Tomaszk Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 4 minutes ago, UpTheVilla26 said: Still think we should go and get Belotti. With no transfer fee, we could offer him a decent wage. I'd be interested if we sold Watkins, but they're fairly similar in their strengths and weaknesses for me. Wouldn't be enough of an upgrade for his wages. Certainly not a clinical striker. I would love to do that silly celebration all the time though. GALLO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 I dont think Belotti would be an upgrade on Watkins, he wouldnt bring us into Europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishVilla10 Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 7 minutes ago, Tomaszk said: I'd be interested if we sold Watkins, but they're fairly similar in their strengths and weaknesses for me. Wouldn't be enough of an upgrade for his wages. Certainly not a clinical striker. I would love to do that silly celebration all the time though. GALLO I don’t think he’s an upgrade at all. Ollies numbers in serie A would be double Belottis 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 Perhaps I needed to write GALLO bigger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 2 minutes ago, Tomaszk said: Perhaps I needed to write GALLO bigger. Saw it but don’t know what it means! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaHatesMe Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 1 hour ago, duke313 said: Miles ahead is a bit of an overstatement. West Ham are at least on par if not better, as are Leicester. The rest bar the odd player we are probably better. West Ham - Antonio, Bowen, Leicester - Vardy, Iheanacho, Daka Newcastle - Wilson, Wood, Gayle Wolves - Raúl Jiménez, Fábio Silva Brighton - Maupay, Welbeck, Andone Everton - Calvert-Lewin, Rondón Palace - Ayew, Benteke, Édouard Wolves are loaning Silva to Anderlecht for the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaHatesMe Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 We do not want Belotti. Believe me. He's not good enough to play in this league. He had one outstanding season. Nearly 40% of his goals have come on penalties the last four seasons. In open play he posts worse numbers than Watkins and Ings do, but in an easier league. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thabucks Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 1 hour ago, Delphinho123 said: If we do manage to get a decent fee for Chukwuemeka, we should buy Alex Scott from Bristol City and loan him back for a year. Chukwuemeka himself really rates Scott so I feel it would be fitting. We’ve got Tommi O’Reilly and Chuck believes in some weird things so be pointless signing IMO 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 43 minutes ago, VillaHatesMe said: Wolves are loaning Silva to Anderlecht for the season. Strange, it looked like he was beginning to develop and closer to realising his potential, plus featuring more last season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWARLEY2 Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 3 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: Strange, it looked like he was beginning to develop and closer to realising his potential, plus featuring more last season? Mendez fingers all over it. I cannot explain it but there will be something happening in a year where someone takes him for a big number once he has scored shit loads in Belgium 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Made In Aston Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Zatman said: I dont think Belotti would be an upgrade on Watkins, he wouldnt bring us into Europe There were a lot of people on here begging for him to join us last summer. Edited July 15, 2022 by Made In Aston Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villaphan04 Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 2 hours ago, Delphinho123 said: If we do manage to get a decent fee for Chukwuemeka, we should buy Alex Scott from Bristol City and loan him back for a year. Chukwuemeka himself really rates Scott so I feel it would be fitting. Yes please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMitch Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 2 hours ago, Tomaszk said: Perhaps I needed to write GALLO bigger. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
est1874 Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 6 hours ago, duke313 said: There is plenty of teams between us and Arsenal we need to catch first. That's true but there's no reason why that should have been the case. We beat them twice, reasonably comfortably, just two seasons ago. And then we did what we always do at Villa - stuttered and gave our rivals a chance to gain serious ground on us. They've done excellent business the last few windows and I'd expect them to go from strength to strength with Jesus leading the line now. All this was looking pretty unlikely 2 years ago, and nobody to blame but ourselves really. See also Hotspur, Tottenham; Wanderers, Wolverhampton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MWARLEY2 Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 3 minutes ago, est1874 said: That's true but there's no reason why that should have been the case. We beat them twice, reasonably comfortably, just two seasons ago. And then we did what we always do at Villa - stuttered and gave our rivals a chance to gain serious ground on us. They've done excellent business the last few windows and I'd expect them to go from strength to strength with Jesus leading the line now. All this was looking pretty unlikely 2 years ago, and nobody to blame but ourselves really. See also Hotspur, Tottenham; Wanderers, Wolverhampton. Lost grealish for £100 mill. Replaced with Bailey Ings amd Buendia. Strengthened our attacking players with Coutinho in the January and our defence with Digne Apart ftom a DM i really do not see what we could have done better at the time. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but theres not mucb different alot of us would have done i guess ( apart from a DM ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
est1874 Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 (edited) 9 minutes ago, MWARLEY2 said: Lost grealish for £100 mill. Replaced with Bailey Ings amd Buendia. Strengthened our attacking players with Coutinho in the January and our defence with Digne Apart ftom a DM i really do not see what we could have done better at the time. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but theres not mucb different alot of us would have done i guess ( apart from a DM ) Hindsight is a wonderful thing indeed, as it's all we have to measure by ultimately. Not buying Bailey and Ings for over £60m (before wages) would have been a start really. Imagine if we'd just purchased, you know, a really good attacker who's not a crock or over the hill instead. We'd have had a much different season, that's for sure. We've dropped a fortune the last few seasons. Martinez, Cash and Digne were top signings. None of the rest has had a huge impact, and yes that includes The Magician himself, who got tired of magic tricks with several games left to play and just started making balloon animals. And even then Emi Buendia, who I feel bad for tbh, couldn't get much of a sniff. At least Coutinho didn't cost us anything in terms of up front fees. Sorry I'm not as optimistic as some, but I just can't look past a lot of wasted money when other clubs we should be competing with have bought well and gone from strength to strength in that time (Arsenal, Spurs, Palace, Newcastle). Edited July 15, 2022 by est1874 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarryOnVilla Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 When was the last time we had a new rumour tweet linking us to someone? Anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallisFrizz Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 7 minutes ago, CarryOnVilla said: When was the last time we had a new rumour tweet linking us to someone? Anyone? Just before we signed Augustinsson about 3 days ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarryOnVilla Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 9 minutes ago, WallisFrizz said: Just before we signed Augustinsson about 3 days ago. Pfft that don’t count. where’s the fun in truthful reporting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanBalaban Posted July 15, 2022 Share Posted July 15, 2022 3 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Saw it but don’t know what it means! Think is means rooster in Spanish. Or cock 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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