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Thuram to Inter. I know there were early rumours but doubt we were in for him.

18 minutes ago, Villatillidie95 said:

I thought el-ahmadi was a pretty tidy player in a very poor team who got the odd goal, probably the best of a fairly bad bunch there

Pretty sure Gueye and Milner could kick a ball…

Had a chance to listen to GE, he was over the top with his negativity, he just banged on that it is tight and we needed to move some players on. We all know there is some dead wood there, but that is part of the reason why Monchi was brought in.

I thought it was interesting that he used Chuck as a reason why we had to sell for FFP reasons, but he didn’t want to sign a contract and had 12 months left on his contract. 

Very weird commentary.

Just woke up in Australia, immediately jump onto Villa Talk to see this great news. Great signing UTV.

Now I know which player will be on my new Villa jersey.

42 minutes ago, paul514 said:

I’d keep Nakamba and use him in the squad if they wanted another subsidised loan deal

 Think Luton will get a deal done, I agree Villa could use him in some early cup games, but be surprised if Emery doesn’t have him stamped for a transfer.

52 minutes ago, John said:

So they are looking at the Norwich project. It worked a couple of times, but didn't last season. To give themselves any chance of staying up, they at least have to have as strong a team as the one that got them up, without Marv they will be weaker and may not get up into the PL for years, if they go down with a whimper. I'm not thinking blow £150m, but if they don't invest around £20m minimum on the playing side their fans will be right to say: 

 

I think to be a Luton fan this season would be exciting, yes they want to compete and stay in the PL, but you would also have to be realistic, they are a small club, extremely well run and a good manager, but they don’t have an owner who can throw money at players.

You only have to look at the past few seasons with teams that have been promoted, it’s taking 3 seasons for these teams to get stable. Fulham, Leeds, Sheffield Utd, Norwich, Watford, Burnley etc. have all been up and down, up and down, really only Villa, Brentford, Brighton that have been able to establish themselves.

Planning for reality is better than a wild gamble.

3 minutes ago, John said:

I'm sure we wouldn't say no to deferring the transfer fee/wage difference until they have the money to pay us, that said, I struggle to accept that they are as cash strapped as that, following their play off win or could not get a temporary loan to make a couple of signings before the season starts. 

I didn’t get the impression they are cash strapped, just that they want to be sustainable and accept that they may be relegated, but will be in a good position, unlike other teams who have been relegated in recent years.

2 minutes ago, HKP90 said:

Man, they are gonna be relegated by Christmas.

Maybe, but they seem to have a long term vision and aren’t going to throw money and silly wages at players. If they get relegated they won’t be in a financial mess and should be able to go again.

Just now, Enda said:

They can get the money now.

For a one month loan with no risk (eg PL revenue in escrow), a bank will lend companies millions of pounds at very low rates.

I understand, but listening to the podcast with their CEO, I got the feeling that they are being careful and are looking 5-10 years down the road to be sustainable.

2 minutes ago, John said:

I doubt Nakamba was on or wants mega wages. They just don't want to pay him or us. They have the money, or will have soon enough. Just watch them find the money for someone else. 

They have to spend £10-15m on the stadium to be PL compliant, they will be watching the pennies as don’t get first PL payment until mid July from a podcast I listened to, at the same time I’m sure a deal will get done.

McGinn has made the captaincy his own.

2 minutes ago, Tommo_b said:

Strange appointment for Spurs.

I like Miles but you would’ve expected new manager to want his own people from before and someone with experience.

Maybe it’s a telling sign.

Ange doesn’t take his own people with him, he believes he can work with the coaching staff at the club. Dies the same at every club, but will bring in someone who he can work with and big on educating coaches, so good fit for Mille.

9 minutes ago, Rich192 said:

Wonder if that was why Lange was at Spurs yesterday?

Disappointed to see him leave, but his plan is to be a manager one day.

The pathway to that would have halted at Villa with Emery and his team coming in, so not a surprise that he has made the move, especially with Ange now at Spurs and working with him previously as a player and captain of Australia.

Wish him the best.

9 minutes ago, Steero113 said:

Easy to decipher this one, it's obvious. 

 

 

 

Bentancur realizes he made a mistake, Lange there to get a quick and easy deal done. 

Or maybe interest in Gil who was good on loan at Sevilla or the persistent rumours of Lo Celso…cheeky Ndombele bid?

17 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

So what percentage of the +70 links since January do you think are based on anything concrete? Are Spurs interested in Maddison or Levy was lying when he told Simon Jordan he was not interested and the press make up what ever they want to?

I think there may have been a shift between Spurs targets and when they signed Ange. There’s rumours floating around that’s he likes Kamada and Endo and wouldn’t be a surprise if he targets some of the top tier Japanese players based in Europe. It may be a reason why they possibly changed on Maddison.

56 minutes ago, Czarnikjak said:

Morals aside, how much are we actually benefiting from this deal?

