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Haven't you heard mate we've got no money, and we're so slow on signings we're still working on the January 2018 transfer window !

No the tweet said Watkins

FFS as if this is the place for considered, reasoned argument ! Don’t you know where you are ?

Haha my bad.

If Villa had signed the players Sheffield United have most fans would be up in arms ! I don’t see that they have progressed, and they had a dreadful post lockdown.

You have literally no clue what the constraints are. We haven't been linked as far as i can tell to any lower league gems. I don't even know how you manage to get out of bed each morning you're so pessimistic. The evidence suggests different to how you prttray. If we had no money, would we really sign a £13M right back ? It's not our most important position to be filled. Why if we have no money is it reported that we're the only club that offered Bremen what they want for Rashica ? Why was it widely reported we offered more money to Bournemouth for WIlson than Newcastle did ? Those players have their own reasons for not wanting to move to Villa, but ambition, and transfer fees are not the reasons. In what way have the current owners ever not backed their managers that gives you reason to believe they wouldn't now ?

11764 posts and all of them negative

What was the pinned tweet that was removed ?

To be fair, the reports I read were that we offered more than Newcastle, but the player made it clear that his favoured destination was Newcastle so we withdrew our offer. Personally I think Bournemouth used us in the same way the Brentford are using Tottenham with Watkins, it’s all about pushing the fee up.

This seems to have gone from nearly done, to him signing for Chelsea, and then to nothing. Do we think everything was agreed and he’s holding out to see if Chelsea sign Edouard Mendy from Rennes ? Maybe now we feel like the jilted girlfriend and are looking elsewhere. Of all the keepers we’ve been linked to, I think Romero is the best we can hope for, would love to see him in Goal next week.

From the media leaks last season, it was Smith that didn’t want to go above £20M for Maupay last season. if we don’t get Watkins this season then I suspect it will be because Smith doesn’t think he’s worth the fee wanted by Brentford. I do think Smith wants Watkins, and in my opinion, if the fee is £24M or £28M as reported the difference is minimal and we should just get him in now, but perhaps he isn’t our main target.

Sorry double post

Guys don’t get excited now, Sidcow clearly states “were” in for him, not “we’re” in for him.

I don’t know what fat kids have to do with it, but spiralling into them cannot be right !

He wears glasses, so might not be what they all want.

Well I've read between the lines and its a done deal. Its simple when you do that. Messi turned us down as he doesnt like balti pies....but for Higuain that was what sealed the deal. He ate all the pies

Yeah that makes it as good as done.

Players that are better than what we have, move the squad forward, know how to play with each other and how the manager wants them to play.

Why ? Which of those players don’t you think are good enough for us ? Personally I think they’d all serve us well. With the exception of Jota who was worth a punt at the price we paid.

I just don’t see Everton ever learning. When did James Rodriguez last have a good season ? What kind of wages must he be looking for ? As much as I think they are more attractive than us right now (because of Ancelotti), I’m glad we are not going down this route.

I'm a 42-44 inch chest...do i need to size up ? According to the villa shop sizing i'm an XL, but if i need to size up that would make me an XXL which on principal i'm not sure i can buy

My post included a link to a video of Orjan Nyland's best bits. he's cheap to us as we already own him. Sorry i am at work and didn't have time to work out how to embed the video.

This guy looks great, should be cheap too !

so tomorrow is 5 weeks away ?

I wasn't aware that he refused to play for Scotland, but he certainly isnt the first player to have done that, and i'm not aware of his reasons for doing it....are you ? How do you feel about United blocking Smalling from extending his loan at Roma to play in the Champions League ? Surely it's the same thing ? Players, Clubs, Fans we're all looking after number 1.