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Certainly wouldn't surprise me. Unless we sign a good central midfielder, I think would start him in midfield first week.

Reminder of what we're missing. Nine spots in there. We aren't signing nine. I still think we need four starting players signed if we want to be above 16th.

Agreed. I'm very sure on Watkins though. More confident on him being a "hit" than Benrahma bearing in mind our current squad makeup.

No problem where players come from. Plenty good enough in the lower leagues. Would rather not pay a fortune for them though.

Makes it sound like we released him?

Left back Phillip Max going to PSV from Augsburg for around £7m. And striker/right winger (anyone know a club who needs those positions) Kevin Volland going to Monaco for £15m. Loads and loads and loads of value out there. Both of those would have been excellent additions for that price.

This is looking more likely IMO. Very surprised we've done nothing for the first time. Maybe we'll find out one day if Lange being appointed so quickly was well planned or rushed through.

It'll be so exciting if this Messi thing comes off. Yeah, it's not fair, but football isn't these days. Was ruined a long time ago. I'd love to see him in the PL. I'd have said it was impossible two weeks ago but the longer it drags on, the more it feels it could happen.

By who? You?

The fun will likely continue when Southgate is stubborn and refuses to play him anywhere but on the wing. I think he would lose plenty of effectiveness playing on the right.

Make yourself undroppable Jacko. But FFS don't get injured.

Get the 8 and 11 off their owners right now. For different reasons.

Why would Southampton sell Ings to us? Why would Ings move sideways to us? I would imagine Saints would only sell him to us for around £75m. And we'd have to pay him £150k a week for him to come even look round the training ground. Not a sensible signing IMO. Watkins is a brilliant signing if it comes through.

Toney announced for Brentford. Let's see how fast this thing moves. Still think Toney was worth a go ourselves tbh.

This is indeed very funny. Do Villa fans go on other forums and post there? Wtf is it about! Mess off to your own site and post there. We've got Brentford, Everton, Liverpool fans posting in villa topics about villa regularly. Weird.

Pretty tired statement that. It's so much easier to watch games from around the world now than ever before. Makes our recruitment over the last few years even more annoying. No vision at all. So have you seen De Paul play much? I have. He's absolutely fantastic. Would be a great signing for Man Utd, forget Leeds. Be remarkable if he goes there. Koch is brilliant for £13m. Everyone will be after him in two years. Young Croatian lad they're now after meant to be immense for his age as well, not seen him myself. Rodrigo for £30m is steep but they've gone big in a position you need someone who won't shit themselves when the pressure is on. Perhaps they don't want to be stuck with no strikers like we were until January. No surprise at all with their statsbomb link up their signings are on point. Hopefully we produce as well in the next two weeks. Be very surprised if they're lower than 12th. I think we'll have had a great season to finish above them.

It would be incredibly upsetting yes.

How much have you seen of him? He's not better at tackling or challenging players. Absolutely no way. If we had gone down, Guilbert would undoubtedly be one of the best full backs in he league. Zero doubts. Don't mind the Cash signing if it happens, I think he's pretty good. Not sure on £12m though.

Big fan of my old man said but they're all so down on Grealish it's beginning to niggle me now. They try and stay middling about most things negative or positive but the constant downplaying is so strange. Can't help people if they're watching Grealish and honestly think he's not a top 6 player or shouldn't be in the England squad. Each to their own but I think they're trying to stand out by not bigging him up. It's like they aren't watching him the way they describe him. EDIT. I've had to add to this because it's so ridiculous. Mad this Grealish pod they've put out. They're playing him down because he isn't as good as De Bruyne and Pirlo Do they know where villa sit in the pecking order? I'm sure we'd see Kev's performances drop off if he had to play with Trez and Wes.

Be very interesting to see who wolves look at to replace Doherty.

Probably not what we need right now, but Atalanta look like they're signing Aleksey Miranchuk for about £13m. Loads and loads of value out there. Really easy to not buy bad players. Less easy to not overpay.

The stamina is incredible.

I think this is similar to the Targett signing, but probably more of a gamble as he's never played in the Prem. Plus Targett is far more technically sound. It's OK, but expensive. Fred G was signed as a Championship player and I think he'd look very very good in that league. Sorry to start a height thing. Listed as 6' 1" plenty of places. Pretty sure he isn't that tall.

I'd be wary of more than £10m for Cash, but reports are all good. Guilbert would look just as good as him in the Championship IMO. He can also play as a wide right which would be handy. A refresher on the Elmo squad role.

ITK silliness yes, but I have it on good authority Celtic need to sell and raise at least £15m this summer. That was before they lost tonight which is a great result if we are in for him. Not sure who else they have that they can raise money with to be honest. From what I've seen I think I'd prefer Watkins to be honest. Haven't seen much of Eduoard though.