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    Tom Heaton

    Pez1974 replied to midian's topic in Other Football

    Friedel is a good comparison, for those who might bemoan his age. I think this is a smart move. We haven't got £1/4billion to spend this window, so can't fill the remaining gaps in the squad with £25m+ players. If we can get Heaton and (for example) Maupay for the cost of Butland, then great. We can always go sign Butland for £10m in a year!!
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    I would say that Hause, Mings and El Ghazi are purchases based on their performances in the Championship (and in France for El Ghazi). Don't get me wrong - a side of the best players from the Championship, managed properly, would do very well in the PL. It's just a slight concern; it isn't keeping me awake at night!
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    Given what we've spent, and still have to get in - my views..... GK - Butland preferred, reckon we'll go for Heaton as he'll likely be £15m cheaper CB - I still think we want 2, and can see us going for at least 1 of Cahill or Tuanzebe (loan) to save fees, maybe even both. Reckon the other could be someone I've never heard of. DCM - definitely need one of these in my view. Phillips, or again someone I've never heard of due to fees. RW - see above, but Benrahma. That Trezuget fella might be the more cost-effective alternative. CF - If Maupay is now £15m, we should be all over it. He could also possibly save us buying a winger, as he can play there. That's 5 or 6 more, and I can't believe we still have £100m+ available to spend, so a loan or 2, or maybe a Cahill starts to make a lot more sense for me. Heaton, Axel, Cahill, Maupay and a foreign DCM might only require £35m in fees. Butland, Konsa, Webster, Phillips, Benrahma, Maupay (to grab some names being banded about) might require £120m of fees. I'm a little bit worried that we're buying a lot from the Championship, and possibly Brentford, but in Deano I trust.
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    Tyrone Mings

