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Three year deal.

I think he'll be our swiss-army knife. The 7th name on the subs bench. Can be played almost anywhere. If he's replacing anyone I would think it would be Holman. Unless the coaching staff have a specific role for him in mind he could played as the attack minded central midfielder that has been mooted to be incoming.

It was created and immediately closed last night because the only concrete link at the time was traced back to a Villa fan's tweet. Seems he actually did have information from the club.

This kid seems incredibly versatile. In his last season he played: AM: 7 times CM: 4 times RB: 5 times LW: 1 time RW: 16 times

Holman is widely expected to be on the way out. Lambert gave him a fair shot but he was McLeish's signing.

Time to open up the main thread. Looks like Bacuna is real. Which also means the Norwich keeper link is true.

Yes we should only sign players in rotation. One attacker in. One defender in. Then an attacker. Then a defender again. Or we could get the players we've obviously targetted for some reason, no matter what their position, as soon as we can!

Just shows the power of social media. One fan tweets something that we don't know the validity of, which is read by a fan of another club, and then that appears on a fansite's main page, which is noticed by a larger site, which then gets picked up by a Sky journalist back here.

@GraemeBailey 1m Reports in Holland say Aston Villa are making a move for Groningen winger Leandro Bacuna, who in-turn want Southampton's Steve de Ridder. If a Sky sports journo is tweeting about it then maybe there is more to this then.... I still say wait until we see a newspaper or website article, not from a fan site, before we get too excited.

Aye, but I think he got his information from this Villa fan's tweet posted earlier in the day.

I've seen a handful of mentions of Leandro Bacuna of FC Groningen expected to move to an English club this summer, potentially us. Beware though. It seems all the talk linking us to this guy comes back to one tweet from one Villa fan's account so take that in to account. File under sketchy twitter rumour for the time being.

Carew suggesting Valon Berisha.

Very promising signing indeed.

As I said in my May 23rd post, he is basically a bag full of raw potential. For such a tall player he flashes very good ball control skills. Much like Benteke he is not afraid to run at defenders. He's very cool with regards his shot making. Not as much of a solid unit as Benteke by any means but still a presence who is capable of linking up play up front. He could become something special, likewise there is a risk as with all youngsters he may never reach those heights. He'll certainly have a fair bit of adapting to do to the Premier League but Danish players have usually been a success over here. In interviews I've read he seems to come across very well showing a keen desire to improve his abilities as a player. From the sounds of it he will come across with Okore to help them both settle in easier. I imagine we're still interested in Popov for the same reasons with Tonev too. Frankly, I love the way the club is doing their transfer business this summer thus far. Picking out emerging talents who are eager to improve.

dont tell me sky focused on the negative? I think this means more that Bowery will be sent on loan to further his development and Helenius will play back up to Benteke.

Yeah I did. Here is my post from the 23rd of May:

Okore and Baker have almost identical number of first team appearances. Okore is also a full international and has had two seasons playing in European competition too. But yes, he is younger than Baker. Edit: I see Packoman already mentioned this by the time I posted.

Could have done a lot lot worse. Prefer the logo to Genting's at first glance but need to see it on the shirt.

Watch a utube compilation of nzogbia or ireland, they look unplayable, not convinced tbh, unless he's under 5m........ These types of videos may be preferable to you then. A compilation of his play during Montpellier's 1-0 loss away to PSG in April.

It's the summer window, not January, so we have a larger budget available.

Welcome Aleksander! Good job to the board, getting moving in the window early.

Right back backup for Lowton I think.

That stuff can be done before July 1st, I believe he can't do any work such as training before the deadline though. So the date it happens would be up to the club.

Thanks for the information VillaDK1. Welcome to the forum. Always nice to have new foreign members around!

Really good news.