HalfTimePost Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KH** Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 33 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: Sky saying it's off now I expect him to be announced soon then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterSw Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Latest twitter rumour is that everything was agreed and then player/agent came back and wanted more money so Villa scrapped the deal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkLillis Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 The word shambles is not a very good description of how we operate in the transfer market under this regime. Of course we have been a shambles in the past.... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Tommy Jordan said no medical was booked. A prominent Senegalese journalist said something similar last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 (edited) 8 minutes ago, HalfTimePost said: Perhaps! We had agreed a £27m fee +£3m add-ons, plus a 15% sell on clause and our most promising Striker and a decent CB on loan for him. We'd done all this within 30 minutes of getting whopped out by Palace. We've pulled out because it went public and smirched Purslows PR record imo, not because Watford may have asked for another couple of £m There is some crazy stuff in this last sentence, which suggests you have no idea about how the transfer market works, but it’s not worth unpicking because for all you say, you still haven’t shown any sense in which the club was “desperate” in this transaction. Edited August 22, 2022 by briny_ear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
est1874 Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 4 minutes ago, imavillan said: The over reactions in this thread are weird What's weird is pretending that there's nothing weird about this deal. Been a strange one from the start as he's not what we need. I rate him as a player but why are we suddenly prioritizing a winger over CM, striker, or even a CB? And the manner in which it's fallen apart, very strange. As others have queried, if Gerrard and the recruitment team (presumably that means Lange and his scouts) had reservations, who made the bid and agreed the deal? V weird indeed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustibrooks Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Well this puts everything to bed then, that FPL guy was right all along Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steero113 Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 2 minutes ago, Zatman said: Where to start We have in the last hour loabed out an 18 million player and wont be recoupung anything. We signed a 25 million left back who was 2nd choice at Everton as Rafa saw through him We have spent about 200 million in the last season and a half and the players cant even pass the ball to each other Chelsea purchased a striker for £100m last season and loaned him out the very next, your point is? All clubs have transfer nightmares, we have our fair share but its on the manager to get the best out of our crop of undoubtedly talented players. The bit about Rafa "seeing right through him" is total sack though, the guys a fat cardboard merchant who was past it in 2008. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinRichardsonsMoustache Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Deal fell through when SG realised that this guy couldn’t play centrally. ‘Why does he need to be out wide, nothing happens there. That part of the pitch is for coaching staff to occasionally run onto’. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke313 Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 ️ While he had successfully passed his medical examination and was due to sign his contract today, Ismaïla Sarr's deal at Aston Villa is, at time T, completely frozen. Disagreements arose between the two parties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AV82 Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicRic Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 35 minutes ago, The_Steve said: He’s a good player so of course I’d be sad if he didn’t sign. Equally, we aren’t going to accept unfair demands of clubs or players. Yesh hes good but we need to sign players that we NEED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
est1874 Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 1 minute ago, Steero113 said: Chelsea purchased a striker for £100m last season and loaned him out the very next, your point is? All clubs have transfer nightmares, we have our fair share but its on the manager to get the best out of our crop of undoubtedly talented players. The bit about Rafa "seeing right through him" is total sack though, the guys a fat cardboard merchant who was past it in 2008. You're acting like that's not one of the biggest transfer disasters they've ever made, next to Shevchenko. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanBalaban Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 17 minutes ago, nick76 said: If true, sounds like the club did the right thing. I think they need to fire Gerrard, I think buying a right winger is bizarre when we don’t play with wingers and have other priority positions but in this isolated incident if the above quote is true then this is nothing bad against the club or Gerrard, it’s just the deal doesn’t look like happening because we are currently too far apart on terms. That’s life! Nobody did anything wrong or embarrassed themselves. To be fair Nick, winger in a winger isn't necessarily at the expense of the other positions we need. New players don't always walk through the door in order of the priority to Aston Villa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cheltenham_villa Posted August 22, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted August 22, 2022 It happens, I think we'd all agree that the ways deals are conducted here is pretty decent. If this one isnt right then walk away. Alternatively this could also be part of the negotiation. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 10 hours ago, maqroll said: "Oh dear" indeed. I suggest calling Ismail Sarr "Izzy" and you unnecessarily push an attitude on me, just like the last time I had the displeasure of your attention. Please leave me alone. If you want me to leave you alone, stop responding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguson1 Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 An agent/selling club perhaps using us to gain a better deal elsewhere - it happens. Not sure how anyone can say that it makes us a shambles? Perhaps we sniffed a rat and walked away? Good on us if so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steero113 Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Just now, est1874 said: You're acting like that's not one of the biggest transfer disasters they've ever made, next to Shevchenko. My point is even the biggest clubs make transfer **** ups of the highest degree. I think our business in the last two years has generally been pretty good. The manager has to actually get them playing in a system that works however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 (edited) Quote Aston Villa ownership halted the proposed transfer of Sarr after negotiations with Watford for the last couple of weeks. The owners took the decision after an emergency board meeting on Sunday where team performances were analysed and discussed. Steven Gerrard will now be relieved of his duties and the search for his successor will begin. Edited August 22, 2022 by nick76 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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