VILLAMARV Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Would be crazy not to ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 At 10m? Would be crazy not to buy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 28, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted May 28, 2019 Sign him up. Only negative would be that we should have done it 2 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted May 28, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted May 28, 2019 This is surreal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Hahahaha! I once played football manager against him (a few of us did on this forum). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 He won't be £10m 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 (edited) **** it, we're loaded. £16m get it done. We're losing a lot of old, professional heads round the dressing room. Having one of our new signings come in and showing the other newbies this place is a dream will bode very well. Feels like this is going to happen all of a sudden. Christ, the excitement. Edited May 28, 2019 by Tomaszk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Zatman Posted May 28, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted May 28, 2019 1 hour ago, villa4europe said: He won't be £10m *Checks who is Forest manager* 4 million plus Lansbury and Adomah might do the trick 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 1 hour ago, Tomaszk said: **** it, we're loaded. £16m get it done. We're losing a lot of old, professional heads round the dressing room. Having one of our new signings come in and showing the other newbies this place is a dream will bode very well. Feels like this is going to happen all of a sudden. Christ, the excitement. I'm mot excited about signing him for £16m (which I think is a more realistic price for him) Hope we have scouted better than that Again, el ghazi for a £2m fee + £5m buyout clause shows just how poor the value would be if we went for Lolley or Bowen at north of £15m I like Lolley and he's a good player but for me he's one of many players who I hope we're not looking at because we will be ripped off, need too many positions filled to spend that much on someone who in 2/3 years time if we progress in the PL (big if) won't be needed any more (sorry joe) I don't see the value of him 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Not more than £10m for tbh . Would love him but let's be sensible. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 10 hours ago, rodders0223 said: Not more than £10m for tbh . Would love him but let's be sensible. Got to agree with that, just because we've rejoined The Greed League there's no reason to chuck it all away immediately. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 Pretty much echo the above, it's a 'yes' from me conditional on price, I think there's better options out there for us, Bowen being one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuck Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 If we go up to 15 million, then we'd better be getting all the spare heads AND the groinal attachment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 It's a yes from me, we've never had VillaTalk representation in the squad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 Didn’t he struggle massively in the premier league before? I’d love him at Villa but feels like could be a waste of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 30, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted May 30, 2019 7 minutes ago, Genie said: Didn’t he struggle massively in the premier league before? Not really. He was coming back from quite a big injury, and when he came back he contributed, he scored a goal or two while he was in the team and then was sold in the January to Forest. He also seems to have improved massively again since being at Forest. The fee could be an issue, but I think he'd be a great addition for us. He'd have been playing every week this season if we'd had him in retrospect. I think he's been more impressive than El Ghazi from what I've seen and heard from Forest fans, and nobody seems to be against El Ghazi playing next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 12 in 51 in the Championship in by far his best season. Previous annual club hauls were 3, 0, 2, 1, 4, 3 & 1. If we want to compete in the premier league I am not sure this is the sort of player we should be blowing £10m+ and wages on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 30, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted May 30, 2019 38 minutes ago, Genie said: 12 in 51 in the Championship in by far his best season. Previous annual club hauls were 3, 0, 2, 1, 4, 3 & 1. If we want to compete in the premier league I am not sure this is the sort of player we should be blowing £10m+ and wages on. Those are a little misleading. Your "annual haul" of 1, for example, was from 6 games. The following 3 was from 19 games and the other 1 was from 19 games in a season where he was injured a lot. Plus he's a winger. Also don't forget he's a late bloomer. A year before playing in the Championship he was playing in like the 8th tier or something so it's natural it would take him a while to adjust. I'm not saying he'd be pulling up trees in the premier league, but I think he'd be a very good addition to the squad and at £10m he'd be relatively cheap. That's nothing these days. I think we had a similar discussion last summer about your doubts he'd cut it in the Championship. He ended up being Forest's player of the season and would have walked into our team. Like I said, El Ghazi seems to be a player everyone would be happy to sign. Joe Lolley has been better than El Ghazi this season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 If Villa are serious about competing in the premier league and then pushing on to the top third then players doing ok in the middle of the 2nd tier* aren’t really what we need. Just because he’s as good as a player already at the club isn’t really justification to spend over £10m on him, it’s actually the opposite. We need to buy proven players now. Not just our mates or our fans. If it wasn’t for the fact he posted on here nobody would give it a second thought. £10m players will want £30/£40k a week minimum in the premier league for 3 or 4 years. Could cost the club well over £18m. A year after we almost went broke and sailed far to close for comfort on FFP people suggesting this would be sensible business *this was also a one off season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 (edited) He only signed a new contract 3 months ago too I think. As much i'd like him here with the fee Forest could command it probably isn't value for money at all. I'd still love him here but the more I think about it the more I think the fee would be too much as he doesn't have a release clause either. Edited May 30, 2019 by dudevillaisnice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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