PerryBarrPet Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 1 minute ago, Mr_Dogg said: And Darren Randolph hanging around the side. Rather have Denis Zakaria. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 1 hour ago, NurembergVillan said: Takes me longer than that to recover from banging my head on the cooker hood. Not as good as Ian Wright breaking his leg twice in a season and still playing a part in the 1990 cup final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted January 12, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 12, 2022 6 minutes ago, PerryBarrPet said: Rather have Denis Zakaria. Yes, his hips don't lie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WallisFrizz Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 8 minutes ago, Mr_Dogg said: And Darren Randolph hanging around the side. West Ham have decided to keep Randolph and we’re now looking at Robin Olsen to which Blades fans are reacting how Villa fans did to the news about El Ghazi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 1 hour ago, The Moustache of Teale said: From what I understand Rafa is very much from the Paul Lambert school of man-management so not overly concerned with Digne. At least I can understand Rafa 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke313 Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Hopefully this spurs Matt on to fight for his place, having a good back up is massive. I do wonder how Matt would fare with Coutinho in front of him, he was excellent with Grealish in fromt last season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 25 minutes ago, sidcow said: Are they sure he's not also due in another unspecified city for a medical also? Nah, Liverpool are just across the road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted January 12, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 12, 2022 I thought Dorsett was on the blacklist? Or is that only when it's something negative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 30 minutes ago, WallisFrizz said: I’m not entirely convinced we are doing the last bit this window… If you think about it like this. If we can get Bissouma this window but it'll cost us £10mil more than it will in Summer. We fill a big hole in our team for remainder of the season, we guarantee he will be here for the full pre season training next season and the team get more time playing together. We also might be competing with Newcastle in the summer when we aren't now. Newcastle could easily spend 200m in Summer to build a new squad and pay players more than we will. So a 5 year contract in summer or a 5 1/2 year one now. Amortised it's very little difference yearly. Coutinho, Digne are two excellent signings and our left hand side seems sorter now. We also have Bailey who can come in there too. With Targett as back up for Digne. IF we go get Bissouma we only need 2 players in summer, a CB and a GK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steero113 Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Just now, CVByrne said: If you think about it like this. If we can get Bissouma this window but it'll cost us £10mil more than it will in Summer. We fill a big hole in our team for remainder of the season, we guarantee he will be here for the full pre season training next season and the team get more time playing together. We also might be competing with Newcastle in the summer when we aren't now. Newcastle could easily spend 200m in Summer to build a new squad and pay players more than we will. So a 5 year contract in summer or a 5 1/2 year one now. Amortised it's very little difference yearly. Coutinho, Digne are two excellent signings and our left hand side seems sorter now. We also have Bailey who can come in there too. With Targett as back up for Digne. IF we go get Bissouma we only need 2 players in summer, a CB and a GK Considering Newcastle will be building a championship squad I would find it unlikely we would be competing with them for at least a couple of years. They are dogshit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 1 hour ago, CVByrne said: It's quite clearly a difference of opinion in football terms. Rafa wants full backs to be defenders and to primarily focus on that. Digne is primarily an attacker and wants to be key to creating chances further up the field. If Digne did what Rafa wanted his game would suffer the year of the World Cup in an outdated tactic with a flat back 4 of "defenders". He wanted to play to his strengths and they had a falling out. Rafa is saying Digne doesn't want to be a team player and do the role he's asked to do. Nobody is right or wrong here. Technically they are both right. I don't think its outdated, its a style, a trend and a popular one granted.....These things morph from era to era, when the best teams get copied. but if you play like that ,you have to have midfielders with the nous to defend, to cover....otherwise you end up, with just 2 defenders in the team.....that creates imbalance. There is of course a asymmetrical option of having one attacking full back and one defending full back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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alreadyexists Posted January 12, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 12, 2022 6 minutes ago, villarule123 said: I thought Dorsett was on the blacklist? Or is that only when it's something negative Oh you cheeky monkey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 (edited) Edited January 12, 2022 by Delphinho123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 £22.5m. Not too bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Digne retweeted a good luck tweet. What a move this is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted January 12, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 12, 2022 apparently want him in the squad for saturday. this is a great signing. get it done villa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 1 minute ago, Delphinho123 said: £22.5m. Not too bad. Not a bad price and could be a lot less considering we might be sending Anwar the other way If that is the case then I think its a lot better deal than I expected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 I’m so friggin excited for Saturday now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Demitri_C Posted January 12, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 12, 2022 If we get bissouma as well this will be the greatest january window ever for us. The best for me was when we signed young and carew but this would top that 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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