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10 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

But Hause is an Lcb.

We have Engels and Konsa as Rcb's

If anything, we are getting an Lcb understudy in, or we are shaking up the whole damn thing.

That guy who has been linked from Galatasaray maybe?

an play centreback and DM, name starts with L.

 

Luyindama

We could do with more height and strength in the side...

25 minutes ago, The Fun Factory said:

Sorry but where are the  valuations from? Is it a deep statistical analysis and review of current spending levels in football? Or is it some lazy journos who have taken 5 minutes out of their busy day looking at Twitter to stick a finger in the air and make a random guess? Total drivel. Manchester Untied would not sell Greenwood for £47 million, no chance.

CIES Football Observatory:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/european/most-valuable-players-ranked-transfer-fee-sancho-haaland-hudson-odoi-greenwood-a9421551.html%3famp

Few more names, any thoughts on these guys?

Donyel Mallen - PSV

Marcus Thuram - Monchengladbach

Leon Bailey - Leverkusen 

Luka Jovic - Real Madrid

Federico Chiesa - Fiorentina

Jeremie Boga - Sassuolo

4 minutes ago, the_eristic said:

That would mean we have another CB nailed on to sign. Yet again not the first position most of us were looking to strengthen, but a senior partner for Mings to take some pressure off Konsa would be a good addition.

Yeah was thinking the same, someone with a bit of physicality and leadership would help. Konsa has looked promising and hopefully still gets decent game time.

Hause is poor, a disaster with the ball at his feet. Good in the air but not much else.

10 minutes ago, Okonokos said:

Kabak is a really good young defender. Very good on the ball. Would love him here.

Any other decent shouts? Who could we realistically get and would really enhance the team?

Would love it if we raided Valencia (could we get Maxi Gomez this time? How’s he performed?) and any other decent teams needing funds (Marseille?).

We have to take advantage of situations like this and be willing to spend big for the right quality. With the slight relaxation on FFP too, it’s a great opportunity to substantially improve the team...

5 minutes ago, thunderball said:

Not sure of the context but look quite inflated e.g. Dortmund willing to sell Sancho at €120m, also Sessegnon/Kean/Aaron’s all look high. However Greenwood and Foden look light.

Yeah the prices don’t quite make sense, certainly don’t think Odoi & Kean are worth that much! Fati likely worth more.

Just interesting to see which young players  are rated as the next big talents and whether we could get any in.

There were reports or rumours that we tried to get Kubo on loan. Never heard of Kabak & Kulusevski. Same with Hamed Traore & Badiashile.

Szoboslai is another talented youngster I’ve seen mentioned a few times.

Sessegnon on loan has been suggested a few times (not played much at Spurs?)

Would any of these guys be attainable? Bottom of the list?

I don’t watch enough football these days to form much of an opinion tbh.

Villa is my sole/primary focus nowadays.

24 minutes ago, MarkLillis said:

This guy will do a job.Probably the type of experience knowledgeable forward play we haven’t seen at Villa Park for some time.

Maybe the younger more exciting signings will arrive who knows.

One thing though....all the links to exciting players have been mostly dismissed on here.

A similar type of link with an uninspiring type of signing is treated like it’s definitely happening.

 

1 minute ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Been doing some snooping around and it seems Newcastle are quite confident of getting Fraser AND Wilson?

Imagine if this is all again press miscalculation .

I sometimes wonder if we purposely send the press in wrong directions so we can get on with what we are actually doing in peace.

I really hope so & shut everyone up with some stunning signings out of the blue!

1 minute ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

And if 1 of those 40 - 50 mill players get injured, or both, we are back in the same boat.

Facts are we still need to improve the squad as a whole, and we don't have unlimited money to spend.

As I wrote in a post earlier in the thread. This is the phase where we solidify the squad and position. So we are not left bare bones when we have injuries or lack.of form. Have players just as good if not better ready to fill in AND provide higher competition to improve everyone.

Next season is when I think we can start to see the level up signings to tweak.

For all you know, we could very well still see a marquee player this window as well.

Yes, I’ve been stating repeatedly that we really have no idea (yet) as to what our transfer strategy is. Best not to pay too much attention to the speculation and online BS and wait until bids are accepted and players are bought in.

As just mentioned, the fees aren’t so relevant but the quality of player is.

What if Jack gets injured?

We need options and an upgrade in quality as we relied too heavily on Jack and struggled to stay up. We need a substantial upgrade in attack at least & don’t just want to be scrapping for survival again.

10 minutes ago, lexicon said:

Like who? It's all well and good wanting these players but if they don't want to come, then what should we do? 

Answer: strengthen the best we can, have a better season and try again next summer.

We're simply not attractive enough to players of that calibre yet.

Neither of us were going into specifics, just that we’d rather sign top quality players (whether they cost 10, 20 or 30 million) and youngsters with massive potential rather than squad filler or options (pointless spending big on aging players on high wages too).

We need major improvement to push on and the fact that we barely stayed up shows just how lacking our squad is. Plus, we need to be less reliant on Jack and have other ways of creating and scoring goals. He will tire of carrying the team and the vast majority of attacking play unless we add genuine quality to help him out and convince him to stay and demonstrate that we are heading in the right direction. 

