SeanVilla

How much would you value Romero at if he had 3 years left on his contract then? 15-20mill? Let's remember Aaron Ramsdale who's only just turned 22 went in the middle of his contract for £18mill and will probably be paid half of what Romero will be on.

If you'd have said to me at the start of the window we would be sensible with our transfers, and look for good deals and spend approx. £72mill on: Romero (£8mill) Cash (£16mill) Watkins (£28mill) Wilson (£20mill) I'd have said no f***ing way, our club would not be that stupid. Absolutely baffling.

I find it crazy how they're trying to tell us we're looking for good deals, these things take time etc. and our answer is paying £8mill for a GK we could get for free in 9 months time and he could easily be irrelevant to us depending on Heaton's form returning from Injury. Now seems a perfect time to either get a loan to cover Heaton, or at least go for someone a bit younger so he can learn under Heaton. Martinez is the perfect candidate for me. May cost more but has potential and at least a bit of resale value. I bet you wouldn't another team in the Prem who would spend anywhere near £8mill on a 2nd choice GK with 9 months left on his contract Madness

Looks like this may be true. Shocking signing tbh if the £8mill fee is true. Has 9 months left on his contract and has been a bit part player the last 5 years or so. Same age as Heaton (33) and for me no where near as good. The players it's looking like we're signing are very, very worrying. Considering we have been linked with Martinez, Edouard, Rashica, Aarons and we'll end up with Watkins, Cash, Romero. These may be bullshit rumours and we may sign better, but for me this is no better, if not worse, than the signings made by Suso last year.

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Jota was unbelievable for them last season, had his best season in a Wolves shirt, 16G 6A and he's only 23! Added to those listed is also Pedro Neto. Podence is the oldest at 24, can't see why they'd want to add Rashica on top of that, unless it was cover for Jimenez. Also the possibility of Traore leaving, but I can't see that happening any time soon.

The second paragraph on the actual article just seems like nonsense.

2 years left on his contract

To be honest I'm not that keen on Benrahma, convinced Douglas Luiz is better than Phillips and would much rather go for Edouard over Watkins. £15mill is also the equivalent for a fullback as £25mill is for a Winger, due to the nature of the position. Personally I think Guilbert backed up by Elmo is fine for another year, whilst we have Samatta and Davis up top and El Ghazi and Trez on the wings. It's easy to get excited about any signing, especially at the moment. It's also acceptable to be a bit more judgmental if you feel like its a signing/position isn't needed/not worth focusing on improving. We won't be signing 10+ players this season, so I can see people's logic.

To be fair to Jake, although he's the most annoying person on Villa twitter, he's only 18. He looks about 30

Agreed, maybe he'll go Wolves now Doherty has left. Would fit perfect in their wing back system. Hope it's not too long till we can start making signings like Aarons.

I wonder how much Aarons would have cost. And if we were actually in for him. At say 5mill more, would of been a no brainer.

Think it's hard to make a comparison, when Cash has played 3 and half times more mins than Elmo did (3500mins compared to 1000mins) in a much lower standard of league. Oh well I had hoped we'd spend the 15mill on a position more needed but it would break our tradition of buying a RB every single year (Hutton, Elmo, Bree Guilbert, now Cash)

Probably not the best at reading these, but doesn't Elmo have the highest Attacking Output at 92?

Hahahaha I just can't stand the "He's on a plane to BHX" bollocks that you see on both here and twitter. Takes 2 mins to dispel the silly rumours.

He 100% wasn't on the plane with her. She posted a video on the private jet. He was waiting for her

As in back to Kosovo? Is this something you've heard or is this public knowledge? Missed this.

Sky bet is driven by what people are betting on. Not by what is actually going on. It would be strange is Sky bet know more than the journalists. Probably due to that fake ITK on twitter saying we'd had a bid accepted last night.

My take on it all based on the clues, press talk etc. is that we've agreed a deal over a week ago but he's waiting for an offer from a better club. It's fair enough but there's got to come a point where we're like, "Mate, you're taking the piss a bit here" and move on.

I'm not going to pretend I've watched this lad week in week out, but he looks like a similar player to Grealish. We have had many a debate that we got overrun with Grealish in the midfield. So I see no reason why having Swift there is going to be any different. We are in a period of transition and trying to stabilise as a top half team, so why would it be smart to spend even a 10th of the budget on a squad player. We should absolutely be buying high quality players to replace the players in the starting line up currently, and moving the likes of Hourihane, Trez, Samagoal to the bench. It may be complete BS but I'll be very worried if true.

Yeah, if we are looking at players like John Swift, that's just depressing.

Agreed, he wouldn't post that if he was on the move, clearly doesn't fancy moving to us. Massive shame Him and Edouard were my top targets I'd hope we would get. We'll settle for Watkins and Benrahma

Although I like him, I wouldn't be buying more championship quality players. Especially as he's more of a number 10 which we've been arguing about whether we could play Grealish there.

It's debatable but sell Targett for £25mill, buy Henry for £10mill and spend the extra £15mill somewhere else. Thing with Taylor is although he's awful, hasn't been that bad when he's come on this season. We don't have the luxury to have stud replacements at every position. I like Targett, although he's very very slow, is a solid left back for this league. Problem I have is he's a walking sick note. How many times this season did he come off with and injury? Remember when he was even sick on the pitch? If anyone is offering upwards of £20mill I'd accept.