Enzo Barrenechea - on loan at Benfica

[chrisw1]

I said in the other thread, I'd be surprised if we had any interest in either of the Juve players prior to them coming in for Luiz. We had to make the best of a bad situation and maybe pick a couple we thought we could make money on in the future.

Hopefully it's more about game time and progression for them to play a part with us next season rather than fattening them up for a quick FFP win.

Either way, as long as it benefits us in the end I suppose it doesn't matter, but do think we're leaving ourselves a bit short.

It may benefit us in the end, but I'm pretty convinced it's now how we would have chosen to use such a significant portion of our transfer budget.

I agree with those who think we've been fleeced, whether the gamble pays off in the medium term or not.

[Dave]

We should've held out for Soulé. A €3.6m difference in the cumulative cost of Enzo and Iling Jr. and what Juve sold him to Roma for. At the time, they claimed him to be untouchable.. then sell him four weeks later.

Juve are dirty.

I don't think there's any evidence they did claim that. I think people assumed that because we weren't buying Soulé then they might have wanted to keep him. They were quite happy to sell him to Leicester, but the player turned them down to go to Roma.

[eamonn]

I wonder if there was an agreement with Dougie that we wouldn't sell him to an English club in return for asking for a lower transfer fee from a club/country of his choice.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Couldn't we keep Enzo and send Barkley out on loan instead?

[chrisw1]

Couldn't we keep Enzo and send Barkley out on loan instead?

If Tielemans got an injury I'd much rather rely on a player who was excellent in the PL last season than an untested youngster.

[ldavfc4eva]

I see Chiesa is off to Liverpool for around £10m, total bargain if true

[Demitri_C]

It all seems a bit odd, but I guess Man City , Chelsea, Liverpool etc sign players and fans rarely if ever see them play.

We sell Luiz for less than what he is worth on June 30th and then sign Iling-Junior and Barrenechea the day after (so a new PSR period presumably). They were clearly not signed with a view to improving us in the short term and they may never work out at all, but have the right age profile for future resale.

Just think this has been a terrible deal all round. If enzo and illing jr were playing a part this season id say great but as it stands would have kept luiz

[Ads]

It all seems a bit odd, but I guess Man City , Chelsea, Liverpool etc sign players and fans rarely if ever see them play.

We sell Luiz for less than what he is worth on June 30th and then sign Iling-Junior and Barrenechea the day after (so a new PSR period presumably). They were clearly not signed with a view to improving us in the short term and they may never work out at all, but have the right age profile for future resale.

Just think this has been a terrible deal all round. If enzo and illing jr were playing a part this season id say great but as it stands would have kept luiz

And failed PSR.

[Demitri_C]

It all seems a bit odd, but I guess Man City , Chelsea, Liverpool etc sign players and fans rarely if ever see them play.

We sell Luiz for less than what he is worth on June 30th and then sign Iling-Junior and Barrenechea the day after (so a new PSR period presumably). They were clearly not signed with a view to improving us in the short term and they may never work out at all, but have the right age profile for future resale.

Just think this has been a terrible deal all round. If enzo and illing jr were playing a part this season id say great but as it stands would have kept luiz

And failed PSR.

Sell another player - id rather have sold mcginn than luiz tbh. Or duran

Some rumours going through that enzo deal has been put on hold due to a 'transfer market issue' accoridng to villa religion

[Drummond]

We signed Tielemans last year to cover for Luiz leaving this year. I suspect we bought Onana this year to. Cover for Kamara going next year. I reckon we may just have acted a year early in getting Barrenechea to cover Onana.

We're planning for the future, not just the here and now. We have to.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Some rumours going through that enzo deal has been put on hold due to a 'transfer market issue' accoridng to villa religion

Talk of them needing to offload André Almeida first.

[cdbearsfan]

Most likely three of our midfielders have gone down with ACL injuries.

[VillaTim]

Some of our summer business has been a bit bizarre .

[cdbearsfan]

Some rumours going through that enzo deal has been put on hold due to a 'transfer market issue' accoridng to villa religion

Talk of them needing to offload André Almeida first.

Most of the online whisperings seem to be that the issue is our end, not theirs. We've unexpectedly managed to sell a player, a player we were going to sign has fallen through, or we've got a catastrophic injury. Or Barrenechea is unable to leave the training ground because his security pass won't download to Google Wallet.

[Demitri_C]

Some rumours going through that enzo deal has been put on hold due to a 'transfer market issue' accoridng to villa religion

Talk of them needing to offload André Almeida first.

Apparently carlos is injured and cash injury has left us short. Also saying mings and kamara wont be back as quickly as we would have liked.