MessiWillSignForVilla

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Cheers Blues!

Gwan Keinan!

Wtf is Mings doing?

Great awareness from Taylor!

Good job we got him signed up this morning, he might've pulled out had he waited 24 hours

Jesus, what's happened to Elmo's crossing? It was the one thing he was good and they've been shocking today.

Errr, wasn't their striker a mile offside in front of Nyland?

25 minutes ago, bannedfromHandV said:

Sky are saying there is a release clause/fee attached, really intrigued to know what it is.

They also said that it's significantly bigger than the one in his previous contract.

Just now, Okonokos said:

Doesn't have to be a transfer though. The biggest signing could be a new contract signed by a certain captain of ours 

Beat me to it.

1 hour ago, villan-scott said:

 

There’s a whiff of transfer in the air...

My guess would be that he doesn't know anything, however if it is something, for some reason I feel like it would Grealish signing a new contract and not a new player.

1 hour ago, villalad21 said:

All this signing is based on seem to be blind hope. "He had one terrible season at Lyon whilst consistently scoring 10+ goals a season when given game time the previous 5 seasons, but maybe he can become good here!"

 

Fixed.

37 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said:

His xG last season was 3.28. He scored 1 goal. So he either missed a couple of sitter along the way, or he took so many shots from poor positions that the total added up. That's not good obviously. And generally he was quite average. 

However on the flip side, it was 1254 minutes. Who hasn't had a poor 1254 minutes in their career? I have at least 4 shit hours a day at work. 

You go back before that and he is objectively 'good', with flashes of brilliant. At least statistically, he was one of the best players across the Netherlands and France between 2016 and 2018. Then something changed... It sounds like he was switched to RWB last season too, which wouldn't suit his profile at all. He's a forward. 

I don't know which player we are gonna get, but I know there's a player in him. Chelsea thought the same when they sold him to Lyon, inserting a buy back clause and a sell on fee. 

It should probably be pointed out that Lyon had a different manager for his first two seasons, Bruno Genesio, when Traore had two good seasons, and was then replaced by Sylvinho last summer and later Rudi Garcia a few months later. It's not exactly unheard of for a player to not fit a new managers system and then have a crap time, maybe the way they played didn't suit Traore, maybe he did turn shit, he clearly has some ability and his qualities do seem to be what we lack, so personally I'm willing to give him a chance to prove himself

6 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

But Lyon fans have.

 

And most Villa fans thought Douglas Luiz was shit...

This is **** awful from Villa, even when I manage to get the game playing I can barely make out the players, the quality is so shit. Why the hell is VillaTV so consistently terrible?

Haha

4 minutes ago, mikeyp102 said:

??

He said he thinks Grealish will leave this window, however he left out a big if in what he said. He said that Villa will accept a bid because they'll be offered massive money and Jack will take the opportunity to leave, however, teams offering £70m-£90m is not a given right now, so his whole point is kinda redundant as Jack probably won't force a move.

21 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

unsure if any truth, but listening to Rob Dorsett in an interview he reckons Villa dont have much more than 20-25m left to spend, and if we stumped 15-20m on Martinez we would have very little to spend after that.

I really hope he doesnt know what he's talking about, because we critically need to buy in 3 positions, GK, MC and winger/IF.

Very concerning if we are tight cash wise......

Hopefully Dorsett is talking c*ap.

I wonder if that inteview was before or after he jumped on the Rashica bandwagon to say we were in for him?

5 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

If there's any doubt in the players mind can we just point him to the ridiculous amount of pages for him on here

And scare him off?

1 minute ago, stewiek2 said:

 

Fabrizio Romano is basically the transfer journalist, if he's tweeting it I'm fairly confident we will get him.

Just signed Neil Etheridge, supposedly for £2m, how the **** did they get him for that when we were quoted about £10m+ for him last summer!?

1 minute ago, est1874 said:

I love the way we talk about football transfers.

Our interest was first registered back in July - can't have been much of a race! What did we do to 'fend off' the opposition, wave our zimmer frame around? 

He's been linked with Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs and Newcastle from what I can see, who have supposedly been interested since April.

Not sure if this should go here or in the speculation thread, but looks like we're trying to sign Carney Chukwuemeka's brother.

15 minutes ago, Awol said:

The rumour mongers.

 

Phew, it's a good job Smith has faith in Kesler, was getting worried we looked a bit light at RB.

2 minutes ago, AvfcRigo82 said:

Are you saying that while the majority of us slept there was an exposure of tittage in the transfer thread!??.... 

In a sense, yes.