Dale Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 12 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said: Loan’s going well.. Lampard is taking them down. And seemingly has no interest in playing a guy that scores goals at an impressive level in this league 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted March 17, 2022 Moderator Share Posted March 17, 2022 On 07/03/2022 at 23:24, turvontour said: I think his loan would have been better suited to a championship team. Give it a couple of weeks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dale Posted March 17, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 17, 2022 On 08/03/2022 at 11:22, Peter Griffin said: I don't agree it is going well for Villa, yes they are paying his wages but the benefit to Villa would be if he was playing games and increasing his value and making Everton wanting to sign him in the summer. With him just sitting on the bench his value is decreasing and it will be more difficult to get a transfer fee for him. Frankly I think he'd have got more minutes here. He'd have Norwich further up the table if he were there and same could be said for a few teams. He'd start for Burnley, Norwich, Brighton, Brentford, Watford, appear regularly for Southampton. He's a much better player than Villa Talk give him credit for. Our inability to sell anyone baffles me. Easily £15-20M last summer. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osmark86 Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 2 hours ago, Dale said: Lampard is taking them down. And seemingly has no interest in playing a guy that scores goals at an impressive level in this league Bizarre loan tbh. Would've easily slotted in for other lower table teams yet gets nothing at a team who couldn't buy a goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 Did anyone ever think he was going to play? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 1 minute ago, rodders0223 said: Did anyone ever think he was going to play? I mean given the form of the pish around him he should be. I don't think it was a good move for him to go there when there was a managerial sacking afoot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Dale said: I mean given the form of the pish around him he should be. I don't think it was a good move for him to go there when there was a managerial sacking afoot. Agree with the managerial bit but isn't he competing for a start vs gray who's been their best player this season and Gordon who from the little I've seen looks like their only player who gives a shit I like AEG but at the same time I think his goal stats have led him to be slightly overrated, I'd obviously like villa to get as much money as possible for him but at the same time I'd love it if this not getting a chance at Everton resulted in a reunion with deano and him smashing thr championship next season, especially a few goals vs bruces West brom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 1 hour ago, rodders0223 said: Did anyone ever think he was going to play? TFSW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 1 hour ago, villa4europe said: Agree with the managerial bit but isn't he competing for a start vs gray who's been their best player this season and Gordon who from the little I've seen looks like their only player who gives a shit I like AEG but at the same time I think his goal stats have led him to be slightly overrated, I'd obviously like villa to get as much money as possible for him but at the same time I'd love it if this not getting a chance at Everton resulted in a reunion with deano and him smashing thr championship next season, especially a few goals vs bruces West brom I mean Gray had a good start to the season but has badly tailed off. I don't think he's a world class player or anything, but the bloke was in and around the Dutch squad in the summer on merit, he's better than any amount of dross that has gone for £20M in recent years. I think he'd be underselling himself to end up in the Championship. He could go off an play European Football with one of the Dutch clubs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post VillaChris Posted March 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted March 18, 2022 Anwar is where we need to get better at cashing in on squad players when they peak. Last season he was a regular, hit double figures in prem and would surely have commanded fee of 10m +. Instead we kept him and he's barely played since September and just scored a couple of penalties. Now can't get minutes in 17th best team in the league so we'd struggle to get more than 4-5m in summer given he's got just 12 months left. It's not a huge problem when you're selling player for 100m but we don't want to be doing that every summer so we need to learn how to create decent surplus from fringe players who won't kick us on in the future especially if we're not in europe. