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

[TopDeck113]

Does Sky Sports' Lewis Jones's article come accompanied with an image of the Villa badge ripped in half?  Until it does, there's no crisis in B6.

[Sexual Ealing]

It's just a view. I don't think he's trying to upset anyone (and if that's enough to upset anyone, they need to have a look at their priorities).

[Dogtanian]

Does Sky Sports' Lewis Jones's article come accompanied with an image of the Villa badge ripped in half?  Until it does, there's no crisis in B6.

Apparently he’s a football journalist, but looks like he just peddles betting advice. Maybe he took a bath on the Rogers to Arsenal market! 

[Tuscans]

Sancho MrkII absolute cumnut he is. Get rid soon as.

Bit harsh, that.

Played a big role in us getting CL in 2024.

I also have a theory that the injury he sustained towards the back end of that campaign may have knobbled him James Chester-style. Hasn't had the same pace or nip since then.

He's always had a low pain threshold. But played with one leg virtually hanging off in those last few games to get us over the line.

From 2024/25 onwards he's been even less effective than the the 2021/23 period - where he could disappear for long stretches but still come up with a moment of brilliance.

Played with one leg hanging off, cry me a fucking river. Everyone seems so easily pleased with "one" good season, what about the other FOUR! The amount of praise these people get for fuck all is incredible these days. I gave him the plaudits that ONE season he played well but he's wiped all that out from virtually nothing in the other four and the £24M pound he was paid for doing sweet FA. For me he's shite you won't change my opinion. on that.

[Sexual Ealing]

I'm not sure anyone is interested enough to want to change your opinion.

[Olneythelonely]

You don’t need to praise him, but one COULD act less like an arsehole about it.

[Pete3206]

I hope there isn't a cat in Tuscan's vicinity this lunchtime.

[Tuscans]

I hope there isn't a cat in Tuscan's vicinity this lunchtime.

There's 2 in the garden

Nah, you go back a page or 2 on the Leon Bailey page. You'll see how people feel about him in the moment when he's playing...that will tell you a lot.

[cdbearsfan]

I hope there isn't a cat in Tuscan's vicinity this lunchtime.

There's 2 in the garden

Nah, you go back a page or 2 on the Leon Bailey page. You'll see how people feel about him in the moment when he's playing...that will tell you a lot.

I don't feel the need to indulge in unnecessary hatred, thanks. Not sure why you do. It isn't good for you.

[RamboandBruno]

I liked him a lot because for a while he was brilliant, then he wasn’t very good, but I never or don’t get what seems to be the anger towards him. He just seemed like a lad whose form and confidence fell off a very big cliff never to return. He needs to move on and so do we, good luck to him.

[Stu]

Villa's nightmare summer window: 'Gut punch, after gut punch'

Sky Sports' Lewis Jones:

Aston Villa should have been attacking this summer from a position of strength. Champions League football secured with a fourth-place finish. European silverware in the cabinet. A manager in Unai Emery who had every reason to believe the foundations had finally been laid for Villa to become genuine top-four regulars.

Instead, the early movement in this window has lurched towards nightmare territory.

Aston Villa’s sales this summer
Morgan Rogers – Chelsea, £117m*
Lucas Digne – Paris Saint-Germain, £8.5m*
Youri Tielemans – Manchester United, £36m
Donyell Malen – AS Roma, £21.6m
Enzo Barrenechea – Benfica, £10m
Lewis Dobbin – Southampton, £10m
*deals still to be completed
Total: £203.1m

Youri Tielemans, the metronome of Emery's midfield and arguably the team's most influential player over the last 18 months, has headed to Manchester United. Paris Saint-Germain are expected to activate Lucas Digne's release clause after the World Cup, stripping Villa of one of the Premier League's most reliable attacking full-backs.

And now comes the biggest gut punch of them all. Rogers, Villa's standout performer and the face of the club's exciting future, is on the verge of joining Chelsea in what would be a record sale.

You are looking at a squad being ripped apart. What must Emery be thinking?

His message after lifting the Europa League trophy was clear. This was not the end point. Villa had to build from here. The momentum had to be maintained. Instead, the project appears to be moving backwards.

Johan Manzambi is expected to arrive and there is plenty to like about his potential, but potential does not replace proven Premier League quality overnight.

Emery has built a reputation on solving problems others cannot. But even the best managers need stability. He is staring at the prospect of reconstructing the spine of his team while competing on multiple fronts.

He has worked miracles before. He may need to produce his greatest one yet.

Do you think we’ve upset this guy or what? 

That’s the most hysterical reaction I’ve read on this transfer window and it isn’t even a Villa fan writing it.

[Tuscans]

I hope there isn't a cat in Tuscan's vicinity this lunchtime.

There's 2 in the garden

Nah, you go back a page or 2 on the Leon Bailey page. You'll see how people feel about him in the moment when he's playing...that will tell you a lot.

I don't feel the need to indulge in unnecessary hatred, thanks. Not sure why you do. It isn't good for you.

I didn't mention you anywhere but I would guess at some point here you might of had a volatile opinion towards a Villa player somewhere on a matchday thread.

[frank black]

Bailey got injured and never regained his dynamic changes of direction etc…. He didn’t just turn ‘shit’

Shame really , good luck to him.

[cdbearsfan]

I hope there isn't a cat in Tuscan's vicinity this lunchtime.

There's 2 in the garden

Nah, you go back a page or 2 on the Leon Bailey page. You'll see how people feel about him in the moment when he's playing...that will tell you a lot.

I don't feel the need to indulge in unnecessary hatred, thanks. Not sure why you do. It isn't good for you.

I didn't mention you anywhere but I would guess at some point here you might of had a volatile opinion towards a Villa player somewhere on a matchday thread.

Sure, on the spur of the moment.

But holding lasting animosity against a player who helped us get into Europe and then into the Champions League after years of failure, and helped us get vital wins against twats like Man U, Arsenal and Man City?

Not for me.

[JUAN PABLO]

Looks like a snag with Barkley going Coventry.  Terms not agreed and Unai wanting him  to stay .