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They’re thanking us for facilitating his transfer. Seems unusual. We probably had to pay off some of his wages. 

Interesting that the back of his jersey says Pau rather than Torres. Does that pave the way for Ferran to join too?

I think we would sell him if we got a reasonable price but I don’t see anyone willing to pay more than 10-15 million for him. Plus he’s probably on higher wages than he’s worth. So I think he will stay. 

Second. If we make some good signings and continue our good form into the new season, I think we have a great chance of rubbing shoulders with the top teams. I have a small flutter on us to win the league. I think we have a huge chance of top 4. My main concern is how playing on Thursdays will affect us in the league. 

I think 2027 is a bit long. He’s had a great second half to the season but he was very inconsistent before that and looked off the pace. Four more years is a big commitment by the club. 

I wonder if Nassif could deposit 100 million into Zed FC in Egypt to buy Wesley for an Egyptian record fee and give our transfer budget a boost. 

56 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

I dunno, it's so subjective

We can say mendy is merely OK and that he's worth let's say £30m but they sell him for £50m and we cry foul... He was voted the best goalkeeper in world football 2 years ago and he's better than the £80m keeper Chelsea have already skewed the market with

I'm theory he has to be worth less than Onana

If man City signed neves for £50m we'd all probably agree it's a bit rich but there wouldn't be the calls of it being outrageous and a crime against football

The outrageous thing will be how and when these guys come back to European football

This is the thing. It could be argued that some of the prices are fair. But they’re not independent transactions to a third party. They’re transfers to a connected party. Furthermore, that connected party has no FFP obligations whatsoever so can essentially be used as a vehicle to launder money in and out of their chosen premier league team at will. So the transfer fees are open to exploitation whether one considers them fair on a case by case basis or not. Needless to say, Sky made no comment on this issue in their report. 

It’s ridiculous the league are allowing these Saudi transfers to happen. It’s essentially money laundering for FFP purposes. Sales to connected parties should have the transfer fee fixed by an arbitrator to ensure independence. Or just scrap FFP altogether so it’s a free for all but at least everyone has the same opportunity. As it is, different teams are playing by different rules. 

So will Heck be Purslow’s replacement as club representative at Premier League meetings, votes, etc. or will that fall under football operations for Monchi? I would assume it’s Heck. 

2 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

I love Traore.... But let's not pretend we don't SEE and know why he doesn't play " 90 minutes ".

He's a random magician type player. Equally as shite as he is outstanding.

We are all arguing about it, but obviously the Manager agrees, the selections speak for themselves

My point was that in those few minutes, he has pretty much contributed the same or close to the amount of points as Bailey and Buendia combined all season in key goals. And that is an actual fact. 

1 hour ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

The simplest way I always put it is.

Minus the points they ( Buendia and Bailey ) have contributed over to our overall season, and get back to me.

Come on now. Marginally more than Traore between them I make it and Traore hardly played 90 minutes altogether all season. Watkins and Ramsey were generally our match winners. We should surely be expecting two of our front three to be contributing at least 15-20 points per season in winning goals. If Bailey is to have any meaningful future with us, he should be spending his summer holidays in Bodymoor Heath with a strength and conditioning coach. 

18 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

Players don't care about the inner workings of the board of directors or whatever. They just want to win things and join the teams that give the best chance for that. Put your emotion as a Villa fan aside and look at it from the lens of a professional player.

I know he doesn’t care. I’m not disputing his motives. And the very small price he has to pay is that he’s a selfish turncoat. That’s just an indisputable fact. The point I was making is that I find it pathetic for Villa fans to celebrate his success with another club who have cheated to succeed. I think it’s a real loser’s mentality. And I find it bizarre from supporters of a club that won its own European cup in the 80s. 

And by the way, there are plenty of sports where people don’t just abandon their teams for a better chance of personal success elsewhere. Real team spirit and loyalty does exist elsewhere thankfully. 

1 minute ago, Keyblade said:

He won everything in just 2 years. He could stay at Villa for the rest of his career and quite conceivably not win a single trophy. He made the right move for his career and it's paid dividends pretty much immediately.

With a bunch of cheats. Still a selfish turncoat as I said. Whatever floats your boat. 

It would actually require regression under Unai Emery for us to not qualify for the champions league next season. That’s how good a job he’s done. 

14 minutes ago, KentVillan said:

I agree.

People saying there's no room for sentiment...  come on, what do you think someone like Mings or McGinn feels watching this play out? This is a club that will spit me out at the end without a second's thought? Why should I show them any loyalty?

They’re grown adults being handsomely paid. They know what they signed up for. The club isn’t exactly leaving Young homeless. Young left us before when it suited him. McGinn and Mings will know when their time is up. Young was slowing up a lot. It was the right decision in my opinion. 

I like this from the club to be honest. Shows some ruthlessness. His legs are going / gone and only heading in one direction. We need to be aiming for better. 

5 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

Agree apart from the last bit....I think he's worked out a poor signing just because of how little he's played, Dean should have used him more 

For where we were, which is marginally better than where Luton are, we needed someone like him, now we don't 

Maybe. I don’t mean to knock the guy needlessly. He seems like a great guy. 

But if I was a newly promoted club with the option to spend 11 million on Nakamba now or another random player from the Belgian or French leagues, as Nakamba was to us when we signed him, I’d fancy my chances to find a better player than Nakamba. Although I can see there are other benefits to Luton in signing him as he’s established there, etc. 

Take whatever we can get for him, get him off the wage bill and free up a space in the squad. There is no benefit in holding on to him. He would have been totally outclassed in that Brighton game. He even struggled to dominate against Coventry. He just doesn’t have the class. Ultimately a poor signing but we should be able to recover some of the loss. 

1 hour ago, thunderball said:

In that Twitter clip of Nas and Wes congratulating the players, McGinn is in the background being interviewed by Sky?

OK. Just looked like the pre and post match was all from Goodison Park. It was poor. It would be nice to see those post match scenes properly if anyone has a link. 

7 minutes ago, VillaCas said:

Why aren’t we seeing after match comment from VP? Why is Everton on four Sky channels

Looks like sky were too tight to send any presenters and pundits to the other games. 

Unreal. Well done to all involved. Huge effort and commitment.