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7 hours ago, Xela said:

Willian signs. 3 year deal at 32 years old. 

Rumoured to be c£220k per week. 

Had to cut those 55 jobs to be able to afford a few months of his salary. 

They could have kept them for maybe less than one-third of his salary.

2 minutes ago, Rolta said:

And yet we'd have definitely been keen to sign Tammy for £25m last year when he wasn't yet proven in the Prem. In fact, we'd have probably paid a decent amount more!

And we spent about that much on a CB in Mings, who wasn't yet proven in the Prem.

 

Wolves had a bid accepted at £18m in january while he was on loan at Villa.

1 hour ago, sne said:

I want his hair

9 hours ago, Zatman said:

Unsurprising and his Sarriball has now failed at 2 clubs, he needs to stop thinking this Jorginho type player is a winning system as he tried to make Pjanic this player and Pjanic has looked poor because of it. They only won Serie A because of the lockdown and Ronaldo this season, Lazio would have won the title if was no break and Ronaldo bailed them out many times even if he had a lot of penalties.

Losing Chiellini through injury showed how good he still is as Bonucci and De Ligt were shown up a lot 

Juventus were shit after the lockdown. The reason they won was because they were so good before the lockdown.

Nice to have a feeder club

Just now, NurembergVillan said:

I'm replying to you here partly as myself and partly as a Moderator.

If you have an educated viewpoint on this incident, now would be a great time to share that. Quotes and links containing these threats, the reasons for them... Help me understand.

Don't just shoot from the hip at the first poster to share a tweet outlining Israel's apparent response. Particularly if you're doing to dress it up as a bizarre and unfounded take on their posts.

I don't want to make this thread about that country. This is about Lebanon and the tragic incident. I don't have patience for propaganda. You guys can use google. Read the replies to this propaganda if you know what Lebanese make out of this.

32 minutes ago, Awol said:

Haha. Clearly you’re quite upset that Israel is offering to help Lebanon, despite the fact it’s just suffered a major disaster. However... I’m Brummie not Israeli, and the ‘PR’ is on Al Arabiya - also not my responsibility. Again, who is the ‘we’ you speak for? 

Stop making everything about your shit murderous country that only two days ago threatened to bomb Lebanon. That means killing thousands of people, like they always do. This bomb did it for them, and now they spin their PR machine... like they relly care...

5 minutes ago, Awol said:

Who is ‘we’? Not sure you’re in a position to decline humanitarian aid on behalf of Lebanon, are you? 

We're not forgetting Palestine with Gaza and the West Bank. You can read, right? Your shit country kills, starves, bombs and annexes Palestinian land. This PR shit shouldn't be posted here.

16 minutes ago, Awol said:

Not the same as rebuilding, but helpful for now. 

Two days ago they were threatening to bomb Lebanon. They can put this fake "humanitarian compassion" up their ass. We're not forgetting Palestine with Gaza and the West Bank.

7 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

Yes

There's a conspiracy theory that the firework factory was actually making missiles (again in the city? Madness) had previously been identified by Israel and therefore this was now a missile strike by them 

If that shit country did it, they are going to blame someone else for making them do it. And the rest of the world will shrug.

I'd do the same without feeling bad about it. At least knowing that when I quit, my salary will go from 50k a week to 0 a week.

1 hour ago, Lerner's Driver said:

With respect, you didn't provide any context for the names you offered. So, you failed to mention that at the time we were looking, we were desperate in certain positions, we had a tiny budget thanks to fair play and we were near the bottom of the league, so Smith was hardly going to sign Messi, now was he?

I would say it is also questionable as to how many players of any kind he got to choose himself last season, with the three you cited probably being as far from his preference as you could possibly imagine, but then I am only guessing at that, just like you are!

I apologize if the form I used was hard to understand. I provided three players. Two were signed "last minute on loan" and failed, and the last one is apparently on the way, according to rumors. They are comparable signings in that they are from Britain, playing in the PL and have injury concerns. Make of it what you want.

1 hour ago, Rolta said:

You made it sound as if those three (in reality there are two) are the only signings he's ever made for us (or any other club), in any position. If you wanted to make a point about his signing midfielders for us, you need to say that. But if you want to go further, Carroll and Drinkwater (both bad signings, I agree) were January signings. Carroll couldn't have been a more last-minute signing. Drinkwater was shit though, so no comment. But, yes, a January signing for a club right at the bottom of the league. If you were trying to make a non-misleading point, all that context is probably useful. You and I also don't know anything about who made any of the signings last summer, or how involved Smith was, yet you're over-confident about who signed who. Truth is you don't know.

