Popular Post fightoffyour Posted January 7, 2022 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted January 7, 2022 11 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: I mean, he's no Simon Dawkins, but I'm excited! Halcyon days, the likes of which we’ll never forget. 1 16 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Hopefully this persuades luiz to sign a new contract Cant fault the club for the ambition they are showing. Its incredible we can attract this kind of calibre of player to our club Beats signing barjon baston...just about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 4 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: I bet our current players are loving it at the moment. First they get to work with Gerrard and now they’ll be training and playing alongside Coutinho! Especially our younger players like Carney Chukwuemeka! He could learn so much from him. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 11 minutes ago, Aston_Villan4 said: 247k a week if the 65% number is accurate. I think it's Barca who are paying the 65% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steero113 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 4 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: barjon baston You've butchered his name in the same way he butchered our eyes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 3 minutes ago, Phil Silvers said: I think it's Barca who are paying the 65% Who cares? I don't. It's not my money. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston_Villan4 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 (edited) 1 minute ago, rjw63 said: Who cares? I don't. It's not my money. Congrats? Edited January 7, 2022 by Aston_Villan4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jbvilla909 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 9 minutes ago, fightoffyour said: Halcyon days, the likes of which we’ll never forget. Dark days, especially the press photos back then, new signings on school PE benches 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 So let me get this straight. Rashica turned us down 1 year ago and now we just signed Coutinho I'm confused Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Lichfield Dean Posted January 7, 2022 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted January 7, 2022 41 minutes ago, fightoffyour said: 29 is literally a prime age. This is correct. Other prime ages include 19, 23, 31 and 37. 2 2 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Steero113 Posted January 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 7, 2022 Just now, Lichfield Dean said: This is correct. Other prime ages include 19, 23, 31 and 37. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 1 hour ago, Tomaszk said: And that's why I'm hoping we've got a decent deal lined up. Barca are desperate to get rid. Question with these things is, we've obviously agreed a fee, or at least a fee with parameters based on performance/success. What about the player? Is an option to buy basically the player saying he's happy to stay longer as long as he proves himself and the club want to exercise the option? I'm just of the mindset that it's a worthless option if Coutinho plays well and several bigger clubs come sniffing and offer him higher wages? Does the buy option include the player also tying himself to the club? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post OutByEaster? Posted January 7, 2022 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted January 7, 2022 A brilliant signing and hopefully a player that's going to be brilliant for us too! I think you can almost take those two things as separate pieces of good news. Firstly, the player; playing for a manager he knows well and has a really good relationship with, at a club where hopefully he'll settle and feel appreciated, in front of 50,000 fans that will adore him, I'm really hopeful we might see him have a wonderful few years here where he's close to the heights of his very best. If he hits those peaks, he can pull the club up the league into the kind of places we'd consider a success. He can play in Europe for Villa. I think there's also the great option for him of three or four years at Villa Park and a couple in Las Vegas to round off his career, it might sound flippant, but we're building a structure that can offer a bit more to players than we've offered in the past. I think he fits perfectly into our system and offers a natural foil for Buendia - he'll be excellent at making holes for Ramsey and McGinn to run into and in helping us ping about those little triangles in midfield that are going to open teams up - he's got goals in him, he sees movement on the pitch and he takes a mean free kick - he's going to add a whole lot to our attacking play. I can't wait to see him in the shirt. Secondly, this signing and just what it says about us is a great bit of news. The cart is on its side and there are apples everywhere. Right now in Spain there are loads of football fans googling our squad, our ground, our league position - trying to figure out who we are - perhaps becoming aware of the 'project'. An awful lot of people in South America are learning the words Edens and Sawiris. They'll have broken out the bubbly at Cazoo HQ and will be doing a little dance, emergency meetings will be taking place at Sky as they try to figure out what went wrong, it's a transfer that whispers the words 'Aston Vila' into half a billion ears and it has the potential to be transformative for the club. Other clubs in the Premier league, players around Europe, agents everywhere will be wondering if they need to reassess how they feel about us, about this curious mid-to-lower-half of the table also ran with the wealthy owners. This transfer, and maybe others, followed in the near future by the reveal of the stadium expansion, and the announcement of the Las Vegas franchise, and whatever else this wonderful ownership group has lined up has us ready to change the way football thinks about Aston Villa. Big steps. Welcome Phil, you have chosen wisely! 36 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 €40mil is the buy option. So about £33m if we sign in summer. Along with his wages of say £200k per week. We sign him on a 2 year deal with an option for a 3rd year. That would be £54m outlay over the two years, add to the £6m he probably costs us for the next 6 months. Ings is costing us about £44m for his 3 years. The two combined would be £104m and Grealish sae of 100m + 30m of wages probably offsets that nicely. (I believe we paid tax of 19% on Grealish sale). So we've a bit of change left. Hopefully Ings/Coutinho works better for us than Jack over the 3 years 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Coutinho and bailey feeding ollie/ings Its mouth watering stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 2 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: in front of 50,000 fans that will adore him Did we expand VP while I was distracted? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheltenham_villa Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Welcome to villa, what a signing. If you want to be in the top 6, you need to buy top 6 quality players. He is undoubtedly one of them. If you are not currently in the top 6 you have to take a bit more risk. That's what we are doing here. If coutinho doesn't have a year injured, then he's not coming to villa im afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam2003 Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Just watching some YouTube (of course) and surprised at the number of screamers he has scored for Barcelona considering the deal “hasn’t worked out” - I guess £140m is just a fortune though isn’t it… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntrimBlack Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 4 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: A brilliant signing and hopefully a player that's going to be brilliant for us too! I think you can almost take those two things as separate pieces of good news. Firstly, the player; playing for a manager he knows well and has a really good relationship, at a club where hopefully he'll settle and feel appreciated, in front of 50,000 fans that will adore him, I'm really hopeful we might see him have a wonderful few years here where he's close to the heights of his very best. If he hits those peaks, he can pull the club up the league into the kind of places we'd consider a success. He can play in Europe for Villa. I think there's also the great option for him of three or four years at Villa Park and a couple in Las Vegas to round off his career, it might sound flippant, but we're building a structure that can offer a bit more to players than we've offered in the past. I think he fits perfectly into our system and offers a natural foil for Buendia - he'll be excellent at making holes for Ramsey and McGinn to run into and in helping us ping about those little triangles in midfield that are going to open teams up - he's got goals in him, he sees movement on the pitch and he takes a mean free kick - he's going to add a whole lot to our attacking play. I can't wait to see him in the shirt. Secondly, this signing and just what it says about us is a great bit of news. The cart is on its side and there are apples everywhere. Right now in Spain there are loads of football fans googling our squad, our ground, our league position - trying to figure out who we are - perhaps becoming aware of the 'project'. An awful lot of people in South America are learning the words Edens and Sawiris. They'll have broken out the bubbly at Cazoo HQ and will be doing a little dance, emergency meetings will be taking place at Sky as they try to figure out what went wrong, it's a transfer that whispers the words 'Aston Vila' into half a billion ears and it has the potential to be transformative for the club. Other clubs in the Premier league, players around Europe, agents everywhere will be wondering if they need to reassess how they feel about us, about this curious mid-to-lower-half of the table also ran with the wealthy owners. This transfer, and maybe others, followed in the near future by the reveal of the the stadium expansion, and the announcement of the Las Vegas franchise, and whatever else this wonderful ownership group has lined up has us ready to change the way football thinks about Aston Villa. Big steps. Welcome Phil, you have chosen wisely! Great post, young man. Sums it up brilliantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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