El-Reacho
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I'd say we're bound to. The club have said before about not wanting to be reliant on loans - besides Axel knows how far down the pecking order he is at United. They'll probably bring in another host of vanity signings again next summer so I think Axel signing a new contract with them was part of the process of United securing a fee which has probably already been agreed with us. Probably just a loan to buy rather than just buying him outright on the advice of the accountants.
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Mad that our record signing (Argentinian international No.10) is struggling to get into the Villa side. Times have changed round here…
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Or else maybe he’s not actually as good as everyone thinks and that’s why he’s going to wolves for £12m?
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Thankfully the ref got the disallowed goal right. More than can be said of the two 5Live commentators who were convinced it should’ve been a goal. It took Pougatch at half-time to explain to them why it was correctly disallowed…. The strength and depth of our injury/unfit/Covid list must be one of the most impressive in world football right now.
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Just because we have the money doesn't mean those players will still come here. We're clearly only going to spend big money on elite level players and if we can't get them we'll just stick with what we have. Hopefully it will mean not doing what Spurs did with the Bale money.
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Didn't realise he was 32 - thought he was still mid-twenties. This signing could be a sign of how confident the club are about Ramsay and Chukwemueka, as he's not going to block their development long term.
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Given some people's reaction to Wesley the mad man who lost his mind against Stoke in pre-season and should've been thrown out of the club it'll be interesting to see the reaction on here if this one comes off!
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So have they offered him to us because they know that we are actively looking for a midfielder in this window??
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But as the quality of our squad gets better and better the standard of player needed to improve our first 11 moves up to the very elite, and it gets very hard to persuade those players to come here. It’s clear we wanted JWP and ESR but they’ve both refused to force a move here - I reckon they’d have been more proactive about forcing a move if it were Liverpool after them. I think there’s every chance Sarr has turned us down in favour of spurs. There’s no point in settling for fourth or fifth choice targets if they’re not much better than what we have.
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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/aug/25/leon-bailey-aston-villa-via-slovakia-and-a-cold-austrian-park Good article about Leon and his family in the Guardian today.
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Seeing how bad Watford are against Brighton is probably the only negative today. Had it my head that they were going to be the surprise package of this season putting together an unlikely top 4 run, therefore last weeks result wasn’t all that bad. But no.
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We tried this before with Lerner’s bomb squad and it didn’t work. None of the players tried to leave and it destroyed any team spirit the overall squad had. It’s exactly what Smith and his coaching team are not about.
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I would consider Paul Doyle a very reliable source. He's been the Guardian's midlands report for the past few years but has never come up with the usual ITK gossip that the local hacks come up with. He's more of a features writer who specialises in African football and has done in depth interviews with Nakamba and Samatta over the past couple of years. He doesn't get any currency out of pretending to be 'connected' to the club.
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From a business perspective there's a lot to be said for buying players who will be cherry picked by the top four. They are always replaceable. If Bailey does go to Chelsea or City in two year's time it will have proved that could replace Grealish, and we'll go and get the next Bailey in two summer's time and make a sizeable profit. Same with Buendia. I actually think this will be our business model in the league for the long term and it will get us standing on our own two feet. Hopefully getting regular Europa League football in the process.
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Under this regime - when they've said there'll be no more players coming in previously that has always been the case. Remember when we were all set to sign Berardi on deadline day a couple of years back despite the fact the CEO/manager/media said all our business was done? Turned out that all our business was actually done and it was just ITK nonsense. I reckon we're all done.
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Remember when Westwood made his debut for us against Sunderland (think it was a month or two into the season) and we had a big win - the talk in the Westwood thread turned to United's impending bid and whether we could hang onto him....
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Suspect you may be right - the club made clear that Sanson was a summer signing that they'd got in early. It's funny that all the supposed ITKs on twitter never seem to predict that all our business is done... Obviously don't get a lot of likes/retweets when they say that.
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You mentioning Chelsea going after Tchouameni - reminds me of Tiemoue bakayoko. He was the most sought after midfielder in Europe after that season with Monaco (much the way Tchoumeni is now) - Chelsea spent a fortune on him. He did very well on loan at AC Milan too. Maybe we could dig him out of Chelsea's reserves? Third time lucky anyone?
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If he's genuinely linked to the clubs quoted in that article then it's unlikely we ever had the opportunity to sign him.
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Whatever mate.
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The way we sign players we're running out of time to have anyone in before lunch. One of these Ligue 1 guys could be signed sealed and delivered on Friday morning and ready to play on Saturday afternoon if Ings and Axel are anything to go by.
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This guy seems to be like a cross between Nakamba and Luiz.
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Young's quality would balance that out though for me. As good as Bertrand is/was Young is a level or two above him.
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Athletico Madrid have just won la liga with a formation similar to what we had out today - with the rotating no.10s thing, with two wide men. It’s class to watch - maybe that’s how we’re going to line up this season.
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