villalad21 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Coutinho great and all. But can he play DM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post John Posted December 31, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 31, 2021 Why would we want to sell an England international and our captain to Newcastle and why would he want to go to a relegation threatened club? He's had Villa in his heart since he joined us on loan and who can forget him traveling back to Bournemouth after the play off final in his Villa shirt? The move has been good for Tyrone and for our football club, he may make the odd error, but few central defenders don't and we are a lot more solid with him in the team than without him. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Sounds like Gerrard will be quite involved in recruitment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 3 minutes ago, John said: Why would we want to sell an England international and our captain to Newcastle and why would he want to go to a relegation threatened club? He's had Villa in his heart since he joined us on loan and who can forget him traveling back to Bournemouth after the play off final in his Villa shirt? The move has been good for Tyrone and for our football club, he may make the odd error, but few central defenders don't and we are a lot more solid with him in the team than without him. We wouldn’t and we won’t. I guess in terms of why he would want to go it would just be for extortionate wages. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 26 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: For those concerned we might sign Coutinho. Don’t worry, we aren’t signing him. For those excited we might signing Coutinho, get a grip, we aren’t signing him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwi1890 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, HalfTimePost said: This is the kind of signing that would worry me, could be a very expensive disaster waiting to happen. The exact kind of signing I see Newcastle making. But suppose he has the ability for sure ... that we've all seen in the past. Only thing Coutinho has always wanted to play football , unlike Rodriguez and a few others, but it’s not happening lol Edited December 31, 2021 by gwi1890 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwi1890 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 2 hours ago, CVByrne said: Agreed, that's the kind of deal that works for them and us. No we shouldn’t be selling any first team players to them, we should be giving them scraps like city did in the early days Stephen Ireland esque stuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Coutinho is 29 and has 18 months left on his £380k/w contract at Barcelona. Sure they'll be desperate to get rid of his contract but will he be desperate to more than half his salary? Barca might be up for paying part of his salary just to get rid like they did with Suarez, great deal that . But Coutinho is not coming here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted December 31, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 31, 2021 I don't think we should do much. Of course, if a no-brainer trade comes across, grab it. But nothing HAS to be done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post villaslash Posted December 31, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted December 31, 2021 37 minutes ago, Laughable Chimp said: I don't think we should let our hatred of Newcastle get in the way for what's best for business. It's almost inevitable that Newcastle will get to the top eventually with the resources they have. Might as well take advantage of that while we can and bleed them for as much money as possible. If we don't some other club is going to get all that money anyway so it's not really going to affect them much. I understand this perspective. My view is not about hate but what’s good for Villa in the long term. I don’t want to see us repeat the rise of Man City where we sold Barry, Milner and Delph while saying we will take the money and it’s inevitable… We have well funded and run ownership which I hope see long term feeding Newcastle will only make our battle to get into the Europe spots tougher. If they want fringe players which they over pay for after the drop fine. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderball Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 1 hour ago, KMitch said: Baffled by people calling for Mings to be sold. He is no where near being the weakest link in this team. He is an England international in his prime, who is an extremely intelligent and respected leader in the dressing room. I don't see anyone higher up than us in the table coming in for him and I don't see Newcastle bidding stupid money for him. He makes the occasional mistake on the pitch, but he more than makes up for it off of it. I can see him turning into more of a rotational type player in a few seasons if he doesn't progress with us up the table (Think Wes Morgan and Leicester), but he's one of the few names absolutely nailed on the teamsheet every week for me, right behind Martinez and McGinn. I’d agree, but I think many of the points being caveat’d by suggesting we replace him for better. Mings is 29 in March, so peak value, just waning, we all know his srentgths and weaknesses so if the Arabs offered top dollar in January and we can improve with a younger upgrade for similar or less it’s good business all round? But while we are not strapped for cash I would be happy him hanging around even if we upgraded? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 (edited) 36 minutes ago, AVTuco said: I don't think we should do much. Of course, if a no-brainer trade comes across, grab it. But nothing HAS to be done. Gerrard has indicated though in his presser today that we are likely doing business with the targets already identified Edited December 31, 2021 by nick76 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 (edited) 7 minutes ago, nick76 said: Gerrard has indicated though in his presser today that we are likely doing business with the targets already identified Do we reckon there will have been any major changes in the policy fro Manager to Manager . Or will it be a case where analytics team etc which have identified areas in which we can improve, identified players and present them to him etc? Edited December 31, 2021 by JAMAICAN-VILLAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villabromsgrove Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Gerard will be looking to add passion and aggression to his team. It's the way he played and his signings should mirror his life long philosophy. The fact that he favours five substitutes indicates that Villa players are going to be expected to cover serious mileage from now on. Any players not able to do this, or not up for it will be replaced. This transfer window will be interesting. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 5 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: Do we reckon there will have been any major changes in the policy fro Manager to Manager . Or will it be a case where analytics team etc which have identified areas in which we can improve, identified players and present them to him etc? Has to be a bit of both. It won’t be just Gerrard choosing and it won’t be just the analytics team. As been presented before that the club like continuity never mind whose managing the club but will also include the current managers views as a key voice in that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonIsAPlaceOnEarth Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Could be interesting to see if the calibre of players interested in joining improves with Gerrard here. Would not be surprised to see a hefty spend in January, considering our break even summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 2 hours ago, MachoFantastico said: Is Gomez any good? Seriously every time I've seen him in action for Liverpool he's looked pretty average. Another player that Liverpool make a big fuss about only to be average. Worse...hes broken, another Mee victim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 43 minutes ago, nick76 said: Gerrard has indicated though in his presser today that we are likely doing business with the targets already identified That's Gomez then 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfTimePost Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 We have one CB on loan, one whose contract is running down and we're talking about selling a third one, who is our captain and England international. Baffled. If you want to upgrade, fine, but you don't sell him. Especially to the newly minted richest club in the world and help speed up their domination of the league and give us another Super club to start pinching our top talent over the coming years. Absolutely baffled. 'Replace with better'. Off your heads... and you're going to be livid when the owners don't do the impossible and lure a world class CB here who performs instantly with Kortney Hause as his backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfTimePost Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 5 minutes ago, hippo said: That's Gomez then The targets have been identified by Gerrard, Lange and Purslow... Not that we'll be doing our business with the people that have been identified in the media. May well be Gomez but this doesn't necessarily mean so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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