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  1. Gillz
    I dont know why but i was viewed Hegazi as a weak link in the Baggies team and a penalty waiting to happen - so my initial is a big no thank you. Upon reflection my view is probably based on the fact hes a Baggies player so i don't want him to be any good and i want him to give away lots of penalties
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    I dont really care about the fee. Absolutely delighted with Mings. Was pivotal last year and will be going forward.
  3. Gillz
    im still relatively calm. A good number of incoming already, and sufficient press speculation that we are actively trying to bring in a few more (in the positions that we all seem to align on too). There's time still. Trust the system and set-up. That said....it would be nice to actually have a CB for the USA tour.
  4. Gillz
    Essentially they were all pretty rubbish. I wouldn't worry too much about ranking them all - i just group them all together and call it the 'dark years'
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  6. Gillz
    but its not Wednesday?
  7. Gillz
    Nothing screams 'We need a new signing to talk about' like comparing an unproven academy player to Harry Kane
  8. Gillz

    The NSWE Board

    Gillz replied to a topic in Villa Talk

    Whilst i know i shouldn't look back hypothetically, but could you imagine if these guys had come in when Doug first sold us to Lerner. When the Top 4 weren't as unassailable as they are now and 10m got you a good quality player. Just imagine if our first push and investment had been overseen by people as capable as NSWE rather than Randy and MON
  9. Gillz
    I think its a good signing, there is real upside to Targett. The price might seem high but again we are paying for potential
  10. Gillz
    Delphinio is a smokescreen. Employed by Deano to throw us off the press conference today which is scheduled with 3 chairs
  11. Gillz
    You were meant to bring balance to Transfer Thread, not destroy it
  12. Gillz
    BBC Reporting Norwich have had a bid accepted: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48685494 "Motherwell have accepted a fee to the value of £3.25m for midfielder David Turnbull from Norwich City. The newly promoted Premier League club submitted a successful bid to the Fir Park outfit after monitoring Turnbull's situation with Celtic. They matched an offer of £3m plus £250,000 in add-ons from Celtic that Motherwell accepted last week. But the 19-year-old and the Scottish champions could not reach an agreement over personal terms. Celtic released a statement on Friday to say the "magnificent" offer made to Turnbull had not been accepted. And it now looks less likely the Scotland Under-21 player, who scored 15 goals for his boyhood club last season, will join Neil Lennon's side."
  13. Gillz
    Watching the Blues implode and its not even half way through the week yet.
  14. Gillz
    Daily Mail reporting that we are after Axel on a perm. Mods, is there a way to move this back from 'Other Football' instead of having to create a new speculation thread? Would seem a shame to lose 80+ pages of comments etc!
  15. Gillz
    17 Sixes.....Fair play Morgan!
  16. Gillz
    To this day it still baffles me how that wasnt a penalty. There's got to be something in the rules about destroying a mans dignity.
  17. Gillz
    I was thinking the same - there seemed to be a lot of punches, albeit to the side and away from danger.
  18. Gillz
    We need a CB x2, LB, DCM, WInger and then a number of squad options. Increasingly it also seems we are getting a new keeper too. I see it as: GK ? Guilbert, CB1? CB2? LB? DCM? Jack John El Ghazi Winger? Wesley Now if rumours are to be true GK = Butland CB1 = Mings CB2 = ??? LB = Targett/??? DCM = Philips/??? Winger = ??? That is a lot of unknowns, especially when you consider we probably need another 2/3 squad options in there as well like Hause and Jota!
  19. Gillz
    I often find myself browsing through this thread at night when i have doubts about my own situation, and am always drawn in by the stories, issues and support i see in this thread. Honestly, take a minute to look back and read through some of messages. VillaTalk - you've got some real good people on here
  20. Gillz
    The thing with Petrov is that we got an exceptional player, just not in the role many of us expected him to play in. Having said that, i remember his debut for Villa was against West Ham away. He got through on a 1-1 and deftly chipped the keeper, rolling away to celebrate only to see a defender heroically clear it off the line. I've always thought that if that had gone in, he'd of got his confidence and we would have had a completely different player on our hands. Small margins and all that.
  21. Gillz
    So doing some reading into the lad, it seems he only properly started playing football at the age of 16. Give him some of that magic Deano coaching and i'd expect him to continue improving. £22m might seem a lot, but we are paying for potential as well as ability.
  22. Gillz
    2 years ago i would have been delighted if we got Butland. Right now i think £20m is a little overpriced. It does feel harsh on Steer to be actively looking for a keeper considering how pivotal he was in the promotion, but in the PL a keeper can save you 10-15 points so you need to be sure they are up for it
  23. Gillz
    The thing that really annoys me about this is that 'The Sun' (and pretty much every UK news outlet) just got absolutely blindsided by Villa breaking their transfer record on a striker, but then proceed to follow up that 'breaking news' by still pretending to have any idea of who we are targeting.
  24. Gillz
    Realistically, if he scores 12+ league goals next season he'll be worth it. Whether its £20m or £28m. Good luck Wes
  25. Gillz
    So i think like everyone im pretty shocked by this signing - caught completely out of the blue. Probably like the rest of us I've spent the last few minutes reading up on him and watching the obligatory highlights video. My initial thoughts are that hes got all the great traits to success - Big, Strong, Eye for Goal and a little bit of swagger you want your striker to have. His stats show promise albeit not quite as prolific as you'd hope, and he seems to of had interest from around Europe big leagues. Despite all the above, i was quite shocked by the price tag. Our club record fee being broken on a striker from Belgian not many people have heard of before. I was expecting our record to be broken this summer, but i guess i was expecting that big marquee name and admit i actually felt a little disappointed. However, the more i think about it the more that disappointment has changed to optimism. Once you ignore the Sky mantra of 'PL experience' being a must have and the horrific transfer record Villa have had over the last years you can start buying into the forward direction we seem to be moving in and the incredible signal of intent this signing signifies. We're Aston Villa and we're back in the big time.
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