maqroll Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 Is the Smith-Rowe link legit? Imagine the meltdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 3 minutes ago, maqroll said: Is the Smith-Rowe link legit? Imagine the meltdown. Doubt it. Probably his agent trying to hurry them up to get new contract sorted. He wouldn't be a starter in our team tbh and rather like the look of some of our youth players coming through Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 32 minutes ago, VillaChris said: Has he kicked on, was only on the bench for France under 21s the other night. Still the highest rated player of his age bracket in the world, he has a year left on his deal and the typical clubs for a player like him lack money at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Norwich fans seem to think Villa should still be fellow strugglers. Also, so many people have no understanding of our owners, scouting, youth system, etc. I look forward to their continuing education. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaHatesMe Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 4 hours ago, thabucks said: Luiz and Bissouma stats are virtually identical for last season - haven’t seen much of him play so cannot comment on whether he is a significantly better... Those who have watched him how does he stand out from Dougie, main differences and best attribute? They are rather similar. The numbers suggest that Bissouma is a slightly better passer over longer distances, and is better at carrying the ball. He's also more successful at disrupting when pressing, but he was asked to press less with Brighton than Dougie was here, so that could just be a result of a smaller sample size. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KangarooVillan Posted June 6, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 6, 2021 4 hours ago, Rolta said: I think he's much better than Traore and I like Traore. I think Traore would disappear in this Newcastle team, but ASM is a one man destructive force in the same ballpark as our own one man destructive force. He's great. You severely underrate Traore - what he’s been able to do in his first season in a mid-table side has been very good. Even if you look past ASM’s relative lack of score involvements, he is unable to hold up play and is dispossessed far too often. If people’s main criticism of Traore is his defensive commitment, ASM is more or less the same. He’s also only mustered 3450 odd minutes in 2 seasons in the Premier League. Why would we sign someone who’s only shown they can play about half the season and is not an improvement on what we already have? 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolta Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 2 hours ago, KangarooVillan said: You severely underrate Traore - what he’s been able to do in his first season in a mid-table side has been very good. Even if you look past ASM’s relative lack of score involvements, he is unable to hold up play and is dispossessed far too often. If people’s main criticism of Traore is his defensive commitment, ASM is more or less the same. He’s also only mustered 3450 odd minutes in 2 seasons in the Premier League. Why would we sign someone who’s only shown they can play about half the season and is not an improvement on what we already have? I rate Traore. ASM is clearly a level above though. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 5 minutes ago, Rolta said: I rate Traore. ASM is clearly a level above though. He's scored 1 less goal and 4 more assists in 2 seasons and 1000 more minutes than Traore in debut season in a new team. Classic overpaid Newcastle player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Am loving the cohesion of these transfers that the data lads have brought to Villa - like with Buendia, as someone else said, other than the talent and position he plays he'll also be perfect to move to Villa and hit the ground running - and that we'd now have two argies and two brazillians is no random fact either - it feels very much planned and built and thought through. Question is, who's coming in next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolta Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said: He's scored 1 less goal and 4 more assists in 2 seasons and 1000 more minutes than Traore in debut season in a new team. Classic overpaid Newcastle player It's almost the equivalent of someone saying Grealish is no good and backing it up with some stat or other. It makes me wonder how many Newcastle games you've actually watched. If you'd watched him enough there's no way you'd be saying this. He's constantly impressive, so much better than his teammates and makes things happen on his own. I'm sure in a better team with actual footballing plans his stats might be more to your liking. He's pretty much the reason they're not getting relegated, stats or not. Edited June 6, 2021 by Rolta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MentalM Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 ASM is great troll on Twitter, would be worth signing him just for that. So many Sunderland jabs om his timeline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 1 minute ago, Rolta said: It's almost the equivalent of someone saying Grealish is no good and backing it up with some stat or other. It makes me wonder how many Newcastle games you've actually watched. If you'd watched him enough there's no way you'd be saying this. I'll go back to original point of him being 8 months into 6 year contract on silly wages and not even on our radar. I'll leave it at that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolta Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Just now, Kiwivillan said: I'll go back to original point of him being 8 months into 6 year contract on silly wages and not even on our radar. I'll leave it at that Well at least this point makes sense! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallisFrizz Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 2 minutes ago, MentalM said: ASM is great troll on Twitter, would be worth signing him just for that. So many Sunderland jabs om his timeline He is really funny on Twitter. I don’t even follow but his tweets always seem to appear on my timeline. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouUnastanFren Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Rolta said: It's almost the equivalent of someone saying Grealish is no good and backing it up with some stat or other. It makes me wonder how many Newcastle games you've actually watched. If you'd watched him enough there's no way you'd be saying this. He's constantly impressive, so much better than his teammates and makes things happen on his own. I'm sure in a better team with actual footballing plans his stats might be more to your liking. He's pretty much the reason they're not getting relegated, stats or not. He's a fantastic dribbler, one of the best in the entire league, but he doesn't have near the end product that his price would require. His underlying creative stats aren't even good either so it isn't a case like Buendia of him just being let down by poor teammates. I would obviously still be pleased if we signed him because he has unteachable dribbling skills and it would mean our staff believed they could extract end product from him. But as you say he's their best player and would cost £50m+ which wouldn't be worth it. Then again I couldn't see Norwich selling Buendia for so little either. Edited June 6, 2021 by YouUnastanFren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 2 minutes ago, YouUnastanFren said: Then again I couldn't see Norwich selling Buendia for so little either. Buendia wasn't less than 1 year into 6 year contract and allegedly on 25k per week so we could triple his wages and still be less than Newcastle paying ASM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Just imagine if the next headline we see is that we have agreed a 45m fee for Bissouma. Scenes. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouUnastanFren Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 43 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said: Buendia wasn't less than 1 year into 6 year contract and allegedly on 25k per week so we could triple his wages and still be less than Newcastle paying ASM True but Buendia does have 3 years left, is a better player and more able to stay fit. I agree though that it would be very unlikely that Newcastle would entertain bids under 50m due to the length of his contract and that would mean he wouldn't be great value especially as his end product is still mostly hypothetical at this point. Covid has hurt a number of clubs though so the chance of him being available for a reasonable fee is above zero, even if not much above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villaphil Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 This Grealish / Kane love in has got me thinking....... Kane Watkins. Grealish. Buendia McGinn. Luiz Targett. Mings. Konsa. Cash Martinez Honestly think the money is there if Kane would come 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rob182 Posted June 6, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 6, 2021 2 minutes ago, Villaphil said: This Grealish / Kane love in has got me thinking....... Kane Watkins. Grealish. Buendia McGinn. Luiz Targett. Mings. Konsa. Cash Martinez Honestly think the money is there if Kane would come Put down the bottle, it’s 9am! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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