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45 minutes ago, alf_stewart said:

I’d take Aubameyang over Wilson.

I'd take Maradona over Aubameyang all day long.

4 hours ago, VillaHatesMe said:

Their attacking metrics for this season were actually quite similar. 

This is the metrics for their entire career, not the 2019-20 season.

Here is the 2019-20 season.

16 minutes ago, Zatman said:

We shouldn't be signing the rejects from the top teams. It has been a strategy for Everton and West Ham in recent times with no success

The point is we definitely have a different aim comparing to Everton or West Ham at least for a couple years.

If the definition of success is to be mid-table comfortably I'd argue what they're doing might bring us success.

By the look of things, we aren't even close to signing anyone by now?

In other words, the first signing would probably be in at least 1-2 weeks?

1 minute ago, HeyAnty said:

Villa team seem to have a very close bond with each other.  Personality will be a big attribute when purchasing a player.

Apart from the time when Jota got headbutted in the training ground.

If Zaha only costs £30M, worth going for?

2 hours ago, villaluke said:

would anyone take a punt on carlos vela? i dont watch that much mls but he got 33 goals last season and wouldnt cost that much. 

 

He's good! But if we want a starter we might need to go for younger and possibly even stronger options. There's no need for him to join as a squad player unless Samatta and Keinan Davis leaves.

Dunno if any of these players have been mentioned yet:

Andre Silva - 12 goals in 25 games, only started 16 games, stepping into the second year of a 2 year loan in Frankfurt from Milan, dunno if the loan can be terminated earlier.
Adrian Hunou - Doesn’t start every game but scored 8 goals in 1209 minutes of playing time, translating into a 0.6 goals per 90
Chimy Avila - Scoring day in day out before his 6-month injury in Jan. I’d stay away on players that just got out of injury, dunno what you guys think.
Yussuf Poulsen - Was superb a year ago but his form dipped this year. Also he’s Danish.

20 minutes ago, KMitch said:

I selfishly want Fulham to win the game today because I really want us to go after Benrahma, but Brentford is the better team.  

I'm thinking the opposite as we will be rumored for the whole summer of Benrahma coming and get hijacked by some other PL teams at the last minute.

19 minutes ago, hippo said:

Because we always end up with the arse end of deal .... Brentford s players rarely thrive elsewhere...

Konsa worked well for us

18 minutes ago, Aston_Villan4 said:

from the Holt End Hawkeye guy on Twitter:

“Dean Smith will sit down in the next fortnight with chief executive Christian Purslow and Johan Lange, the club’s new sporting director, to discuss targets. “

If that's true then it's way too slow. I'd imagine we would've only gotten leftovers.

Usually I'll call bs but this haunts me a bit though, as this Holt End Hawkeye dude leaked the home kit (and possibly the away kit).
 

Had already thought of the worst case scenario, so I guess this has safely exceeded my expectation.

4 hours ago, Teale's 'tache said:

 

 

Looking at this, I think I'm gonna get disappointed tomorrow

1 hour ago, Zatman said:

Brentford guys came from the Danish league

In fact the DoF of Brentford - Rasmus Ankersen has a part time role as the chairman of FC Midtjylland, which is basically the other largest team in Denmark right now

Been seeing people worried about Johan Lange selling players quick and we should focus on building a core rather than selling players for quick profit.

Just looked at wiki, Copenhagen were just selling 5 to 6 players a year. I think that's pretty fair. In fact most clubs transfers way more than 6 players a year, just that it's largely a bunch of players who got released so we wouldn't think of it as selling. Imagine probably selling one or two John McGinns, couple of Nakambas, and another two or three Aaron Tshibolas and Ritchie De Laets - but getting a solid 4-5million per Aaron Tshibola and maybe upwards of 15mil per Nakamba.

41 minutes ago, Tommo_b said:

Think we should try ruffle some feathers, let’s make some audacious bids do players think we are ambitious, never know might sign some.

Van Dijk

Harry Kane

Bale

Fernandes

whoever else, won’t sign any of then, but the slightly better players will start taking attention to what’s happening at Villa, a bit like when Robinho signed for Man City, other players wanted a piece of the project. 
 

Pipe dream I am fully aware, but this is my hope. 

 

So you mean, to deceive the player into thinking that they're signing with Chelsea?

5 minutes ago, ForfarVillan said:

Would like to see us look at the Japanese market (I've said this for a few years) They are producing a lot of talented youngsters and even have some players well into their 20s that could thrive in European/British football. Germany has dipped into that market a lot and it has often paid off for them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzCxgLUvo1g
Tifo just made a video on Japanese youngsters.

If Brentford is up, chances of Benrahma coming will be extremely slim right?
I can't recall a promoted team letting their star player out.

7 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

Everton Soares? Gremio winger

Would be nice if we can attract another South American or two and Wes & Luiz will help them settle.

The thing with Brazilians is that they're usually either very focused, well-behaved or the 'party guy'.
I'd say Douglas Luiz and Wesley are leaning on the well-behaved side but Everton surely looks a party guy to me. There are even rumors on European Clubs staying away from him because of this.

Just throwing some more names into the discussion:

For Wings:

• Mounir Chouiar
• Raphinha
• Ludovic Blas

I know we kinda want proven players though, especially for wings

Striker:

• Domenico Berardi? Would that even be possible?

I also wonder what big names are actually feasible for us

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