NoelVilla Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 15 minutes ago, Adbo9 said: Who was the player we were close to signing from Colo Colo......... think it was Little or Gregory era ? Marcelo Salas? Never played for Colo Colo though. Universidad Chile and then River Plate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adbo9 Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 5 minutes ago, NoelVilla said: Marcelo Salas? Never played for Colo Colo though. Universidad Chile and then River Plate. It was Jose Luis Sierra - i remember it being on Central News cos he was the man who put the pass in for Salas at Wembley v England......... done deal, all fell through last minute !! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 25 minutes ago, Indigo said: Everton have spent over 20 million on something like 25 players and are complete shite. There's no blanket rule when it comes to transfers so I never get just moaning over the specific number spent as if it's the be-all and end-all. Kamara wouldn't be a better player if Villa generously gave Marseilles 40 million for him rather than jumping on the opportunity to get him for free. Well. It's all about if a player is worth the money. If Kamara had been available to us at £40m instead of free, I'd still have signed him. I wouldn't if the price was £150m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted January 25, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 25, 2023 1 hour ago, foreveryoung said: Comon in reality any decent player to hit the ground running is 40-50 mill plus these days. Why do the board claim to have aspirations of European football, yet we are still looking in the bargain basement for players who might come good.. We will only end up being the shittest football team to ever reach top 6, if ever. Definitely understand the frustration. I'm with you, emotionally. But intellectually, I think the wisest spending in this window in our current situation -- if we truly do want to get to Europe -- will be careful and restrained. "There is a time to every purpose" etc., and we may just need to muddle through to summer. It's a tough one. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Do we reckon these young players are an addition TO our plans.. or that Emery is of the mind that, if he can't get certain " immediate " targets, he is willing to get some wonderkids in, and develop them into those players short, medium and long term at better value? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 6 hours ago, MrBlack said: 19 registered senior players, 3 of whom are injured, and two are sub goalies. Obviously Ramsey is first team equivalent but is still only an outfield squad of 14 to pick your 10 from. Certainly doesn't sound like it gives Emery the options to change that he has spoken about. Plenty of room for incomings there, and if we don't get one I'll imagine it wasn't for the want of trying. Agree MB. Id be suprised if thats the squad we go into 2nd half of season with no incomings. Im sure a couple more will come in. I have a feeling there will be a complete unknown signing coming out of nowhere 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 (edited) Gregg Evans reposted his article and ensured to add the Depay ‘interest’ in his tweet Edited January 25, 2023 by The_Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted January 25, 2023 Author Share Posted January 25, 2023 35 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: Do we reckon these young players are an addition TO our plans.. or that Emery is of the mind that, if he can't get certain " immediate " targets, he is willing to get some wonderkids in, and develop them into those players short, medium and long term at better value? Yeah I do. And hope so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post nick76 Posted January 25, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2023 41 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: Do we reckon these young players are an addition TO our plans.. or that Emery is of the mind that, if he can't get certain " immediate " targets, he is willing to get some wonderkids in, and develop them into those players short, medium and long term at better value? Dual strategy of getting young players in for the future and be around the squad but also adding quality players for now to improve the on the field eleven. If some of the younger ones come in and can develop quicker then they’ll get more time but Emery has already said he’s not throwing in Duran in the deep end and with No.9 shirt still free I expect a striker to come in. I don’t think these youngsters are instead of the players he wants now, they are in addition. I also don’t just think it’s an Emery plan, it’s the club plan which Emery agrees with as we’ve been after Duran for six months so before Emery even came to the club. You could argue Duran is just the evolution of the youth transfer strategy we’ve had for some time bringing in youth when you think of players like Rory Wilson and co. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Hobsons Choice Posted January 25, 2023 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2023 50 minutes ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: Do we reckon these young players are an addition TO our plans.. or that Emery is of the mind that, if he can't get certain " immediate " targets, he is willing to get some wonderkids in, and develop them into those players short, medium and long term at better value? You have to do both realistically. The development of youth is crucial to long term success, but the fanbase at a club like Villa would not permit short term failure while we wait for their development. No-one would last long enough at the helm to implement it. So you have to spend to enable short term success also. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Other added benefit of signing the 29 year old is that the young players get the older players to learn from. We do have to balance it with FFP though, and only buying one or the other leaves us handicapped. We've seemingly got a very good blend these days. Kamara age range, ready made brilliance, with still room to improve, is impossible to buy with our funds, unless they're free transfers. We were too young and inexperienced under Dean, then possibly went too far the other way with most of Gerrard's signings. Coutinho, whilst seemingly not up to in a match, is probably still attracting global attention, given our youth a bit of a buzz and for technique that can't really be taught they'll not get a better close up view. He's overpaid for that, and there are better examples to learn from, but he does bring other attributes to the table. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 2 minutes ago, MrBlack said: Other added benefit of signing the 29 year old is that the young players get the older players to learn from. We do have to balance it with FFP though, and only buying one or the other leaves us handicapped. We've seemingly got a very good blend these days. Kamara age range, ready made brilliance, with still room to improve, is impossible to buy with our funds, unless they're free transfers. We were too young and inexperienced under Dean, then possibly went too far the other way with most of Gerrard's signings. Coutinho, whilst seemingly not up to in a match, is probably still attracting global attention, given our youth a bit of a buzz and for technique that can't really be taught they'll not get a better close up view. He's overpaid for that, and there are better examples to learn from, but he does bring other attributes to the table. For Coutinho I think its the other way round, now people think we’re doing signings for the sake of it. Everyone notices he wasn’t a success by not playing regularly. For me I very much prefer the other approach. I wasn’t excited by Coutinho nor Digne. Although Digne was more success than a permenant Coutinho (who to be honest impressed me in the first couple of games especially as he was on loan). We can’t afford to have such a signings right now. Brighton is attracting a lot of players without having big names. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted January 25, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 25, 2023 No signings and it's Wednesday. Outraged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 1 hour ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: Do we reckon these young players are an addition TO our plans.. or that Emery is of the mind that, if he can't get certain " immediate " targets, he is willing to get some wonderkids in, and develop them into those players short, medium and long term at better value? For me I think if you’re good enough then you can play. Especially if your physically ready. For me I’m very much ok with Duran as a second choice. I won’t mind a short term solution to have 3 strikers just incase, but I think next summer we should look at a striker who shall take Watkins place, sell Watkins and keep Duran to play aswell. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMitch Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 I think it's clear that we're either going after Champions League quality players or the best young talents in the world. Not going to settle for anything in between now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted January 25, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 25, 2023 3 minutes ago, PieFacE said: No signings and it's Wednesday. Outraged. Are you serious? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted January 25, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 25, 2023 1 minute ago, Marka Ragnos said: Are you serious? No 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 People getting mad about alleged bids on Twitter for other players need to chill. Still plenty of time to get deals done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 So we've signed nobody and 4 of the players we were linked to are going to the PL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Just now, CVByrne said: So we've signed nobody and 4 of the players we were linked to are going to the PL Just hope we dont panic buy. Quite suprised we havent bought anyone in from villareal to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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