Popular Post AVFCforever1991 Posted January 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2022 2 minutes ago, CarryOnVilla said: Has a player of this kind of reputation/stature ever joined villa before? Yes, remember when we signed Tonev.... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chappy Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Only warranted six pages in 2013! Wonder what we’ll reach first, 50 pages or 50 different spellings of his name? For me, on a loan to buy deal, it seems a no-brainer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A'Villan Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 2 minutes ago, CarryOnVilla said: Has a player of this kind of reputation/stature ever joined villa before? Ginola, maybe? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCollins29 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Gerrard is key here, not only in pulling power but he will know exactly how to het the best out of him, ie his liverpool form 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Griffin Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 14 minutes ago, Steero113 said: Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee corse. That's a little better than the YouTube on Hickey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steero113 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 3 minutes ago, CarryOnVilla said: Has a player of this kind of reputation/stature ever joined villa before? Certainly not in the last 30 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Griffin Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 1 minute ago, chappy said: Wonder what we’ll reach first, 50 pages or 50 different spellings of his name? Its a Villa thread about a foreign player, clearly it will be 50 different spellings of his name first. But the 50 pages will come soon after Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 7 minutes ago, jacketspuds said: In the space of about 4 hours I've gone from not being too fussed, to now thinking that I'll be gutted if we don't sign him. He is a class players and it shows our ambition, both of which should help attract other players of quality. Certainly better than signing another winger. Unveiled by Newcastle in the morning. Heading up the Championships first " Galacticos " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Griffin Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 If we do sign Coutinho it will mean lots of coverage on Sky and MOTD. He would be a massive media pull 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Griffin Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 29 minutes ago, ejvilla said: Would probably be our biggest signing for 30 years... Just thinking about that assertion. Could the 'for 30 years' be changed to 'ever'? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post CVByrne Posted January 5, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2022 If he does join us. How many clubs can say the 3rd and 6th most expensive players ever played for their team inside of a year. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHY Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 2 minutes ago, Peter Griffin said: If we do sign Coutinho it will mean lots of coverage on Sky and MOTD. He would be a massive media pull Can’t wait to watch us lose first on MOTD, rather than last! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Loan with option to buy makes this a good deal risk wise too to be honest 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Griffin Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Just now, dudevillaisnice said: Loan with option to buy makes this a good deal risk wise too to be honest The cost of the option to buy would scare me but it is a wonderful sign of the support and ambition NSWE have in not just AVFC but also in Purslow and Gerrard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted January 5, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 5, 2022 16 minutes ago, CarryOnVilla said: Has a player of this kind of reputation/stature ever joined villa before? Hanz Krankel (almost) around 1979 We brought Peter Withe instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykeyb Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 13 minutes ago, Johnnyp said: People talk about his wages like it’s their money. If it wasn’t feasible, we wouldn’t be entertaining it. Sign him up. Look nobody knows what the numbers are so let's assume we would be paying £150,000 a week for him and then we go to Luiz and say we want you to sign a new contract and we're offering you £60,000 a week. What if he agent says hold on a minute PC is on double that, come back to us with a better offer? All hypothetical but this is where the heart unsettling of the dressing room starts. What do you do, sell all those who are upset,? If we sign him I will hope and pray he is a massive success but he is here for 6 months unless we have an option to buy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Griffin Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 11 minutes ago, CVByrne said: If he does join us. How many clubs can say the 3rd and 6th most expensive players ever played for their team inside of a year. I had to think who the 6th was Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Griffin Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 5 minutes ago, mykeyb said: Look nobody knows what the numbers are so let's assume we would be paying £150,000 a week for him and then we go to Luiz and say we want you to sign a new contract and we're offering you £60,000 a week. What if he agent says hold on a minute PC is on double that, come back to us with a better offer? All hypothetical but this is where the heart unsettling of the dressing room starts. What do you do, sell all those who are upset,? If we sign him I will hope and pray he is a massive success but he is here for 6 months unless we have an option to buy. If that happens we tell Luiz' agent to F off and we transfer list him if he doesn't sign. That type of problem will always exist and it is just the numbers that differ. The club need to manage players expectations and salary demands and the club need to have the balls to refuse. We should pay player what we think they are worth paying. If they don't like it then we part company 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston_Villan4 Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 6 minutes ago, mykeyb said: Look nobody knows what the numbers are so let's assume we would be paying £150,000 a week for him and then we go to Luiz and say we want you to sign a new contract and we're offering you £60,000 a week. What if he agent says hold on a minute PC is on double that, come back to us with a better offer? All hypothetical but this is where the heart unsettling of the dressing room starts. What do you do, sell all those who are upset,? If we sign him I will hope and pray he is a massive success but he is here for 6 months unless we have an option to buy. Well when Luiz becomes a Coutinho level player then he can be worried about making more money. We also signed Ings at £120k. I don’t see other players fussing about that so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 5, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 5, 2022 On his wages , Barcelona will undoubtedly be funding the lions share of them during the loan period. At the end he will have 1 year left on his contract, that's getting towards token signing fee. He's never going to get anywhere near £400,000 pw anywhere else now, not unless he gets into Citeh. Would he take / would we pay £150,000 pw? That would be doable on a low signing fee. I do think he'll go to a bigger club though. As someone said Gerrard is key to this. I doubt he'd give us a second thought otherwise. I'm sure if Chelsea or someone like that offered him £200k pw he'd take the money. Is it better for FFP to sign a player on high wages and a low fee instead of a big fee upfront? I know the fee is paid in installments anyway. I'm sure Purslow knows if he can sanction whatever we are offering. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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