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19 hours ago, El Zen said:

Ollie’s biggest weakness, his complete lack of experience at RB, is what has kept him out. Needs to have a look at himself and work harder at being a RB. 

He's played there for us before, someone should've told Sir Southgate that.

5 hours ago, BOF said:

In one season I think he has become one of my favourite Villa players ever. Absolutely love the way he plays for us. Love his heart on his sleeve approach. The effort is insane, it's like playing with 12 men. The positional sense is inherent, but all of that is combined importantly with a goalscoring ability and a selfless creative influence - those 2 together I've not seen from one of our strikers in a long long time. It's also important, for me anyway, to like the person too. If you add in the fact he's a nice guy with that off the field friendship with Woody the young 'superfan' from Brentford, and how humble he comes across in interviews, there's just so much to like about Watkins.

His goalscoring and creative returns, but most of all his performances have far surpassed my expectations this season and I can't wait to see what he can do going into his second season with a bit more confidence and no fear of what the Premier League has to offer. We have a diamond of a player here and if anything I still think he's massively under-rated by non-Villa fans who only see him scoring or assisting. The longer that continues, the better.

Are you convinced he will be you with and not Spurs next season? The blokes a legend and you've gone through the exact emotions Brentford did. They all said they overpaid him for us, we knew his quality and work ethic combined with the potential and we knew they (and you) had a bargain and they were skeptical just like you lot were when you signed him.. and now look. A villa legend in the making and an England International. The boys done us proud. Can't wait to have a Thatchers with him on his return to Newton Abbot, no doubt the soft lad will want a small bottle of bud as per.

Sir Oliver Watkins. Amusing looking back at this thread and seeing some of the comments early on.

Never. In. Doubt.

On 07/02/2021 at 15:57, Exeter Fan said:

He never looked the part until we loaned him out to WSM. He came back a different man. It was evident he was destined for the PL and eventually England once he started playing as he did the 18 months before he left us for Brentford 

Sir Oliver Watkins.

5 hours ago, ferguson1 said:

Joking apart, could you always see Watkins as a top player/possible international or has it been a bit of a surprise for you guys?  Be interested to hear your views on this.

He never looked the part until we loaned him out to WSM. He came back a different man. It was evident he was destined for the PL and eventually England once he started playing as he did the 18 months before he left us for Brentford 

1 hour ago, villalad21 said:

You must be proud of your boy

Gutted I'm not in Exeter (I left England when lockdown was announced) for a kick around with him as he's back a few days over the International break. I hear the boys were gunna say he can only use his left foot but the way he's playing now it's not even a disadvantage!

On 10/11/2020 at 05:14, Demitri_C said:

Reading bamfords in line to get a england call up. If that vermin is in contention wont be long ubtil ollie comes knocking

Not suggesting stats are everything, but Opta, who are pretty adept at this kind of analysis, give Premier League players a Performance Score after every game. Thus far this season, Watkins is averaging 93 and Bamford 69.

Football Index is another half-decent measure of relative value. On there Watkins is priced at 1.39, Bamford at 0.95, and Wilson at 0.74.

20 hours ago, R.Bear said:

Yep and he also got two against Arsenal tonight.

Hes an arsenal fan!

16 hours ago, sidcow said:

And I love it!

But it may be pocket change and greed, but it's more about the survival of our club in these difficult times. Getting greedy over the little crumbs

3 hours ago, Brentfordnylons said:

Couldn’t be happier for him great example for young players to get their heads down a train hard.His attitude is brilliant he don’t get involved in any verbal nonesense and his disciplinary record is exceptional and very important as you don’t want to lose a top striker through suspension.On a selfish level the 6 mill add ons must be looking very achievable.
                      
Villa stay up,     Tick 

appearances.  Tick  

goals scored.  Tick 

England cap.   Tick 

I wonder if we're entitled to 20% of those add ons?

2 hours ago, jonjon said:

Firstly,  Well done Villa a great result.

I did repeatedly tell you how good Ollie was, and worth every penny you spent, left food, right foot and a header, stamina, hold up play, running, etc, he showed you all that yesterday, and he didn’t let my talking about him down, and If he continues in this way, Hopefully the next faze might even be an England cap, as he is only going to get better, hope so as we will get our reported £5 million add on.

Note: Don’t get too carried away, as I think as good as you played, that must rank as one of Liverpools worst defensive display ever.

Hey, we told you how good he was before you signed him from us, and you were just as skeptical, if not more so, than Villa were! I'm just proud of our Ollie, genuinely feels like yesterday we were all having a kick around on JLC, now look at the lad.

Always proves the doubters wrong, our Ollie

On 02/09/2020 at 18:35, Sulberto21 said:

FWIW I'd like us to sign Watkins. But £28m is too high a price. However, £28m for Watkins or £20m for Wilson. Watkins everyday of the week. 

Too high for a hatrick hero against the current champions?

But na it is interesting seeing all the posts at the beginning of the thread. Some even saying 20m was too much!

Watkins for England?

I see Super Ollie Watkins is impressing already

Double post

31 minutes ago, pete101 said:

Congrats , with so many of the lower league clubs struggling through this covid , it's nice to see a club put into a stable position through a deal like this , spend it wisely

We spend all windfalls in the same way:

1/3 - Ground developments and infrastructure improvements

1/3 - Towards the academy

1/3 - Split over 3 years towards the playing budget

31 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

how much do Exeter end up getting then? (was it 4-5m or something?)

Disputes over if it was 15 or 20%

But based on 20%...