Cazoo deal was apparently worth £6m per year, I can't find much information about this new deal...the only figure i could find mentioned £8m, if this is true, the extra 2 million doesn't seem to be worth the bad publicity associated with it.

I think you find there's a base sponsorship figure, then bonuses based on where we finish in the PL, if we go a long way in the cups and make and win finals in cups.

The more exposure, the more sponsorship money.

They would have known the bad publicity was coming, but how many people clicked on or googled their website because of the publicity? It's a win/win for them.

4 hours ago, Follyfoot said:

Scholesy. says he should attract the attention of a big club

I'd take it as a compliment. Sir Alex probably would have gone for him.

Might be too early, but in another season if he continues to improve, both the Manure clubs may come knocking...

4 hours ago, Villaphan04 said:

 

This guy obviously doesn't know Villa that well, thinks Adams will be a starter at Villa, ahead of Kamara???

While I'm a little surprised at this link, Emery will make him a better player and he knows what is needed to compete in all competitions. 

The kit is fine by me, just think the sponsors logo makes it look worse than it is.

With regards to the sponsor it doesn’t make me want to go out and have a bet. I understand some people suffer from addiction, but they also suffer from alcoholism and other vices and there’s no restriction on these and others. There’s companies with sordid pasts who have been far more harmful than gambling but they aren’t banned and people use them in every day products.

The club has been a bit tone deaf on this sponsor, ultimately what is best financially for the club has overridden what we as fans want to see the club represented as in the community. 

They’ve tried to use the money to charity angle to soften the use of BK8 but in the end it’s just putting lipstick on a pig.

1 hour ago, IrishVilla10 said:

Again though, when Celtic and rangers have a budget 25x that of the next best team I don’t find it that impressive. Scotland is a joke. It’s Man City on steroids in that league. 

Celtic finished 25 points behind Rangers the previous year, they lost Edouard, Ajmer & Christie to PL clubs and numerous other players. I’d like to see another European manager bring in untried Japanese players from the j league who showed they were up to the level and some believe 1 or 2 are PL standard players. 
 

This is the same job the Newcastle manager turned down due to lack of funds for transfers and key players leaving the club.

A lot of commentators thought it was a difficult job to walk into and would take time for Celtic to get back to the top. Yet he did it in one season with mostly unknown players not tested at that level.

A bit of context is required rather than the boring narrative that it’s the Scottish League.

18 minutes ago, KentVillan said:

I like him and think he got unfairly smeared while he was here, but I don't think he has a chance at Villa anymore. He hasn't done anything to suggest he'd even be a useful squad option these days. Better off playing somewhere he can get regular minutes and try to rebuild his career.

Agree. He had a lot of raw potential and was starting to show that before that injury basically destroyed his career.

If the club had of been in a better position when we signed him and didn’t have to throw him in the deep end, we might now have a very good striker on our hands. Unfortunately that will probably never be realised. 

8 hours ago, allani said:

The same Spurs players who wouldn't buy into what one of the best coaches in Europe wanted them to do?  Also getting rid of unwanted players isn't straightforward at Spurs either thanks to meddling Levy - there are only so many times you can **** other clubs off with ridiculous "bids" / "offers" before they stop wasting time engaging with you.  Levy will hold out trying to get the best deal possible (and then fail) and will then waste more time making stupid bids for incoming players that have no chance of coming off.  In recent years he's had the luxury of making stupid offers, then finding out what offer from another club has been agreed and jumping on the back of that with the "promise" of European football and a push for the Top 4.  That's going to be much harder this season with no European football, a relatively untested manager (and very public rejections from a number of higher profile managers) and Conte's rant.

That’s if you believe Conte’s narrative. It’s more about his ego. And I wasn’t talking about Levy, I was talking about the current squad. You can keep your blinkers and say untested manager, but he has tested himself at every level and been successful.

1 hour ago, IrishVilla10 said:

Big statement imo, I’m aware of how well Ange has done in previous jobs and at Celtic but it’s very easy to coast the spl when youre spending over 25 million on players and the team in third spent just over 1 million. I hope he does well but not at our expense 

But that’s the thing, he wasn’t handed a championship team, he lost all his best players and was a rebuild. Yet he still won two trophies in his first season and with everyone writing him off.

He has always been written off by people who think they know more and he has proven them wrong, each and every time. He’s won an Asian Cup as manager of Australia, he didn’t have the best squad as Japan and South Korea would have stronger squads.

Those Spurs players have no idea what is coming, he will sort them out very quickly and get rid of the ones who don’t buy in.

18 minutes ago, IrishVilla10 said:

There’s a lot riding on Kane staying. Sons declining it seems, their midfield is just ok. They need centre backs and a left back and a new keeper, plus the uncertainty of how well Ange will do. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s a 2/3 year job and with levy it could easily be a failure. 

You’re right about Kane, but there’s no uncertainty with how Ange will do. It will be more difficult without Kane, but he will fix the other areas.