2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[Clark W Griswold]

I wouldn't sell any of the defenders. We have Mings out for the season, Moreno has been injured as well and Longlet is just a loan with no buy clause. We just need to buy another right back for now. If we do so that still only gives us 8 defenders for a season with a European campaign and FA Cup to come.

[paul_e]

I wouldn't sell any of the defenders. We have Mings out for the season, Moreno has been injured as well and Longlet is just a loan with no buy clause. We just need to buy another right back for now. If we do so that still only gives us 8 defenders for a season with a European campaign and FA Cup to come.

If we can sell Chambers and get a decent replacement to compete at right back then I'd be all for it, he's clearly not in the plans so he's just taking a squad place and a wage for no reason. He's probably only marginally ahead of someone like Feeney right now so he's not providing any real value to us.

[AV84]

We need to bring a RB in. Whether Chambers stays or goes is irrelevant. He pretty much doesn't count as a player as it is. Bringing in another RB probably bumps him off the bench too.

[Risso]

I wouldn't sell any of the defenders. We have Mings out for the season, Moreno has been injured as well and Longlet is just a loan with no buy clause. We just need to buy another right back for now. If we do so that still only gives us 8 defenders for a season with a European campaign and FA Cup to come.

If we can sell Chambers and get a decent replacement to compete at right back then I'd be all for it, he's clearly not in the plans so he's just taking a squad place and a wage for no reason. He's probably only marginally ahead of someone like Feeney right now so he's not providing any real value to us.

Agree with that, he's 5th choice centre back and nowhere near good enough for right back, where you'd assume from now on Konsa will play if there's an emergency.

[paul_e]

We need to bring a RB in. Whether Chambers stays or goes is irrelevant. He pretty much doesn't count as a player as it is. Bringing in another RB probably bumps him off the bench too.

Yes, exactly, this is why he needs to be sold, he has the potential to become a 1man bomb squad if we're not careful and we should be doing everything we can to avoid that.

[algy]

I’d love that Nunez fella at Liverpool
I know it’s unrealistic but there was a time he wasn’t rated and they were overstocked up front
He’d be the sort of signing to break the bank for 80-100 mill and give us more power and options in attack

Shouldn't we be looking for the Next One? - who's out there who's about to burst onto the scene? Under the Emery regime I don't think we need to blow our brains out on an already-established player.

Someone like Jhon Duran, you mean?

[Risso]

No, better than that.

[pablo_picasso]

We need to be looking at the likes of Brajan Gruda.

Players thought to be the next "wonder-kids".

He's likened to Thomas Mueller & when Mueller sought him out to trade shirts recently, it was seen as a symbolic "passing of the torch".

Those sorts of youngsters are what we need to be looking at...

[paul_e]

We need to be looking at the likes of Brajan Gruda.

Players thought to be the next "wonder-kids".

He's likened to Thomas Mueller & when Mueller sought him out to trade shirts recently, it was seen as a symbolic "passing of the torch".

Those sorts of youngsters are what we need to be looking at...

They're also the sort of youngsters that tend to have clubs like Chelsea offering £40-50m for them on the off chance they make good on that potential. That's not to say it's impossible to get them but it's a congested market.

[AV84]

Didn't Man U sign a wonder kid for 75mil this past summer. He's given away more penalties in the league than he's scored goals.

[paul_e]

Didn't Man U sign a wonder kid for 75mil this past summer. He's given away more penalties in the league than he's scored goals.

Yep, 18 goals in 69 appearances in senior league football and only 9 of those in a decent league, trying to find the 'next big thing' is nearly as expensive as signing ready made players. Signings like Duran and Wilson for us Ferguson at Brighton are the only way you can do it on the cheap now but they need much more time and patience to see if they can make it.

[AV84]

We should take a punt on this Irish kid, Naj Razi, at Shamrock Rovers. He's only 17 so can't sign for a British club until he's 18, Brexit apparently, but that's what that Portugese team is for! Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal are all showing interest in him.

[Clark W Griswold]

I wouldn't sell any of the defenders. We have Mings out for the season, Moreno has been injured as well and Longlet is just a loan with no buy clause. We just need to buy another right back for now. If we do so that still only gives us 8 defenders for a season with a European campaign and FA Cup to come.

If we can sell Chambers and get a decent replacement to compete at right back then I'd be all for it, he's clearly not in the plans so he's just taking a squad place and a wage for no reason. He's probably only marginally ahead of someone like Feeney right now so he's not providing any real value to us.

Agree with that, he's 5th choice centre back and nowhere near good enough for right back, where you'd assume from now on Konsa will play if there's an emergency.

Actually yes, we would still have 4 CB's without Chambers and then the 2 left backs and 2 right backs with a new one so it wouldn't really be an issue. He's not a bad player though and it shows how far we've come really that he's so way down the pecking order.

[paul_e]

I wouldn't sell any of the defenders. We have Mings out for the season, Moreno has been injured as well and Longlet is just a loan with no buy clause. We just need to buy another right back for now. If we do so that still only gives us 8 defenders for a season with a European campaign and FA Cup to come.

If we can sell Chambers and get a decent replacement to compete at right back then I'd be all for it, he's clearly not in the plans so he's just taking a squad place and a wage for no reason. He's probably only marginally ahead of someone like Feeney right now so he's not providing any real value to us.

Agree with that, he's 5th choice centre back and nowhere near good enough for right back, where you'd assume from now on Konsa will play if there's an emergency.

Actually yes, we would still have 4 CB's without Chambers and then the 2 left backs and 2 right backs with a new one so it wouldn't really be an issue. He's not a bad player though and it shows how far we've come really that he's so way down the pecking order.

I can't see Carlos and Chambers leaving without a replacement

Peter Lynch Villa news reports exit for Carlos is on the cards

https://www.astonvillanews.co.uk/2023/11/01/diego-carlos-exit-at-aston-villa-on-the-cards-unai-emery-does-not-need-him-at-villa-park/

No he doesn't, he writes a headline that suggests he's reporting something but if you read it the entire story is "Carlos might not be happy if he's not starting league games". That entire site is full of the same clickbait bollocks, often based on a 1 line quote from Alan Hutton.

[Risso]

That's not news or 'on the cards' it's an opinion by a blogger.