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

[AV84]

I would hope that we've already told them to piss off.  People need to realise that a move to Arsenal isn't a step up anymore.  We aren't a Brighton or West Ham having a good season.

Actually, I'd like us to offer them £100m for Saka. Make it nice and public.

I'm really just interested in what they'd offer for him. As I said, they paid huge for Rice, who has been good, but has he been as good as Dougie? I don't know how he would feel himself about it, but if there's no release clause, and he would like to move, we should be able to set the price, and I'd expect us to absolutely fleece them.

[JUAN PABLO]

£115  million easy - get top 5  tihs season and no chance they will get him


they can have the Donk thou

[dave.woodhall]

Sometimes I wonder if there's any other top club whose supporters are so quick to put a price on their best players.

[Toronto Villa]

Sometimes I wonder if there's any other top club whose supporters are so quick to put a price on their best players.

I know. It’s like as soon as one of our gets to a certain point of achievement they are already selling them. Or if they get to represent their country it’s inevitable only ours who get tapped up. Especially England.

[SoccerHQ]

With Doug I was always impressed he didn't go on strike that time Arsenal came in for him like so many other players.

He had less than a year left on his deal and Slippy was of course leaving him constantly on the bench so he had far more leverage than other players to play up.

He didn't, kept his head down and signed a new deal a month later.

I think he's very happy here and being back in the Brazil squad will help with that. Would help getting CL qualification though and then I imagine we'll offer him a new deal next summer.

[AV84]

I'm not selling him, quite the opposite. I don't see the point in debating whether he'll go or not, because we obviously won't want to sell him, and I think he'll be happy to stay.

So purely out of curiosity, and based off them spending about £180k on 2 midfielders in the summer, I'm wondering what price they'd offer, and what price we'd be looking for in the hypothetical situation that he was to want to go.

[Rigadon]

Loads of paper talk again about Arsenal making Dougie their #1 target in January.

Ignoring whether it's likely to happen or not, based on what they paid for Rice, Dougie has to be worth £100mil, at least. He doesn't have the English tax, but there's January tax to consider.

They paid £65mil for Havertz, who has never been anywhere near as good as Dougie. So again, you'd have to think £100mil, minimum selling price.

I would hope that we've already told them to piss off.  People need to realise that a move to Arsenal isn't a step up anymore.  We aren't a Brighton or West Ham having a good season.

Actually, I'd like us to offer them £100m for Saka. Make it nice and public. 

Declan Rice, then do a Man City and never play him.

Fuck it, we'll have both.

[dave.woodhall]

Sometimes I wonder if there's any other top club whose supporters are so quick to put a price on their best players.

I know. It’s like as soon as one of our gets to a certain point of achievement they are already selling them. Or if they get to represent their country it’s inevitable only ours who get tapped up. Especially England.

Because international footballers only ever speak to each other when they get called up.

[Steve67]

Hopefully, there is no release clause for Douglas Luiz.  I wouldn't want to sell him anyway and he's a very valuable player these days.   Worth a monstrous fee to Villa and anyone who might want him.

[Rigadon]

To be honest, there is only one person at the club who would represent a catastrophic loss, and it isn't a player.  No way we're selling any of our best players in January anyway.

[Beard82]

Hopefully, there is no release clause for Douglas Luiz.  I wouldn't want to sell him anyway and he's a very valuable player these days.   Worth a monstrous fee to Villa and anyone who might want him.

This is the only thing that I am worried about.  I think hes happy here - and the club wont want to sell him unless they have no choice. But he would have been in a very strong position when negotiating last season.   Though I would expect if there is a release clause then we would be working hard to get it removed.

[PeterWithesShin]

I reckon there's posters on every club forum that talk about player values.

[AV84]

This is the only thing that I am worried about.  I think hes happy here - and the club wont want to sell him unless they have no choice. But he would have been in a very strong position when negotiating last season.   Though I would expect if there is a release clause then we would be working hard to get it removed.

There was talk a few weeks ago that we were going to open new contract talks with him after Christmas. They were dismissed as nonsense because he only signed a new deal last October. But an awful lot has changed since last October.

[IFWaters]

Tell them they can make an offer for Doug but weve locked his girlfriend in a cell under the Holte and he will only get to visit her for 'game time' if he stays with us. Oer.

[SamTheMouse]

I don't mind how we respond to them, as long as it's along the lines of "Fuck off, Tarquin. He's under contract."