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Offline Tuscans

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3180 on: June 30, 2025, 07:35:10 PM »
🚨 NEW: Louie Barry is set to join Hull City on a permanent deal — fee around £3.5m, with Aston Villa inserting a substantial sell-on clause into contract.

🚨 NEW: Phillipe Coutinho’s termination with Aston Villa has been finalized.
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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3181 on: June 30, 2025, 07:36:14 PM »
@AVFCOfficial
Aston Villa would like to thank Robin Olsen and Kortney Hause following the expiration of their contracts, as well as our loan players as they return to their respective parent clubs.

Asensio, thanks, but no thanks then?

Hopefully, scored some lovely goals but a passenger more often than not.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3182 on: June 30, 2025, 07:36:35 PM »
Phil 🥺

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3183 on: June 30, 2025, 07:40:13 PM »
If we can terminate coutinhos contract get buendia bailey and dendonker  off the books i think that massively  helps us.

Yeah, I agree, however worth noting, we can't just shift these players off the books and not replace them all, so they're not a total flushing of the wage bill.

Of those named 3 contributed fuck all last season and the last did very little. 1 winger coming in would be all we needed. Ned, Hause and Moreno are 'free' as well. Letting that lot leave, along with Olsen and we'd only really have 3 gaps to fill at backup GK, RCB and Wing.

It's not that easy because we need buyers but it's certainly a sensible plan.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3184 on: June 30, 2025, 07:48:50 PM »
🚨 NEW: Louie Barry is set to join Hull City on a permanent deal — fee around £3.5m, with Aston Villa inserting a substantial sell-on clause into contract.

🚨 NEW: Phillipe Coutinho’s termination with Aston Villa has been finalized.
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£3.5m for Louie Barry is probably OK.

He's only played for
Ipswich - League One  6 games
Swindon - League Two  16
MK Dons - League One  32
Salford City - League 2   16
Stockport - League Two  22
                   - League One  24
Hull - Championship  4

So he's only had 4 games in the Championship. Guess if he hadn't got injured and had had a good second half to last season, we'd be asking for a lot more.

They're buying on potential, albeit he's got some pedigree.

A solid sell-on clause (and possibly some add-ons) are probably the best we could do.

Unlikely to make the first team squad, the pragmatic thing is to move him on - reduces the wage bill a tad (loan fees might have recompensed) and take the best fee/deal available.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3185 on: June 30, 2025, 07:52:44 PM »
£3.5 million for Louie Barry is shite.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3186 on: June 30, 2025, 07:55:49 PM »
The fact that we have agreed to reduce costs this summer by 10 percent still means biggy or biggies going out the door?

Are you sure it’s costs and not the wages to revenue ratio that has got to be reduced by 10%?

Because UEFA don’t care about costs in isolation or they’d have something to say about PSG & Real Madrid.

The statement I think said costs but I think it might just be awkwardly worded and mean wage costs.

Even if the statement did say ‘wage costs’ it’s still wrong. It’s the percentage of wages to turnover that’s relevant. We could increase the wage bill if we could increase turnover by more.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3187 on: June 30, 2025, 07:57:56 PM »
£3.5 million for Louie Barry is shite.

But miles closer to reality than some of the daft eight figure sums people were throwing around six months ago.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3188 on: June 30, 2025, 07:58:32 PM »
If we can terminate coutinhos contract get buendia bailey and dendonker  off the books i think that massively  helps us.

Yeah, I agree, however worth noting, we can't just shift these players off the books and not replace them all, so they're not a total flushing of the wage bill.

Yeah good point although coutinho has added virtually nothing to us for years. I would assume we may use one or two youngsters  as well as add to the squad. You would imagine bogarde will feature more next season and possibly someone like a kaden young may make a few squad appearances.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3189 on: June 30, 2025, 08:00:02 PM »
🚨 NEW: Louie Barry is set to join Hull City on a permanent deal — fee around £3.5m, with Aston Villa inserting a substantial sell-on clause into contract.

🚨 NEW: Phillipe Coutinho’s termination with Aston Villa has been finalized.
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I floated the idea of using some of this year’s unusually high turnover to pay Couts off a couple of months ago. I wonder if we’re considering doing the same with Dendonker? If we’re clear on PSR following the women’s sale, getting £200k a week off the wage bill by buying out those two will help with next season’s SCR.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3190 on: June 30, 2025, 08:08:35 PM »
I wonder if our signings this summer will be 1 maybe 2 substantial ones and 2/3 more like the Turkish centre half?  I know I am going against the tide here but I hate to see 9 substitutes all filled with first team players….i want to see 2/3 seats filled with young players be it from the academy or young players we’ve scouted who don’t come in on 100k a week to be squad fillers…

Offline paul_e

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3191 on: June 30, 2025, 08:10:04 PM »
£3.5 million for Louie Barry is shite.

But miles closer to reality than some of the daft eight figure sums people were throwing around six months ago.

If he'd stayed fit and done even half a decent job in the championship (around 5-6 goals) I think closer to £10m would've been reasonable. His injury means we need to push a lot of that value into resale instead, so 20-30% of his next sale seems fair all round.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3192 on: June 30, 2025, 08:14:45 PM »
I wonder if our signings this summer will be 1 maybe 2 substantial ones and 2/3 more like the Turkish centre half?  I know I am going against the tide here but I hate to see 9 substitutes all filled with first team players….i want to see 2/3 seats filled with young players be it from the academy or young players we’ve scouted who don’t come in on 100k a week to be squad fillers…


That’s fine conceptually, but they have to be good enough. If we want to be competing for top 4/5, we need to have a strong bench. Otherwise we’ll likely fall behind. I think we’re in a tough spot, the squad definitely needs a refresh. But looks like we probably need to tread pretty carefully.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3193 on: June 30, 2025, 08:15:20 PM »
£3.5 million for Louie Barry is shite.

But miles closer to reality than some of the daft eight figure sums people were throwing around six months ago.

If he'd stayed fit and done even half a decent job in the championship (around 5-6 goals) I think closer to £10m would've been reasonable. His injury means we need to push a lot of that value into resale instead, so 20-30% of his next sale seems fair all round.
100% this, would imagine his injury record over last couple of years would be a red flag to some of the sides not wanting to invest the 3-4m

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3194 on: June 30, 2025, 08:17:07 PM »
When they went from 7 to 9 on the bench I'd have liked them to mandate 2 U21 players had to fill the extra spots.

7 subs is more than enough to have options and depth everywhere soon the extra spots could be better used for development of academy players.

 


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