OutByEaster? Posted January 15, 2022 Moderator Share Posted January 15, 2022 Just now, jacketspuds said: I dream of a situation where we have a 25 man squad with very good players that can’t even get on the bench. As strange as it might sound, that might be next week. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 6 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: I forgot Chuk! If we're looking to buy a CB, bring in a GK and buy a DM, then that bench is going to get very difficult to get onto. "Marvelous, hi, I know you were excellent before your injury but erm..." Mate i'm still stuck on this idea of an outstanding DM who can play CB just as well. Not just because I do it all the time in FIFA. It would give us so much in game flexibility and squad options as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 1 minute ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: Mate i'm still stuck on this idea of an outstanding DM who can play CB just as well. Not just because I do it all the time in FIFA. It would give us so much in game flexibility and squad options as well. Boubacar Kamara is a perfect choice for a DM that can play CB. Shame he’s hanging on for a big payday when his contract is up in the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 6 hours ago, StewieGriffin said: Centre back is a difficult one - Gerrard either has to relegate either the captain or a very promising player to the bench. We dont have a back up to Konsa, as Hause is effectively back up for the left side of the defence so if we bench Mings then Hause becomes 3rd choice left centre back and we'd still need a back up for Konsa, so we'd be signing 2 centre backs... I therefore suggest we'll buy a right sided centre back and Konsa will be the fall guy Football outsider is saying that initial talks are being held with West Ham about Hause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 I think we’ll soon need to start selling soon. Trez for sure, but if we can get a huge amount for Watkins and Cash I’d definitely sell. We’ll need an upgrade on both anyway. If we got 60-70m for both then that’s a real steal. Then depending on our DM situation and who’ll we get, I think we need to look at offloading one of Sanson, Nakamba or Luiz. We can’t just keep adding players while not selling when those players have price. We leave it until they don’t make the bench then ask for buyers. Cash and Watkins work very well, but their football intelligence is zero. I’d replace both at summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston_Villan4 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 16 minutes ago, abdulaziz1 said: I think we’ll soon need to start selling soon. Trez for sure, but if we can get a huge amount for Watkins and Cash I’d definitely sell. We’ll need an upgrade on both anyway. If we got 60-70m for both then that’s a real steal. Then depending on our DM situation and who’ll we get, I think we need to look at offloading one of Sanson, Nakamba or Luiz. We can’t just keep adding players while not selling when those players have price. We leave it until they don’t make the bench then ask for buyers. Cash and Watkins work very well, but their football intelligence is zero. I’d replace both at summer. Why sell Cash and Watkins though? Would they not make solid depth? I know we need to make some money through sales too but Gerrard talked about wanting 2 quality players at every position so if we sell guys like those two we’d need to get a replacement as well as the upgrade. I also wouldn’t count on Archer and KKH stepping up into those roles for a couple of years either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 6 minutes ago, Aston_Villan4 said: Why sell Cash and Watkins though? Would they not make solid depth? I know we need to make some money through sales too but Gerrard talked about wanting 2 quality players at every position so if we sell guys like those two we’d need to get a replacement as well as the upgrade. I also wouldn’t count on Archer and KKH stepping up into those roles for a couple of years either. I’d sell Watkins even if it was this window. For Cash I’d wait until summer. Its about opportunities rather than need. We can’t think that we can have two senior players in each position. You can see Watkins isn’t happy himself. Watkins and Cash prices won’t get better than now. While we’re using them. We’re having Kesler as a backup for Cash now. Before that we went to the season without a backup actually (well Tuanzebe). Getting 60m for players you’re planning to upgrade on? I think that’s for sure what I’d do. We need depth, but what we don’t need is reducing the prices of our players. For example, if we sold Bent after his first season with us, we could easily get 15-20, but since Benteke took over, no one was ready to afford him until his contract ran out with loans. Ofcourse we couldn’t gamble by selling him that time as Benteke was new. But now we’re having Ings who’s proven. We don’t have much to play for (unless our next run we do some miracle at. It’s our full chance to build without the risk of losing our star player. The only issue would be is the PR and that our fans will think we’re still that stepping stone and a selling club. If we sold El Ghazi and Trez at the right time, we’d get a decent money. Well, Trez can’t fault much as he was injured. But I’d have sold him last winter anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post M_Afro Posted January 16, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2022 Looking back at the media transfer rumours over the past couple of months is quite amusing. According to those in the know (snigger), when Gerrard first joined, little old Villa were looking at loads of bang average Rangers players who in reality are not as good as the players we already had. Fast forward 2 months and we have just witnessed Coutinho and Digne making their debuts and we are actively pursuing £50m Bissouma. When are they actually going to take us seriously? Bunch of clowns. I still think we are looking for 3 more. A back up GK, a centre half and a DCM. If we don’t get them now, we will in the summer. NSWE mean business and Gerrard will insist upon it. These are exciting times. We are very close to being a very, very good team and for the first time in