But you're right, I'm definitely sure he didn't sign McGinn, Lansbury and Grealish.

He brought in other players too though—Mings/Konsa you'd think (although neither of us know that for sure either) who have been successful. Am I missing something but is there an exceptional skill for signing midfielders over defenders? I imagine if you want to be cynical you'll say yes to that.

James McCarthy was good before a broken leg and some hamstring injuries. For five million, if it's true, which it probably isn't, he could be a useful player to have around the squad if he's over them.

But it's probably bollocks anyway. How many signings do we actually make from reports like that one? Usually they come from nowhere.

 

Of all the bullshit that's on this page, you decided to pick a fight with me? If you knew how to read, I didn't say that McCarthy had signed. I compared him to two previous players, signed by DEAN playing the same position in midfield, from Premier League and British. And don't try to argue one is more attacking than the next. They are all central midfielders. If McCarthy is the next one to come in, it is the third DEAN signing in MIDFIELD that has had injury problems and loss of form before DEAN decides to give them a chance. Last minute or not, there is a pattern, and I am withing my VillaTalk rights to express my concerns.

33 minutes ago, Rolta said:

You've mentioned three signings out of how many? And one of them doesn't even exist.

If you can't see your lack of logic or how that is very selective and fails to make an honest point, that's on you.

Do you think Luiz and Nakamba were his signings then? Or McGinn, or Lansbury? Or Grealish? Yeah, I think that those three, if the last one is signed, is signings Dean makes. That's not a good track record for midfielders. If you can't see that logic, I can understand that you want to argue.

38 minutes ago, Rolta said:

This could be used in a textbook on the misleading nature of selective quotes.

How? Prove me wrong then.

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Tom Carroll, Danny Drinkwater, James McCarthy... Dean Smiths signings.

4 hours ago, sne said:

Again, a terrible Juve kit.

I like this one.

He'll bring Bendtner as our star striker and Solbakken as the next manager. Maybe Solbakken is like OGS, great the second time

1 hour ago, Vancvillan said:

I don't think the owners would consider it. We paid $25m-ish for TM, and priced into that is the fact that he's good but has a mistake in him + lacked experience. With a season or two under his belt, he could grow into one of the top defenders in the country.

If we sell for a $10m profit, who are we going to get in today's market for $35m who is a better defender at the start of the season?

If it were crazy money ($60m+) then obviously it'd be a question, but right now a team with experience of playing both in the PL and with each other has its own value.  You can't buy stability, and we need to keep a solid core of this team.

Nathan Aké

6 minutes ago, wilko154 said:

One signing in Drinkwater doesn't reflect the decision to part way's with Suso.

Alex Ferguson dropped some clangers in his signings over his career, he also pulled out some masterstrokes which is one reason why he is held in such high regard.

For the large part our recruitment in the Summer caused us to underperform in certain area's. If we had recruited correctly we wouldn't have been in a position where we need to be panic buying/loaning Samatta and Drinkwater in January.

Wesley's injury was a blow, but we didn't recruit a backup striker and it resulted in us playing without a striker in January. It was obvious to everyone that Kodjia wasn't up to it during the Summer.

McGinn's injury again was a blow, but the midfield recruits during the Summer left us short of options. We opted for Luiz and Nakamba, both players with no PL experience and both needing time to adapt. Luiz has now shown that he is more than capable at this level but he's taken a season to progress.

All over the pitch we lacked experience and it showed throughout the season. We now have to hope that the new sporting director, whoever that will be, can identify the gaps in our side and work on filling them in the next 6 weeks.

In hindsight this is easy to see. People tend to forget that the 3 players Wesley, Mings and Luiz accounted for over half the budget. This means that Suso and Smith had to figure out how to get 9 more players averaging £6-7 million each. So I think Suso did a great job and Smith did an amazing job keeping us up.

3 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

Balague was acting like Suso was a genius at Valencia and Atletico on YouTube following his appointment here. Clearly, it’s in his interest to make his failures look like that of others. 

Well...wasn't he?

5 minutes ago, villanmac said:

FFS..Amavi and Grealish on the bench.

Well...Grealish was about 11 years old

14 minutes ago, useless said:

I didn't say anyone had suggested that. But obviously everyone is getting hung up on the idea that Smith chose Drinwater and getting all defensive over it. My reassuring counsel is that even if Drinkwater was a Smith choice it doesn't change anything.

I disagree. If Purslow and Smith signed him without the knowledge of Suso, it changes everything.