Ollie Watkins

[Vive_La_Villa]

Maybe we can give them Jota back.

[Mazrim]

4 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

Maybe we can give them Jota back.

With more time and space and not playing for a shit team like Blose he can be a force in the Championship again.

[nick76]

26 minutes ago, Mazrim said:

25m? Wheres that come from? I thought he had an 18m release clause which is the most I thought he'd be worth?

No release clause apparently, that was an error by the reporter

[ferguson1]

[Mazrim]

26 minutes ago, nick76 said:

No release clause apparently, that was an error by the reporter

OK. Well, Brentford players cost 20m. I thought that was understood from last summer and interest rates have largely been frozen.

[alreadyexists]

37 minutes ago, Mazrim said:

OK. Well, Brentford players cost 20m. I thought that was understood from last summer and interest rates have largely been frozen.

Each and every player is £20m despite the club only being worth about £80m. 

[Skruff]

On 07/08/2020 at 18:48, Keyblade said:

It's incredible how many times he was through 1 on 1 on goal. How often does that happen nowadays? At Villa especially. I can remember Kodjia doing it a couple of times around the time we were signing it but we played nothing like Brentford. Was such a silly signing. Basically saw he scored a lot of goals and went "yup, we need this guy" with no thought as to how we'd get him to replicate that.

Probably explains why he's been such a bad signing for us. 

[hippo]

8 hours ago, villabromsgrove said:

If we're comparing Abraham and Watkins in the Championship then the following stats might be useful.

Abraham

26 goals from 94 shots

4 assists

pass completion rate 70%

 

Watkins

26 goals from 86 shots

4 assists

pass completion rate 75%

 

Having watched  both players regularly my honest opinion is that Watkin's all round game which includes a bigger engine and greater pace, makes him a slightly better option for what we need in this Villa "Team".

I'm not knocking Tammy, because he also would be a fantastic but much more expensive addition.

Tammy has proven he can do it in the PL though. That's what you pay for.

Watkins may well set the PL on fire - but it's a big risk at £25m imo.

[Rolta]

59 minutes ago, hippo said:

Tammy has proven he can do it in the PL though. That's what you pay for.

Watkins may well set the PL on fire - but it's a big risk at £25m imo.

And yet we'd have definitely been keen to sign Tammy for £25m last year when he wasn't yet proven in the Prem. In fact, we'd have probably paid a decent amount more!

And we spent about that much on a CB in Mings, who wasn't yet proven in the Prem.

 

Edited August 9, 2020 by Rolta

[Adam2003]

13 minutes ago, Rolta said:

And yet we'd have definitely been keen to sign Tammy for £25m last year when he wasn't yet proven in the Prem. In fact, we'd have probably paid a decent amount more!

 

Some would have been - but a lot on here were saying he wasn’t Prem quality. 

[Kuwabatake Sanjuro]

1 hour ago, hippo said:

Tammy has proven he can do it in the PL though. That's what you pay for.

Watkins may well set the PL on fire - but it's a big risk at £25m imo.

Tammy Abraham's could demand wages that would likely to be multiples of what Watkins could ask for. Could be £20m over 5 years in the difference.

Edited August 9, 2020 by Kuwabatake Sanjuro

[momo]

2 minutes ago, Rolta said:

And yet we'd have definitely been keen to sign Tammy for £25m last year when he wasn't yet proven in the Prem. In fact, we'd have probably paid a decent amount more!

And we spent about that much on a CB in Mings, who wasn't yet proven in the Prem.

 

Wolves had a bid accepted at £18m in january while he was on loan at Villa.

[TRO]

2 hours ago, alreadyexists said:

Each and every player is £20m despite the club only being worth about £80m. 

The 20 million pound shop.

Edited August 9, 2020 by TRO

[TRO]

4 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

Maybe we can give them Jota back.

& Hogan.

They aren't daft are they.

[Rolta]

39 minutes ago, momo said:

Wolves had a bid accepted at £18m in january while he was on loan at Villa.

I forgot about that! Respect to Tammy for staying—though I expect he felt he wanted a shot at getting in the Chelsea team.

[jonjon]

23 hours ago, nick76 said:

No release clause apparently, that was an error by the reporter

Just  like 95% of stories by "Reporters" 

[MaVilla]

Just now, jonjon said:

Just  like 95% of stories by "Reporters" 

hey mate, where do you guys think Benrahma and Watkins will end up? (if they leave ofc)

also, do you think Henry will move?

[Vive_La_Villa]

@jonjon my post didn’t mean to be patronising. I though Jota was a good player for you. He could still do a job.

[KMitch]

22 hours ago, alreadyexists said:

Each and every player is £20m despite the club only being worth about £80m. 

Should have just bought the entire club last year.  Their new stadium added at least 30 million to that 80 million pound sticker!

[jonjon]

21 hours ago, hippo said:

Tammy has proven he can do it in the PL though. That's what you pay for.

Watkins may well set the PL on fire - but it's a big risk at £25m imo.

It's no risk at all, at the money we want (unknown) he's a snip in these days of inflated prices, Having seen him play live in at least 70 matches for Brentford he is the real deal, an absolute super fit athlete who has only missed 7 games out of 184 for us and Exeter, an absolute work horse who runs for ever, and delivers at the same time, holds the ball up well, above all knows where the goal is, the switch to striker has been his making, he will be well missed by us all, he's been a pleasure to watch these last few years, whoever gets him will be more than well rewarded.