Tayls Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 I reckon we’re after an 8 and possibly another striker… probably got to sell first though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sulberto21 Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 22 minutes ago, messi11 said: Seems like all the transfer money being used for the new stadium. Hope you enjoy your new toilets in the North end Just now, joshharris12 said: Are you even a villa fan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post a m ole Posted July 16, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 16, 2022 Just now, Sulberto21 said: The bot is chatting with itself 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted July 16, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted July 16, 2022 I’d be astonished if a player chose Man Utd over us. Reckon we’ll end up signing Tielemans anyway. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 11 minutes ago, bobzy said: God I hate what a moany, never-happy bunch of rocket polishers some of our fan base have become. Just enjoy that we’ve got a really exciting squad and look forward to a season, eh? We said that last close season and that went south very quickly and never recovered. Anyway it’s not about being unhappy it’s about wanting to take this opportunity we have at hand and not let it slip….there is a difference I’m you can see that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 9 minutes ago, Sulberto21 said: Its a clash of the titans! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 2 hours ago, Delphinho123 said: Tweets like this make me think we could actually be done.. Don't get the understanding if that's true. We wanted Bentancur and/or Bissouma in January and that would've sorted central midfield for years. Kamara I assume was always coming in regardless of attempting to sign both so to give up on signing anyone now and just saying Luiz signing a new deal would be enough is a bit baffling if we're really going for european place this season. Just one injury to Kamara and we're back to the same midfield with all its pluses and minuses from last three seasons at prem level. Can only think Gerrard wants a world class number 8 in mould of the two above we wanted in Jan and Kalvin Phillips link and he's not interested in signing ones who could develop into eventual world class box to box midfielders but it's a risk to me if we have underwhelming start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 1 hour ago, bose said: Collomose seems to be well connected at Villa. Does sound a lot like we could be done. He was Arsenal correspondent for Evening Standard a few years back so I assume it's a combination of he knows Emi pretty well and also Purslow when he was involved with Chelsea. Some off the record comments that are put into more friendly tweets. FWIW I think we'll sign two more players but whether they'll be the quality we really need is open to debate. We certainly need to be moving on players though as the squad is really top heavy, look at the amount of wide players we still have and we play a formation that dosen't include any of them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 1 hour ago, nick76 said: Good squad for what though? At the moment we are struggling for a top ten place. TBF we do have plenty of quality in good areas now. Keeper is top as we all know, hopefully Diego can settle down quickly in premier league. He's been a top 4 CB in major euro league in last few seasons. Full season of Digne, Coutinho etc. Kamara massively rated and coming with so much hype. Exciting to see if Ramsey can kick on even more this season given his progress in last 12 months. With 5 subs good depth on the bench to potentially change games (but then I said that this time last year and most of them were injured). Problem is though Gerrard just sticks to the same formation and basically core 11 and is slow making subs, all issues we saw from Feb onwards which resulted in many mediocre performances and results. Even if we get it right I can see Ings and Ollie fluffing too many big chances at key moments in games v top 8 which will limit us rising up the table so far. More I think about it would be huge if Archer could get off the market in the prem in August. I really think if he could score early this season that could set him up nicely and he could be our highest scoring forward this season....no pressure Cam! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted July 16, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted July 16, 2022 1 hour ago, nick76 said: Meths 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallisFrizz Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 3 hours ago, Keener window-cleaner said: I really want us to sign Calvin Bassey, I think he would be perfect for us. Tall, strong, fast, good technique, young and can play in many positions. He could compete with Digne for LB, cover for Mings at LCB, even challenge Ramsey for the no 6 role. With Augustinsson coming in I guess we wont go for Bassey as I understand he is predominantly a LB. But please bring him in! Going to Ajax apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7392craig Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Xela said: I do wonder if every club suffers the same, or we have just become the masters of it. It’s all football fans now, I’d say it’s more a sign of the times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 1 hour ago, joshharris12 said: Are you even a villa fan Yes! I will enjoy the new North End whilst we struggle for top 10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Vancvillan Posted July 16, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 16, 2022 11 hours ago, Delphinho123 said: Our young players are still 18mths/2 years away at least from being ready to compete in the PL. Ramsey, KKH, Tim etc need more time and need to go out on loan for at least another season. This all day long. Obviously there are some breakout yoof, but it's not typically that 18-19 year olds are contributing in a meaningful way to a first 11 in the Prem. Paul McGrath was 21 when he got lifted from amatuer football to the dizzying heights of the Irish top flight. Our youth players are good, we need to have patience with them. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macandally Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 3 hours ago, Delphinho123 said: Yes, and I think we release information to certain journalists as and when the club wants to get a message across. I could be wrong but I feel like they’ve done that a few times in recent windows. We’re paying the price for a few bad transfers. Bailey, Sanson and Ings are probably taking home a combined £225k a week and cost £70m. You can’t afford too many transfers that don’t work out otherwise you’re stuck, especially in the PL. There are only a handful of clubs across Europe that could offer our players anything near to what they earn here so you have to accept they’re not going to go anywhere. If, and it’s a big If, we can get rid of Sanson, Traore and Luiz doesn’t sign, we may see one more through before the end of the window but I certainly can’t see us signing another striker. We won’t qualify for Europe next season. Why do you keep saying Bailey, Ings and Sansom are bad signings? Thats your opinion not a fact and whilst they are yet to pull up any trees, they have been here about a season and two have had fitness issues. Why don’t you wait and see what they do this year before you spend the money on some one else you are not going to give time to settle! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJay Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 (edited) It might be a controversial opinion, but I think we've signed better than arsenal and anyone else in the league except for city in terms of improving our first 11. I don't necessarily think we've a better side or should be challenging top 6 this season, but I do think we've strengthened significantly compared to most around us. Also maybe controversial but I don't rate zinchenko and think he'll be very average outside that city team and same for Gabriel Jesus. I don't expect us to be competing with arsenal next season, but also not convinced they've strenghtened ahead of us. Leicester and west ham are the immediate target for us and we've strengthened on both so far. Also it's July 16th, we're definitely not done. Edited July 16, 2022 by VillaJay 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PieFacE Posted July 16, 2022 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted July 16, 2022 If we are done then I highly doubt it's because the club want to be done, more of a case of not landing our targets. Which is fine, that's football. No point in buying players just for the sake of it. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulMcGrath_5 Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 2 minutes ago, PieFacE said: If we are done then I highly doubt it's because the club want to be done, more of a case of not landing our targets. Which is fine, that's football. No point in buying players just for the sake of it. Agree. No doubt we are trying, Collomosse is saying IF we aren’t 100% happy then we won’t sign anyone for the sake of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted July 16, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted July 16, 2022 2 hours ago, nick76 said: Close to Europe? Not a chance! Don't be so grumpy Nick, not yet Maybe not probable, but definitely possible. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted July 16, 2022 Share Posted July 16, 2022 9 minutes ago, PieFacE said: If we are done then I highly doubt it's because the club want to be done, more of a case of not landing our targets. Which is fine, that's football. No point in buying players just for the sake of it. Agree completely, at some point as we slide down the list of players we like we have to put the brake on and question the worth of it But it's now starting to feel like we've taken that approach with central midfield for the last 3 summers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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