I’ve seen the rumour about us trying to put a cash plus player deal together with Real Madrid for Grealish. Anybody hear anything about which Madrid player? Thinking it might give clues as to the position we’re looking to fill and the amount we are prepared to pay for it….
Get the feeling Buendia was in both scenarios, so you may be double counting ? Guessing …. Konsa cover, 2nd Gk, 1 significant CM and replacing any further exits.
So we spent £100m to replace Jack, but we’ll still have the budget for the plans we had if he stayed.
Dean always said a could of quality players, so that’s what….. £60m-£80m?
Apologies if I’m late with this one, but occurs to me that Deano has some history of having best players sold on and having to re-galvanise the team with new blood. Seems his time at Brentford was perfect schooling for moving Villa quickly forward, as a team, post-Grealish?
Expecting Villa tweet:
Villa announce signing of Mikel Damsgaard on 5 year contract. Welcome Mikkel.
In other news, former Academy player has found himself another club.
Under MoN we finished 6th, 3 years in a row, whilst simultaneously paying the 6th highest wages in the league. If we’re looking up the table we have to pick up the salaries of the players that will get us there.
They’re cheaper because they aren’t as good, if they were, you’d have them on premier league contracts ??
EFL calculation would apparently allow us £11m more in losses. That’s a sizeable disadvantage.
Latest is that given his heightened profile Jack wants closer to Sancho’s £250k per week, will sign once the number is right. #avfc #justmadethisup #slownewsday
If he switches to taking penalties, his supply improves (Emi, full season Jack, +ANO) and he improves his chance conversion rate (hits fewer posts, holds his run by 6 inches etc) he’ll be hoping / expecting 25+ ??
100% agree with your first sentence, but it’s new contract time for AEG (2 years left), he’s going to want more money and more playing time. Not convinced he’s going to be offered more playing time, and if he’s not playing more why would you offer him more money??
What’s different to usual is that we aren’t paying him an offensive weekly salary that means he can maybe find what he’s looking for elsewhere?