decades, I really trust the decision makers to get it right. Good times. UTV 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicho Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 12 hours ago, KAZZAM said: Problem with loaning a CB is that you rarely get a decent CB who's available. I mean look at Liverpool the best they could get during there injury crisis last year was Ozan Kabak and now he plays for Norwich. We need someone up and coming a bit like how Leicester plucked Wesley Fofana from Ligue 1 in that ilk. Let just sign Fofana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jbvilla909 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Purslow's comments were interesting. SG wants the age profile raising and proven winners which shows with Phil and Digne. Will definitely help the talented youth we've got and hopefully phase those lads in to replace them. Two more in this window? Back up GK and CM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 4 hours ago, abdulaziz1 said: I think we’ll soon need to start selling soon. Trez for sure, but if we can get a huge amount for Watkins and Cash I’d definitely sell. We’ll need an upgrade on both anyway. If we got 60-70m for both then that’s a real steal. Then depending on our DM situation and who’ll we get, I think we need to look at offloading one of Sanson, Nakamba or Luiz. We can’t just keep adding players while not selling when those players have price. We leave it until they don’t make the bench then ask for buyers. Cash and Watkins work very well, but their football intelligence is zero. I’d replace both at summer. I know the saying that "everyone is for sale at the right price", but for me these three are players that are most definitely keepers imo. I don't have a problem with selling fringe players, but these are regular starters and are among our better players. It isn't as if we need the money or they are itching to leave. We also would never get £60-70m for either of the two that you mention. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted January 16, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 16, 2022 I see a few folks saying sell Cash. Unless we recall Freddie, I don’t see that we have nearly enough depth at RB for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguson1 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 If we can get a right sided CB and a DM over the line, then boy what a transfer window it will have been. Probably the best January transfer window for us ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Not sure where to post this since the Purslow thread has been locked, but sounds like more coming if possible, I'm guessing Bossuma. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilko154 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Why would we sell Watkins and Cash? And why would we sell Sanson, Nakamba or Luiz? We need a DM and CB, and this window will then have been perfect. In midfield we are currently short, we play with three central midfielders and we currently only have four available whilst Nakamba is injured. We should have six in the squad, ideally in the summer we can then look to move on one of the six and bring a youngster in to be the sixth first team player if they are good enough. At centre back we currently only have three, we should have four. If Kerr Smith has been signed to be the fourth centre back this season, then in my opinion Hause needs upgrading as he's not good enough to be the third choice in our squad. Upgrading a striker or a right back at this point of the season though is not something we will even be contemplating. Completely unnecessary. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJay Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 I also think it's Bissouma we're waiting on based on Purslows comments and Gerrard's no smoke without fire comment when talking about transfer speculation pre-utd game on Monday. I'd imagine we're waiting on him to return from afcon, I also wouldn't be surprised if we go for phillips even though he's currently injured. If we can't get our targets now, we will probably just wait until summer. One other interesting comment from Purslows was that we view Jan and summer windows as one window not two, which suggests they deliberately waited review again in Jan. 2 more first xi players seems to be the target this window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted January 16, 2022 Author Share Posted January 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Jbvilla909 said: Purslow's comments were interesting. SG wants the age profile raising and proven winners which shows with Phil and Digne. Will definitely help the talented youth we've got and hopefully phase those lads in to replace them. Two more in this window? Back up GK and CM? we need a DC dude, with Konsa probably injured we now have 2 x senior CBs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 According to an Alan Nixon article on 'the sun' website we want Dan Neil from Sunderland, he claims our scouts are 'raving about him'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted January 16, 2022 Moderator Share Posted January 16, 2022 CB would appear to be the big need in this squad - I don't think there's any chance we let Hause go in this window and we need one more, even if just for numbers. We've been linked at players of all types in just about every other position, but I've not seen many names linked at centre half and indeed there isn't a name that stands out as ne we've been connected to - are there any credible named links? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted January 16, 2022 Share Posted January 16, 2022 Just now, OutByEaster? said: CB would appear to be the big need in this squad - I don't think there's any chance we let Hause go in this window and we need one more, even if just for numbers. We've been linked at players of all types in just about every other position, but I've not seen many names linked at centre half and indeed there isn't a name that stands out as ne we've been connected to - are there any credible named links? The only one I’ve seen, though I believe he is injured now is Souter (sp?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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