Paid Members theironshake Posted August 4, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted August 4, 2021 52 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said: After well over a decade, I would declare that I am now departing the Aston Villa hate bandwagon.  9 minutes ago, Devon Malcolm said: Because you're no longer an utterly tedious bunch of barely avoiding relegation bores, that's why. Danny Ings and Leon Bailey! Yeah I agree. We have been boring for a decade. Last season was the first I've enjoyed since Martin O'Neil was manager (except the promotion season) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted August 4, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted August 4, 2021 Jamaican Theo Walcott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Curious Orange Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 That Ings transfer has come out nowhere! Guessing that means Watkins is getting moved out to the left wing, but I thought him at centre forward was one of Villa's main strengths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 (edited) Emi Buendia was a particularly good bit of business. I like Ward-Prowse too if they manage to get him but bidding £25m was taking the piss a bit. Buendia, Ings and Bailey for Grealish is good going to be fair. If Ings legs don’t fall off he’s guaranteed goals. I’ll be particularly unhappy should Liverpool go and turn those Jarrod Bowen rumours in to reality looking at the price Villa paid for Ings and Bailey. Edited August 4, 2021 by Mr_Danger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 1 hour ago, The Curious Orange said: That Ings transfer has come out nowhere! Guessing that means Watkins is getting moved out to the left wing, but I thought him at centre forward was one of Villa's main strengths. Although it was a pretty different set up when he was at Brentford (with Mbuemo and Benrahma), those three were incredibly interchangeable up front with Watkins often drifting in off the wing to create. There wasn't really an Ings between them, but it worked very well. He's superb at doing that and running at defences to be honest, so that could be a really exciting set up for Villa. Buendia and Watkins flanking Ings sounds quite superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted August 4, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted August 4, 2021 Buendia will surely play central given they've just splashed money on Bailey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 6 minutes ago, PunkStep said: Buendia will surely play central given they've just splashed money on Bailey? Play them all! Fuck defensive midfielders, the absolute cloggers. 3-2-5 forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members I Bent My Wookie Posted August 4, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted August 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Mr_Danger said: I’ll be particularly unhappy should Liverpool go and turn those Jarrod Bowen rumours in to reality looking at the price Villa paid for Ings and Bailey. I'd be unhappy too. If Hereford hadn't gone bust and reformed as a club we'd have made a fortune from sell on fees for Bowen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted August 4, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted August 4, 2021 If we'd stayed up in 2016, we were planning to bring in Simon Kjaer and Leon Bailey. We went down and got Michael Hector and Kevin Stewart. FML. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Murtz Posted August 5, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted August 5, 2021 I know this can be said about many players over the last 5 years, but Grealish isn't worth 100m is he? Surely the undeserved hype around him at the Euros has really inflated his price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 46 minutes ago, Murtz said: I know this can be said about many players over the last 5 years, but Grealish isn't worth 100m is he? Surely the undeserved hype around him at the Euros has really inflated his price. He is, because he is worth that much to Villa. If you discard what they've just done in the transfer market, without Grealish they could potentially go down, so yeah he is worth that much IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted August 5, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted August 5, 2021 Young, English, extremely talented- there's a reason why nobody is up in arms over the price tag. He's absolutely a £100m player in this market. Ousmane Dembele and Joao Felix went for similar/more, let's not forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members seph Posted August 5, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted August 5, 2021 39 minutes ago, SuperBacon said: He is, because he is worth that much to Villa. If you discard what they've just done in the transfer market, without Grealish they could potentially go down, so yeah he is worth that much IMO. They could be a textbook example for the FFFP as well. Years after wonky accounting they now have 100M to massage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted August 5, 2021 Share Posted August 5, 2021 Jack Grealish is 26 next month, he’s practically middle aged in football years. In the good old days he’d be sporting a comb over by now. It’s hard to argue his price when players like Pepe and and Kepa are going for £70m. Coutinho cost more and they are about as similar in talent as you could find for comparison.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted August 5, 2021 Paid Members Share Posted August 5, 2021 They've also just sold about £60m worth of academy/reserves talent. That's most of Grealish's fee paid for. Perhaps they can afford to sign Kane in the same window too after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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