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2 minutes ago, Sam-AVFC said:
You can have pace and be dreadful tbf.
I just think Lyon fans are likely to hold their players to a higher standard than we do and if he signs we might as well see what he can do before losing it.
That and most people on here who claim to know lots about every player we're linked with are clearly full of shit.
This isn't some one trick player from a tin pot league. He has had solid production, for multiple seasons, from a top 5 league in Europe. The price is a bit high but when you look at our current wing options and then compare them to Bertrand its comical that people can be this negative.
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14 minutes ago, skarroki said:
Any particular reason this thread is so toxic?
Sign someone with bags of pace and everyone gets mad. Who hates pace?
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Just in case anyone had any questions as to why we are signing Bertrand....
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4 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:
Usain Bolt is quick, let’s sign him.
If Traore is that quick it would be even better. You get a like!
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Liking every comment that mentions how pacey he is. We were by far the slowest Prem team last season.
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1 hour ago, Tomaszk said:Scored a bucketful for Brentford from 5 yards. Let's hope he gets his fair share here.
It's absolutely a skill, otherwise everyone would do it.
Well in Ollie.
Absolutely this! People deriding tap ins early in this thread was really doing me in. When a football match starts there are 11 opponents defending the goal. To achieve an open net "tap in" a team has to evade, deceive or out right bully their way through all 11. As a defender myself in my younger football days conceding a tap in by an unmarked striker was the easiest way to demoralize our entire team. The defensive line is having a mini inquisition trying to figure out how 3 guys failed to mark 1 dude. The midfielders are all acting sheepish because they let the goal scorer ghost in without a word of warning and the striker is at the halfway line feeling completely helpless watching the whole thing go down.
We have the leagues second best chance creator. A tap in merchant is the exact piece he is missing. In the end they all count the same.
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1 minute ago, rodders0223 said:
Newcastle look proper. Paid the money to get experienced established players. Fair play.
Will need to check their accounts in 4 years time though before I can be sure these are good 3 pts.
Agree,
Newcastle's transfer business would be like you buying the cheapest battery for your car then the new owners wondering why they are broke down on the side of the road a year later.
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4 minutes ago, Keyblade said:
A left footed right winger, YES! I'm starting to think we're planning on playing Jack through the middle if we actually do get Rashica.
Slight chance it could be a Wilson/Watkins deal where we make multiple bids for one spot.
The complete lack of any midfielder links has me thinking you are right with this one.
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NBC putting half of their Prem games on peacock is okay. It pretty much cost the same as what I paid for NBC sports gold last year.
CBS putting the entire champions league on their dumb streaming service is the real kick in the nuts. What is the point of having a cbs sports channel on YouTubeTv (or any other cable service) if it doesn't show any champs league games.
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38 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:
Spending 16-20m on a keeper leads me to believe one of the following:
1. We’re minted and we’ll spend another 100-130m this summer because we definitely need another central midfielder and winger and the club knows that.
2. We’re minted but we’re spending some of the Grealish money we know is incoming.
So, whilst excited, I’m also nervous.
I got roasted in the transfer thread when I said #2. It's a hard thought to shake though.
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Liverpool definitely weren't ready for Leeds to be in their face like this. Multiple players on Pool are winded. Klop fuming Villa killed the 5 sub rule twice
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6 minutes ago, MotoMkali said:
Brogdon was a 2nd round pick. Ben Simmons was the number one pick that year and signed a 4 Yr deal worth 50 million although I think he is now on 180 million over 5 yrs.
Simmons signed a 4yr/$26 million rookie deal as the 1st pick in 2016. Sportrac.com is a great website for unraveling the salary cap status of each NBA team.
Simmons starts his max deal next year and if he doesn't get a jump shot soon the 76ers are absolutely screwed.
Bucks have the same problem with Giannis(can't shoot). Will be interesting to see whether Wes Edens and the Bucks decide to reload around Giannis or blow it up.