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam-AVFC Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 24 minutes ago, VillaChris said: Anwar is where we need to get better at cashing in on squad players when they peak. Last season he was a regular, hit double figures in prem and would surely have commanded fee of 10m +. Instead we kept him and he's barely played since September and just scored a couple of penalties. Now can't get minutes in 17th best team in the league so we'd struggle to get more than 4-5m in summer given he's got just 12 months left. It's not a huge problem when you're selling player for 100m but we don't want to be doing that every summer so we need to learn how to create decent surplus from fringe players who won't kick us on in the future especially if we're not in europe. The problem may well be that he peaked as clubs were going through unprecedented financial difficulties due to the pandemic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 5 hours ago, rodders0223 said: Did anyone ever think he was going to play? Nope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 1 hour ago, VillaChris said: Anwar is where we need to get better at cashing in on squad players when they peak. Last season he was a regular, hit double figures in prem and would surely have commanded fee of 10m +. Instead we kept him and he's barely played since September and just scored a couple of penalties. Now can't get minutes in 17th best team in the league so we'd struggle to get more than 4-5m in summer given he's got just 12 months left. It's not a huge problem when you're selling player for 100m but we don't want to be doing that every summer so we need to learn how to create decent surplus from fringe players who won't kick us on in the future especially if we're not in europe. He cost us £8mil it isn't an amount of money that really matters to us, he's done 3 seasons now come summer and whatever we sell him for will be a booked profit. We'll probably get 5 or 6mil I'd say. He's not on high wages so can go to many different leagues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 8 minutes ago, CVByrne said: He cost us £8mil it isn't an amount of money that really matters to us, he's done 3 seasons now come summer and whatever we sell him for will be a booked profit. We'll probably get 5 or 6mil I'd say. He's not on high wages so can go to many different leagues. Yeah, but the point is we could have got well over double that if we'd sold him last summer, and would have missed out on absolutely nothing in football terms. Of course it's not going to break the bank or anything, but as a club we constantly make massive losses, and our owners may not be happy to keep pouring *as much* cash into this bottomless pit forever, so we need to get better at selling players at their most valuable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 (edited) He takes a cracking penalty, so I wouldn't be too shocked if he comes on after around 115 minutes on Sunday. Edited March 18, 2022 by John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 It's hard to tell, we'll never know what the market or demand is for him Easy to say we should have sold him last summer for more money or from the other thread that we should have got a better deal for Targett than the loan but in reality who knows if we kept Anwar because we were short sighted or because no one wanted him and we tried to shift him and Everton on loan where he doesn't play is the only offer or slightest bit of interest we we had We sell him for £8m this summer, "could have sold him last summer for £15m" but to who? Never seen him linked to anyone if I'm honest Its not really a stick to beat the club with for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughable Chimp Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 19 minutes ago, villa4europe said: It's hard to tell, we'll never know what the market or demand is for him Easy to say we should have sold him last summer for more money or from the other thread that we should have got a better deal for Targett than the loan but in reality who knows if we kept Anwar because we were short sighted or because no one wanted him and we tried to shift him and Everton on loan where he doesn't play is the only offer or slightest bit of interest we we had We sell him for £8m this summer, "could have sold him last summer for £15m" but to who? Never seen him linked to anyone if I'm honest Its not really a stick to beat the club with for me He was linked to Roma if I recall. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 6 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: Yeah, but the point is we could have got well over double that if we'd sold him last summer, and would have missed out on absolutely nothing in football terms. Of course it's not going to break the bank or anything, but as a club we constantly make massive losses, and our owners may not be happy to keep pouring *as much* cash into this bottomless pit forever, so we need to get better at selling players at their most valuable. It did for us in the Lerner era in the end, we hardly sold anyone for over 5m from 2006-10 and then went to other extreme of players sold for 10m + being our best ones so yeah trying to avoid that scenario and cash in on squad players like West Ham (30m for Haller wasn't it) and Spurs regularly do. At least the owners won't be losing any interest in short term given the commitment to rebuilding North Stand in near future. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 (edited) Poor Anwar. I think he'd be happier starting every week for a team like Forest, actually. A big Championship side. Either that or a move to Italy or back to Netherlands. Edited March 18, 2022 by maqroll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillanousOne Posted March 18, 2022 Share Posted March 18, 2022 41 minutes ago, maqroll said: Poor Anwar. I think he'd be happier starting every week for a team like Forest, actually. A big Championship side. Either that or a move to Italy or back to Netherlands. or the French league where he was signed from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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