ender4 Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 4 minutes ago, Made In Aston said: I don't quite understand this. We have been spending approximately 100m each summer for the past couple of years. Although we have spent similar this window it is covered by player sales. So is it really out of the question to spend 50m net spend on one player?! We have the money and don't need to strengthen a multitude of areas, so why not focus on one or two premium players. It's highly unlikely we will be spending £100m each summer, the past 2 years are an anomaly because we had to build a team from scratch. The big 6 have enough revenue to spend £50m on each player they buy, but how many individual players have been bought for £50m from the other 14 teams? Yes, we could conceivably spend £50m on one player, but every window we seem to need more than just 1 player, so it becomes unlikely. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smg Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 55 minutes ago, jimmygreaves said: Not sure if this has been mentioned before but... If we want to be perceived as a big club with big club aspirations we need to be making statement signings like JWP. £50 million signings need to become a business as usual thing for us. When we're at that level better players and, more importantly, better sponsors will want to be part of the project. We need more statement signings confident they'll contribute from their first game and, over time, fewer signings with potential. We certainly do want to be seen as big club with big aspirations but we don’t want to be seen as a club with a big bank balance so teams think they can bung an extra 10-15 million on their players price knowing we will pay it. Thankfully our owners are not daft and won’t be caught out, but inflated prices are a potential problem in the future that we might have to deal with. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, tonyh29 said: OT - rumour seems to be we offered £15m for Lampard and Kanoute , no idea what Kanoute's value was at that time though , but West Ham rejected the bid Yes I've heard that. I also heard that HDE had still been haggling over the price with West Ham at the time that Chelsea's bid was accepted, having offered £7.5m a fortnight earlier. It's all water under the bridge now, but if Gregory had been allowed to offer an acceptable amount from the start, we just might have done a deal. Link to story below (Warning - it's Birmingham Live!) https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/aston-villa-wanted-frank-lampard-17985248 Edited August 19, 2021 by John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eholm Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 9 hours ago, Thug said: Didn’t ‘he’ buy Nakamba? Yep, fair point. Has hardly played him though. Maybe expected him to be better on the ball...just speculating really. Also, could have been his foray into CDM territory and now he is reverting to type. Again, pure guess work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
string28 Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 lock it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 (edited) but but but club captains should leave for a better opportunity… is this what they call loyalty?!? Edited August 19, 2021 by theboyangel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 At least we won't be spending £50m on him thank god for that 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicho Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 In before the lock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Oh what a surprise Only what their owner, their manager and our manager have been saying… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Lauding up the ‘one club’ man lol. Well if Jacks’s anything to go by then JWP is off to a sky 6 club in 12 months time then. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Nigel Posted August 19, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 19, 2021 Tbh I'm not that bothered...far too much for a lesser player than we can get outside the UK. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Was never going to happen. Can't help but think we've been dicking around with these and the ESR bids tbf. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midfielder Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Well that's that then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post theboyangel Posted August 19, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 19, 2021 No need to lock, just move to other football 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post useless Posted August 19, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 19, 2021 Had become ridiculously overrated on here and elsewhere by Villa fans anyway, I don't know about a statement signing, if we'd have paid £50m for him we would have more likely become a laughing stock. 6 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picicata Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Whilst it's a shame we didn't get him if that's who the coaches wanted, personally I never really saw the fuss about. Hopefully we will move for someone genuinely worth 50 million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Good to see this thread die in other football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 This might still be on, full report tomorrow morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 (edited) edit - clearly meant us! Another unscrupulous agent playing one club off against another to line their own pockets. Edited August 19, 2021 by theboyangel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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