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

[brontebilly]

Interesting part in Emery's press conference where he mentioned playing with 3 centre backs on occasion.

Be some meltdown on here if that happens

[Chris Smith]

Interesting part in Emery's press conference where he mentioned playing with 3 centre backs on occasion.

Be some meltdown on here if that happens

He has earned the right to be trusted to do as he sees fit. He could play 6 centre backs, 4 wingers  and a rush back keeper as far as I’m concerned.

[Beard82]

Interesting part in Emery's press conference where he mentioned playing with 3 centre backs on occasion.

Be some meltdown on here if that happens

He has earned the right to be trusted to do as he sees fit. He could play 6 centre backs, 4 wingers  and a rush back keeper as far as I’m concerned.

Apart from playing Olsen

[LeeB]

Interesting part in Emery's press conference where he mentioned playing with 3 centre backs on occasion.

Be some meltdown on here if that happens

It's all just talk to confuse the opposition, I'm sure of it.

[Sexual Ealing]

Interesting part in Emery's press conference where he mentioned playing with 3 centre backs on occasion.

Be some meltdown on here if that happens

It's all just talk to confuse the opposition, I'm sure of it.

I'm already in rehearsals to swear blind that one of the CBs was playing in midfield should the worst happen.

[Gareth]

Think it’s an illustration of how far we have come that we mostly all agree that we need a competition for right back, a reliable back up keeper who can use his feet and possibly one more forward / wide player.  Previous years we’d have been arguing on here about which positions were priority, which players needed bombing out etc.

Can’t wait for the season to get going, think we have shopped well so far, big bonus that Torres can be integrated slowly if Unai wants to as he can continue with the combination that was sooo good at the end of the season.

[Risso]

I think this is the first non-disappointing transfer window since we came back up. I mean, there has been good business before, but we always failed to quite do enough.

[paul_e]

I think this is the first non-disappointing transfer window since we came back up. I mean, there has been good business before, but we always failed to quite do enough.

I thought the window when we got Watkins was good, my only big complaint was Barkley coming in.

[Smirker]

I think this is the first non-disappointing transfer window since we came back up. I mean, there has been good business before, but we always failed to quite do enough.

I thought the window when we got Watkins was good, my only big complaint was Barkley coming in.

Most were buzzing with that but I remember my Scouse mate saying he's a waster and a piss head. Turned out to be spot on.

[Ads]

People thought January was poor, yet only Man City took more points and conceded fewer goals in 2023.

[Risso]

People thought January was poor, yet only Man City took more points and conceded fewer goals in 2023.

Maybe we’d have finished even higher in that case. January was poor, and it was a case of us mostly getting away with it rather than it being a good idea.

[Ads]

Maybe we could have out performed the best side in the world if we'd signed one or two more.

[Risso]

What’s that got to do with it? If not buying any players in January was such a good idea, then why is everybody so happy we’re spending money now?

[Ads]

January was irrelevant to our form. We were fantastic and the only way we could have done better would be to out perform Lance Armstrong City.

People were happy when we were spending the Grealish money, people are always happy when we're hosing cash around in the summer, when there's not much else to do Villa wise.

[Baldy]

I do not envy Unai's job of picking the starting eleven for our first league match. A lot of players noses will be put out of joint.

Retention of all our quality players is key. A situation, probably new to the Villa!!

Thankfully, Unai has been there, done it and wore the 't' shirt.