alreadyexists Posted June 22, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted June 22, 2019 1 hour ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Might help us to feild a team though It’s a good point sir 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 31 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said: I hope we're done with that for a long time now Bruce is gone. Don't want another turkey like Hogan for the sake of a body If this was 12 months ago with Xia, Wyness, Round & Bruce then 100% I would not feel comfortable right now with the dross that is about to unfold in front our our very eyes. He's gonna spank £59m on aging shite signings with lengthy contracts and other names from the little black book, £1m to HMRC after Keith called them and setup a re-payment plan with a minimum payment arrangement, - the other £100m is being used to build Tony's theme Park. God, if only we had lost that final and it was Fulham that came up instead. It's going to be a long season and no suprise to see us back in the Championship come 19/20 season... What could have been... and yet here we are on June 22nd 2019, already signed 5 players for approx £50m so far and we're getting restless we ain't signing them quick enough.. - all under the calming guidance of Edens, Sawiris, Purslow and Smith. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 A few transfers have been agreed and announced, but most of the big leagues in Europe haven't even officially opened their transfer windows yet, pretty sure the German, Italian, French, and Spanish ones don't open until July 1st for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OutByEaster? Posted June 22, 2019 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted June 22, 2019 The great thing about arriving in this division with half a squad is that we're almost a blank page - we'll sign more players than anyone this summer, because we'll have to. We've got money and we've got good people to spend it - it's going to be an amazing next four or five weeks I reckon. 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 22, 2019 Author Share Posted June 22, 2019 Our window closes on August 9th. Most other leagues close their window on the 2nd of September Serie A on August 18th We have less time left to get stuff done than clubs in other countries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DakotaVilla Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 People just need to chill. All players are either still on their holidays or playing in the U21, African or South American tournaments. Championship teams only report back for initial tests on Monday. A lot of work to be done but I’m sure we have been progressing what we can. Things will only start motoring for championship targets from next week onwards. will have to wait longer if other targets are playing in the wider tournaments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 1 hour ago, thabucks said: Hysterical bunch at times aren’t we ... chillax ! https://www.premierleague.com/news/1213395 Look at the list of signings so far and as you will see we have been the busiest so far .. it’s only June 22nd for Christ sake some of the hyperbole on here is hilarious but also worrying. Players are either on holiday or still playing plenty of time. If we have still only signed 4 players in 3 weeks or so time I’ll be fretting a tad. To be fair nobody is saying we are going down. They are saying IF we do not sign a certain number of player we will go down. I don’t see any panic, hysteria or hyperbole on this forum just yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 22, 2019 Author Share Posted June 22, 2019 Long term situation with us compared to other clubs in the PL Quote Which PL clubs have planned most and least for the long-term… As we approach July 1, when contracts expire or tick over into another year, we’ve looked at which Premier League clubs have got their long-term planning in place. Below are listed all the players with more than two years remaining on their deals. Watford have most players on long-term deals, while Premier League revenues will surely see Sheffield United begin to think beyond the next season or two… Watford – 202022: Will Hughes, Dodi Lukebakio, Andre Gray, Etienne Capoue, Tom Cleverley, Nathaniel Chalobah, Domingos Quina, Kwasi Sibo.2023: Abdoulaye Doucoure, Gerard Deulofeu, Adam Masina, Craig Cathcart, Isaac Success, Ken Sema, Adalberto Penaranda, Marc Navarro, Ben Wilmot, Filip Stuparevic, Pontus Dahlberg.2025: Joao Pedro. Manchester City – 192022: John Stones, Nicolas Otamendi, Philippe Sandler, Danilo, Patrick Roberts, Douglas Luiz, Mix Diskerud, Erik Palmer-Brown.2023: Kevin De Bruyne, Raheem Sterling, Benjamin Mendy, Riyad Mahrez, Gabriel Jesus.2024: Oleksandr Zinchenko, Kyle Walker, Phil Foden, Aymeric Laporte2025: Ederson, Bernardo Silva Brighton – 192022: Jurgen Locadia, Pascal Gross, Mathew Ryan, Bernardo, Martín Montoya, Anthony Knockaert, Solly March, Tudor Baluta, Percy Tau, Dan Burn, Jan Mlakar, Billy Arce.2023: Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Yves Bissouma, Shane Duffy, Lewis Dunk, Florin Andone, Alexis Mac Allister, Matt Clarke. Chelsea – 182022: Cesar Azpilicueta, Tiemoué Bakayoko, Danny Drinkwater, Antonio Rudiger, Emerson, Andreas Christensen, Lewis Baker, Matt Miazga, Charly Musonda, Tammy Abraham,2023: N’Golo Kante, Ethan Ampadu, Ross Barkley, Kurt Zouma, Jorginho, Marcos Alonso.2024: Christian Pulisic2025: Kepa Leicester – 182022: Jamie Vardy, Kelechi Iheanacho, Marc Albrighton, Rachid Ghezzal, Danny Ward, Daniel Amartey, Hamza Choudhury, Fousseni Diabate, Matty James.2023: Harry Maguire, James