AvfcRigo82 Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 2 hours ago, Delphinho123 said: That’s a lot of money to spend on a position we’re already stacked in. We're not though. Take out chambers and we only have 3 CB's to cope with a huge season ahead. One of those has also returned from a serious injury. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burchy Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 As for the Pau Torres links, I think it might just be lazy journalism. Good player obviously but for €65m there’s better value elsewhere. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 1 minute ago, burchy said: As for the Pau Torres links, I think it might just be lazy journalism. Good player obviously but for €65m there’s better value elsewhere. £55m for a defender of his quality is not bad to be honest. But the figures flying around should be taken with a pinch of salt. I've seen figures being quoted in the last couple of weeks ranging between £30m - £55m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 4 minutes ago, AvfcRigo82 said: We're not though. Take out chambers and we only have 3 CB's to cope with a huge season ahead. One of those has also returned from a serious injury. Dendonker and Kamara both have +60 games each at CB. Dendonker just played CB for Belgium against Austria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 24 minutes ago, Jas10 said: And yeah, this line of poetry in reference to Kudus. Could be way off though Sorry, what’s the reference between Jerusalem and whoever Kudus is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas10 Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Just now, AvfcRigo82 said: £55m for a defender of his quality is not bad to be honest. But the figures flying around should be taken with a pinch of salt. I've seen figures being quoted in the last couple of weeks ranging between £30m - £55m. Ordinarily, it would arguably be decent value for such a quality player but… he’s in the last year of his contract so it wouldn’t make a lot of sense… around 30 would be more acceptable if there’s serious competition, less if not. If we want him, he’s coming straight into the side. I do feel that we can’t afford to “rest on our laurels” and there is a need to strengthen as well or as much as we can, we have ambition but we can’t expect this same set of players to take us much further or to take on much more without “quality help”. And if there’s a real opportunity to upgrade on any position/player, why not take it? For as well as Unai did, our squad was exposed as weak and light. Barely anything from the bench either. It’s not sustainable going forwards and with the amount of games we have to play, I’m all for enhancement of nearly any position if it makes sense and is what Unai wants. He needs a better “toolset” and I’m sure he’ll get it. I can’t see why there are people who want to write off any links, transfer speculation is supposed to be a bit fun There is a lot of BS and crap out there but we should eh sued to it by now and try to ignore the obvious nonsense. The idea of top talent joining us excites me at least anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 2 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said: Dendonker and Kamara both have +60 games each at CB. Dendonker just played CB for Belgium against Austria That's all very good, but I'd like to think we've kicked on nowadays where we need to play players out of their 'natural' positions and plug holes to 'do a job' because we are light on numbers. I'd prefer if players played and stayed in their natural position and we actually sign someone who is a natural CB. This isn't non league football. We're Aston Villa and we have a huge fixture list approaching and we need a squad of approx 23-25 players to cope with that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas10 Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 3 minutes ago, bobzy said: Sorry, what’s the reference between Jerusalem and whoever Kudus is? The line is from a piece of poetry referring to Jerusalem and Jesus. But… I think we may well be barking up the wrong tree here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 2 minutes ago, Jas10 said: The line is from a piece of poetry referring to Jerusalem and Jesus. But… I think we may well be barking up the wrong tree here So, so pathetic. I think Jerusalem is called Kudus perhaps by other religions or maybe it was the original name. Could google but tired. The poster knew what he was doing and backtracked because he got a load of stick. At least stick by your nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one_ian_taylor Posted June 24, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 24, 2023 18 minutes ago, bobzy said: Sorry, what’s the reference between Jerusalem and whoever Kudus is? At a guess... al-Quds is Arabic for Jerusalem, not far to Kudus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 9 minutes ago, Jas10 said: The line is from a piece of poetry referring to Jerusalem and Jesus. But… I think we may well be barking up the wrong tree here Testing water to see if someone could make sense of a cryptic tweet AND THEN make them think “oh yeah, would be good if that was played at Villa Park”? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul514 Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 I don't even like Kudus over rated IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 26 minutes ago, AvfcRigo82 said: That's all very good, but I'd like to think we've kicked on nowadays where we need to play players out of their 'natural' positions and plug holes to 'do a job' because we are light on numbers. I'd prefer if players played and stayed in their natural position and we actually sign someone who is a natural CB. This isn't non league football. We're Aston Villa and we have a huge fixture list approaching and we need a squad of approx 23-25 players to cope with that. Kamara started out as CB and played 2 seasons for Marseille. He's a natural CB converted into DM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Kudüs is Ottoman Turkish name for Jerusalem 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said: Kamara started out as CB and played 2 seasons for Marseille. He's a natural CB converted into DM Why do we need to put him back into a CB position for? Edited June 24, 2023 by AvfcRigo82 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Just now, AvfcRigo82 said: We do we need to put him back into a CB position for? We don't but your argument we only have 3 players plus Chambers that can play CB is false. Kamara more of a CB than Chambers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted June 24, 2023 Author Share Posted June 24, 2023 Project B6 would do well to just stay in their lane. They are still trying to get a foothold at VP with the club and supporters. These tweets do not help their cause at all. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Project B6 has previous. I had his personal account previously and he admitted to me a few years ago he didn’t know anything but on occasion had pretended to know info to rile up twitter 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas10 Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 35 minutes ago, omariqy said: Project B6 has previous. I had his personal account previously and he admitted to me a few years ago he didn’t know anything but on occasion had pretended to know info to rile up twitter That’s disappointing… think they’ve done a lot of good work and hope they continue in that vein. A bit more support and encouragement would be nice, feel they’re too often slated or even abused unfairly when they’re actually trying to help and benefit the club and fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillon66 Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 23 minutes ago, Jas10 said: That’s disappointing… think they’ve done a lot of good work and hope they continue in that vein. A bit more support and encouragement would be nice, feel they’re too often slated or even abused unfairly when they’re actually trying to help and benefit the club and fans. How are they trying to help the club and fans ? Genuine question, not trying to be a smart arse.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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