PieFacE Posted January 31, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted January 31, 2020 3 minutes ago, Rob182 said: Bloody Suso has been dealing with the Spurs transfers too?! The useless sack of shite. What you mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan501 Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 1 minute ago, terrytini said: I can’t decide to be happy or not with our transfers based on whether we get enough points to stay up. Many reasons, too many really. But to take just one. I’m sick and tired of following a Club that lives one Season to the next. Sick and tired of stop gap players, last pay day players, random players. Sick and tired of starting again, then again, then again. So One - one - of the reasons I’d be happy is because I see sense in the signings. A plan, of sorts. Imperfect, but it’s there. Another is that we would definitely have gone down without our transfer business. So it’s put us in the game. For a newly promoted team I can’t ask for more than that. Another is I won’t criticise something about which I have no knowledge of fault on anyone’s behalf. So there’s a few reasons Great post the building again and again if failiure to stay up due to striker shortage this group leave in summer if we fail to stay up. Heaton,guilbert,targett,mings,mcginn,grealish,luiz,marv,samatta,trez, All will leave imo total rebuild required. So ladies and gentlemen would it not have been better to splash the cash to the tune of 75mil ish knowing grealish will be gone regardless what league were in mcginn and mings dependent on staying in prem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 3 minutes ago, MarkLillis said: Its not great.....winning the league would be great. But we have improved due to the players signed in the summer window it is clear to see and whilst the jury is out on the new January signings I agree the attitude of someone who cant see the improvement that the new players have made to our squad is stranger? Whose that then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Just now, DCJonah said: What do you think happens if we go down and lose Mings, McGinn, Grealish etc.. You know what, forget it. You said you were genuinely curious, I gave you an answer. You’ve put words in my mouth twice. Let’s leave it there, you can be angry or dissatisfied or disappointed or whatever with the Club, and I can be happy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 1 minute ago, terrytini said: Goodness me Honestly, don't bother. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 3 minutes ago, zab6359 said: As I said I have never said we are failing, I simply asked the question of other posters who they think are potentially those players and no one has yet come up with any real answers but seem to think we are generally doing OK all things considered. Unless we are successful with this new 'model' we will remain a very much bottom third team simple as that we will not be able to push on. How well do you think we did with this model in our relegation season? Baring in mind, of course, that those players have subsequently been sold (by other teams) for large fees or moved to big clubs. Because we're doing better than that team did in that season, and our players are arguably looking better than those players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 I would still take Sturridge. Even if you expect him to play half the games at most, if he contributed goals in half of those games it would help us out and be worth the what, £5m if it helped us get those few extra points to stay up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 2 minutes ago, DCJonah said: You said incredibly happy no matter what happens. I don't think its hyperbole to associate 'incredibly happy' with 'great' I said incredibly happy with our transfer business. And not “ because it’s my Club”. Jesus Christ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 1 minute ago, sharkyvilla said: I would still take Sturridge. Even if you expect him to play half the games at most, if he contributed goals in half of those games it would help us out and be worth the what, £5m if it helped us get those few extra points to stay up. I would too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philosopher Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 January transfers are tough. Unless you can get proven quality or you have fully scouted a player and they have been a long term target it's just not worth it. If you look at our signings, Reina and Drinkwater are proven quality in the premier league. And Sammata has been on the radar for some time. This is the right way to do business. I would love it if we snatched Bowen up at the last minute but otherwise there isn't any other business I'd particularly want us to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonz Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Refreshing this page every 30 secs is pure self flagellation. Seeing Sturridge's name crop up again has, however, forced me back to my spreadsheets 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teale's 'tache Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 Just now, fonz said: Refreshing this page every 30 secs is pure self flagellation. Seeing Sturridge's name crop up again has, however, forced me back to my spreadsheets Back to your cell!... ... I'll get my coat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rob182 Posted January 31, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 31, 2020 5 minutes ago, PieFacE said: What you mean? I'm being sarcastic. A lot of people have moaned about Suso as being the broken cog in the Villa machine, and I'm just finding it funny that a club in Spurs' position are no better off than us in the 'deadline day search for a striker'. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted January 31, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted January 31, 2020 1 minute ago, Rob182 said: I'm being sarcastic. A lot of people have moaned about Suso as being the broken cog in the Villa machine, and I'm just finding it funny that a club in Spurs' position are no better off than us in the 'deadline day search for a striker'. Gotcha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted January 31, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted January 31, 2020 At this point either a striker or winger would make me happy. If we're in a situation where El Ghazi has to play upfront again, we could really do with more wide options as it's clear Jota isn't going to cut it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan501 Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 (edited) We should of rolled the dice earlier took a risk. Regardless of what may happen if we went down huge cash from jack mcginn and mings to help rebuild im not saying we should of spent 100m this window but having sellable assets we should of had a go and got what we needed and we havent therfore if we dropout of league villa have no one to blame but the management heirachy.If we had zero assets i could understand but only hope jack will stay is in prem which without strengthening squad we wont do. Edited January 31, 2020 by villan501 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bobzy Posted January 31, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 31, 2020 I'm going to suggest something pretty crazy here - I might have lost the plot. I think the club knew that we needed another striker to take the heat off Wesley. Kodjia wasn't working (for whatever reason, performance, fitness, falling out with the manager, who knows...) so we needed to bring in another body. Samatta was identified as that striker, before January, and so we possibly started negotiating with the club, his agent, whatever about a transfer. I don't know Genk's position, but they have sold Samatta and Berge at around the same time. Maybe they were waiting to align transfers or something - again, who knows. On 1st January, Wesley then suffers an unfortunate and season-ending injury in a game. All of a sudden, we've gone from having 2 strikers with decent pedigree in the Belgian league, to being reliant on one again. So, in the worst transfer window possible, we find ourselves needing to find another striker, who won't cost much (due to potential FFP sanctions should the worst happen and we go down) but who is experienced enough to help us out in our survival quest. No club wants to get rid of their better players this window, so you find possible, short-term players for loan or low fees who might work. GIroud? Ooooh, could do. Got to wait for Chelsea to sort themselves out though. Oh, they didn't. He's going nowhere. ****. Anyone else? etc. It's a horrible month to deal with and we got dealt a ridiculous blow right at the start of it. I believe - despite what John Percy says - that the club will still be trying to bring someone in. But it has to be the right kind of player, for the right fee, from the right club and that is never going to be an easy task. So we're here, waiting to see what happens on deadline day and hoping we can land someone half-decent. Just a crazy theory, though. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meregreen Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 (edited) Nick Bowen from the porn kings at the last minute. Make my day Villa. Edited January 31, 2020 by meregreen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philosopher Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 3 minutes ago, Rob182 said: I'm being sarcastic. A lot of people have moaned about Suso as being the broken cog in the Villa machine, and I'm just finding it funny that a club in Spurs' position are no better off than us in the 'deadline day search for a striker'. Chelsea also in the same boat. However Sheffield United have got a massive talent in Zivkovic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 10 minutes ago, DCJonah said: Makes you wonder why the club even bothered trying then. I know you're being difficult, but I'll answer anyway. It's always worth trying. But just look at Spurs. Giroud was probably not in their top 5 options for a striker, and yet they've failed to bring him in on deadline day and are looking for 'someone' like us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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