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

[DrGonzo]

Can we open a "Circular Bickering" thread wherein we can vote for certain conversations to be shunted to so that we don't have to go through page after page of increasingly lengthy requotes that don't lead anywhere?

[Somniloquism]

Can we open a "Circular Bickering" thread wherein we can vote for certain conversations to be shunted to so that we don't have to go through page after page of increasingly lengthy requotes that don't lead anywhere?

No, quoting circular bickering in the threads should be left in their original threads....

[LeeB]

Can we open a "Circular Bickering" thread wherein we can vote for certain conversations to be shunted to so that we don't have to go through page after page of increasingly lengthy requotes that don't lead anywhere?

No, quoting circular bickering in the threads should be left in their original threads....

No, I'm not sure I agree, and you smell.

[Sexual Ealing]

Can we open a "Circular Bickering" thread wherein we can vote for certain conversations to be shunted to so that we don't have to go through page after page of increasingly lengthy requotes that don't lead anywhere?

No, we fucking can't.

[VILLA MOLE]

when is this fans meeting ?

[frank black]

So who we signing to replace Lenglet then?. Seems he might be off

[Dave]

Havertz? £65m for a failed striker who is only getting a game in midfield until Partey is fit again?

He wasn't a striker in Germany.  Right now he's being used by Arsenal in the way Leverkusen used him, pretty much for the first time since he left them.

And unsurprisingly, he's actually fine there.

[AV84]

So who we signing to replace Lenglet then?. Seems he might be off

Waldemar Anton.

[paul_e]

Havertz? £65m for a failed striker who is only getting a game in midfield until Partey is fit again?

He wasn't a striker in Germany.  Right now he's being used by Arsenal in the way Leverkusen used him, pretty much for the first time since he left them.

And unsurprisingly, he's actually fine there.

Fine but not £65m level.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Giroud's 37 though. Good player, but has he still got the legs for the Premier League?

Edinson Cavani is only 36. I'd have loved us to have signed him before he went to the Plastics. In fact I'd have loved us to have signed him before he went to Napoli.

[Dave]

Havertz? £65m for a failed striker who is only getting a game in midfield until Partey is fit again?

He wasn't a striker in Germany.  Right now he's being used by Arsenal in the way Leverkusen used him, pretty much for the first time since he left them.

And unsurprisingly, he's actually fine there.

Fine but not £65m level.

I'd probably be comfortable giving him more than about four matches there before making a firm judgement either way.

[paul_e]

Havertz? £65m for a failed striker who is only getting a game in midfield until Partey is fit again?

He wasn't a striker in Germany.  Right now he's being used by Arsenal in the way Leverkusen used him, pretty much for the first time since he left them.

And unsurprisingly, he's actually fine there.

Fine but not £65m level.

I'd probably be comfortable giving him more than about four matches there before making a firm judgement either way.

True, but it doesn't disprove the idea that he's joined from Germany and is yet to prove worth what he cost. It may change but it's taken a while.

[Bad English]

Giroud will not be coming to the Villa. He will be going for 60 goals with France when they win Euro 2024. And jogging around with Milan until then.

[brontebilly]

Vicario might be a good distributor but he doesn't look any less shakey to me in terms of keeping the ball out of the net than Lloris showed in the last couple of seasons.

Lloris was obviously very good at his peak but he was throwing them in for the last 12-18 months. That other guy Forster reminded me of Kalinic, nowhere near PL standard.

Our game against them at Villa Park is going to be tasty.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

So who we signing to replace Lenglet then?. Seems he might be off

Waldemar Anton.

Otherwise known as Alan Hutton on stilts.