently successful’. I mean sure, there are some bigger clubs than us across Europe but many that may attract slightly better quality than us currently are not necessarily ‘bigger’.

[Holy Trinity]

Not sure I like the term ‘bigger clubs’. Prefer ‘recently successful’. I mean sure, there are some bigger clubs than us across Europe but many that may attract slightly better quality than us currently are not necessarily ‘bigger’.

We can spin the term bigger clubs any way you like but the fact of the matter is no matter how we are perceived by our fans we are not even close to being considered one of the big teams in Europe. Off the top of my head all of the below fall comfortably into that bracket and most of the players we are trying to sign have never seen us do anything of note.

Man u
Man city
Chelsea
Liverpool
Newcastle now they have been taken over but I personally dont class them as above us at the moment.
Arsenal
Real
Barca
Bayern
Dortmund kinda
PSG
Juventus
Inter
Ac

The Italian clubs are debatable but have all achieved things.

[eamonn]

We can very possibly offer higher wages than Dortmund/Juve/Inter/Milan.

[pauliewalnuts]

Newcastle?

Considered one of the bigger clubs in Europe?

If you've spent all day taking too much sun whilst doing mushrooms the whole time, and are a Newcastle fan, maybe.

[OCD]

We can very possibly offer higher wages than Dortmund/Juve/Inter/Milan.

Dortmund were paying him about £100k/week, which is why they're prepared to sell him for a small fee.