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Performances like that will drive revenue, we’re more attractive to partners, sponsors, tv, etc. 

I’d be surprised if the club didn’t give Emery at least a couple of new players in January as a show of faith gesture as he’s working wonders at present.

will be an exciting window and rest of the season. 

We just schooled arguably the best Premier League team ever

wow Villa wow

Nice interview with him on the Sky sports transfer centre page.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13018760/douglas-luiz-exclusive-interview-aston-villa-midfielder-flattered-by-interest-but-loving-life-under-incredible-unai-emery

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"I am very happy to hear the stories but I am here at Aston Villa," he says. "My focus is totally here. I don't spend a lot of time looking at the stories. I see them, but I don't focus on that and I'm not looking at it every day. My head is here at Aston Villa."

Isn’t Durans contract up in 2024? Perhaps that’s what the dummy spitting out was all about a few weeks back, agent talks on a new contract not going well. 

If we’re after a Watkins backup too Serhou Guirassys is only 15m

Nico Williams release clause is 47m (allegedly).

That’s still doable if Emery’s keen.

3 minutes ago, nick76 said:

This confirms he’s a no go.

 

Be interesting to see if there’s a release clause in there somewhere and how big it is

I think we’ll give both City and Arsenal a good game, with us perhaps getting something out of Arsenal.

With the exception of Liverpool Emery has a good record against the top sides. 

I’d like us to box a bit clever. Bin off Donk and Chambers and get someone in that can cover DM/CB/RB well (Geertruida).

Even if we pay them 75k we’d be quids in as Donk and Chambers are on about 140k combined. 

3 minutes ago, Philosopher said:

Bailey you said it yourself! Who can we get for the same money or less to replace him, that we can be confident are an improvement? I can't think of anyone. 

Johan Bakayoko?

5 minutes ago, MotoMkali said:

Only the 115 mil release clause

Doesn’t mean we have to pay it though, rumours are Man Utd are interested. Surely if they’re in for him we’d be worth a look too, especially with Emery at the helm.

Perhaps I have my Villa rose tinted goggles on

If we’ve still got good links with Jorge Mendes then I’d like to see us try for Joao Neves at Benfica. 

Also a random one for comp/cover for Dougie would be Kenneth Taylor at Ajax.

Still think Geertruida at Feyenoord would be a shrewd investment as well, defensive fullback, CB and can cover DM too. A Chambers on steroids.

I’d loan Duran out personally, get him some decent game time

For Watkins cover/comp I’d love us to go for Gimenez at Feyenoord but he might be on Tottenhams radar. 

Failing that Serhou Guirassy at Stuttgart is a good shout, strong, agile and a decent scoring record across his career. At 27 he might be ok playing second fiddle to Ollie compared to Gimenez. 

I think if we start beating the likes of Liverpool, Arsenal, etc the players will start to believe as well, which is a very tasty prospect with Emery at the helm.

If we’re looking at Bailey being comp/cover for Diaby then you could argue we’re short on Watkins cover so could see another coming in there. Gimenez at Feyenoord would be a good one

I’d also like us to go for a similar player to Xavi Simons (out of our reach unfortunately), someone who can play across the deeper forward positions. 

3 minutes ago, Zatman said:

Looking further ahead to the summer, I dont think our buyback players are really doing enough to be re-signed so wonder if we will sign replacements if we booked them in for a return

Still early days for them, Philogene is doing great at the moment but he was unique in the fact he wanted first team football so we were kind of backed into a corner. 

A. Ramsey will come good at Burnley but has been injured. 

Jury’s out on Archer but he’s playing for a team that is getting hammered week in, week out so you can hardly blame him for not ‘lighting it up’ as of yet. 

I think it’ll be 18-24 months before we see any of them return. 

I also still really like the look of Karim Konate at RB Salzburg

Joao Neves at Benfica would be good cover/comp for Kamara.

For RB cover Geertruida, Wan Bissaka or Fresneda please

It’s be nice to get some decent comp/cover for Dougie. Perhaps the Palicious links are just that. Other suggestions could be Seiwald at Leipzig  or Soler at PSG. 

I think we should do a traditional design for next season, in celebration of 150 years and then do a new, more modern one for the following season. Gives the traditionalists something this season and if we launch the newer look badge early enough, enough time for them to get used to it before we adopt it 25/26

Best of both worlds

I’m not sure if we’ve had a renegotiation with Digne but his wage is now reading as reduced to 120k from 160k on Capology. 

Our wage bill is getting hefty though now (McGinn 120k, Martinez 120k,  Mings 100k, Pau 100k, Bailey 100k, Tielemans 150k, Carlos 100k. You’d imagine Konsa is now on about 80k, same as Cash and Watkins at least on par with McGinn, if not more.