useless Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 No matter where you go, Jota as a footballer is the coolest, most happening thing around! I will recommend you to my colleagues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 (edited) £4m for him and we got rid of gardner, good bit of business that. Edited June 1, 2019 by villa89 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted June 1, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted June 1, 2019 4 hours ago, StanBalaban said: Purslow and Smith both highlighted John McGinn as the kind of signing we want to make - that is character, attitude and talent. One would assume that Dean knows all about Jota from their time together, so this makes sense to me. We have a lot of places to fill in the squad, and Smith said he would be taking some time off before work begins again in earnest, so I imagine this has been lined-up for a while, irrespective of which division we ended up in, and may not be fully indicative of our main Premier League recruitment strategy. Any Brentford supporter will tell you, his character is not in question. He was loved by the staff at Brentford because he was such a positive player. When he went to Eibar, rather than try and engineer a move, he went to the club, was up front and honest about the situation and signed a contract extension with Brentford to protect their investment. His actions at that time were about as far from “mercenary footballer” as it’s possible to be. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 22 minutes ago, sidcow said: Who was the last player we signed directly from the noses. Alan Curbishley 1983 .....remember it well 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 As i said earlier, not one person (maybe @sir_gary_cahill aside) would have been upset to simply pay up Gardners contract, so we are effectively getting Jota for £1/2m. It could be a very shrewd bit of business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
privateer Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 16 hours ago, VlVA_LA_REVOLUTlON said: A player with bonito Carbone hair and a bit of flair and skill for Gary Gardner....Gary Gardner!!!! We are talking about 'the' Gary Gardner younger of the cabbage heads. It can't be true can it...it's like a transfer from Premier manager 98 ...if you don't know what that is then your obviously too young and spoilt with your football manager flashy graphics. 15 hours ago, sne said: Sounds like a fishy deal to me. However, as a number of posters have pointed out already in this thread, if anyone can get a tuna out of him it's Dean. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyp Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 One thing you can't say about purslow and the scouting department is that they leak to the media. We get our business done swiftly without others hearing about it and getting in first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Just now, av1 said: As i said earlier, not one person (maybe @sir_gary_cahill aside) would have been upset to simply pay up Gardners contract, so we are effectively getting Jota for £1/2m. It could be a very shrewd bit of business. Yes, only me, you are correct though, it is a great piece of business, what do you expect with our manager? Has he ever been involved in a poor deal? I don’t think he has at any club Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 (edited) 12 minutes ago, sir_gary_cahill said: Yes, only me, you are correct though, it is a great piece of business, what do you expect with our manager? Has he ever been involved in a poor deal? I don’t think he has at any club That Carroll fella we signed on loan was an odd one. Edited June 1, 2019 by jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 1 minute ago, jim said: That Carroll fella we signed on loan was an odd one. He’s a good footballer just injury prone, it was a risk but it didn’t come off, you are correct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 2 minutes ago, jim said: That Carroll fella we signed on loan was an odd one. Not really, the only issue was that he got injured again while at Villa, if he was fit he would likely have stood in for Grealish while he was injured. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted June 1, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted June 1, 2019 24 minutes ago, hippo said: Alan Curbishley 1983 .....remember it well No one since then, wow. Couple gone the other way though I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 50 minutes ago, sidcow said: Who was the last player we signed directly from the noses. 27 minutes ago, hippo said: Alan Curbishley 1983 .....remember it well 2 minutes ago, alreadyexists said: No one since then, wow. Couple gone the other way though I suppose. I thought it was Malcolm Beard in 71/72? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_Hope Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Welcome Jota.....I hope you light Villa Park up!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Just now, New_Hope said: Welcome Jota.....I hope you light Villa Park up!! havent seen any "official" announcements" of this yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_Hope Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 In the Birmingham Mail mate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 4 minutes ago, New_Hope said: In the Birmingham Mail mate Don't really class that as official, no pictures or interviews etc?? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 9 hours ago, sir_gary_cahill said: You disagree? Care to share why? Were you being serious? Jota is a decent player, I really wanted us to get him when he was at Brentford and thought the Noses had got themselves a brilliant deal when the picked him up. Has done well with them them in the Championship, especially considering they are **** shite, and I'm sure Smith will get him back to his best. Diogo Jota is one of the most exciting young players around; Took the Premier League step up in his stride, vital in them getting into Europa and I'm sure will have a host of champions league clubs monitoring him very closely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_Hope Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Well we'll see soon enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villabromsgrove Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Jota is a decent tricky player, but a bit lightweight. He is not however a £40,000 per week first team player for an ambitious Premier league team imo. A squad player maybe, but no better than that. I hope we will play a high pressing game next season and for that reason I would like to see us sign a quicker more physical right winger. However, if Smith thinks he's right for us (having worked briefly with him at Brentford) then Jota must have a lot more to his game than I've seen so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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