Evann Guessand

[Tuscans]

 Evann Guessand turned down a 4 year contract worth €34.4m at Saudi club Neom SC in favour of his sporting career — he chose to join Unai Emery’s project at Aston Villa.
@lequipe

[Brazilian Villain]

Fair play to him, Neom isn't a project I'd choose to be involved with.

[Somniloquism]

Talking of Neom, The Line project being worked on is apparently the section that contains the football stadium that will be perched 100metres high and needs to be ready for the CWC/WC in '31/32

[Somniloquism]

I know Im not calling it well - but I cant see any actual links to him

The BBC, The Athletic, Fabrizio Romano have all said it’s done.

I'm surprised that had any space or time to report this with the Sesko transfer.

[andyh]

I wonder if it will be a slow integration like Maatsen, Malen and Garcia. Maybe we will only see  a bit of him next season. It seems to be Unai’s way

[Holte Antipode]

He was but he was also outrageous by way of the types of goals he scored. A poor man’s Benteke in a sense that he had it all but there were times he’d try to do too much himself. The injury ruined him.

What the Bejesus, an actual new signing!
Quite a ride this window is turning into.
Evann on paper/film looks good, better than that other Evan we were being linked with a couple of windows back.

Johnny?

We're sorry, wontcha' come on home.

Remember me

Ferguson. Of Drogheda via the Hove. Shuffled out on loan at, er, today's opponents it seems.

[LeeB]

I wonder if it will be a slow integration like Maatsen, Malen and Garcia. Maybe we will only see  a bit of him next season. It seems to be Unai’s way

On the other hand you have Morgan Rogers.

[London Villan]

I wouldn't have thought so. He won't start vs the Geordies, but will get some time off the bench, I reckon.

Particularly if Bailey is off.

[PeterWithe]

But as it looks likely that he's be the only big money buy, I'm a little surprised we are spending our budget on a player who looks so similar to JJ and Rogers in style

This time yesterday the consensus was that we weren't making any "big money buys".

So it seems a little premature to decide that this is now it.

Well possibly but there appears to be a distinct lack of noise about incomings.

[PeterWithesShin]

There wasn't any noise about this fella until we were about to sign him. We're not sha, we do things rather than just talk about it.

[Dave]

But as it looks likely that he's be the only big money buy, I'm a little surprised we are spending our budget on a player who looks so similar to JJ and Rogers in style

This time yesterday the consensus was that we weren't making any "big money buys".

So it seems a little premature to decide that this is now it.

Well possibly but there appears to be a distinct lack of noise about incomings.

There was a distinct lack of noise about us signing Guessand, until it suddenly turned out we were.

Who's to say there isn't a centre-back and winger version happening too?

[PeterWithe]

There might be, but agents seem to leak the stories of interest to drive the price, and there haven't been any other than this one have there?

I read about our interest in this fella last week so its not completely out of the blue.

[Brend'Watkins]

I can’t help but think Gestede when I hear his name. Hope he’s far better than how he turned out to be.

[kippaxvilla2]

I keep thinking Plastic Bertrand

[MalcolmP]

Diaby turned down Saudi to join us, we all know how that turned out. Guessard will probably be loaned out for the season and sold on for a profit before 30th June next year.