Axel Disasi - signed on loan

[ChicagoLion]

surely it is negligent if in January we didn't try at all. We clearly did with two targets. The manager has to want them vs just anyone.

You do not think in World Football we could have found an adequate cover at centre half when we have a genius in charge of transfers?

The excuse being that Chelsea did not want to do us any favours, no shit sherlock.

[Beard82]

So as I understand it - The guy from PSG isnt in yet.   Assuming that comes off, we have probably improved our forward options.

Letting the CB go, without replacing means again were looking at a window when  we're overall weaker after a window.  Which is a worry as I was expecting us to make amends for the summer.

[olaftab]

I have just been to Wing Yip supermarket and Disasi has parked up and is heading in their restaurant. He said he fancied a Snake stir-fry with Sichuan sauce. Make what you will of that.🧏🏾

[Toronto Villa]

surely it is negligent if in January we didn't try at all. We clearly did with two targets. The manager has to want them vs just anyone.

You do not think in World Football we could have found an adequate cover at centre half when we have a genius in charge of transfers?

The excuse being that Chelsea did not want to do us any favours, no shit sherlock.

It's about finding a CB that the manager wants, who wants to come, that the selling club wants to sell at a price that we can work with based on the rules governing financing. The commitments for playing time also as we saw with Bade. I imagine if it was as easy as you're suggesting we'd have found aplayer by now.

[Toronto Villa]

I have just been to Wing Yip supermarket and Disasi has parked up and is heading in their restaurant. He said he fancied a Snake stir-fry with Sichuan sauce. Make what you will of that.🧏🏾

We need Diasi to go full Peter Odemwingie and drive to Villa Park right now.

[AV84]

Funny that Bade backed out over playing time just before Mings got injured. If he'd held his whist a few more hours he might still have come.

[ChicagoLion]

surely it is negligent if in January we didn't try at all. We clearly did with two targets. The manager has to want them vs just anyone.

You do not think in World Football we could have found an adequate cover at centre half when we have a genius in charge of transfers?

The excuse being that Chelsea did not want to do us any favours, no shit sherlock.

It's about finding a CB that the manager wants, who wants to come, that the selling club wants to sell at a price that we can work with based on the rules governing financing. The commitments for playing time also as we saw with Bade. I imagine if it was as easy as you're suggesting we'd have found aplayer by now.

It looks like they bet the farm on Disasi, it was such a done deal, someone put a thread up.
Unfortunately they forgot that the player belongs to Chelsea who said, give a CL rival a bit of help? F Off. Which was hardly surprising.
 

[The Edge]

Talkshite are reporting that Disasi wants to come to Villa but Chelsea have agreed terms with Tottenham for him. We're seen as a top 4 rival whereas Spurs aren't.

[Rigadon]

Talkshite are reporting that Disasi wants to come to Villa but Chelsea have agreed terms with Tottenham for him. We're seen as a top 4 rival whereas Spurs aren't.

That should get some angry Spurs fans calling drive time, spitting their cockles and muscles from beneath bow bells.

[pauliewalnuts]

surely it is negligent if in January we didn't try at all. We clearly did with two targets. The manager has to want them vs just anyone.

You do not think in World Football we could have found an adequate cover at centre half when we have a genius in charge of transfers?

The excuse being that Chelsea did not want to do us any favours, no shit sherlock.

It's about finding a CB that the manager wants, who wants to come, that the selling club wants to sell at a price that we can work with based on the rules governing financing. The commitments for playing time also as we saw with Bade. I imagine if it was as easy as you're suggesting we'd have found aplayer by now.

So why sell Carlos without a replacement in?

Do we really need Marcus Rashford right now?

[kippaxvilla2]

This is nothing short of a monumental balls up.  Name another club in the last sixteen of the champions league with one recognised centre half, and two unknown right backs. It’s oh so typical Villa. It’s been happening for years and years.  From Muzzy Izzett to Robbie Keane to no one during the relegation year January window. 

[tomd2103]

Pretty bad luck for us that, apparently, Disasi is the only central defender on Earth.

Amazing how our massively resourced and well paid scouting team and president of football operations have found ....  Only Disasi. Couldn't make it up

I guess we're ignoring Loic Bade then.

We should have had several bloody targets lined up, with the structure and commitment we've made to signing and managing players!

We did have two targets lined up and had agreements with both of them before they or their clubs changed their minds. It's disappointing that we are seemingly going to end up with no new CB but acting like we just didn't bother trying to sign anyone for that position, and calling it gross negligence or whatever is a bit silly.

Pau Torres broke his metatarsal on 30th December, which left us with 3 recognised centre backs.  We then proceded to sell one of those and one of the others got injured in the very next game.  That has left us having to play 2.5 important games (one extremely important one that could have had serious implications if we had lost) with a makeshift CB pairing.

Gross negligence may be a little too far, but it's hardly been great squad management has it?

You're ignoring my point entirely.

A new CB only became a priority in the last week or so. It was not, as others have claimed, a priority for the whole window. And despite that, we did make several efforts to sign a CB, and both times we were let down by the player or their club. Things haven't worked out and it's disappointing. It is not a case of the club just deciding they don't give a f**k and are happy to have to play with Konsa or Kamara or whoever at CB.

We had Mings fit, and Bade 99% done when we let Carlos go. We had Disasi agreed on personal terms shortly after Bade let us down. Chelsea fucked us over on that.

I'm.not ignoring your point at all and do agree there has been an element of bad luck.  Torres getting injured before the transfer window opened should have set alarm.bells ringing though, particularly with the fixture list we had in January.

We then compounded the problem by selling Diego Carlos without already having a replacement secured.  Now, it might well have been that we couldn't have brought someone in until Carlos had gone, but we left ourselves in what appears from the outside to be an unnecessarily precarious position. 

[Rigadon]

This is nothing short of a monumental balls up.  Name another club in the last sixteen of the champions league with one recognised centre half, and two unknown right backs. It’s oh so typical Villa. It’s been happening for years and years.  From Muzzy Izzett to Robbie Keane to no one during the relegation year January window. 

And from a position of relative strength compared to times gone by.  The centre half thing is shit.  I'm OK with everything else so long as this Asensio chap finally does arrive. 

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

We need to move on from Disasi and hopefully we have someone else in the pipeline.

Chelsea and Spurs are fucking with us.

[PaulWinch again]

Exactly that - why sell Carlos if we didn’t have a replacement in place. We have left ourselves massively exposed. There’s very obvious evidence- we lost to a rubbish side at the weekend and both goals involved poor defending. I find it bizarre that people don’t see this is a big cock-up that leaves us very reliant on luck for it not to result in disaster.