Rolta Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 1 minute ago, rodders0223 said: I do not what happened. We failed to sign the quality required at this level. I just looked on wikipedia to confirm. We signed Sama and Borja. I didnt dream it. You did this the other day too. You might know the result, but you don't know anything about what happened behind the scenes, and you don't know anything about what's happening behind the scenes now either. You have no idea about any of this, nor do you seem to appreciate that there might be subtleties and not-so-subtleties to transfers that can make them difficult, but despite not knowing anything, you appear to be losing your head. Do you think this is a sensible way of starting your Monday? Do you remember we were the second highest spenders in the world last summer? Yet for the last 2/3 days almost every other post on here (yes your frequency of posting the same thing makes you seem to be panicking) has been you talking about how we never pay transfer fees and can't get players over the line. Your brain seems to be ignoring a lot of contrary evidence and embracing only the few things that fit your panic. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted September 7, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted September 7, 2020 25 minutes ago, rodders0223 said: Okay mate. You're right. I have anger issues. Off to beat the mrs now. Catch you later. She’s asked for it, They all do one way or another 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 38 minutes ago, Phil Silvers said: Same as VAR, same in business, everything is geared to support big business and destroy the competition, will be great fun in 50 years when there are only 20 teams left in Europe. Ps. What the absolute fvck am on I on about, jesus. Sounds like one of my rants!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 5 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: She’s asked for it, They all do one way or another I can get you a great deal on chocolates and flowers in bulk. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 I'm.glad we've got a responsible person in charge like Purslow. He can easily go all Wyness and Dr (we need to check this too) and put us up shit creek. It's a balancing act in regards to the transfers in. Hopefully one or two will make us a profit in the next season or two so we can start going for the top half of the table. Unless they get rid of FFP. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-Reacho Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Is it facetious to say that when clubs are run by people such as Tony Xia etc. is FFP not a good thing?? (Tosses hand-grenade and leaves...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 3 minutes ago, El-Reacho said: Is it facetious to say that when clubs are run by people such as Tony Xia etc. is FFP not a good thing?? (Tosses hand-grenade and leaves...) But fools like him ignore it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KentVillan Posted September 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 7, 2020 Everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that Purslow has kept Grealish at the club for another season. That’s our biggest signing. If he manages to add any first team quality at all, we’re looking very healthy. Virtually every current player is still improving, so as the squad gels you’d expect to see consistent improvement. Cash definitely looks like an upgrade on what we had. Watkins would also be an upgrade. It’s only really a winger now that looks essential. Be nice to have a new keeper, new CM, new LB, but none of this is essential. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MessiWillSignForVilla Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 19 minutes ago, El-Reacho said: Is it facetious to say that when clubs are run by people such as Tony Xia etc. is FFP not a good thing?? (Tosses hand-grenade and leaves...) We almost went bust and weren't violating FFP. FFP did **** all to stop how poorly run we were by Xia. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Just now, KentVillan said: Everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that Purslow has kept Grealish at the club for another season. That’s our biggest signing. If he manages to add any first team quality at all, we’re looking very healthy. Virtually every current player is still improving, so as the squad gels you’d expect to see consistent improvement. Cash definitely looks like an upgrade on what we had. Watkins would also be an upgrade. It’s only really a winger now that looks essential. Be nice to have a new keeper, new CM, new LB, but none of this is essential. Cracking post. The keeper situation is a bit disappointing though. Had Heaton not got injured we could have bought in someone young like Gollini to develop under Heaton and then take over when Heaton is 35/36. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 (edited) On 19/02/2020 at 10:27, pas5898 said: Villa Trust AGM, held last night. Purslow did a quick Q&A. There's a podcast with most of the conversation here: Those tweets are not a new revelation - 22mins in, listen, take note. We were aware of what we would be dealing with back in Feb. Edited September 7, 2020 by Tayls 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post It's Your Round Posted September 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 7, 2020 It's in the nature of us football fans to be impatient, and to want instant and sustained success. We're all emotionally attached to the club we love. The next phase of the club's development will require some patience though. The days of just being able to throw money at it are over, with FFP and the huge sums now in the game, it's more important to build in a sustainable way. We've got very rich owners who have proven that they're willing to invest, we've seen it from the day they came in with the cash injections that enabled Aston Villa FC to continue to exist. They've back Smith with transfer funds last season, and there's no reason to think that they won't do so again. They're ambitious, professional and successful people. They will know what it takes. What NSWE won't want is to be funding a club that's hemorrhaging money, they will want Villa to be sustainable and successful over a long period of time. Not just boom and bust as could happen if we smash our wage structure now for expensive short term signings. The work that's gone into the academy is promising, there's