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6 hours ago, OutByEaster? said:

With Elmo now approaching 300 years old, this would leave us needing to buy another right back in a window where we already need to strengthen in a number of areas - it just doesn't seem sensible to me.

 

To be fair Elmo still looks **** trim for 300 

48 minutes ago, LxYoungAVFC said:

Looking at his 26 goals last season, he'd probably have scored 12-13 of them in with Premier League opposition. I'd be happy with that return.

Lol what a comment

14 minutes ago, MrBlack said:

Already acknowledged, read on before posting what has already been said mate 

I struggle to keep up with this sodding thread its so fast !

57 minutes ago, MrBlack said:

Also never played in England so as much (if not more) of a gamble for probably the same money. 

Mikel Merino has had a season in the PL. 

At least look them up before spouting nonsense mate. 

4 minutes ago, Villarocker said:

I agree with you TRO. We could do with a big unit in midfield to shield the back four and allow Dougie further forward. I actually think he might even be able to play in the hole (cue the Carry on gifs) behind the striker. We could do that if Jack plays wide left. 

Wilmar Barrios (26) at Zenit

Mikel Merino  (24) at Real Sociedad

Both would be attainable wage structures and should cost around £25m... they are both units as well!

4 minutes ago, Wainy316 said:

I just can't wait to have a bit of pace in the team.  We might be able to do some of those counter attack thingys that everybody else does.

Witchcraft! They're a myth anyway. 

6 minutes ago, hong0311 said:

Out of the following forwards, where would you rank Ollie?
 

• Raúl Jiménez
• Ismaïla Sarr
• Ayoze Pérez
• Moise Kean
• Ollie Watkins
• Alex Iwobi
• Sebastian Haller

• Joelinton

Think that's accurate.

2 minutes ago, sne said:

Of course they will, but they are also miles better players than Watkins so value for money still applies. 

A comparable deal would be the €30m or so Lille paid for Jonathan David. 

Yeah that sounds about right, I would put the Belgian league and the championship in a similar bracket and they had similar records. 

16 minutes ago, sne said:

A few big IF's in that post.

£33m is about €10m less than Chelsea paid for Werner and almost €15m more than what Dortmund paid for Haaland in January. We could never get those players but on a striclty value for money view it shows what's out there when you are not forced to pay the Championship/PL premium.

It's a eye watering sum for any Championship player.

Both of those players you mentioned were purchased at their buy out clause fee. 

Also Werner's buyout was c.50m Euros so not sure how you worked out the 10m part... You've conveniently used the £33m figure to fit you're argument. If it was £22m instead of £28m I don't think people would be shitting the bed over the fee. 

It's only £33m if he does well in which case he'd be worth a **** tonne more than £33m. 

Strikers are expensive.

55 minutes ago, bielesibub said:

You saying that we should sign someone like Paul the Octopus?

Get this man on the scouting team ASAP. 

1 minute ago, RicRic said:

Well if watkins scores 15 in the league next season for us then ill agree with you  

No, if he scores 15 in the league next season he will be better than Abraham in my view because he will have done it for us instead of Chelsea.

1 minute ago, RicRic said:

Definitely not me mate.. ive rated Benrahma since day one..he would be a great signing very similar to Mahrez

Did you understand what he just said? Re-read it... 

1 minute ago, Rolta said:

Show me. And by board member do you mean someone on a message board by any chance?

Yeah I was going to call him out on that as well... absolute drivel honestly...

2 minutes ago, Bob Funkhouse said:

Guardian has us and baggies in talks to take Conor Gallagher on loan here.

 

Looked very good at Charlton on loan last year. Would be a solid squad signing but it won't be unless there is an option to buy attached. 

3 minutes ago, RicRic said:

28 MILLLLLLLLION JESUS CHRIST VILLA!!! what is going on .. im having a hard time processing this... i know many of our fans are bloody in love with never played in the premier league ‘Watkins’ but come on surely some of you must agree this is beyond ridiculous. And its rising to £33 million I think i need to lay down. Brentford are crooks and villa are fools ... drops the mic  

???????

Just now, MrSmirch said:

I hope he’s excited to get 1 chance a game and get caned if he misses it

We created plenty of guilt-edged chances last season per game. 

Unfortunately our strike force had no eyes, arms or indeed legs. 

2 minutes ago, Wainy316 said:

Only way Grealish plays is if Southgate only has 7 available players

Fixed this to make it more believable for you mate. 

3 minutes ago, AntrimBlack said:

Shows how much he knows.

Been hugely underwhelmed by the Percy reporting so far this window, not just AVFC. Been an odd window though to give him the benefit of the doubt...

Btw, who else is looking forward to Rayk logging on this evening to spout shit about how this is the worst piece of business ever and have a good old moan? 

1 minute ago, JPAngel said:

So, if you believe what you read in the press, we could be on the cusp of signing three players for a combined total of £65m.

You wait all day for a bus, then three come at once.

I think the Josh King rumor is dead in the water mate if we are signing Watkins. They are like for like.

1 minute ago, Johnnyp said:

My humblest of apologies to those i said that we wouldn't get close to 30 million on a player. According to Twitter folk ( well nixon ) Villa want two strikers. King very much still on by all accounts. Ollie wide left and king as a 9. Or vice versa. Great option to have. Great practically about the signing also as regards injuries. Cash can cover anywhere on the right if needs be. The most sellable for me is Samatta. Someone in Europe would take him and he really isn't that good so id cut our loses there. Davis - probably gets loaned out. Wesley back in October-ish

Wesley isn't even back in light training mate. 

He's 2021 so forget this year. He might make the bench in December. It was a bad one. 

Jesus **** Christ some people on this forum would complain if they won the lottery. 

2 minutes ago, hippo said:

If its him (above)  - Im cool with it - but not the geezer from Liverpool - he's dog shit on steroids

1 minute ago, paul514 said:

Buying players from inferior leagues with wage demands we can meet and saying it doesn’t get easier than that......

That is a fact and always has been.

Again, as Awol said, you don't know that... same as the rest of us. You are mistaking your opinion as fact