BG_Villa_Fan

4 hours ago, paul514 said:

we could pay half the wage for a player in his early 20’s for circa 20m which would be lower than digne’s amortisation per year and get a similar output.

Could we? Can’t think of too many LBs from the premier league who have had a better season than him. 
20m is the price of a championship standout(if that) these days. 
I’d be perfectly happy with Digne and Moreno going into next season, with Chrisene and Sousa on loan.

This is more about getting ahead of the speculation about other teams pursuing him, not allowing distractions and just generally having the good vibes flowing with so many extremely important games coming in the next month.

For once, this is great PR from the club.

5 minutes ago, alreadyexists said:

I might be wrong but I read that Sheffield payed £21m for him… so that’s a tidy profit,  even if it’s £9m we’d rather not spend?

The deal was something like 10 mil up front and another 10 mil only if Sheffield survive. If they don’t then Villa don’t get the other money and are obliged to buy him back for, say 8 mil. So, essentially, it’s been a 2 mil loan. 

Not bad for a championship player 

So proud of our Villa! What a wonderful season.

Emi is a true legend.

Lille are a very good team, probably the best we’ll play against in this competition.

So the Villa win a european quarterfinal and instead of celebrating it I’m feeling horrible because Arsenal, Liverpool and West Ham couldn’t win.

What has football turned into these days..

This could have been Unai's Stoke moment, but he just refused to allow it. No curse, bad luck, injury or anything will stop him. 

Well let’s hope we end up paying the full 15 mil.

Not impressed by his movement and work rate.

Just now, Leeroy said:

Of course it’s an opinion, don’t let it trouble you so much. We will see who is right in the next few years and feel free to admit you were wrong if it turns out that Roger’s doesn’t amount to much.

But of course. I've been wrong on many a player. Surely everyone on message boards have, we're not scouts. Which is why I find it so weird to have a very strong opinion on someone who is a complete unknown. 

Also, I'm not defending the specific bid for Rogers, nor the player's ability. I know nothing about him. I've literally watched him once. 

I defend the transfer logic - we don't have room with FFP, we can't go and sign players for the first team (supposedly), so we're taking chances on talented young players instead. Lottery tickets for small change. Not all of them will be good, most probably wouldn't and Rogers might be terrible, it's possible. But if they've scouted well and if one of these is a hit it'd be huge. 

4 minutes ago, Leeroy said:

But he so clearly doesn't seem the right player for a team 3rd in the best league in the world. 

Perhaps not. But we don't have the resources that other teams around 3rd have. Tottenham can afford to go and spend 100M in january, we can't . So we have to take risks with younger players like this lad, the serbian kid and others. If 1 of 3 pans out it'd be a win. 

Unless we achieve champions league revenue we couldn't compete on the market and in order to get there we'd have to overachieve, not outspend the rivals. 

Eh Blues missed out. Should have waited a couple more weeks.

Mate.

29 minutes ago, icouldtelltheworld said:

£120k an hour more like

Yes.

4 minutes ago, duke313 said:

He was available on a free in July, why did no other PL team snap him up if he’s so good?

Apparently he wanted that fresh interesting challenge, playing in the champions league too. He probably gets paid way less than what premier league teams could offer.

Grass isn’t always greener though.

1 minute ago, romavillan said:

not a fan of blend modes I see.

Heck is, though 

^ Lion looks like a roadkill.

12 minutes ago, thabucks said:

The Villa Trust are a bunch of self serving egotists 

Sure let's antagonize groups of Villa fans with different opinions because .. reasons.

12 minutes ago, thabucks said:

whose voice & opinions mean nothing and imo are a complete waste of space and time … Don’t give two shits what they think

That's according to you.

13 minutes ago, thabucks said:

 speak for me not the majority of the fan base as they like to claim they do 

They certainly seem to speak for the vast majority of VillaTalk, why'd you think they don't for most of the fan base?

1 minute ago, Tayls said:

But, why would we be choosing to not push on our current league position and get some reinforcements? It seems pretty clear that we need something to help us through, especially if the Duran stuff proves correct. 

Easy - our targets aren’t available and they’re not going to buy players for the sake of it.

Or FFP. Choose one. 

Edwards and Hackney would be awesome. Probably good enough for squad players right now with plenty of potential. I could see either of them being worth 50 mil in 3-4 years.

McNeil’s injury didn’t look good at all, hope he’ll be ok soon. Nice player.

Wouldn’t sell now unless it’s a ridiculous offer. He’s too important and has been wonderful all season.

Maybe in the summer.

Just now, striker said:

Yes mate I know but could probably cover both positions?

Probably huh? So much about thinking ‘big’.

3 minutes ago, DJBOB said:

So…you’re saying there’s a chance?

Only of whoever examines it on behalf of IPO is a Villa fan and is as outraged as us.