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fdor god sake smith no

1 hour ago, sne said:

But £28m for Watkins who is 4 months younger is?

I'm honestly more desperate for a quality wide player. Obviously we also need a quality striker.

cant see us getting good striker

im just fed up of hearing small time players linked to us and if its true shame if you dont like what i say dont be personal id ont run other fans down

Just now, Jareth said:

Spoken like a bluenose

im villa through and through

if thats true smth should get his examined

villa bottling it over watkins

how old is lansbury

i got cash back from asda

1 hour ago, Villarocker said:

According to the England manager that position is already occupied by the great Ainsley Maitland-Niles. 

i bow to great professor southgate by the way sarcasm not praise

4 hours ago, SirSteveUK said:

Apparently, Brentford have acquired Robin Hack from Nuremburg - didn't even take him on trial ....

Supposedly Benrahma's replacement - which means....god knows what

benrahma to arsenal

1 minute ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

https://twitter.com/villareport/status/1300188179996213248?s=20

friends reunited

i dont mind watkins as one of two strikers but if he is only one it doesn't show much for smiths horizonsd outside brentford

8 minutes ago, thunderball said:

A lot of noise on twitter that Jack has signed for Man U

if that was true he knows who we're signing

1 hour ago, supermon said:

I'm starting to think we just arent going to be able to attract any big names to the team. Being relegation fodder for the last few premier league seasons isn't helping. Smith isn't really a top draw manager that players we'll want to come and play for. 

Just like Rashica, we'd be right down the pecking order. Have a feeling most of our business will be at the end of the window, except maybe some odd championship signings.

yes to get the right players we are lookiong for we'll need vto change manager

united stand report he his going too force amove for dream  move

1 minute ago, nick76 said:

That seems lower than what they were indicating but I guess we’ll see by October what their ambitions are. A bit depressing seeing current links of cash, swift and co

and probaly loosing grealish

5 hours ago, dudevillaisnice said:

I see what you mean but maybe Smith isn’t comfortable with signings like that after last season (A huge turnover) or he just can’t attract them, who knows. I think there was something in our interest in Trippier but why would he come here? Hence Cash who I don’t think was first choice in my opinion. I do agree though, we need to be more ambitious. As another poster said Cash, Watkins and Swift would be the best part of around £75m.. 

your right smith can't attract them

9 minutes ago, LxYoungAVFC said:

I'll believe it when I see it.

(The part where Wes says he'll spend money)

ithink i believe it  its proving not to be easy

its all gone quiet on eduard

4 minutes ago, VillaHatesMe said:

CAN IT BE TRUE? 

 

to be fair sounds promising

Just now, Villarocker said:

Wait! The whole Valencia squad has played for Brentford? 

Or, are you mistaking Goncalo Guedes for two players instead of the one player that he is? 

i meant not just sarcasm

3 minutes ago, VillaFaninLondon said:

Yep. It’s an effing joke really and no different to under Lerner.

ithought that earlier not delievering their promise

theyve played for brentford

2 hours ago, Okonokos said:

Valencia have put the whole squad up for sale. How about Goncalo Guedes? Could get him on the cheap.

11 minutes ago, rayk said:

Can you imagine if our first signing is Jonathan Swift?

That would be meltdown....

give him short swift

9 minutes ago, VillaFaninLondon said:

I suppose I'm just not afraid to speak my mind and I'm sorry if it came across as brusque or harsh but it's what I feel. I'm not tired of the club, just the constant relegation battles and inability to move forward despite the fact that we have the potential to be a very good club imo.

 

Last summer we made a hash of our activity by bringing in every Tom, Dick and Harry without doing enough due diligence (though, ultimately, we were in a very difficult situation of having to buy pretty much a whole new team and I understand that, though I also condemn those who made mistakes). Now we're doing the opposite, trying to bring in better targets but either trying to haggle for the best price to a ridiculous extent or not convincing these bigger name players of our project. And of course no one has yet arrived.

 

I'm afraid we will have to put our hands in our pockets a bit if we want to bring in higher profile players who can take the club forward. It's what City did when they were initially bought (of course, the money they had blew other teams out of the water, but we are not broke ourselves). Or if we want to use another example of an ambitious club newly promoted look at someone like Southampton who were buying the likes of Lovren, Wanyama and Tadic not long after getting promoted because they didn't want to just fight relegation every season.

 

It's been over a month since the season ended and out of all the clubs in the Prem I think we were most in need of some top signings. Of course they could still happen and we could end up with a Tammy and a Sarr and a Rashica, but I'm very sceptical that will happen, we won't end up with the quality we need, and next season will be deja vu again like the last few years of supporting this club.

 

It's a negative viewpoint but needs to be said.

i agree they were saying they would  time to back up with action