Mat Kendrick's Dentist
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As I said in my original post, I'm not saying we should've signed those players (though looking at Leeds' business I feel we could've nabbed one or two). My point is that they're all far better/more established players than Watkins, yet we're paying substantially more. That makes no sense from a business perspective We also don't know what the add-ons are for, so I don't agree with your first point either! They could be appearance-related, and, costing was he does, he'll be playing ahead of Samatta and Davis no matter what, I'd imagine
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£28m rising to £33m. Off the top of my head, in terms of attacking players, Kevin Volland, Aleksei Miranchuk, Oscar Rodriguez, Ferran Torres, Suso, Yannick Carrasco, Mario Pasalic, Everton Soares, James Rodriguez, Stefano Sensi have all in recent days gone for far less than Watkins, and all have way more pedigree/quality. I'm not suggesting we should/could have signed all of these players. I'm just demonstrating that we're massively over-paying for a player who has never played in a top division, or even got an underage cap to his name - let alone a senior cap!
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I don't think the market is 'Ollie Watkins for £33m' level of insanity. Quality strikers have been moving for £15m this window. We seem to be limiting ourselves to the Championship, spending the best part of £50m on Cash and Watkins alone! Neither of them have played in a top-flight. Nor have either of them ever been capped at any age level! Obviously I hope both players are successes but this is a bonkers way to spend so much money
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Insane fee
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Everyone out if true
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Hasn't been called The Premiership in England for about 20 years My point was that Edouard is far better than the likes of King, and if Jack plays with players of that calibre he's far more likely to want to stick around for longer
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He actually has scored quite a few goals in the Premiership. That's where he's playing at the moment, in fact. You clearly haven't seen Edouard play if you're comparing him with Sinclair. Also, Van Dijk, Robertson, Dembele, Tierney, McGinn, etc haven't done too badly having come from Scotland without PL experience
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This summer is our very last chance to show Jack we mean business. Signing Josh "3 goals" King isn't going to improve us and will leave us looking to buy a striker AGAIN next January/summer. Put £35m on the table for Edouard and be done with it
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As uninspiring as it gets. We've brought in a whole new recruitment team and are going through Steve Bruce's Championship shopping list
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Lange's been like Bambi on ice since he came in
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They picked up more points than we did post-lockdown, and everyone seems to think we turned a corner!
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He's far better than Carlton Cole, but I do think most Villa fans overrate him quite a bit
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Big talent difference between those 2 players
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It was in the Express and Star, not the Daily Star. Bournemouth rejected a £20m bid for him in January so it's safe to assume he wouldn't be cheap. King is less than a year younger than Rodrigo, and absolutely nowhere near as good. Not sure what you can't understand about my point of view, but I'm gonna move on now
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I don't want us to spend big money on Josh King who is a bang average footballer. I'd be happy to spend £13m on a young German international, or £27m on Spain's number 9. Not sure how there's any contradiction there
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Not relegated strikers who don't score, would cost a fortune, and have no re-sell value. I'd take Buendia/Brooks/Cantwell for the right price
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I don't buy that. Look at the calibre of player Leeds are able to bring in, and they're newly-promoted. I'm also not asking for "top players", merely better players than King who never scores, has just been relegated, would cost big money, and has no re-sell potential
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I think we need better. We keep spunking tens of millions away on players who are slightly better than the dross we have, only to realize a year later they're still not good enough. Just buy someone good and we won't have to replace them next summer! That's how to build a team
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I'd be an upgrade on what we have up front. It doesn't mean Villa should spend £25m on me
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Josh King scored 3 non-penalty goals in 27 games last season. If he's out of our league we might as well fold as a club
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Bless you
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Schick was only on loan and by all accounts won't be returning. Still couldn't see them spending the £40m or so Dembele will go for
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Leicester I'd imagine
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Great player but he'd have to pull an Unsworth. Monaco only signed him for a mere 15m a few days ago
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Ideally, we'd have a midfield of Douglas Luiz, McGinn and Jack/new signing, with Hourihane to bring off the bench instead of Lansbury, and Ramsey getting regular game time in the Championship
