Summer Transfer Window 2022

[John]

1 hour ago, Zatman said:

But we would have sounded him out before bidding as its the way now. If we have bid blindly then we are led by clowns

He or his agent may have changed their minds, been tapped up by another club or have decided to up their wage demands. It could just possibly be them, rather than our club on this occasion. 

[JAMAICAN-VILLAN]

8 minutes ago, Tommo_b said:

Actually can’t believe we have gone pretty much all summer without a first team signing to get excited about. 
 

it’s great we got off to a ballistic start but it would’ve been nice to have something else to get excited about. 

Two ways of thinking.

Seems weay have missed out on some top targets.

They've been insistent " we won't sign anyone unless it's a clear improvement on what we have " etc 

Then a whole host.of other things have to come together.

There could also be other players we want, who are biding their time and waiting for offers.

I'm wondering if whatever we are doing could be being a bit stubborn in our approach, or better for the greater good. ( You can obviously be stubborn to your own detriment as well )

We just don't know what's going on.

Personally, I feel it's all going to kick off in a day or two.

Edited August 26, 2022 by JAMAICAN-VILLAN

[useless]

Gerrards comments about not being close on deals at the moment have been taken completely out of context, it was said in reply to a journalist asking him if there was any news to report, it was obvious that he didn't want to say answer in the positive so just gave a dismissive answer, he also said to the same question that if when there's something concrete to report the club will let the fans know, in other words the club will report the transfer to fans when it's complete not to journalists beforehand.

He also said later on the in press conference, that we wan't players that can both have an immediate impact and long term impact, and said in certain situations loan moves can help the club in the short term, and then referenced Carlos's injury, so that seemed to me to be an hint there's something in the rumours of Bednarek coming in on loan.

Also there are only five or six days of the transfer window left, and he's openly talking about us working on deals, so it follows that some must be close just by virtue of the fact that they have to be if we're to get them completed, they might not be anything close as in ready to be announced in the next day or so, but if we're working on deals then they must be pretty advanced if we're planning on getting them completed by next week.

[The_Steve]

Transfer windows are like dominos. Plus the selling clubs will have to have their ducks lined up also. 
 

Gerrard said in the press conference there’s at least two deals going on in the background. 

[birdistheword]

2 hours ago, MaVilla said:

Net Spend:

22/23 - 14m

21/22 - 2m

 

Pushing for Europe bois.

Quick, let’s give Marseille £60m for Kamara!

[The_Steve]

2 minutes ago, birdistheword said:

Quick, let’s give Marseille £60m for Kamara!

People would probably be happy to waste money to prove some ridiculous standard rather do sensible business like getting him in on a free. 

[Feidhlim]

I can't remember which player but we were heavily linked to someone in January or last summer that we didn't sign and it was speculated it was all a decoy to allow us bargain with another team. I.e. drop your price or we pull the trigger on this lad (in this case, maybe Bednarek is the decoy)

 

[VillaParkAvenue]

15 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

Two ways of thinking.

Seems weay have missed out on some top targets.

They've been insistent " we won't sign anyone unless it's a clear improvement on what we have " etc 

Then a whole host.of other things have to come together.

There could also be other players we want, who are biding their time and waiting for offers.

I'm wondering if whatever we are doing could be being a bit stubborn in our approach, or better for the greater good. ( You can obviously be stubborn to your own detriment as well )

We just don't know what's going on.

Personally, I feel it's all going to kick off in a day or two.

It seems pretty clear we are waiting for others to make up their minds at this point.

Like when you’re bidding on Ebay and right before the auction ends you don’t know if you’ll end up with one, two, three items or nothing (or be able to pay for it all)

[JAMAICAN-VILLAN]

12 minutes ago, Feidhlim said:

I can't remember which player but we were heavily linked to someone in January or last summer that we didn't sign and it was speculated it was all a decoy to allow us bargain with another team. I.e. drop your price or we pull the trigger on this lad (in this case, maybe Bednarek is the decoy)

 

Also remember Tarkowski/ Carlos?

Tarkowski was " nailed on "

[StewieGriffin]

Defender Tuesday, midfielder Wednesday is my guess

Edited August 26, 2022 by StewieGriffin

[bose]

2 minutes ago, StewieGriffin said:

Defender Wednesday, midfielder Friday is my guess

Both retired 

[JAMAICAN-VILLAN]

Weren't there a few tweets closer to beginning of transfer window from relatively reliable sources claiming midfield target was " very ambitious " etc?

[Herman22]

The Carlos injury has really been the biggest disappointment of this transfer window. But clubs around us are spending big. Newcastle has dropped £60m on a striker. West Ham are spending a lot, as are Wolves! Then the likes of Forest, Fulham and Bournemouth are trying to survive by dropping big numbers. 

£1.5 billion (already a record for a single window) spent so far and it looks like topping £2 billion by the end of window. 

I’m hoping for some late action. 

[Vive_La_Villa]

4 minutes ago, StewieGriffin said:

Defender Tuesday, midfielder Wenesday is my guess

Meltdown Thursday, Friday, Saturday, sacked on Sunday. 

[Philosopher]

2 hours ago, Joshie2000 said:

Thank God we didn't have social media when we sign Paul Mcgrath, injury prone alcoholic that Sir Alex wanted out of United, also Shaun Teale brought from from lower league Bournemouth also played for Weymouth and Stockport. 

There's more that could me mentioned that we're either crocks when we brought them, or got from lower league. 

Now I'm not saying Bendrak is Mcgrath Reincarnated but if we sign him how about giving him a chance before writing him off. 

Or we maybe should stick with can't jump Konsa who the game passes by. 

If he signs I for one will support him. I want every Villa player to do well.

But I don’t rate him and would prefer to give Feeney his shot over this guy. A loan is acceptable but if we pay money for this guy I would seriously question the transfer strategy.

[foreveryoung]

Bit of a false figure that 1.5 billion. It's not that thete are more signings, its just they are going for insane money. No way is that kid who's just gone to Newcastle worth 60 mill.

[The_Steve]

1 minute ago, foreveryoung said:

Bit of a false figure that 1.5 billion. It's not that thete are more signings, its just they are going for insane money. No way is that kid who's just gone to Newcastle worth 60 mill.

Chelsea also massively distorting the market 

[DCJonah]

I seriously hope there's more signings coming. I already think it was pointless to sack Smith for Gerrard and now even more so if we only sign 2 first team players, especially when 1 is injured.

 

[Philosopher]

1 hour ago, villa89 said:

Isn't our net spend alot higher this year?  Coutinho and Carlos and we basically only got money for chuck.

People are forgetting the 25 million we spent of Digne in the winter.

[foreveryoung]

1 minute ago, DCJonah said:

I seriously hope there's more signings coming. I already think it was pointless to sack Smith for Gerrard and now even more so if we only sign 2 first team players, especially when 1 is injured.

 

We wouldn't have signed these names if Smith was still here. I think that was part of the reason they wanyed Gerrard, ohh and that Purslow was gagging to get his mate in.