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

[jwarry]

If Emery didn't want the players to be sold, we would not be selling them.  Give the man some credit.  From what Vinnie is saying, I am guessing, if we sign Jackson, the fee will be some thing like 25mill, plus add ons that shoot the price up very quickly but only the 25 comes out of this years profit.  Hopefully, we still have three or four incoming in that case and have a good few quid to spend. 

If we sign Jackson I can’t see anyway the fee is anywhere near that low.

Agree, Chelsea will likely want nearer £50m to £60m

Which is what others have been saying, except we only pay £25m up front and then another £25m in add ons?!?

[Dante Lavelli]

I hope I'm wrong, but I can't see the squad that starts this season being better than the squad that ended last season......

Almost certainly correct. On the flip side, could last years squad muster the energy to ‘go again” under Emery’s level of intensity. I don’t they could and we would’ve been worse off anyway.

We’ve also signed potential. In theory, next year should be the lowest point.

[jwarry]

If Villa really have the pick of Chelsea's litter, it would be better getting Delap over Jackson. I mean they're both crap strikers but Liam is younger, English and more likely to command a world British fee when we flog him on in two years after getting an assist in the 2028 euros. The big money is in the young english lads.

I think you need to look at their respective stats at Chelsea.  Delap something like 3 goals in 28, Jackson 30 in 81 according to Wiki.  Jackson’s isn’t too bad being he was playing for a basket case of a team

[jwarry]

Jackson looks like a straight replacement for Watkins to me :-)

https://youtu.be/Lc78VLaBmi0?si=kwOfQFwHt57c5wdE

[PaulWinch again]

If Emery didn't want the players to be sold, we would not be selling them. 

Really? Emery wanted Rogers and Tielemans to be sold?

I’m sure Unai sees the value in reinvesting in the squad, great players though they are, he will be trying to spread the quality throughout.  He needed money to do this, the squad needed breaking up or reinventing.  We cannot have it both ways.

That’s different to wanting to sell them though. In Tielemans case he had no choice and I suspect he grudgingly accepted Rogers going.

[lessealey]

I do think Jackson is a replacement for Watkins. I just have a glimmer that if we sold Tammy, Guessard and Bailey, we could keep Watkins and Jackson and Jackson could play on the right and through the middle

[Smirker]

Guessand has had his first season to adjust, we could see the making of him this year. The real Guessand. The player we believed we were getting when he signed. Who's with me? 

[Jon Crofts]

Insert tumbleweed emoji here.

[N'ZMAV]

Guessand has had his first season to adjust, we could see the making of him this year. The real Guessand. The player we believed we were getting when he signed. Who's with me? 

I would like to be with you, but I'm not, I just don't see what he's good at..... apart from having a good work rate.
both the goals he scored for us last season, he didn't mean either of them.
I have hope for him, but not a lot.

[Ozzjim]

The one in the Europa was a great tackle in fairness.

I hope we get another central midfielder in at some point this week. Being strong in that area is a key theme for Emery, we need to make sure we have enough. If they are seeing Hemmings as a 10, and Madjo wins the appeal, forward areas can wait until departures.

Interesting if any centre half links start appearing too.

[Vegas]

Only vague hope with Guessand is that his previous club, plus Palace on loan, both got more out of him than we did. So maybe there’s a bit more there than we’ve seen. I’m not too hopeful though.

[VinnieChase84]

The one in the Europa was a great tackle in fairness.

I hope we get another central midfielder in at some point this week. Being strong in that area is a key theme for Emery, we need to make sure we have enough. If they are seeing Hemmings as a 10, and Madjo wins the appeal, forward areas can wait until departures.

Interesting if any centre half links start appearing too.

Hemmings is perfect as a left 10 - hopefully keep him around at least until January and give him some minutes. Has bags of talent

[Villatillidie25]

The one in the Europa was a great tackle in fairness.

I hope we get another central midfielder in at some point this week. Being strong in that area is a key theme for Emery, we need to make sure we have enough. If they are seeing Hemmings as a 10, and Madjo wins the appeal, forward areas can wait until departures.

Interesting if any centre half links start appearing too.

Hemmings is perfect as a left 10 - hopefully keep him around at least until January and give him some minutes. Has bags of talent

Doesn’t he need a loan. He looked miles off it in that one game he started…

[Ozzjim]

He was starting in a very threadbare team though.

Interesting what we do with Jimmy Aloba this season. He needs to go somewhere and start games consistently.

[eye digress]

Given how 'up against it' we always are I am just worried that too much change at once might see us drop off like Newcastle have and once that happens it becomes even more difficult as they found this summer.

I think Newcastle struggled last season not because they had a lot of change but because they resisted change, personified by the Isak transfer. If they had cut that deal with the same swiftness we did Rogers, things may have worked out differently with a revitalised squad and a CL campaign to look forward to.

As for Villa, it seems we're having two windows in one, with a catch up effect from last summer, which was unsuccessful from a trading perspective (even if the outcomes of "one last push with this lot" were ultimately positive).

There's clearly risk in the level of player turnover we might eventually be facing, and as yet, it's hard to get a clear view of what we'll be looking like as a team. But football is a game of structure as much as it is about individuals, and as long as the manager remains the constant, I'll be backing us to be just as good as our most recent vintage with - crucially - the potential to go up another level.