2024 Summer Transfer Window. The Verdict.

[Clampy]

A 7/10 for me. Like i said yesterday, maybe another defender would have been useful bearing in mind Mings hasnt kicked a ball for a year but he must have some faith in Bogarde seeing as he's still around.

[Scott Nielsen]

I find it difficult to reconcile the 4/10 scores in the context of what we have had to do. Not much needed doing fortunately, as we were excellent.

Well reasoned view that. The worry I have is the bit above though; pre-Christmas we were astonishing last season but the form after that was distinctly middling. We will get some long-term injuries this season too - everybody does - and I fear a repeat of last year's performance curve but with some close competitors improving on us.

[kipeye]

As ever, time will tell. I'm pretty happy tbh. Emery will be the key to getting the best out of the squad as a whole. A few teams have improved more than us, but as long as we continue to develop I won't panic if we don't meet expectations this year. Would love to win a trophy though and don't see why we shouldn't.

[DC1874]

Sky Sports reckon we made a £6.9M profit on this window - so sold more than we bought - seems odd given we shouldn't be worried about balancing the books (outside of the PSR universe) with our ownership model.

[kipeye]

I still remember the days when we sold our best players and although Luiz was one, think we have swiftly replaced him with a different, but equally good player.

[LeeB]

Sky Sports reckon we made a £6.9M profit on this window - so sold more than we bought - seems odd given we shouldn't be worried about balancing the books (outside of the PSR universe) with our ownership model.

Are you suggesting moving to another universe to get around FFP?

[DC1874]

Seems to work for Man City and Chelsea LOL!

[olaftab]

The summer window: It is what it is and we are where we are. (runs away to hide)

[Mister E]

Take it you havent been on a football forum very long as that's what we do 🤪
Just being honest

Yeah, I've only been on here for about 25 years!! 
I wasn't being entirely serious and I get your passion to emphasise your views to us all, Dem, me ol' mate!! 

[Duncan Shaw]

I'm glad it's over.

[Mister E]

I've just scrolled through the Grauniad's summary of transfers done during this window and - apart from not recognising quite a few of the incomers from other leagues - feel that there's been 3 types of window: the first, like ours, has been careful to manage money and not overswell the squad (see also Arse, Liverpool and Citeh); the second, for the 3 new clubs in the division, is one of packing their squad with players with some Premier League experience in a slightly manic manner; for the third, there's been a sort of transfer madness - Chelsea, Brighton and Forest spring to mind.
I think we've done okay, and I'd lean more to Ads' view above than to Bronte's which is typically skeptical (in the nicest possible way!).
In the end, the things that will define our season - at least until January - are (i) avoiding injuries, keeping players fit and fresh, (ii) re-integrating last season's long-term absentees (the management team obviously thinks these players are fit, strong and able to recover their former influential impact), (iii) rotating Tielemans to ensure he doesn't drift away from his currently-high levels of performance, (iv) supporting the young new players (Maatsen and Kosta particularly) to thrive and grow.

[baddowvillans]

Poor window.

Lost my faith in Monchi. Now wondering how long he will last. He doesn’t seem to have contacts.

Villa know it’s been a poor window and that’s why they did the expectation management exercise on TalkSport.

Still trust in Unai and hope he can overcome this.

He might have good contacts but if the club are strangled by PSR what can he do?  It is the lack of a level playing field that has held us back rather than the owners tight control of the purse or I suspect the lack of players willing to join us.

[Demitri_C]

I'm predicting 4th because our first XI is just as strong and our squad is stronger. Plus we have Emery and short of the 115 Club  nobody in Europe can say they have better, never mind in this league.

Now time for some Oasis tickets, an hour of crippling training and then off to hammer those East Midlands mutants. If I've made any mistakes in my above analysis, it rests only in the folly of leaving petrol till the morning. Up the fucking Villa.

If mings buendia kamara and JJ stay fit -can find their best form we will definitely be in the mix.

How you get on with oasis tickets?

[astonvilla82]

Oasis, isn't that something you find in a desert?

[Gareth]

Feels like 6.5 or 7/10 to me.

We are obviously under the pump rules wise so had to wheel and deal, Luiz clearly wasn’t signing a new contract, whether there was a buyer out there in June with 60m for him I doubt, a lot of that deal will be judged in long term by the values of Illing Jnr / Barrenachea and whether they play for us or how their values changes on loan.

Overall it’s a get on with it window rather than an excitement window but I’d rather have done our business than the likes of Newcastle who clearly had 60m+ to spend on Guehi but ended up spending none of it.

Fitness of Mings / Buendia and Kamara is massive in the coming months