Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[cdbearsfan]

We have created a few superstars. Then, generally, sold them. We rarely sign them.

[PeterWithesShin]

We've rarely signed a superstar in my 50 years following us.

I have few years on you, and we have had many players who have got the excitement juices flowing.

Yep, and very very few were superstars when we signed them.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

RCF - you needed to go back 1-2 pages for discussion on Ordonez.

Cheers! Missed it as I was probably bored with 'the sex of the angels' discussion. He looks some player!

My guess is Brugge got a stupid offer for him from Saudi and the player turned it down but Brugge still dreaming of the fee which is why Marseille still haven't closed the deal. Very similar to the Guessand deal, we need them to have a reality check and for the player to reconfirm he only wants to play in the PL and for Aston Villa. Piece of piss!

[Villatillidie25]

PSR isn't an issue...SCR is.

I read an article last night that said PSG are going to pay Asensio's last year of his contract off so that we can offer terms that fit our situation. So we're probably paying PSG an extra few million to enable them to write off his final year.

That way we're ok on the wages and the transfer fee comes out of our revenue. Cooking the books basically. The ratio UEFA are bothered about is wages to turnover so it doesn't matter if we make a loss if my interpretation is right.

RCF - you needed to go back 1-2 pages for discussion on Ordonez.

The ratio UEFA care about is squad cost so it includes amortised transfer fees, agent costs and salaries. There’s probably some jiggery pokery that can be done but it’s not a case of just turning the salary cost into transfer cost and resolving the issue

[kippaxvilla2]

Been a selling club for as long as I can remember.  That sounds obvious but anyone that is any good is nearly always picked off.

[Border villan]

We signed Coutinho as a superstar and that went well.

[eamonn]

We signed Schmeichael and Ginola in their physical prime beast phases.

[Beard82]

Were some of BFR signings superstars?  I was too young to really know - but the likes of Saunders, Townsend and Houghton - were they big names around there peak?  Trying to think of any really big players we signed?  Collymore I guess. 

[Meanwood Villa]

Saunders and Townsend definite hot property at the time we bought them

[cdbearsfan]

I wouldn't say any were superstars. Since I've been watching us the closest we would have signed before the current spell in the top flight would be Ginola and Schmeichel and we, obviously, signed them very much on the way down.

[PeterWithesShin]

Like many Villa players signed they were a tier or two down from superstar. Collymore would be close. Most of our best players in my time came through the academy or we turned them into superstars. The big names we did sign were usually on the decline by the time we signed them.

[Beard82]

I guess what we've tended to do is turn players into stars - and keep them for a little longer than most - but still very much as a stepping stone.  #

The current batch is probably the first bunch that might not use us as a stepping stone.  I.e. you could see McGinn, Watkins and maybe Emi seeing out there peak years here.  Someone like Rogers will be a real litmus test.

[Somniloquism]

Like many Villa players signed they were a tier or two down from superstar. Collymore would be close. Most of our best players in my time came through the academy or we turned them into superstars. The big names we did sign were usually on the decline by the time we signed them.

Reasonably big names in the UK at the time we signed (from Memory)
Saunders, Staunton, Houghton, Richardson, Macca, Collymore.

Outside of UK (alhough all but one played in UK before signed).
Schemiechal, Ginola, Coutinho, Djemba-Djemba. Nillis

[PeterWithesShin]

Key word being reasonably, apart from maybe Collymore they weren't proper big names. All the second group were past their best although DD never had a best.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Were some of BFR signings superstars?  I was too young to really know - but the likes of Saunders, Townsend and Houghton - were they big names around there peak?  Trying to think of any really big players

Were some of BFR signings superstars?  I was too young to really know - but the likes of Saunders, Townsend and Houghton - were they big names around there peak?  Trying to think of any really big players we signed?  Collymore I guess. 

There was a different scale then, as the market was pretty much just British and Irish players.

Dean Saunders was definitely a big deal at the time - he scored shitloads of goals, and we were getting him from Liverpool for a (then) massive £2.5m.

Houghton was thought to be past his prime, and Townsend was a good player, but not considered a superstar.