Delphinho123

I was just saying, this is the kind of ITK I live for and the reason I get out of bed every morning. If the deal comes off, it propels @avfcDJ into that legendary category along with myself and Villalad (It's an exclusive club).

I'd accept £40m + AEG.

Just give them 20m + El Ghazi and J. Ramsey on loan for 12 months. Everyone's a winner. Apart from them.

Exactly.

Yeh, I think we’ll end up bidding around £45m. Id be very surprised if they didn’t accept that.

They might see it differently. If they can get 40m+ for him, they might think they can replace him with 3 players to actually improve the team.

Barrow in Furness is genuinely one of the worst places I’ve been to in the UK. It’s hard to imagine how somewhere so close to the Lake District can be so shite.

Great post, spot on. I see a lot of Southampton fans on Twitter sounding a lot like us Villa fans two weeks ago.. ’He loves the club’, ’Been here since he was a kid’ ’Just signed a new deal’ etc. etc. I want to just tell them, none of this matters. Now we might not end up signing JWP, but I would bet my bottom dollar that if we don’t, it won’t be because JWP doesn’t want to come here (as arrogant as that sounds). Money/ambition talks. We had to find out the hard way and Southampton might too.

I don’t think 99% of Villatalk really care where Hourihane is from tbh.

That’s my point really. I think if Grealish had stayed, we’d have signed 3 first team players at most. Now that he’s gone, I think we need to almost go a bit nuclear and really overhaul the squad with the money. In an ideal world I’d like to see: OUT: Hourihane - free Wesley - loan (doubt anyone would buy him) Nakamba - 12m El Ghazi - 15m A. Ramsey (loan) IN: JWP - 40m Doucoure - 12m Damsgaard - 30m Net spend (very top line maths) - 65m.

I’d honestly sell all 4 if decent bids came in. I’m probably in the minority when I say that but if it meant we could sign Matar Sarr, JWP and a left sided forward then I’d be all for it. We’re a bit bloated in the CM department and I just don’t rate Nakamba or Luiz. AEG is mostly rubbish and Wesley wasn’t good enough before his injury. It might sound like I’m being overly harsh but we’re only delaying the inevitable if we don’t get rid of them now. None of them are good enough (Luiz may come good) and were all signed for fairly cheap when we got promoted. We’ve since kicked on from then and we need to go up another level. McGinn said it today in his interview, our owners are so ambitious that if the players don’t keep improving then they’ll be replaced. Nobody is safe. Competition is everywhere. Just the way it should be.

And Sanson… I think that’s the idea. To put together an extremely hard working side with enough quality to score a few too!

There was a time when this would have bothered me.

There needs to be absolutely no pressure on JPB or Carney this season and at no point should they be relied upon to win us games or even really start games. Ideally, they'd both be out on loan playing 40 games of senior football in the Championship but we're not in a position to do that.

Smith: "Watkins hasn't played wide for couple of years. I didn't bring him in to play there. He scored 26 goals for Brentford playing as a centre-forward in the Championship & came to us & got 16 goals also as a centre-forward - so no, I don't envisage him out there." Good. And so he shouldn't be. Let him fight it out with Ings for the forward spot and bring in a quality left sided forward.

I know nothing about him!

If a bid comes in for him anywhere near 17m, we will sell, and rightly so.

JPB and Traore are enough cover for who we plan on playing out wide. No need to stockpile players. Get rid if an offer comes in for him.

*10m

No way he'd come to us.

I can't see El Ghazi starting even with Bailey and Buendia out. If someone offers £17m for El Ghazi, which they won't, he'd be gone in an instant. Doubling our money on a player who isn't good enough to make our starting XI and where we want to be is a no brainer.

He barely cut it in the Championship tbh and has played cup games against the likes of Burton and done absolutely nothing. And. No.

I realise this is very tongue in cheek but there are some painful truths in this post! We need speculation!