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2 minutes ago, Peter Griffin said:

We sign him on loan now for 18 months and he receives his 380k a week. In the contract we have an option inserted that we can trigger a permanent move to Villa in 18 months time at X £££ per week. In 18 months he will be a free agent as his Barca contract will have expired. This will stop Countinho leaving for another club on a freebie. If he is outstandingly successful with Villa, he will have a queue of clubs wanting to sign him and we wouldn't want a bidding war

Makes sense

1 minute ago, Peter Griffin said:

The key is that Villa gets the option to force Coutinho to sign permanently at the end of 18 months rather than let his agents do the rounds with a free agent that just scored 20 goals  and 25 assists in the previous season and a half

I'm genuinely a bit lost, will we negotiate a perm contract with him after 12 months? 

3 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

Seems like the club has completely flip flopped with their recruitment strategy.

Very bad sign.

This is the Everton trap and is the wrong way to go.

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19 minutes ago, AvonVillain said:

That's what was said about Sanson.

yeah and that definitely crossed my mind when typing, but I still think the overall idea makes sense, especially if its a 20/21 year old from a foreign league

2 hours ago, rodders0223 said:

He's going to have an absolute field day today.

He looked in absolute agony on the bench after being subbed vs. Norwich, not sure he will feature today...

6 minutes ago, hippo said:

Personally I'd stick with what we have for this season. You don't get much in the Jan window. 

The top 4 isn't gettable now - and unless we are talking major signings I can't see anyone propelling us to the top six.

Getting someone in and settled for next season may be of value, on the whole though agree with not signing anyone for the sake of it but a DM would definitely be on my list

1 hour ago, DCJonah said:

I think he's created a few chances and in spells has been superb. But I just don't think its enough. I don't think he's shit, I don't think he'll be a failure of a signing. I just don't think he's done enough so far and I'm sure he'd probably agree. 

The way he reacted when he got subbed I'd tend to agree with the final sentence 

1 hour ago, HalfTimePost said:

Cheikh Doucoure may still be in the cards though. Less convinced he's a better option than Nakamba now though. But if competition for places is what we're after - and with Marv out long term - a competitor may be exactly what we ordered a d a great buy

Marv's got about 6 years on him though tbf!

4 minutes ago, thabucks said:

Ruben Amorim has done amazing work so far at Sporting … 

£25m release clause, which may put us off..

AVB was at the Web summit in Lisbon last week and was at a resort 2 hours drive away with his family as of 2 days ago according to instagram, for what it's worth 

3 minutes ago, AvfcRigo82 said:

If we are going to be disposing of Smith then I would like to think we may have approached a club about their manager if we are avoiding the 'out of a job' crowd.

Yeah gotcha, I know you get some inside info from time to time so didn't know if that was the case here 

Did I read this correctly in terms of we are discussions with a club re their manager?

Edit: meant in response to @AvfcRigo82

10 hours ago, Peter Griffin said:

They have in their arse spent shit loads of money. We are like Man City in spending compared to Brighton

Can you expand on this point please, I'd really like to see a chart of man city vs villa vs. Brighton? 

Based on Ashley Preece's description of 442/4222 I imagine deano is replicating tuchels tactics, which can be extremely fluid in-game 

Tom Collomosse from the mail (reported ESR bids and Leon Bailey) reported; Pacy forward (Ings), plus holding Mid and versatile attacking mid.

All make sense...

There will still be value in Europe as clubs won't shy away from a single transfer that can repair their whole p/l after covid losses.

Only issue is the gamble around players hitting the ground running...

3 minutes ago, nick76 said:

I think he has made his mind up.  He's known for ages what the situation is, he knew City would come in for him and he knew we would offer him the world.  We have yet to establish firstly whether Villa would even entertain a bid and if so what value that would be but excusing that for the time being if it was solely down to Jack he would've decided by now what he was going to do.

Not everybody may know around him what that is because of agreeing a new deal with Villa or whatever but he will have made his decision by now.  If people around him know then I would think they would be executing it now from contract discussions and so forth and in the next 48 hours we'll know what that is because whoever wins will want to showcase it.

I think they are just finalising his extension to his Villa contract and we'll see some signing thing soon (in the next day or so).

I just cant see him being still unsure now.  It will have been a massive decision but the train is moving.

I think the conversation went, that Jack said he doesnt know and thus the owners said fair enough we will reject all offers and he's a new deal.  Game over for City.

Could be extremely similar to the Kalvin Phillips situation when we were in for him

Hi Everyone,

I've been on this site for probably about 2/3 years now, however never really felt the urge to post, but with possibly one of the biggest decisions in the clubs modern history about to be made it feels like a good time!

My first Villa game was at home to arsenal in 1995 when I was 5 years old, for which I still have the programme proudly placed on my coffee table. Its been a rocky road since then but hopefully with some good news this week we are back on an upward trajectory.

Thanks