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Much better performance and result against Norwich tonight. 

As tenuous a link as possible, but both of these accounts made reference to “Kevin” not far apart.  Tammy Abraham’s first name is Kevin...

I’m not actually bothered about losing out on Wilson, but it bothers me that we’ve wasted time on someone that never really wanted to join anyway. 

Turning into a bit of a shambles... 

I wonder who is next on our list...surely a bit of due diligence would have told us not to bother wasting our time on Wilson? 

Sounds like we’re getting desperate. I know we didn’t know which division we would be in until 5 weeks ago, but what happened to Purslow planning for both scenarios? I’m starting to think that Dean Smith hasn’t got much pulling power.

3 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

Chances of announcing a signing today??

I can't think of a single time we've announced a signing on a weekend...

4 minutes ago, sne said:

I thought the price for Wilson was something like £10m and I still wasn't interested in us signing him. At his age I imagine he'll want a 4 year contract with a hefty wage as well.

Massive no for me. Loan with option to buy would be OK but that's it.

Starting to worry now.

Same, I was a bit ‘meh’ at £10m for Wilson. There’s no way I’d pay £20m for him. A proper Bruce signing.

14 minutes ago, Mazrim said:

We haven't talked to Forest about Cash.

Contactless.

Might not be Villa related, but I do remember someone on here mentioning that we were trying to sign Martinez from Arsenal a few weeks back...

It seems that we’re struggling to land transfer targets (no pun intended!) as it is, I doubt we want to add a left back to our list too.

7 minutes ago, paul514 said:

Anything happened then?

1 minute ago, quazzie goat said:

Nixon is up there with the worst journalists on Twitter. 

I’ve heard a lot of people say this, but I’ve always seen him as pretty reliable. I always remember that he was the one that broke the John Terry to Villa story. He is Scottish too so he’ll have contacts north of the border. 

Is it correct that money spent on the academy/signing youth players doesn’t count towards FFP? If so, we can spend whatever it takes to bring the best young players to the club. Can’t wait to see what our academy produces in the next couple of years. 

3 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

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Milot Rashica, they say. The impatience grows. According to information from the DeichStube, the SV Werder Bremen striker now even doubts whether Leipzig really wants him. There is no plan B, because Rashica absolutely wants to play internationally next season, so Premier League club Aston Villa is not an issue.

Not sure if it’s just me, but I read that as he wants to play in Europe (internationally) so Villa isn’t an option (not an issue).

4 minutes ago, AvonVillain said:

On his way to England as we speak, according to his Insta...

He’s flying somewhere, not necessarily England. 

Yeah, we were linked a few weeks ago, he’s very highly rated by all accounts.

Just spotted this on Twitter from a Feyenoord youth team account:

Hearing that Feyenoord Academy's Lamare Bogarde (16) is close to a transfer to Premier League side Aston Villa. 🗣 He skipped the first  weeks of training with Feyenoord U18.

I’m really excited by what we are doing with the academy, it’s just a shame that we won’t see the benefits for 4/5 years.

30 minutes ago, dudevillaisnice said:

Apparently Everton have won every game vs Bournemouth..

They lost 3-1 at Bournemouth earlier on this season.

Man City might want him back, but Douglas has a say in this too. If he rejects the move, which isn’t entirely unrealistic, then he doesn’t go. Is he going to risk going to City to most likely sit on the bench, just as he has become a fixture in our team? 

If we perform like that for the last 3 games, then whether we go down or not, it would give me some hope that Smith can turn it around.

Let’s hope the owners have a plan for the summer, and it is executed quickly. Not saying Smith is a complete dud, but Wolves’ current owners made a couple of terrible appointments before finding Nuno (with the help of Mendes no doubt). 

Smith said after the Liverpool and Man Utd games that realistically we didn’t expect to get anything. And that is the problem, and probably explains our terrible record against the top 10. He seems to have the same mentality that he had at Walsall. We’re not plucky Villa punching above our weight. We SHOULD be competing with the top 10 teams, we spent £140m this season. That is probably the reason that I want him to be replaced because we’ll be back in this position again IF Smith manages to get us promoted again. 

I think we need to presume that Watford will beat one of Newcastle or West Ham. Therefore we need 3 wins out of the last 5. We MUST beat Crystal Palace, end of. Realistically we’ve got to beat either Man Utd or Arsenal at home. That leaves us needing to beat either Everton or West Ham away (or both if we fail to beat Man Utd or Arsenal). It’s very tough, but not impossible. Everton, West Ham and Crystal Palace don’t have anything left to play for.