Marcus Rashford - signed on loan (injured - out for season?)

[Small Rodent]

If he comes and scores important goals I’ll forgive him for withholding what he knows about the disappearance of Flight 19 in the Bermuda Triangle.

Maybe.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Brilliant player when on form. When was the last time we had a winger that could score 35 in a season? Little risk with it being non compulsory purchase option.

[Smithy]

Tap in merchant Romano now saying it’s done. As of about 40 mins ago.

[ChicagoLion]

This is the very definition of getting upset over nothing. He doesn’t need to clock in for a shift at Rover at 7am. 90 minutes commute is nothing at all.

people clocked in at 7am at the Rover?

[Hookeysmith]

The more I hear Redfilth fans moan about him and laugh at us taking him the more my mind is changing to giving him a chance on the hope them fuckers choke.

They have enough problems of tier own (Amorim being a big one)

Just hope a defender is imminent

And I really know nothing about Asensio

[Rigadon]

The problem with Rashford is that, yes, he clearly has a lot of talent and needs to get back on the right course, and the right manager could very well do that.

I just can't forgive him for annexing the Sudetenland, though.

Haha. The punchline. Bravo. 

[Exeter 77]

When was the last time we had a winger that could score 35 in a season?

At a guess Ray Graydon. He didn't score that many but was capable of it in 1974/75.

[Demitri_C]

People can't actually expect the man to move for a 3 month loan in a city that's 90 minutes away.

He can easily afford to stay in a hotel for the whole duration of his stay.

It makes no sense to me that he will be doing a 90-120 min journey every day

Also on a seperate note did anyone hear frogface deeneys comments about us sigbing rashford on talkshite?

[olaftab]

No, so go on….

[VillaTim]

People can't actually expect the man to move for a 3 month loan in a city that's 90 minutes away.

He can easily afford to stay in a hotel for the whole duration of his stay.

It makes no sense to me that he will be doing a 90-120 min journey every day

Also on a seperate note did anyone hear frogface deeneys comments about us sigbing rashford on talkshite?

£350.000k a week still goes a long way in the U.K.

[Olneythelonely]

No, so go on….

Disagree. Please don’t…

[Ian.]

People can't actually expect the man to move for a 3 month loan in a city that's 90 minutes away.

He can easily afford to stay in a hotel for the whole duration of his stay.

It makes no sense to me that he will be doing a 90-120 min journey every day

Also on a seperate note did anyone hear frogface deeneys comments about us sigbing rashford on talkshite?

You do know lots of people commute these distances for work on a regular basis in the normal world? It’s not exactly a gruelling thing for a chap who’s not doing the usual 9-5 job either.

[Sexual Ealing]

And he'll obviously stay in a hotel as and when necessary.

Still though, TalkSport...

[cdbearsfan]

I've just been listening to PointlessChatDesignedToEnrageVillaFans FM and they've been really mean about Villa, the bastards. I'm really enraged, now.

[edgysatsuma89]

I thought it was ok when it was said we were only paying half his wages. That seemed a good bargain and no lose situation. If we are now paying as much as claimed it seems v high risk and desperation because we’ve had another terrible window!

If we were paying half his wages, we'd probably be paying a loan fee too. It appears we're not paying a loan fee, so as others have done the sums, financially speaking, it's the same, probably cheaper.

Precisely. The alternative way to think of it is he’s a short term free transfer and is taking a 30% pay cut to come here.

He might prove to be terrible, but if he is, it’s cost us about 4 mill in wages. Not great, but a LONG way from being a disaster given Buendia and Carlos would easily have costs us the same.

To be honest, I'm not sure why you would think the deal was ok, to then not ok, just because we're paying another 20% of his wages for half a season, anyway.