It’s up to the club and scouting department to find that kind of quality and bring it in.

Of all the links, I would be happy with Benrahma & Buendia (each would likely cost 20-30m) and Edouard looks like he’d be a great signing too. We’re going to have to spend big because we are so lacking in quality.

47 minutes ago, ciggiesnbeer said:

 Agree. I would sooner have two 40-50M players this window than six lower priced ones. We need more players of Jack's quality to push on. We dont need squad depth we already have that. We need high quality.

Exactly

16 minutes ago, KevinRichardsonsMoustache said:

I found this list.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/aston-villa/transferrekorde/verein/405

 

I know it’s relative (prices going up etc), but it makes me realise:

 

a. How even fairly average PL players now cost masses of money (Targett is our fifth biggest signing!)

b. There are some real stinkers: Ross, Hogan, NZog in particular who, even after all these years and price inflation, are still in the list

c. Stan Collymore is still in the top twenty! 
 

 

My first thought, from looking at that , is actually that we’ve barely paid huge fees for top players... that needs to change ahead of this season really, if we want to be a force.

11 minutes ago, villan-scott said:

Doesn’t sound like we’re in the hunt for Benrahma, well not being name dropped here like West Ham. If we were in for Benrahma you’d think Percy and Law would know. 

26 minutes ago, KevinRichardsonsMoustache said:

I think about this question all the time. I know other teams have flops but the relative cost of our flops beggars belief. And while you can see some of them flopping a mile away, most of ours come with potential but never come near cutting it.

Might explain why we get so worried by signings over a certain amount of money (and this number is going up all the time). 

Makes sense, we have pissed so much money up the wall over the years with no return e.g. Richards, McCormack, Nzogbia, Hogan, Lansbury & many many more (too many to list!!!). We’ve actually been doing it for decades! Remember the likes of Sasa Curcic? Habib Beye? Only it’s cost us a hell of a lot more recently...

Should start a thread ranking our most useless players ever! I’m sure it would beat the Rashica thread

Just imagine where we’d be if we’d have used those funds more wisely...

No real objection to this but would have much preferred Martinez (if possible). A younger, more long term signing who can be a key part of the team for many years...

I just hope we aren’t focussing on short term signings as the recent (probably BS) links seem to indicate.

14 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

pure fantasy, but i would love it if we announced the double signing of Watkins & Benrahma.

A man can dream.

Yeah I’m much more eager for us to sign Benrahma (or a similar player).

Not overly fussed about Watkins, would just like to see an exciting & ambitious move for a talented young striker such as Edouard or an as yet unnamed or unlinked player. 

Still hoping for some surprises and proof that the press and “ITKs” know F all.

5 minutes ago, Condimentalist said:

I'm pretty concerned if true. Will change my perception of the competence of people running the club. 

Exactly

Just now, AVFCforever1991 said:

I know, it's horrific...

We haven’t bid for him so I wouldn’t be concerned at this point. Hell of a lot of bs out there (online).

All we can do is be patient and wait and see.

25 minutes ago, MJ_1874 said:

Come on its hardly that difficult.  Less than 1 in 2 in the Championship.  Lewis Grabbon got 20 goals last season.  Troy Deeley will probably get close to 20 next season.

I think there is potentially a top striker in Davis if he can get a run of games and keep injury free.

He doesn’t score goals mate, can’t see him coming even close to double figures. Would need a few seasons at a lower level to develop, certainly not a PL player and I’d be very disappointed if he ends up getting minutes for us this season (meaning we failed to strengthen).

He has decent attributes but a striker has to be able to score and he doesn’t possess that ability (yet). He needs a couple of seasons in the championship and then we can see what he’s really made of.

As I stated earlier, we can’t afford to be sentimental. We need top quality and reliability if we really want to progress and compete at this level. We barely survived and  need major improvement & enhancement.

Again, no passengers.

56 minutes ago, Sulberto21 said:

I'd rather spend £30m on someone like Origi or Ihenacho. Both are experienced in the premier League, and with a full season behind them would score enough goals to get us 12-15th comfortably. Both are also quick and can play the high press naturally. 

That's assuming that it would cost £30m initially.

Absolutely 

1 hour ago, Chindie said:

£20m+ on a 28yr old who's done both ACLs and scored double figures once in his top flight career, and is almost certainly on big money wages... Yeah, no.

At less money alongside a better striker, ok, fine. But as things stand that's £20m gambled on a player that isn't going to bring a return financially and is by no means a safe bet to knock a lot in. 

If we spend the figures spoken about on Wilson, someone at Villa Park clearly has a drinking problem.

It would be a complete contradiction to Purslow’s statements about the profile of player we are pursuing (young, hungry, high potential, increase in value - similar to McGinn, as he stated).

Edouard would be a better fit, for example.

I agree, it’s more likely to be a failure of a signing & waste of funds rather than a success and we’ve had plenty of those over the years...

Even if he gives us one good season, that’s not enough. We should want to improve drastically not slightly.