MotoMkali

Think he's going to be more like Duran in the sense it won't really be until his third season where he gets significant minutes though expect him to be a bit part player next year.

It's an odd we haven't really heard reporting about any full backs or CDMs. Obviously signing attackers is more exciting but what we really need is those 3 positions.

The claret badge on a claret kit I don't think works

The round badge looks good. The lion looks great. The issue is it looks to similar to Chelsea. It's not really a fault of the design company. The other option they provided was also good.

Guys it was a joke. We need to be looking at younger players

Him doing that then pretending to have hurt his back?

Worth pointing out in his time with the sixers the TV money jumped by like 100 mil. Edit: Which is to say that he had no bearing on that. Also he took over just after the process era. So ofc he increased the money. The whole reason the new regime got put in place in Philly is because Hinkie was costing the league too much money with his personnel decisions and many games the sixers arena was like half full. Even the most incompetent moron would have been able to make a massive price increase. Even just filling the arena at basic prices would have been an extra 30 mil, before drinks and stuff or the more luxury tickets. Or considering the playoffs which have more expensive tickets and are extra games. Whilst he did increase the revenue a lot of it is just natural consequences of him taking over when he did.

Pau's got bad taste

The one thing that this round badge does well is that the lion is clean af. I don't understand why they threw the baby out with the bath water so to speak you put the new lion in claret on hecks badge and whilst the balance is still of I bet it looks about 10 times better than it does now.

As I said we do need a DM, but like our depth at CB is shaky if we are relying on Konsa at RB and Cash is always our worst player when he plays. Even vs Lille he was at fault for the first goal and hamstrung our attack the entire game. Sure he made it up with a goal and scoring his penalty but we probably wouldn't have needed either if we were playing with a more tactically strong RB. Whether that RB is good in possession, defensively stout or a flying RB. Cash is a C+ grade at all of these things which means he can do an OK job but the team would be far better if we could bring in a player who is B+ in 2 of these areas and sacrifice a little in the other area. Similarly LB, Moreno and Digne are fine they don't need to be replaced. But again they are the obvious replacements. Digne has been fantastic and his experience in European competitions is valuable so maybe we should keep him, I do not know. Digne is perhaps more of a B grade in all these areas and Moreno when he was fit last season was one of the most potent wingbacks in the league. But we do not know whether moreno will recover his pace, or his touch or his dribbling or his crossing. Plus both are in their 30s. At minimum one of them should be moved and we should bring in a younger understudy. If we sign someone like Hermoso as you mentioned then we should move on both and sign a wingback to complement Hermoso.

Cheeky Bid?

This is pretty worthless without emery's taking to go with it.

You say this but look at our team where are you upgrading if not at the full backs? We aren't signing someone better than torres, we aren't signing someone better than Dougie, or Bailey, or Watkins. So we are talking full backs and DM but only because Kamara is injured and we need more depth there. LW as well I suppose is another area we could target but with JJ, Mcginn, Rogers, Diaby and Tielemans all being able to play there in our system it's not an area of concern unlike RB. Also Kosta has been injured for the last 9 games and seems like he will continue to be injured. He's also still only 18, I suspect he's more like a Duran signing where if he is going to be in our squad he will mostly be getting minor appearances until his 3rd year with us or so.

We also sold them azaz for fairly cheap who had 3 goals and 3 assists in 13 starts (also made 5 appearances off the bench). Only 2.5 mil for a 23 year old who had 7 goals and 5 assists in 26 matches for a relation battling team.

Was 34.6 Million initially, rising to 44 per ornstein who is by far the msot reliable reporter on the actual details of the deals. https://theathletic.com/4707121/2023/07/20/moussa-diaby-aston-villa-agree-deal?source=user-shared-article I suspect the figure bandied about by sky, is euros and inclusive of add ons. As 44 million quid is 51 million euros.