Amadou Onana

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Nunes, Keita, Tonali, Fred, and Ndombele. They’re not perfect comparisons clearly, but midfielders for similar fees. Tonali is the best of them I’d say and I think Onana isn’t that far off him.

Tonali is miles better than Onana.

Agree PW but different players in my mind. I thought we were getting a midfield colossus who would use his physical attributes to win the ball and drive us forward, we haven’t seen any or enough of that.

I’d probably put Keita and Ndombele in a similar bracket whereas Tonali is a lot more technical and uses the ball better.

[PaulWinch again]

It’s a lot of money, but we wanted a dominant midfielder and he’s shown he can do that, but it’s been fleeting. If across his time here what he did in his first year is the sum of his contribution then I’d say it won’t have been worth it. But if he kicks on and becomes more consistent then I think he will be worth it.

[villa for life]

It’s a lot of money, but we wanted a dominant midfielder and he’s shown he can do that, but it’s been fleeting. If across his time here what he did in his first year is the sum of his contribution then I’d say it won’t have been worth it. But if he kicks on and becomes more consistent then I think he will be worth it.

I think “opportunity cost” is the key concept here. The cost of recruiting Onana would have come at the cost of recruiting certain other players and perhaps also indirectly contributing to the enforced sale of certain players now”.

For that kind of sacrifice, I’d be looking for more than just potential and the prospect of what might he become.

Top six clubs with unlimited budgets can take punts on the future. At this point, sad as it may be, we need to focus on improving our starting eleven.

Do we even know what Onana is being paid on a weekly basis?

[VillaTim]

I know a few Toffee's who were over the moon when we paid what we did for him , starting to see why now .

[kippaxvilla2]

Nunes, Keita, Tonali, Fred, and Ndombele. They’re not perfect comparisons clearly, but midfielders for similar fees. Tonali is the best of them I’d say and I think Onana isn’t that far off him.

Tonali is miles better than Onana.

You bet.

[Beard82]

I think Onnana isnt really a DCM, I think hes more of a box to box midfielder.  I agree we havent seen the best of him - but I think we will