not guarantees but the recruitment of Mark Harrison and the subsequent young players that we've brought in, all suggest that we're planning for the medium and long term. We've recruited Johan Lange, some dismiss his role as we've not signed anyone yet, and the papers say we're only looking at players we've all heard of. But he's only been here a short amount of time, and all signs point to building up a proper scouting network that will unearth some talent. We might just have to wait for that. If you look at our current squad age, we have a lot of players in the 23-25 bracket. The likes of Grealish, McGinn, Wesley, Konsa, Douglas Luiz, Targett, Engles,Trezequet, El Ghazi, Cash and Guilbert are all in that group. A group that should hopefully reach their peak as a team in a few year's time. They were thrown together last year and still managed to stay up, imagine what more time together with decent coaching will do for team cohesion. Add into that some quality players to replace those that we move on, and it doesn't look like a bad plan. Next season will be a tough one, but gradual progress of moving up a few places to mid table safety will help convince the better players out there that we're less of a risk. The team will improve, and we can start to push on. I've fallen foul of trusting new owners in the past, but this time I really am confident that they know what they're doing. Purslow understands football and the team beneath him all seem to be on the same page. I want instant success, but I don't want the future of AVFC to be compromised for it. TLDR: chill out, it'll all come good in the end. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 if we knew the wage issues back in Feb, then surely we'd be targeting players that we can afford. Which doesn't explain why its so difficult for us at the moment If we have been going after players with wage demands we can't meet, then that's terrible scouting and planning from us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Does FFP being changed for the season not mean we can push the boat out a bit more? Yes we shouldn't be wasting money, but we're currently one of the favourites to go down. We likely will be going down without a new striker and new right winger. If it's £8m of extra spends to get three different deals done, would it be better to have the players now? Bearing in mind we have Sheff U and Fulham in the first few games I'd say yes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 6 minutes ago, DCJonah said: if we knew the wage issues back in Feb, then surely we'd be targeting players that we can afford. Which doesn't explain why its so difficult for us at the moment If we have been going after players with wage demands we can't meet, then that's terrible scouting and planning from us. Have we though? Apart from some reports about Wilson, where else has it been proven that we’re going after players we can’t afford to pay? It’s one thing choosing not to compete with a Newcastle that are offering a 4 -5 year deal, it’s another to say that we couldn’t afford to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 I read the full McGinn interview last Saturday. He expressed his frustration that we weren't the top Midlands team anymore. When you look at the league table we are a long way behind Wolves and Leicester currently although I'd like to think this season both will dip a little and we can get up to around 45 points so might only be 10 points or less off one of them (then finishing above one of then becames a realistic target for 21-22 season). My worry is likes of him and Grealish will be expecting us to sign players of calibre those two are bringing in and so if we don't this summer and in January it's more easier to leave. When you look at Wolves signing a champions league regular player from Lyon for hardly anything sure we can do that sort of deal even with FFP constraints? And Leicester getting in Castagne from Atalanta. Much harder deal for us to pull off but let's remember he's left a champions league club for a europa league one so clearly Leicester have the pull now to get good players in from top 6 clubs in other major leagues. It's a long road back to being number one club again in the Midlands area on the pitch but I think we'd all just like one proven player in this summer to state we're slowly on the right path. If you think back to the early days of MON-Lerner then I'd say getting in Carew early on was a statement that we were going in the right direction so we badly need that type of signing in next 6 months (given we got Carew in the January window). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted September 7, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted September 7, 2020 2 hours ago, Sulberto21 said: Cracking post. The keeper situation is a bit disappointing though. Had Heaton not got injured we could have bought in someone young like Gollini to develop under Heaton and then take over when Heaton is 35/36. Agreed. Signing a young high potential keeper like Gollini would have been great, shame Villa never do anything like this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 4 minutes ago, Rds1983 said: Agreed. Signing a young high potential keeper like Gollini would have been great, shame Villa never do anything like this. I derar we actually have a highly rated keeper in our youth team. I think he is from Finland? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Signing a keeper on season long loan makes more sense I think, could be where we eventually end up with Romero given his wages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkLillis Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 3 hours ago, M_Afro said: I love the way we all think we know better than a man who graduated from Cambridge and Harvard and has been the main man at Liverpool and Chelsea and is also in possession of all the facts required to make the decisions whilst we only know what fat Bob has posted on Twitter! You gotta love VT It’s why these threads are so entertaining. Fact is none of us no anything other than our own opinions. You cannot trust a newspaper report because the journalists have proven time and again that their news is......not actually news,it just their opinion about what they think is happening. All we can do is sit tight enjoy the speculation and wait for the Villa app on your phone to announce Tammy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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