Phil Silvers Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 8 minutes ago, Jas10 said: I'm too old to understand some of these comments, is this good or bad, my 1st thought was it has something to do with testicles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post paul514 Posted September 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 7, 2020 14 minutes ago, villalad21 said: This all feels like another Lambert era to me. Having to work on a strict wage budget. Having to find gems in the lower leagues. Smith has got some job on his hands. Judging by what Smith will be given this window i won't be too hard on him this season. 17th would be a great achievement as of right now Yea I remember when lambert was given 144m to spend one year. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steero113 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Looking at the SSN transfer feed, looking just at the deals done bit there seems to be a lot more going on as of the last couple of days amongst PL teams. Hopefully we can join this trend and get in on the action with 2 or 3 quality signings in the next fortnight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 (edited) 12th would be sensational and overachieving. Edited September 7, 2020 by villalad21 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weedman Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 1 minute ago, paul514 said: Yea I remember when lambert was given 144m to spend one year. And signed a RB for £16m 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 1 minute ago, paul514 said: Yea I remember when lambert was given 144m to spend one year. Not our fault he spent it all on a few hookers and a couple of good nights in Vegas so he was left with enough to buy Helenius and KEA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 4 minutes ago, CarryOnVilla said: sky reporting Callum Wilson to Newcastle is a done deal. 20m and indeed it’s a 4 year deal. thank God see,everyone has a different opinion, some were saying 100% get him in, some no chance. I see him as a 10/12M 2 year deal 50k pw gamble and one I wouldnt take, typical brucie gives him the max, madness. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 We really really really need a winger and striker. We were absolutely toothless last season and survived the drop some how. I still can't quite understand how we survived. But it's essential we get in players now to adress that. We just can't feck around anymore. Get a bloody move on. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 3 minutes ago, paul514 said: Yea I remember when lambert was given 144m to spend one year. He had high profile players such as Agbonlahor and Bent when he took over. I think that balances things some. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukes Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 14 minutes ago, villalad21 said: This all feels like another Lambert era to me. Having to work on a strict wage budget. Having to find gems in the lower leagues. Smith has got some job on his hands. Judging by what Smith will be given this window i won't be too hard on him this season. 17th would be a great achievement as of right now You have literally no clue what the constraints are. We haven't been linked as far as i can tell to any lower league gems. I don't even know how you manage to get out of bed each morning you're so pessimistic. The evidence suggests different to how you prttray. If we had no money, would we really sign a £13M right back ? It's not our most important position to be filled. Why if we have no money is it reported that we're the only club that offered Bremen what they want for Rashica ? Why was it widely reported we offered more money to Bournemouth for WIlson than Newcastle did ? Those players have their own reasons for not wanting to move to Villa, but ambition, and transfer fees are not the reasons. In what way have the current owners ever not backed their managers that gives you reason to believe they wouldn't now ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Steero113 Posted September 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 7, 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said: I still can't quite understand how we survived. We ended the season with more points that the bottom three teams. Edited September 7, 2020 by Steero113 3 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyp Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 12 minutes ago, villalad21 said: This all feels like another Lambert era to me. Having to work on a strict wage budget. Having to find gems in the lower leagues. Smith has got some job on his hands. Judging by what Smith will be given this window i won't be too hard on him this season. 17th would be a great achievement as of right now I understand you are probably a bit pissy about the lack of activity right now but i don't think it's a villa transfer strategy anymore than i think collectively, with most of the teams in the PL - it's a slow window given what's going on around the world. It's much more difficult to get your targets over the line when you are a bottom 6 club. Chelsea are slap, bang, done. We are miles away from doing deals for top players like that. Most in the media still think we will spend 100 million. We are probably just in an intense negotiation period with clubs and players where we are trying to find common ground. It's not exciting and it's slow. I don't think Villa are paying top wages either ( which im fine with, health of the club's finances is important ) so we probably need targets to move on what they are looking for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 This FFP and wages is becoming a bit of an excuse. I know FFP exists and there are rules we need to follow, but there's no way we can't afford to bring in players to improve us. If we've spent all this time targeting players who will demand wages out of our league then that's horrendous scouting and planning on our part Either way, each day that passes we are looking worse. It currently isn't good enough. Lots of time to change it but right now its awful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mikeyp102 Posted September 7, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 7, 2020 31 minutes ago, Johnnyp said: No problem 22 posts. Thanks. What’s the issue with 22 posts, people have to start someone. This isn’t Twitter. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 7 minutes ago, DCJonah said: This FFP and wages is becoming a bit of an excuse. I know FFP exists and there are rules we need to follow, but there's no way we can't afford to bring in players to improve us. If we've spent all this time targeting players who will demand wages out of our league then that's horrendous scouting and planning on our part Either way, each day that passes we are looking worse. It currently isn't good enough. Lots of time to change it but right now its awful. Terrible scouting. We are mainly looking at very obvious targets with interest elsewhere as well. Last season Luiz was a very good find. A player i had never heard about before. We need players of that ilk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Three of our potential targets, seem to be waiting expectantly to hear some transfer news too: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillanousOne Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Isn't FFP why we failed to make any significant signings in January other than Samatta? The cold hard truth is the UK transfer market is a joke, either we pay horrendous fees and comedy wages or we shop abroad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarryOnVilla Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 1 minute ago, John said: Three of our potential targets, seem to be waiting expectantly to hear some transfer news too: If we can get these to add to Marty Cash I’d be be happy with the window. Extra happy if we get Rashica too 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 17 minutes ago, Phil Silvers said: see,everyone has a different opinion, some were saying 100% get him in, some no chance. I see him as a 10/12M 2 year deal 50k pw gamble and one I wouldnt take, typical brucie gives him the max, madness. It isnt Bruce as much as I would love to stick the boot in. That is the going rate for established players in the PL. Wilson before this shitshow of a season bagged double figures goals and double figures assist pretty much. People think we are going to offer 50k a week. 2 year deals and get any sort of quality have been away too long. That's get you Samgoal and Trez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 4 minutes ago, John said: Bad idea to sign someone who's about to go on maternity leave. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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