Maddison, Ricardo Pereira, Caglar Söyüncü, Kasper Schmeichel, Filip Benkovic.2024: Wilfred Ndidi, Ben Chilwell, Harvey Barnes Man Utd – 162021 with option for further year: Sergio Romero, Juan Mata, Marcos Rojo, Paul Pogba, Jesse Lingard, Victor Lindelof.2022: Romelu Lukaku*, Alexis Sanchez, Chris Smalling*2023: Phil Jones*, Luke Shaw*, Diogo Dalot, Fred*, Scott McTominay*, Daniel James2024: Anthony Martial** option for extra year Liverpool – 162022: Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ben Woodburn2023: Jordan Henderson, Xherdan Shaqiri, Marko Grujic, Roberto Firmino, Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane, Fabinho, Harry Wilson, Naby Keita2024: Alisson, Andrew Robertson, Joe Gomez, Trent Alexander-Arnold. Everton – 162022: Gylfi Sigurdsson, Michael Keane, Idrissa Gueye, Bernard, Cenk Tosun, Seamus Coleman, Henry Onyekuru, Mason Holgate, Jonas Lossl, Beni Baningime.2023: Richarlison, Lucas Digne, Yerry Mina, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Tom Davies2024: Jordan Pickford Jordan Pickford Arsenal – 152022: Alexandre Lacazette, Matteo Guendouzi, Sead Kolasinac, Alex Iwobi, Reiss Nelson, Emiliano Martínez, Mohamed Elneny, Calum Chambers2023: Bernd Leno, Granit Xhaka, Hector Bellerín, Rob Holding, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Lucas Torreira, Konstantinos Mavropanos Southampton – 152022: Jannik Vestergaard, James Ward-Prowse, Mario Lemina, Jan Bednarek, Wesley Hoedt, Fraser Forster, Stuart Armstrong, Jack Stephens, Matt Targett, Alex McCarthy, Michael Obafemi.2023: Mohamed Elyounoussi, Moussa Djenepo, Angus Gunn, Yan Valery. Tottenham – 132022: Hugo Lloris, Kieran Trippier, Erik Lamela, Serge Aurier, Paulo Gazzaniga, Juan Foyth.2023: Lucas Moura, Heung-min Son, Harry Winks, Kyle Walker-Peters.2024: Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Davinson Sanchez. Norwich – 132022: Timm Klose, Ben Godfrey, Emiliano Buendía, Tim Krul, Marco Stiepermann, Ben Marshall, Moritz Leitner, Philip Heise, Louis Thompson2023: Onel Hernandez, Grant Hanley, Jamal Lewis, Max Aarons West Ham – 122022: Felipe Anderson, Andrey Yarmolenko (option for extra year), Angelo Ogbonna, Pedro Obiang, Jordan Hugill, Ryan Fredericks2023: Marko Arnautovic, Issa Diop, Winston Reid2024: Declan Rice (club hold option for extra year), Pablo Fornals2025: Grady Diangana Wolves – 122022: Diogo Jota, Rui Patrício, Morgan Gibbs-White, Léo Bonatini, Rafa Mir.2023: Ruben Neves, Raúl Jiménez, Jonny Otto, Matt Doherty, Adama Traore, Conor Coady, Rúben Vinagre Bournemouth – 92022: Callum Wilson, Nathan Aké, David Brooks, Lewis Cook, Dominic Solanke, Diego Rico, Tyrone Mings2023: Jefferson Lerma, Chris Mepham Unspecified ‘long-term’ contracts: Mark Travers (signed 2018), Lloyd Kelly (signed 2019) Aston Villa – 82022: John McGinn2023: Jack Grealish, Lovre Kalinic, Frédéric Guilbert, Jed Steer, Anwar El-Ghazi2024: Wesley Unspecified: Kortney Hause Newcastle – 72022: Yoshinori Muto, Florian Lejeune, Martin Dubravka, Sean Longstaff, Paul Dummett.2024: Miguel Almiron, Jamaal Lascelles Burnley – 62021 with option for further year: Matej Vydra, Ben Mee2022: Ben Gibson, James Tarkowski2023: Nick Pope, Dwight McNeil (both with option for further year) Crystal Palace – 62022: Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Cheikhou Kouyaté, Alexander Sorloth, Jairo Riedewald2023: Wilfried Zaha, Jordan Ayew Sheffield United – 32022: John Egan, Enda Stevens2023: Jack O’Connell https://www.football365.com/news/which-pl-clubs-have-planned-most-and-least-for-the-long-term Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 Someone on twitter has posted a picture of themselves with Dean Smith on a flight to Portugal, so looks like our manager is only just now going away for a break. Although I guess signings could still happen without his presence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonjon Posted June 22, 2019 Visiting Supporter Share Posted June 22, 2019 22 minutes ago, Londonastonvilla said: There are probably a number of factors why we haven’t signed as many players as fans want. Any selling club is going to demand the highest price for any player we are interested on right now.They know we have a number of positions to fill and they know we have premier league money and wealthy owners.Very little transfer business is being done now as most people are on holiday. If we want transfers to go through now we are going to be paying over the odds.I think we should be patient ,the fees suggested for the Brentford players seem inflated .We should see is anybody else interested .?If not, 20 million seems too high. Buying any player is an important decision and reckless spending in the past has weakened usMcormac ,Lansbury Tsisbola ,Hogan etc These fees and so called £20 million sums are pure myth and fantasy made up by click bait sites, poor lazy journalism, fans forums and the like, all clubs work on the "undisclosed amount" scenario, and the true price is only revealed when the clubs yearly accounts are published in 12-18 months time, Brentford have never quoted a price for players in any press releases, it is all guesswork by journalist, the only words the club has ever said regarding players have been "It will take a large amount of money to prize this player away", what is a large amount of money?, a majority of clubs take the same stance, and does it really matter, we don't have to foot the bill personally. So your guess is as good as mine, and that's all it is, us fans are just an impatient bunch who go through this every transfer window, just be patient, it will all come out in the wash, it's the same thing year in year out, at least is more exciting than