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From the BBC’s article on Traoré signing: “Having spent what could be up to £83m this summer, there is not expected to be any further big spending by Villa before the 5 October transfer deadline.”

2 hours ago, AvfcRigo82 said:

 

They were all at Vitesse together.

If not mistaken, Traore left the summer that Rashica came in.

19 minutes ago, villan-scott said:

@The Inspiration are you the man to track planes?! Any private jets heading out of Bremen today?

There was a private flight yesterday from Bremen to East Midlands airport.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/JCB1/history/20200915/1003Z/EDDW/EGNX

Unfortunately, it was operated by J C Bamford and arrived in Bremen from Stockholm (and prior to that from a place called Trollhattan, which is a quite fitting city name in this situation...)

1 minute ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

Seeing a lot of comments about him only staying because a big offer never came in for him. It’s probably true but who cares. He’s our captain, he is here for another season and his happy!

Its all good!

I wouldn't read into it too much. The way I see it is that he never really wanted or planned to leave, but kept his options open to see what else might be available elsewhere and what the club's current doings and plans were. If he got a silly offer from elsewhere while the club started signing League Two players, then he may have reconsidered what he really wanted to do. Even in that case he might have thought long and hard about seeing himself in different colours and may not have liked it, but I think that approach is more than fair and quite a mature thing to do.

Clinical finish. Shame all his detractors weren't in the crowd.

33 minutes ago, markavfc40 said:

I didn't know a fat lot about him but surely you have to have something about you to go to Lyon at 21 and have played 125 games over last 3 seasons. He has also played 40 European games for Chelsea, Ajax and Lyon most of them in Champions league. Throw in some prem league experience and 70 goals in 230 games and certainly on the face of it there is much to like.

Aly Cissokho says hi.

12 minutes ago, rbcuk said:

Now this journalist in France is saying the deal is off now 

has just said live that Traoré has refused Aston Villa and that OL are looking for another club ...

 

The issue was not that Wilson wouldn't score when on the pitch, it was the risk of him being crocked all the time. Can't score (goals) then!

33 minutes ago, Awol said:

Why not this? Two box to box midfielders with a front four that can swap throughout the match and play in any of those spots. Maybe have Luiz and McGinn a bit deeper than in the graphic. I haven't played Football Manager in a while, although maybe I need to start again...

2 hours ago, TheAuthority said:

Over 10 years I've been following this thread.

Since we're quoting posts from the first page, here's another one that has aged well (in a different way...)

On 06/07/2010 at 04:02, Mr_Dogg said:

A 14 year old has more technical ability than Adam Johnson?

6 hours ago, WooJung said:

I don't speak either of the languages but my understanding is that they are significantly distinct and mutual intelligibility is virtually non existent. They are thought to be similar because they are part of the same language family, but by the same logic you would expect English, Russian and Farsi to be similar, as they are all Indo-European.

Finnish and Estonian are much closer to one another, but I'm not sure to which degree they are mutually intelligible 

Finnish, Hungarian, and Estonian all have similar grammar rules but with different vocabulary. The Finnish-Hungarian dictionary would be like an English-Icelandic version. Finnish and Estonian are more comparable...Estonians can generally understand Finnish, but Finns rarely know Estonian.

Source: I'm a foreigner in Finland.

7 hours ago, Sam-AVFC said:

Sinisalo. 

In English: William Blueforest

6 hours ago, DaveAV1 said:

I thought this was the Purslow thread. My mistake. 

I tried to find some relationship between Christian Purslow and Finland, but this thread is actually the top hit on Google...

1 hour ago, Villarocker said:

So, basically, we are just now filling this out to 200? Is there any chance at all of him signing? Even 1%?

This is only my second post this year.

Never heard of him, but his name sounds like someone we would have signed in the summer of Tonev/Okore/Helenius.

I hope my contribution to the cause has been beneficial.

2 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Big difference when he came on AGAIN, thankless job.

Agree. Don't understand why he's slated so much. His hold-up play is incredible.

Do we know when his buyback clause expires?

3 minutes ago, osmark86 said:

can he be utilized as a winger mayhaps?

We heard that about another J.B... Joe Bennett

Just now, Dr_Pangloss said:

Perhaps because Tuanzebe is better cover in the event we need to rotate a little or someone gets injured?

Or, our own player gets regular games to develop while another (who we don't and won't own) is just used as cover.

16 hours ago, foreveryoung said:

I met him last week through work. Lets put it this way, if his personality transfers over to his footballing skills, no wonder he is lazy. Needed some information from him, all I got were a grumbled few words while he was playing on his phone. Saw this guy in a completely different light. I guess he's got some skills, but as I have witnessed he came across pretty arrogant and I think that also shows on the pitch.

I would believe that's pretty common of that generation...

Made the Sky Sports Free Agent XI along side names such as van der Wiel, Mandanda, and Ibra. 

Flabby flabby flabby flabby agbonlahor, he loves the crack, he loves the cra-aaa-ack

If you moved to a new country (presumably with your family) for a job, to eventually find out they were under false premises and got completely thrown under the bus. Then to find out no one in the club cares, from the owner, CEO, head of recruitment, players, etc (e.g. if the fact that players Remi wanted were not actually contacted), would you not be f***ing pissed off? Not necessarily happy that he's going to cost the club more money but I am damn well with him in being irritated and holding out and trying to get as much as he can.

The board hung him out to dry in January and him continually picking these players is him sticking his middle fingers up at them. These are the players they left him with, you know, the ones who don't give a f*** anymore and continually make mistakes. I agree, I don't think the kids could do any worse, but it's a hostile environment out there right now and not the situation for them to get their feet wet in.

17 minutes ago, Zatman said:

I know we have injuries but up against one of worst keepers in league and a shoddy defence and we havent even tested them in 40 minutes

Didn't realize we were playing ourselves.

Makes the bench today. 17 year old who we signed on professional terms in December. Anyone know anything about him?!

Fair play to Micah for the chat, but are you really, really trying? Just watched their chance before our goal, where Okore had to get a late foot on it (around 16 mins). Left his man in space and to say he made a half-hearted attempt to get back to him is an understatement. Even if say it wasn't his man, if you see an opponent in on goal you bust your ass to get to him. Maybe you don't reach him, but when you've got a man sprinting at you it adds pressure to the shot.