MessiWillSignForVilla

58 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Wilshere having a dig on Instagram as well. "Go and do your thing at a club that respects you" on Diangana's farewell post. 

Rice and Snodgrass have both said they're gutted by it too and liked Noble's tweet, the dildo brothers doing their best to piss off everyone it seems.

19 minutes ago, hippo said:

No they weren't considered good enough for PL. (Gueye excepted)

When we were relegated most of them wanted out. Veretout has since admitted he his heart was never in it at villa. 

I think the notion that these have all gone on to be world beaters is false. Granted some could hold there own in the PL - but there's very few international caps there.

Amavi and Gollini were both regularly called liabilities and not good enough in the Championship. Some even said that Taylor was a much, much better player than Amavi a couple of months after he had signed. I think half of the players mentioned is enough to be considered "some of them".

Also, who said they were world beaters? The post you quoted simply said "good foreign players", regular starters for Champions League and Europa League sides are surely considered good players.

1 hour ago, Farlz said:

 

There is absolutely no way Brentford only value him at £20m

To be fair, it only seems to be when we're interested that their demands begin to grow exponentially with every article.

9 minutes ago, Okonokos said:

 

Much happier with getting Wilson if this is true, my biggest concern among other things was that £20m was a lot, but at that fee it's not a bad shout, even if with the add ons it does go up to £20m, because at least that means he's done well and already shut up my doubts. Especially if we get Watkins too, as I'm not sure I'd be happy if this is an alternative to Watkins.

6 minutes ago, Lichfield Dean said:

 

“People keep saying, ‘why is he not in the squad?’ Well, he’s not good enough, because if he was good enough, Gareth would have picked him. It’s as simple as that.

Ironclad reasoning that. No player has ever been undeservedly overlooked...

Wilson had a worse record than Wesley last season, why do people want him so much when Wesley got so much stick?

1 minute ago, rodders0223 said:

So am I in that case.

 

Well Hogan right now is out best striker. And I include samagoal in that.

Wilson has loads of years left in him. Good age. Good experience. Good player. Good price.

Modern football - anyone over 27 is a bad  buy.

Leeds signed Rodrigo. An absolute baller - all I hear is 29 - bad buy.

 

 

**** me. Imagine if this place was around when we signed Dion and Merse.

He's our 4th choice striker and hasn't played for us in almost 2 years 

Edit - 6th if you consider that both Vassilev and El Ghazi have spent more time playing there than Hogan recently.

Just now, AVFCforever1991 said:

What about competitive matches? 

66 minutes, 45 of which were against Switzerland when he was brought on in the 75th minute and then the game went to extra time. His other appearances were 7 minutes at the end of a 5-1 win v Montenegro and 14 minutes at the end of the 6-0 win in Bulgaria.

5 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

Do you think in our present state we're capable of getting a 15-20 goal striker from a top euro league? I think Wilson and Watkins is about the best we can do this summer. If we can also add in a decent wide player and obviously keep Grealish that to me is so much better than what we had on 1st September last year.

Wesley had a better goals to minutes ratio than Wilson last season, and is 6 years younger with half as many ACL injuries.

1 hour ago, Delphinho123 said:

Terry, Smith, Cash, Shakespeare.

Job done. 

The guy closest to the window looks a bit like Watkins to me too. Difficult to tell though.

Edit: just read the transfer window thread, not Watkins then haha

At least it's confirmation that he doesn't need to move, as Southgate's a prick who will refuse to call him up even as a last resort.

2 minutes ago, Awol said:

Aston Villa prepare £10m offer for Arsenal goalkeeper Emi Martinez

 

Seems like a very lowball offer of true. 

When it was in the news that they were looking to sell Martinez, Arsenal were apparently demanding £20m, whilst Martinez wanted them to halve the asking price, so seems a good price to start negotiations, as if Martinez wants to join he'd surely pressure Arsenal to accept a lower offer.

7 hours ago, PaulC said:

Leicester fans dont seem too excited about being linked with him. 

He brings up painful memories of the semi final I guess.

52 minutes ago, MCU said:

Do we really want a player who's putting us second? Holding out for a move against a CL team fair enough, but the moment he starts doing well here (if he does) and a better club comes knocking he won't think twice.

I think that would describe every player in our squad, and always has done back to the MON era.

It looks like the natives are getting a bit restless over there, and to be fair I think they could struggle next year if they don't get a move on in this window. They've got a paper thin squad that's just had a massive season, they're about to sell one of their 2 fit FBs, Nuno's contract is up next year without a new one seeming close, Troare and Jimenez linked with moves away and barely any central midfielders. A bad window could really see the wheels fly off imo.

32 minutes ago, Pez1974 said:

Get him back on the coaching staff. I'm sure he still lives in the area.

For some reason, I always think the slower players make the best coaches/pundits as they had to think more and understood the game better.

Oh.... Mick Quinn.

Would love to have him back in some capacity, although I'm not sure how many fans have forgiven him.

Saying that, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the reaction on Villa's tweet was quite positive, thought there'd be more grumbling.

3 minutes ago, sne said:

For me if we are to play with Grealish as one of the central midfield 3 then sadly McGinn goes to the bench in favor of someone with other attributes.

I suppose it depends how Smith sees it, but for me McGinn is better suited to playing a defensive role in midfield than an attacking one, so would be able to accommodate Grealish fairly well.

5 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

Pretty sure if I stayed off VT and newsnow for an entire day we'd sign players right and left.

This is like the times I don't watch us play. We always turn up. ALWAYS. Swear the only reason we stayed up is cause I didn't watch anything post Covid-19 break. 

You ever considered supporting Blues?

23 minutes ago, Zhan_Zhuang said:

Just heard a reporter on the radio saying they had spoken to Southgate about Grealish and the answer is he just doesn't fancy him for his current England philosophy.

They were also suggesting Grealish should look at playing for the Republic again.

Whilst I have my conspiracy theory that Southgate is doing it to spite Villa, the other much more plausible reason is just that Southgate is a shit manager that doesn't know how to use creative players, see: Maddison, Mount (barely any game time) and Alli (been shit for England since he took over).

1 hour ago, sne said:

Kappa for Real Betis, not great not terrible. Shame about the sponsor, the first pic I think it's shopped on..

Why is the sponsor so badly centred?

53 minutes ago, Rino8 said:

Yorkshire Pirlo. Its a joke that gained some traction online

Is it, because Leeds fans claim that a lot when they're being knobs online?

3 minutes ago, dubbs said:

Actually who cares? Its the Nations League ffs.

Because if Jack has England ambitions, then he may see leaving as the only option to obtain that if he keeps getting overlooked at Villa.

5 minutes ago, omariqy said:

https://twitter.com/Hopuldopulus/status/1298237925537325057?s=20

There's no way of knowing when that photo was taken other than this week, but he does look a bit depressed there.