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5 minutes ago, useless said:

Iroegbunam is a completely different type of midfielder to Dendoncker, he's probably more likely to get in our team as wide midfielder at the moment in the event of injuries to Ramsey or McGinn than he is as a Kamara replacement in the DM role.

Lamare Bogarde is a lot closer to Dendoncker than Iroegbunam, but presumably he's not going to second choice DM yet.

If Dendoncker leaves a replacement I would be very surprised if a replacement isn't brought in

Ndidi coming from Leicester ? Contract ends summer.

6 minutes ago, PieFacE said:

Sealed

but yet to be delivered.

4 minutes ago, lexicon said:

There's a massive amount of ground between Mark Delaney and Gareth Bale 

Certainly is without doubt and while I agree with your hope that he will be better than Delaney just how much better we will have to wait and see. 

22 minutes ago, lexicon said:

Hopefully he's better tbh.

Yes, right-footed Gareth Bale?

25 minutes ago, osmark86 said:

Not sure "önsketänk" is the correct word here. More like "verklighetsfrånskild".

Translation please.

13 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said:

@TRO possible new midfield signing here, thoughts?

Probably get booked every game. 

4 minutes ago, nick76 said:

Proof! 

My gran (dad’s mom) was from Black Country chain making stock (yes really) not quite as big as this but a strong no nonsense woman.

5 minutes ago, TRO said:

Taller than Diaby.

Not difficult my old gran was taller than Diaby

2 minutes ago, nick76 said:

Makes Robbie Savage look like a Villa fan.  

Horrible human being that played for scum in the 90’s.

You sure it’s human?

2 hours ago, sne said:

Was just reading on an Elfsborg forum and they say that apparently we can't afford the £2m or so he would cost so I guess this one won't happen  

What’s Norwegian for wishful thinking?

10 minutes ago, M_Afro said:

As I said before, almost all loan contracts enable the parent club to call the player back. Plymouth agreed season long loans with Villa for both Azaz and Hayden but we decided to recall them against the wishes of Plymouth, who unfortunately for them, could do nothing about it. It did not require the ok from Plymouth. All the power was with Villa.

I believe that’s exactly the same for Lenglet. I obviously haven’t seen his contract but if it is any different, then that would be unusual. Two parties can agree whatever they want in a contract so long as it is within the confines of the law but usually there is a unilateral clause in the favour of the parent club that enables a recall. 

All you say is true but, so far, Barca has not recalled Lenglet. If that possibility exists in the contract why no action so far? Is it because Barca has no need of the money from the player sale or has Monchi got other irons in the fire with Barca which are more important to them? Who knows: I don’t.

2 minutes ago, Aston_Villan4 said:

Life’s simple pleasures?

A good pint (or two) with entertaining company - friendly banter - then off to a comfortable bed (I’m 75 so little energy for more ……… those were the days!).

9 minutes ago, Don_Simon said:

Went to London in the first weekend post lockdown lifting.

Worst weekend of my life. Billions of angry people being angry and being people. 

Sad to think that London together with other large cities are not safe for those who wish to enjoy life’s simple pleasures.

15 minutes ago, Dante_Lockhart said:

I despise London and actively avoid going.

Agree. In fact you take your life in your hands if you go there now.

14 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said:

'Mom' is a Brummie thing too.

Spot on.

6 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

Sawaris and Edens paid 60m ish for us 5-6 years ago.....

So not a bad ROI for them hence big incentive for them to grow the business further.

2 minutes ago, HalfTimePost said:

Was always a dubious link

 

I think “dubious” is the polite way of assessing this.

1 minute ago, John said:

So are you telling me, we aren't going for JWP, Benrahma, Rashica or Tammy either? 

Tayls will speak for himself (her?) but I certainly hope so.

6 minutes ago, Mic09 said:

It would offset it, sure. But then how do you push to next level of being competitive in that competition? 

Some sales will have to be made to get better, as much as I'd hate for it to happen. 

Some players will have to be moved-on but for me we should start with Chambers, Traore, Hause & Dendoncker. Plus we have Coutinho & Sanson out on loan - not sure what this means for our wage bill but if there are savings we need to make them. Given we achieve CL qualification getting rid of that six would surely be sufficient to allow quality squad additions without further sales. 

5 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

Don’t ask for much do ya?

Restricted on phone, but… is this better?

To my totally unartistic eye this looks good. Rose gold is only 18k so not so expensive

7 hours ago, Jas10 said:

Maybe a “golden” shade of yellow

“Rose” gold?

6 minutes ago, CVByrne said:

Think a successful Jan window would be shifting Traore and Chambers

Agreed - plus (Chambers)? Sorry meant Dendoncker

3 minutes ago, gaz90 said:

 

Could V Sports be interested in one of the three SPFL clubs that are being eyed up?

Any idea which three clubs are thought to be being ‘eyed’? Don’t Hearts play in claret & blue?

4 minutes ago, villan95 said:

Brennan Johnson hasn't quite been firing for them from what I've seen so could see Werner replacing him in the starting 11. 

Who cares? I’m really only interested in additions to Villa’s squad.

1 minute ago, villabromsgrove said:

I have no knowledge of our clubs actual financial position, and I have no trust in random (clickbait?) articles publishing "facts" without any checkable references as to their source or accuracy.

However, I do have two genuine questions.

1) Why would Emery have joined a club who were (reportedly) in the middle of a huge financial crisis having recently suffered a catastrophic annual loss of 275 million pounds?

2) Why would Monchi have joined AVFC if he was unable to spend money due to having absolutely no FFP headroom?

This "FFP league table" seems like a load of rubbish in my opinion.

 

Well said. What I think is that imaginations run wild when little appears to be happening. This, in turn, is because we have a tight, highly professional, team running our recruitment so we have to trust them and have patience - at least for now.