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  1. John
    Young was obviously an outstanding talent back then though. As Bellingham also showed with the team that he started at, there are good players in poor teams occasionally, given we are now hampered on what we can spend, these are the players we will be needing to identify now.
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    Agreed. If UE wants him, then I'm all for signing ESR (in UE we trust). I still doubt that they will sell or loan to us during this window though. We have also been stung once by his agent mentioning us, when his player wants something from Arsenal. Still, it's nice to have a potential transfer to think about...
  3. John
    I think we would need to add an awful lot of money to tempt them into making that swap.
  4. John
    I see Hakon Valdimarsson has reacted to being linked with us. “It’s big. They’re [Aston Villa] a top club in the Premier League and they play very well. It’s great to see that they are interested. It shows that I have played well last season.” From: Sport Bladet (link below for our linguists) https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/ab6j25/elfsborgs-hakon-valdimarsson-om-aston-villas-bud?utm_medium=SocialEchobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=170569
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    To be fair they undervalue most keepers. Their most costly is 45m and they have Ederson & Alisson at 40m. Perhaps they still think keepers are worth far less than outfield players, as they were 40 years ago, as for Emi it's only Aston Villa aren't they still a selling club and wouldn't he be better off at a CL club? They are not the only ones whose radar we are still flying below and he's not for sale at any price, so who cares what they price him at?
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    So that's ESR & Phillips they want on loan, who nest Januzaj? Yes 100%, but it's not looking very likely either will be back any time soon, unless I've missed something. I think it still is. Given the the talk of Coventry, London, Glasgow and Dublin, I guess it's all quiet on the transfer front then....
  7. John
    Looked good against us in the Cup and decent against Chelsea.
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    Agreed, he wouldn't join us unless he was a starter and he may well prefer to join another London club in any case. As has been said, it's Total Villa, but I love the idea of a player turning them down for us. He obviously wants European football, to win things and to be part of UE's project. If that's the case, I hope he gets his wish.
  9. John
    Have you heard the result of their investigation then? Given the number of charges against them, that would not be unreasonable punishment, sadly by the time any decision is implemented Pep will probably in his 90s.
  10. John
    Sign the commentator too!
  11. John
    He's come back from serious injuries before and I for one, wouldn't want to bet against him doing the same again. We shouldn't always fear the very worst, losing him for most, if not all of the season is bad enough.
  12. John
    So are you telling me, we aren't going for JWP, Benrahma, Rashica or Tammy and Phillips either?
  13. John
    One for the future like Rory Wilson and Aiden Borland. In this case, the lad has had first team opportunities. Looks like clever business.
  14. John
    I kept thinking that we would get the winner yesterday, but it wasn't to be and had it not been for Emi, we could have lost the game. It seems the referee has learnt nothing from his abysmal performance against Brentford and he was back to haunt us again yesterday. You could pick any referee from a parks pitch and he would do a better job than this idiot. We aren't going to win every game this season and we didn't win them all in 1980-81 either. The problem is that teams like Manchester City and Arsenal are capable of winning multiple games, that will pull them away from us, if we don't do much the same. A point was the very least that we deserved and Everton are a tough team to beat on their own patch, even without the assistance of VAR and an incompetent official, who gave Tarkowski a licence to injure. We now need to beat Newcastle and Sheffield United in our next two league games. We can finish in the top 5, anything better than that would be a bonus, but one that our season to date merits.
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    Jas has kindly already posted some of the sources. As I understand it, there are two separate press conferences, one for the written press and one for TV/Radio. UE might possibly have said slightly different things in each case, hopefully things will not be as bad as we fear, come the next window.
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    Hopefully we can make enough by qualifying for the CL to be able to keep the best of our players. It makes it so clear how vital qualification for the CL is, in comparison to winning one of the cups (although winning one would increase our status too). It also explains why the club are seeking some unpopular means of increasing our cash flow. HDE would be loving this talk of income, at a time when we should be able to focus on what we need to do, in order to increase our chances of winning things. What should matter to us, is what is on the field playing in our shirts, but our balance sheet largely determines what happens to us as a football club now.
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    I would be gutted if we sold Luiz for £120m and brought in Phillips on a free, particularly given the wages he would want. To be honest, I'm already gutted that at a point when we are so near to doing something really big, our manager has had to contemplate selling one of our prize assets during the next window, to weaken us just at a time when we are putting pressure, on the type of club that player would be likely to sign for.
  18. John
    Sign all the left footers! This signing would be just for starters in this window for us. I can't wait to see Barghji bringing tears to the eyes of opposition supporters. I hear he is a hot prospect and is known for his runs, Arteta will soon be in touch to ask whether we want Rice with that.
  19. John
    Like it was yesterday! He's got too big a head to fit into UE's project!
  20. John
    I have heard rumour and speculation of Dybala, Bamford and Zaha, this week. These links get us talking and clicking, but only Monchi and UE know who we might really want, if anyone. We will likely find out shortly before something happens, but I do hope something does happen and between now and then, I'm loving the speculation, it's what transfer windows are made for. Bring those links on!
  21. John
    I've heard Rooney's after it.
  22. John

    Emiliano Martínez

    John replied to hippo's topic in Villa Talk

    Sign him up!
  23. John
    Wait until Stevie G hears, he will be in for his mate in a flash.
  24. John
    Nike? I thought it was from the JD Sports Sale?
  25. John
    Franz Beckenbauer passed away on Sunday aged 78. “Der Kaiser” played at Villa Park during the 1966 World Cup against Argentina and Spain. He had the job of man marking Bobby Charlton in the final, as did Bobby him. He was a ball playing defender (sweeper/libero), who was comfortable on the ball and dangerous when moving forwards with it. He won the European Cup three times with Bayern Munich and he twice won the Ballon d’Or. He captained West Germany when they won the European Championship in 1972 and the World Cup in 1974, and he later managed them to another World Cup win in 1990. He might also have managed Aston Villa. When HDE was looking for a replacement for Graham Taylor (according to his book “Deadly”) he thought of Franz, having once shared a meal with “Der Kaiser” and his wife. HDE rang his home to establish whether he would be interested in the Villa job and a lady answered. Our then chairman “chatted to her for a moment or two on the basis that, as she would no doubt recall, we had dined together (how could she possibly forget) and had also met at the (Austrian) Ski resort. After a while she broke in and said: “I’m sorry I think you must have the wrong wife”. HDE continued, “How was I to know that, in the interim he had changed partners? However, I passed on the message he could ring me if he were interested in being Aston Villa’s manager, but he never did take up the option. “That of course, could depend on whether the “wrong wife” ever passed on my message”. So it could possibly have been Beckenbauer rather than Dr Jo Venglos who took over the Division 1 Runners-Up in 1990. Another in the long list of “What If’s” that is associated with our late chairman. One thing that is for sure is that a great player and a very decent manager (now is not the time to raise the matter of FIFA investigations of his later financial dealings imo) is no longer with us.
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