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

[Sexual Ealing]

So what we are saying is , we do not know anything 😀

Yes. There's more than an inability to get up and down a pitch that separates us from Emery.

[kippaxvilla2]

Who was it that never seemed to stop telling everybody what a terrible signing Barkely was?

Greg Nash

[KevinGage]

I remember when the general consensus was that Lindelof and Buendia were shit.

Indeed

[Sexual Ealing]

Also, how could anyone possibly have any kind of strong feeling about the abilities of a former Spurs and Milan squad player?!

[KevinGage]

If he's back playing in the Brazilian league at 28 years of age he's prob not on killer wages, which is also a factor for us.

As a back up to Cash (in place of Bogarde) and as someone who can play across a back four I wouldn't be dead set against it.

[PaulWinch again]

I remember when the general consensus was that Lindelof and Buendia were shit.

I’m not sure it’s really the same, unless it’s a very general point that players are misjudged at times. I don’t think Emerson Royal has done anything, but flatter to deceive in his career - granted I haven’t watched him loads, so maybe I’m wrong. I’d say it’s less Lindelof and Buendia and more Djemba Djemba.

[PaulWinch again]

But obviously if he joins I hope I’m entirely wrong.

[brontebilly]

I'm a bit shocked by the Emerson Royal links tbh.

Did anybody see anything in him during his time at Spurs that I'm missing?  My recollection was that he was absolutely shite, but I don't want to be too hasty.

Matt Doherty regularly played ahead of him, think that says it all. Absolutely awful and then some.

I'll raise you a Victor Lindelof.

Fair, Jadon Sancho?

I'm trying to think of the very unpopular ones. Lindelof certainly bucked the trend, Barkley I guess to an extent coming back after an 11m flop loan spell. Drinky and Jota maybe under Deano. The Donk had his sceptics.

[brontebilly]

On Bowen also, he seems a remarkably similar profile of player to Malen, only not as good, older, and more expensive.

How does Bowen fit in our midfield 4 if McGinn was out for an extended period? I like Bowen, he's a very good player but isn't the right one for us this summer.

[Sexual Ealing]

My broadly negative view on Sancho as a Villa player isn't pathological. Yes, when you're shopping for loans/bargains you'll come home with a couple of stinkers. It's the relentless certainty about what are wildly variable possibilities that's a bit much.

[RamboandBruno]

My broadly negative view on Sancho as a Villa player isn't pathological. Yes, when you're shopping for loans/bargains you'll come home with a couple of stinkers. It's the relentless certainty about what are wildly variable possibilities that's a bit much.

I agree, virtually everyone is shit until some of them are invariably not shit.

[brontebilly]

My broadly negative view on Sancho as a Villa player isn't pathological. Yes, when you're shopping for loans/bargains you'll come home with a couple of stinkers. It's the relentless certainty about what are wildly variable possibilities that's a bit much.

Kind of the point of transfer threads on football forums though innit.

Even PL football clubs have all the stats etc, still get it wrong. In our case, recruitment has been very patchy for a while.

[RamboandBruno]

My broadly negative view on Sancho as a Villa player isn't pathological. Yes, when you're shopping for loans/bargains you'll come home with a couple of stinkers. It's the relentless certainty about what are wildly variable possibilities that's a bit much.

Kind of the point of transfer threads on football forums though innit.

Even PL football clubs have all the stats etc, still get it wrong. In our case, recruitment has been very patchy for a while.

The only teams that are really lauded as always getting it right/Brighton & Brentford, always finish below us.

[pauliewalnuts]

The only trams that are really lauded as always getting it right/Brighton & Brentford, always finish below us.

I like that train of thought.

[Clampy]

I've lost track of the whole discussion.