BG_Villa_Fan

Bucks making every mistake possible, they should be 3-2 up going home for game 6 to finish the series. Love coach Bud, although he's been thoroughly outcoached, and rooting for them because I'd hate to see Kawhi ringing again but it's not looking good. 

Don't like playing promoted teams early, especially away.

Hopefully he’ll be fine. These paramedics are heroes.

The rags have got wind of our championship contingency plans from a summer or two ago again. Hughes, Swift, etc. don't think so. 

Nope.

39 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

Didn't we used to call this tapping up?

It's tapping up when other teams do it. When your team's player does it it's F YEAH GO EMI!

Manchester Blues can piss off with any Grealish offers, but if they're selling Laporte I'd love him at the Villa. 

I don't think it's particularly close, tbh. Buendia is better and would cost more than twice as much. 

1 minute ago, useless said:

You don't build a succesful team by expecting mediocrity, you move forward by setting your expectations high whilst making allowaces for the possibility that you might not quite reach those lofty heights to begin but you will do better than you would if you were to aim low, and you keeping going like that until eventually you reach the ultimate goal.

Off topic, but don't ever invest in stocks  

Arsenal 

Are they going to draft him for the Super League or something?

4 hours ago, briny_ear said:

Well, the key statement in my post was, “we will see”. That is actually quite an open narrative. 

So I am not interested in this bonkers war of words any more. We will see how Smith does and results in the real world will speak more powerfully than any rhetoric here.

Indeed they do.

14 minutes ago, thabucks said:

I wonder what the reaction will be from some posters towards NSWE & Co if Smith is replaced this summer ... Will the same level of criticisms be levelled at the board as is towards posters on here who dare question Smiths position?

Yes.

I like Luiz and would like him to stay permanently and continue developing, however if City activate the clause then 35 mil would certainly give the club the opportunity to get a good replacement.

It’s a win-win situation. Buying him has been a great move regardless of the clause.

Anyone who expects serious punishments is a being little bit naive tbh. We all know the reasons why neither FIFA and UEFA, nor the PL will do it. It's the same reason for creating the SL in the first place. 

They'll include some legally questionable texts about severe future repercussions for clubs who try this and that'll be it. In two months no one will even talk about this. Until the next time they try it, but much better prepared, that is.

1 minute ago, jacketspuds said:

I really hope that these 2 don’t get leaner punishments just because they folded to peer pressure sooner.

I am sure they would have stayed in the Super League if they could have.

You can be sure FIFA and UEFA have given the teams x amount of days to pull out with no punishment. 

I expect they'll quickly sweep it under the carpet, no one will be punished, same with the FA. 

3 minutes ago, Farlz said:

Don't get me wrong, I love Konsa and he's going to be a top CB for years to come but the idea of £70/80m is absolutely absurd. 

You're probably looking at £50m and even then I'm being quite ambitious. 

That being said, I'm not the slightest bit worried about Konsa leaving in the summer. 

Well there's a difference between his perceived market value and the actual price Villa would sell him for ( hopefully ).

10 minutes ago, weedman said:

and is currently not our best or most saleable defender

He definitely is both. 

11 minutes ago, weedman said:

 His value is probably around £20m

His value was that at the time we bought him from Brentford. Only cost less because of a release clause.

11 minutes ago, weedman said:

 £30m to any buyers. 

I'm not saying he's untouchable or he wouldn't be sold, but 30m isn't enough for him. Wouldn't be able to find a replacement for a similar fee. Tarkowski, Ben White, etc. cost more. 

1 hour ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

He doesn't even have Jack Grealish workrate.

What makes you think we won't be able to attract better than him in the summer?

We attracted HIM in the summer, in a worse position, after a terrible season.

Jack has very good work rate as well tbh.

I don’t think we’d be able to attract players that are a tier above Barkley, especially as it seems we’d need to make a mini rebuild of the squad with a few players leaving. 
 

We attracted him because he wasn’t going to get games at Chelsea after their new arrivals. I wonder what kind of player you’d have in mind to replace him with? Prem teams rarely sell regular starters to other prem teams unless it’s for obscene money. 

Some of the criticism is way over the top. He's been good, he's won games and points for us, he links up well with Grealish, he gives us an extra dimension that no one else in the squad does. So he doesn't have Ollie's work rate? Boo hoo, not many do.

Villa aren't likely to be in a position to attract better than him in the summer. 

10 hours ago, Xela said:

I think we'd let him go for £5m. He's 30, last year of this contract this summer and cost us next to nothing. He's been a good servant and I don't think we'd do anything to stop a move if e wanted to leave and the price was ok for us. 

I agree that his price would likely be around 5 mil, but Purslow doesn't strike as someone who'd be sentimental about these things. He seems way more cutthroat, although admittedly we haven't yet been able to see how they act when they're in a position to sell. 

I've no love for West Ham but how they can look at this incident literally 50 times and decide it's a red is beyond me. 

Love his confidence 'I don't concede goals from these angles'