    Pez1974 replied to Demitri_C's topic in Villa Talk

    Close enough!
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    Fair comment. My view is that his last contract was the biggie. Peoples wages tend not to go up in the last 2 or 3 years of their career - especially after the year he's had.. Assume £80k p/w - £4m for a year. Webster @ £20m, plus (say) £50k p/w will cost us £18.5m more in the first year. I think getting a year out of Cahill now, so we only have to go big on 1x CB now - then another in 12 months when we've secured another £100m+ from another season in the PL. Personal view - £60k p/w will get him for a year. The problem might be he wants 2 years, and some idiots will offer him that.
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    There are some weird comments on Cahill in my opinion. "If he comes he's 4th choice" - surely if he comes, he's here to compete for a place. If he does well, he starts. If not, he doesn't. In fact, an older, more experienced player is perfect for rotation with a few players who haven't proved themselves in the PL yet. Like Mings, Hause, Webster, and (in my view) Chester. "not for his wages" - firstly, do you know what they are? And second, do people think £20m defender play for peanuts? I'd had thought pretty similar salary levels but without the £20m paid out upfront. "he's too old" - can someone tell me at what age we introduce the Logan's Run rule at Villa (a reference for the teenagers there!) As long as he doesn't get an inappropriately long contract, that's fine. This isn't aimed at anyone one person, by the way - just the generic negative views I've picked up. Ideally we'd have 3 or 4 top quality CBs in the squad. But we've just got up from the Championship via the playoffs and had to flog our stadium to make sure we comply with FFP. Perhaps Harry Maguire isn't coming, and a year of Cahill gives us what we need, along side the likes of Mings or Webster.
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    I trust Dean, Suso and Purslow to do the right thing. We need quite a few players - CBx2; DCM; RW as a bare minimum; and possibly a GK, and CF as well. We may not have the £100m to buy all of these without gambling the clubs future again in case of relegation. So if, as part of the long term strategy, the 3 people I trust choose to bring in Cahill for a season (say £3m in wages, and no transfer fee) - I would be happy with that. Similarly, if we go back to getting Axel on loan without a deal to make permanent (assuming similar costs to Cahill) - I would be similarly happy. Same with Butland. Would love him here - but £20m+? If we can get Heaton for £5m? All of the above scenarios might be the £15m-£20m difference which sees getting (say) the right DCM now, or making do with someone who we could afford but might not be up to scratch simply so we can get in enough players. This was the MON tactic that drove me **** mad - buy a shit load of decent players who could all challenge for a starting place - but rarely did he sign someone who made a big and positive difference to the starting 11. (Please note rarely - he did with Young and Carew, and possibly Friedel. But Dunne, Collins, Davies, Knight, Beye, L Young, Warnock, Cuellar, Shorey - these were all decent enough, but the money spent!!!!! £50m+? And these are just the defenders I could think of. )
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    @Delphinho123 says hi
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    Bit low key. At 9:00pm. Weird for our record signing?
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    The Villa twitter feed has gone into full troll mode - just retweeted the Hause signing with a little video compilation. Took a few seconds to realise they were taking the piss.
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    I think Guilbert was about £5m. And Jota was about £2m (less the cost of a bell end) - signed from the depths of Mordor. We've signed the big fella from Belgium who few of us had heard of - albeit for a bit more than what you've suggested, but that could be down in part to the price of the PL, rather than the Championship. And we're clearly scouting in Zombieland for a keeper. Stoke is just **** weird.
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    Danny Ings has moved to Southampton for £20m. Nearly 27 so no resale value, and there's a treatment table somewhere with his arse print permanently dented into it. Only managed 23 games last season for Southampton, and scored 7 times. Once scored 21 in the Championship, and 11 in a PL season. **** games gone mad. (Bristol and Leeds would want £80m as he once got on the pitch for England for 30 minutes)
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    Shit. Forgot all that. Played at Wembley; played Leeds. The Welsh Roberto Carlos?
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    I can see this guy ending up at Fulham. They can afford him (for now), they're likely to lose their CF, and he did get 2 clubs promoted this season. He's that good!
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    We've got a replacement. We've got a standby (Hause - assuming we aren't finished buying defenders yet). And we've got a third choice (anybody in the squad who can stand up straight). Sell him now whilst we can bring in a bit of cash - otherwise he will just become a member of the chaff taking up valuable spaces in the squad.
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    I've said this so often. I'm sure other sides never bothered marking him, and doubled up on Jack - if it eventually goes to Taylor, they effectively regain possession. But for any non-Villans reading this - Taylor is **** brilliant. Should be first choice; this guys back-up at best. Do not sell for less than £10m.
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    Burn
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    £25m? If we're prepared to pay that for a DCM - then Bristol, Bournemouth et al will rightly add £5m-£10m to their asking prices for their players.
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    I don't think we're at that stage yet; not until the end of July. Plus - taking Mings as an example - Bournemouth have already replaced him and made it fairly clear they don't want him. IMO, because of the fee matching clause, they are playing a bit of hard ball on the back of 4 good months - following 2 years of injuries - to try and maximise the fee, and fair play. Few clubs will pay big money for him, so they need us to buy him as much as we need him. Go get another CB in the meantime (we need at least another 2 in my opinion) and Bournemouth may well lower the price by a few mill because the cost of not doing so is paying his wages for another 6 months (£1m+), by which time his resale value reduces further as he would have barely played, the good 4 months becomes a more distant memory, and he has less time left on his contract. Or they flog him to Sheff Utd who are struggling at the bottom of the league for silly money because their new owners are desperate. And remember - Mings is still just a really good Championship player with a poor injury record. He's never really made it in the Prem yet. If he played for Bristol, they'd want £30m. Leeds would want £40m.
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    I want the signings as much as the next fan - and quickly as we need to gel the squad and team together. But.. Signings tend to come in batches - both at a club level and across the league. For example, if Bournemouth really want rid of Mings and are just trying to get the best price (and fair enough), they are probably looking at 4 or 5 clubs who might buy. Once a couple of deals have gone through, they have to stop playing chicken or they might not make the sale. We on the other hand can still sign 1 of a hundred possibles to cover that position. Professionals also seem to be running the club. They know the budget and what they are prepared to pay. If we overspend £5m on 1 position, it might mean Neil Taylor at left back for the season as the budget is gone. With patience, we will get the best option for the club at each position at the right price. But please….just **** sign some players.
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    If you listen to some of the analysis around the Sala transfer to Cardiff - one of their gripes is the agents BS around what other clubs were offering, when no-one else was interested. Agents are liars. Agents feed journo's lies. Journo's print anything with a single, even slightly credible, source. Journo's print BS - who knew!
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    Caught up on the last week or so....it seems the debate is whether Championship players for £20m is worth it, against those with PL (or Champs League) experience? About right? Maddison was very promising, but without PL exp. Went for £22m (or thereabouts). After one good PL season, now talking about £60m? Because he's good, young and English. So, yes, do the scouting and get a good Championship player, and their values increase massively. But it's always about good scouting. Benteke was perfect for us - good scouting and he looked as good as Lukaku. Liverpool just spunked a load of money on him, but didn't fit him into their system. Bad scouting. Same player, different outcome.
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    Agreed. And now we'll have a load of players on PL wages again. Just hope they're not as shit. I think we're being sensible - 1 eye on building for the future, but not mortgaging the whole club on it.
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    I think we need to look beyond the initial outlay, and take into account wages, etc. Example - Richards was a free, so his wages were higher, and don't we know it! Go for Maupay - assume £20m and £50k per week (£2.5m a year). 5 year deal is £32.5m Some existing PL players will want £100k per week - over 5 years that's already £25m before you have bought them. And because of the high wages, you can't shift them if you need to (see Richards). I hate saying it, but there is a risk of relegation over the next 2 to 3 years unless we get it right, and we can't leave ourselves financially **** again.
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    Which would be 'led' So either he's coming back, or he's like a lot of people on social media and can't string a sentence together.
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