visiting the mother-in-law 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 22, 2019 Author Share Posted June 22, 2019 (edited) 27 minutes ago, useless said: Someone on twitter has posted a picture of themselves with Dean Smith on a flight to Portugal, so looks like our manager is only just now going away for a break. Although I guess signings could still happen without his presence. Welcome to Aston Villa Joao Felix and Alex Grimaldo? Edited June 22, 2019 by sne 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 That did cross my mind as well, but wasn't sure if Smith would flying out to Portugal as part of the negotiations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982am Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 38 minutes ago, Londonastonvilla said: There are probably a number of factors why we haven’t signed as many players as fans want. Any selling club is going to demand the highest price for any player we are interested on right now.They know we have a number of positions to fill and they know we have premier league money and wealthy owners.Very little transfer business is being done now as most people are on holiday. If we want transfers to go through now we are going to be paying over the odds.I think we should be patient ,the fees suggested for the Brentford players seem inflated .We should see is anybody else interested .?If not, 20 million seems too high. Buying any player is an important decision and reckless spending in the past has weakened usMcormac ,Lansbury Tsisbola ,Hogan etc Very sensible post... I think people need to probably understand that we are currently playing poker in the transfer market. Everyone in football know we need bodies in and therefore will try and milk us whilst they can, unless we play the market well which I have confidence we will. As also mentioned it's still very early in the summer and most business won't start for another couple of weeks proper. I also think the leftfield signings will all come first, which will then strengthen our position when bargaining with teams over stupid fees being demanded for the players we most want. Personally I'm glad we are appearing more calculated and less visible with our business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 39 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: The great thing about arriving in this division with half a squad is that we're almost a blank page - we'll sign more players than anyone this summer, because we'll have to. We've got money and we've got good people to spend it - it's going to be an amazing next four or five weeks I reckon. The good people to spend it is the most important point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 People keep suggesting that because this and that player, manager or CEO is on holiday deals can’t get done. This is 2019, it’s almost impossible to not be contactable. Only SHA are still using carrier pigeon. If they can find someone who can write the message of course. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubbs Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 17 minutes ago, useless said: That did cross my mind as well, but wasn't sure if Smith would flying out to Portugal as part of the negotiations. Why not? Bruce was speeding down the motorway trying to convince that lad from Bristol to join us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post John Posted June 22, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 22, 2019 6 hours ago, jacketspuds said: Although he made an error in the U21 game, how about Dean Henderson? Would be cheaper than Butland and looks a decent footballer as well. Still, would be more than happy with Butland. Also still hope we are looking at Olivier Ntcham at Celtic. Let's hope that the signing start to happen over the next couple of days though. He would be cheaper than Butland for a reason, he's nowhere near as good as he is, in my opinion. He looked shaky against us at Villa Park last season when we scored those late three goals, as well as last night. It's a no from me, if Manchester United would sell him in any case. Time we settled the goalkeeper issue once and for all by paying the money it will take to sign a dependable keeper like Butland. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted June 22, 2019 Moderator Share Posted June 22, 2019 8 minutes ago, useless said: Someone on twitter has posted a picture of themselves with Dean Smith on a flight to Portugal, so looks like our manager is only just now going away for a break. Although I guess signings could still happen without his presence. He has already taken a fairly lengthy break to the US (no issue with that in my view although some always seem to have a problem with it) so if he really is heading abroad I don’t very much it’s a holiday. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 Get chester a new titanium knee & throw in the u23s ...we will be fine. Signing players for £20m is for namby pambys ....get the players running 9 mile hikes with a rucksack full of bricks on...sort the men from the boys ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderball Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, sne said: Aston Villa – 82022: John McGinn2023: Jack Grealish, Lovre Kalinic, Frédéric Guilbert, Jed Steer, Anwar El-Ghazi2024: Wesley Unspecified: Kortney Hause Statistics are skewing this - we should be top of the list with 95% of our squad (listed above) under contract for 2 years or more. No other PL team is as high as our %. Edited June 22, 2019 by thunderball 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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