Summer 26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[ROBBO]

Apart from me is there any other Villa supporter still out there that saw the great Stanley Mathews play? I don't look in mirrors these days.

[Scratchins]

Apart from me is there any other Villa supporter still out there that saw the great Stanley Mathews play? I don't look in mirrors these days.

I did. One match was his birthday (maybe 40) and Walter Hazeldine, our youngest player presented him with a briefcase if my memeory serves me well.

[Mister E]

The conversation about Onana, Ampadu and Kamara is academic: I don't think we'll be in the market for the Leeds player; and, he'd cost more than we'd want to pay for a back-up to Kamara.
I like Ampadu: he's decent on the ball and can play the CMF and CB role pretty well; but not for us.

[KevinGage]

Aye. Any PL based player we buy will either be in the 'young/unheralded enough to not demand a mental fee' category.

Or will slot straight into the first team to justify the PL tax.

[eye digress]

Rashford news.

We even get a mention.

[Demitri_C]

Grealish back at Man City, there is going to be a lot of unwanted loanees returning to their home club this season.

Be suprised if he doesnt sign permanently for Everton.  Did well there

Aren't the wages pretty off putting.

He is 30 and strikes me as the party years will take their toll sooner rather than later.

Yeah i think  he is on massive wages so cant see anyone buying him tbh he wpuld have to take a pay cut if he wants  a permanent  move or it will be another loan. I would consider a 12 month loan for him but thats all

[lessealey]

Grealish did well under Deano, as he was just asked to go out and play. I don't think he would like Unai's structure

[paul_e]

He needs to add a few more goals to his game (because he has the capability to be hitting double figures every season) and needs to get through the injury problems.

Considering how good we are at set-pieces, how massive he is and how it took about 180 seconds of his Villa career to score from a corner, it seems ludicrous that he's not getting ten goals a season for us from that route.

Yep, that one and then the 'fox in the box' goal against Leicester a couple of games later had me convinced he could become a big goalscorer for us. I really hope we can find a way to unlock that in him because it's all there.

[eamonn]

It's no coincidence that professional non-drinker James Milner played in the Premier League at 40 years old.

Doesn't drink and has a droney voice. What does he bring?

[PeterWithe]

Grealish did well under Deano, as he was just asked to go out and play. I don't think he would like Unai's structure

At the risk of opening this particular can of worms, he seemed to like Peps structure well enough. There are untold reasons why we shouldn't and wont go for him, but with him wide left and an attacking quick left back, that's still pretty potent.

[Chip Butty 111]

Rashford news.

We even get a mention.

wouldn't be against us going for him. A no brainer at the quoted price. I can't see anyone matching his Utd salary though, including us. I'd have thought £200K a week is where he is at now? With Dougie/Sancho/Elliot/ gone, and Guessand /Bailey likely off, possibly others, would we have the finances to get him in?

[PeterWithesShin]

Grealish was nothing like the player he was for us. The whole point of a player like Grealish is encouraging their maverick ability, it's what makes them worth 100m. Grealish did ok there and won lots of trinkets but with us he was the talk of the football world, at ManC he was just another another player that was interchangeable with all their other expensive robots.

[eye digress]

Rashford news.

We even get a mention.

wouldn't be against us going for him. A no brainer at the quoted price. I can't see anyone matching his Utd salary though, including us. I'd have thought £200K a week is where he is at now? With Dougie/Sancho/Elliot/ gone, and Guessand /Bailey likely off, possibly others, would we have the finances to get him in?

The article mentions £17.5m pa, so that would put his weekly salary at upwards of £335k.

[eamonn]

We wouldn't match that and nor should we.

[Sexual Ealing]

And nor will anyone else.