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Fulham look decent going forward and pressing from the front. That Odoi-Ream back line is truly awful though. First time they have to do anything defensively and
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2 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:
Don't get me wrong I have been loving every minute of this and last year's summer window. Feels like the early Lerner years when General what's his name was hanging around spreading good feelings about our top 4 challenge. Long may it continue (with Jack, hopefully)
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Guys, don't kill me for this but I feel our massive outlays this past season and this season are based on the fact we will have a equally massive outgoing transfer at some point. It's the only way to really balance the books when you consider FFP. I'm not saying Jack is definitely leaving this window but I think his departure is inevitable at some point and the club is just smartly spending to ensure when he does leave we don't tail spin back to the Championship.
I would love to be wrong and Purslow has a plan to evade FFP. I just can't shake this feeling. Besides City and Chelsea (who are actually playing catch-up from their transfer ban) no other team is spending at this rate. Outside of selling Jack I don't see how Villa balances the books.
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2 hours ago, AVTuco said:Small red flag regarding Wes.
Last spring, in Milwaukee, the Bucks had both their guards up for new contracts. Wes and his co-owner decided to only re-sign one of them. They did not re-sign Malcolm Brogdon, a very good young guard, which was a mistake. And this was at a time when they were hunting for the championship. Mistakes happen, but they seemingly did it to save money. There are other things involved of course, which no-one knows about, but we may be wrong if we assume that Wes and Nassir are here to just throw money away and win at whatever cost.
As others have mentioned the NBA has many salary rules based on maintaining a competitive balancing and revenue sharing between the players and owners.
When a new player enters the NBA you sign a structured deal that is based in your draft position. No negotiation allowed. This rule was put in place by the older players because they got tired of rookies getting insane contracts before they had even played in the league. Brogdon's original deal paid him roughly $3.5 million over 3 years. That deal expired last year.
In Free Agency the Indiana Pacers offered him a 4 year/ $82 million dollar deal. Notice the huge difference. In the NBA your second deal after your capped rookie deal is where you get PAID! Salaries jump from a couple million a year to $30 million plus a year for the best players. I would consider Brogdon to be a tier 2 player. Very good but not star level.
Here is where it gets a little complicated. The NBA has a couple of "soft" caps to prevent the big teams from dominating the league every year. They still do for the most part
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Every team has a salary cap that they may exceed to retain their own talent. This is known as the "Larry Bird rule." The salary cap for the 19-20 season was $109 million. Another cap exist, the luxury tax, which is a dollar for dollar penalty tax. For the NBA in 19-20 the luxury tax cap was at $132 million. Most NBA teams maintain their total team salaries between the salary cap and the luxury tax line. Only the worst teams have salaries below the cap line.
Now back to the luxury tax. This tax has a multiplier so every season you exceed it consecutively the multiplier worsens. Only the richest owners in the richest cities ever maintain a team salary above the luxury tax for multiple seasons (Golden State warriors, LA Lakers, Brooklyn Nets).
Currently the Bucks sit $2 million below the tax line. Keeping Brogdon would have put them an eye watering $18 million over the tax. Here is some verbiage front the very long and confusing luxury tax law in the NBA:
For teams between $15,000,000 and $19,999,999 over the cap, the tax rate is $3.25 for every dollar over the cap.
Then, the next year the repeater would kick in, x2 then it jumps up to like x4 the year after that. You can see how this can quickly get out of hand. Also, the last kick in the teeth is that the money collected from the tax gets redistributed to every team who keeps their salary below the tax line. So you are also strengthening your rivals as well.
I attached a couple images that show the Bucks salary structure and how Brogdon's new deal would have blown it away. The Bucks play in a small market, think Brighton. Milwaukee is a decent sized US city but tiny in comparison to the larger ones located on either coast. Wes has them punching well above their weight. Actually, their best player who is about to win the league MVP is up for a new deal soon and all the media talk is about how he will have to leave the Bucks if he wants to win the league.
