useless Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Tyler Roberts linked. Not true... Yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 1 hour ago, villa4europe said: said this before i dont believe the release clause to be true simply on the basis that he seems too good a prospect for someone not to have triggered it by now you dont need to wait until the window opens to buy a player, you need to wait until the window opens before you can transfer their registration, we could buy olise this afternoon - see ziyech for chelsea, they bought mid Feb last year why are people waiting rather than trying to get in there first? that doesn't make sense...unless there isn't a clause... No idea but we will find out this summer for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 46 minutes ago, Philosopher said: I don't want back up to targett I want stiff competition from a pacy player. Wijndal of Az or Sosa of Stuttgart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Some very good U21 players in the Portugal vs. England game last night. Might be worth having a look before Wolves sign all of them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 9 minutes ago, jacketspuds said: Some very good U21 players in the Portugal vs. England game last night. Might be worth having a look before Wolves sign all of them. Most of em belong to Benfica, Sporting or Porto already and the rest to teams like Juve, Man U and Barcelona so won't be cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 On 27/03/2021 at 21:20, useless said: I'm only basing this off highlights but Kwadwo Baah of Rochdale looks an interesting player, a move to Man City fell through in January, not sure if they're going to go back for him, but I'm sure there will be a lot of interest. He looked quite raw, but showed some impressive moments today for England U18s, looks like someone who could develop into a really exciting player, strong, powerful and pacey, can see why Man City were linked with him. Would consider signing him and sending him on loan to the championship for a season, maybe to Reading as part of a deal for Olise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 5 minutes ago, sne said: Most of em belong to Benfica, Sporting or Porto already and the rest to teams like Juve, Man U and Barcelona so won't be cheap. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 1 minute ago, nick76 said: Yup, and if not then somewhere out there is our next André Moreira, Tiago Ilori or even Fernando Nelson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Smith has said today that we're mostly going to be looking towards British players because of "brexit". So if anything we're more likely to be targeting the England U21 players than the Portugal U21 equivalent. I expect that we will be making moves for the likes of Callum James Hudson-Odoi, Abraham, Dan James, Tuanzebe, Maitland-Niles, Lookman, or similar players of that ilk, maybe a few from the championship as well, depending on who does and doesn't come up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 8 minutes ago, useless said: Smith has said today that we're mostly going to be looking towards British players because of "brexit". So if anything we're more likely to be targeting the England U21 players than the Portugal U21 equivalent. I expect that we will be making moves for the likes of Callum James Hudson-Odoi, Abraham, Dan James, Tuanzebe, Maitland-Niles, Lookman, or similar players of that ilk, maybe a few from the championship as well, depending on who does and doesn't come up. Musiala £40m Would make olise an even bigger potential signing if true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thabucks Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 In Michael Olise, Noni Madueke from PSV and Marcus Edwards ... That’s three great young prospects who would be easily attainable and make a difference to the squad. I do wonder if long term Cash may be pushed forward on occasion and then today’s spurious links to Max Aaron’s would make more sense if so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazrim Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 One thing we do need is players that enable us to switch formations and tactics. No more rinse and repeat team sheets. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awol Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 6 hours ago, Mjvilla said: Does this not mean his contract at Frankfurt expires this summer meaning his loan? He returns to Madrid to his normal contract? Cheers, that would make sense. Never considered before that a loan would be a separate contract, but suppose it must be. Shame, think he’d be a great partner for Ollie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 4 hours ago, useless said: Smith has said today that we're mostly going to be looking towards British players because of "brexit". So if anything we're more likely to be targeting the England U21 players than the Portugal U21 equivalent. I expect that we will be making moves for the likes of Callum James Hudson-Odoi, Abraham, Dan James, Tuanzebe, Maitland-Niles, Lookman, or similar players of that ilk, maybe a few from the championship as well, depending on who does and doesn't come up. I think that is a serious mistake, the only difference it makes is it is like signing a none eu player before be left. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 i'm sure DS, JL, RM, and CP know what they're doing, if they say that 'Brexit' will make things harder then it probably means that that's the case. Mings, Grealish and Watkins have all been capped whilst playing for us, and a few others probably aren't far away from getting a cap either, so we should be an attractive proposition to England's best young players. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 Or it's just smoke and mirrors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 26 minutes ago, useless said: i'm sure DS, JL, RM, and CP know what they're doing, if they say that 'Brexit' will make things harder then it probably means that that's the case. Mings, Grealish and Watkins have all been capped whilst playing for us, and a few others probably aren't far away from getting a cap either, so we should be an attractive proposition to England's best young players. Of course it makes it harder, it doesn’t make enough of a difference to primarily target British players because of it. We have signed none EU players before 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 It's not me that's saying it, I've got now choice in the matter, it's DS... "We wanted a British feel about us but that’s not to say we will turn our noses up at good deals abroad, argued Smith. We expect player recruitment to be harder because of Brexit, so young, British talent is what we’re looking for. I believe that can improve us and we believe we can improve those players as well.We can improve them, their value. The fact that they can see a clear pathway for them now with England will help too.” Was kind of what I was expecting anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 I'm not sure I'm bothered where a player comes from as long as they are the quality we need and if the owners are willing to pay the premium for local players then so be it. There are positives and negatives both ways but I will judge each player that they bring in. It's not like a few years ago when there was only a few British on Britain based players that we would be interested in, there is some real quality around these shores. Does it limit us? of course. To counter that maybe more likely those players we bring in will be able to settle quicker and probably know some of the squad like Tammy and I'm sure our players know a lot of the International U21's from the British teams. I'm not concerned, as I say, I will judge each player individually and not get wrapped up that they are all British or British based players. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazrim Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 There's no way we're going after British only dogmatically. A core, sure. But we'll go where value is and brexit or not, that's rarely the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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