So, Wes and the Bucks had no hope of retaining Brogdon. If anything Wes has taken the Bucks salary to the very limits allowed in the NBA. Next season the Bucks will have the 4th highest salary in the league. This concludes my Ted Talk. Thanks for reading.
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4 minutes ago, Lord Willard said:
Apart from last season he has only once got past 10 goals in a season and that was 15 goals in conference 2. Why will be scoring over 10 goals now in the hardest league in the world?
Based on this logic you would have completely missed on Vardy who scored 4 and 16 in his 2 championship seasons.
Last year people were on here discounting Tammy's 25 goals like the championship is some Sunday league. Now we are willing to pay £45 million for him. Turns out if you can hit a quarter century in the championship you can probably do a job in the Prem.
This is a roll of the dice but clubs of our stature can't attract proven quality, yet. Ollie ticks all the boxes, athletic, pace, attitude... We get this one right and in the near future we may be able to sell the Villa dream to talent of a higher level. Right now I think Ollie is about the best we can do. So if he signs we need to get behind him and hope for the best.
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1 hour ago, deeps said:
I really hope Watkins isn’t the only striker on our list. Good player mind.
2 strikers signed this window and what do you do with Wesley? We spent ~£25 million on him. Besides ManC, who else can flush that much after a half season.
My guess as far as the front 3 go is we bring in Watkins as the striker. Then we also bring in a winger to challenge El Ghazi and Trez.
Too many holes in the squad to spend £50 million plus on one position.
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27 minutes ago, VillaChris said:
Interesting article.
Just to recap over last few years Leicester have signed Jonny Evans, Kelechi Iheanacho, Soyuncu, Youri Tielemans, Ricardo Pereira and James Maddison.
From those six names Maddison sticks out as the young prospect from the championship, all the others were experienced international players and signed from premier league or other decent leagues.
I honestly think that's where we're going wrong. If we sign six players this summer probably 4 will be from championship or other lower tier leagues and at best we'll get one experienced head in.
Don't want to go over what Wolves have signed again but again vast majority of their signings are experienced international players and then they add an Adama type to complete the set as more of a long term development and he's obviously come on a fair amount in last 12 months.
I don't see us finishing above Wolves or Leicester anytime soon until we really improve the quality of first 11 so McGinn will remain frustrated for a while longer.
You're looking at Leicester during the wrong time period. You need to look at them during the 2 year's before they won the Prem. That's where we are. Actually they were better off than us. They at least came up from the championship with an actual squad.
In those windows before the league title, look at who they bought, not a single proven international amongst them. Getting those early signings right is what earned them the cache to attract proven internationals from other big clubs in Europe. Gotta walk before you can run.
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I'm just happy to see he's 6'1 and no string bean. I swear every Prem team last year was physically bigger than us.
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Same thing Brentford pulled with Maupay.
3 minutes ago, desensitized43 said:This is what deadlines are for...
Agree. Move on and come back around close to deadline day and see if a deal a more preferable deal can be struck.
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1 minute ago, AndyM3000 said:
Because 99% of reports are made up by random journos trying to keep themselves employed. Until they actually activate it don't worry.
They can't keep Rodri, Fernandinho, Gundogan and Luiz happy when most games there's only one spot available for them players, I imagine next season when Fernandinho retires they likely bring him back if he continues on current form.
Agree fully. Logically it makes zero sense. You would only hurt the players development at this point. This quiet period while the players went on vacation is driving us and media crazy lol.
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Truly the silly season. A report last week said Douglas was staying. Now we have one to the contrary. Best to tune it all out and hope for the best.
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Late to the crapping on The Athletic party but that article was pure trash. Not a single quote, just pure speculative BS.
Now I really want Villa to hand Jack a 6 figure per week contract. The laughs we will get when the media's head all
in unison.
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The RJW63 Official Jack Grealish Appreciation Thread
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He said he didn't know what club he was going to start the season with. So it's clear the management team had to sell Jack on committing his future to Villa.