Demitri_C Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 3 minutes ago, Tomaszk said: Yeah, but now did he play? Well? He played better than bailey did his first season. The stats prove that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarryOnVilla Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 15 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: Because he has better stats than bailey did 1st season. Diaby has potential to exceed bailey AEG had better stats than baileys 1st season shall we re sign him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarryOnVilla Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 (edited) 36 minutes ago, Leeroy said: Loan Dobbin and Sousa out. Sell Hause, Kessler Hayden, Chambers, Carlos, Moreno or Digne, Olsen, Dendoncker. Who’s buying Olsen, who’s buying Dendonker, who’s buying Carlos, who’s buying Digne? Who’s buying Hause. we also just extended KKH contract. its a buyers market… we have no buyers for our cast offs Edited July 11 by CarryOnVilla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazrim Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 Wtf? I only went to the pub. What's happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 42 minutes ago, Leeroy said: Loan Dobbin and Sousa out. Sell Hause, Kessler Hayden, Chambers, Carlos, Moreno or Digne, Olsen, Dendoncker. Yeah dead easy. In fifa. In real life? No. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 30 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: He played better than bailey did his first season. The stats prove that Christ, I know. Bailey was dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 My thoughts on this is I wouldn’t sell Diaby to replace him with Felix. Diaby is better. Felix should never have cost what he did and he is in reality a decent player that no one should be paying more than £20-30m for. But I don’t think Diaby is worth anywhere near £50-60m. He’s shown glimpses of what he can do but you can’t turn down £50-60m for those glimpses. He’s replaceable but I suppose the question is who do we replace him with. I’m sure we’d have a plan. And by all accounts I wouldn’t expect we have been looking to sell him. If he wants to move to Saudi then that’s his own choice. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HeyAnty Posted July 11 Popular Post Share Posted July 11 57 minutes ago, Tomaszk said: £60m and he's gone. I'd be tempted by £50m as well if it's there on the table; that's still about £15-18m in the right direction on our books. We need our top earners to contribute. If we can get someone on a third of the money to do what Diaby does, it's a no-brainer. I expect him to be better this season. What if he's not? That's the game. Best scenario is he stays and plays like he did for the first 4/5 games last season. That was a player. 10 goals and 9 assists in first season isn’t contributing? What exactly do you classify as contributing? 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 Just now, HeyAnty said: What exactly do you classify as contributing? Playing well more often than not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anything11 Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 Weird one this. He started the season well but has never seemed to find a position that suits him. He isn't a Bailey type and he hasn't slotted into the SS role very well. He does seem to struggle with the physicality of the PL. I can certainly see him struggle for minutes as he would not be a starter next season - i think Emery likes a player like Bailey/Philogene/Williams/even Illing-Jnr in that wide spot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bose Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 I can see us accepting a bid of 60m, maybe even 50 and it’s difficult to turn that down and not invest in the team. On the other hand he’s only had one season and he did pretty well overall if you look at the numbers. He’ll more than likely improve as well after having adjusted. A sort of weird one where I’d be happy with both outcomes if we get a good amount for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Isa Posted July 11 Popular Post Share Posted July 11 I think he started well. My completely speculative theory is that once he dipped a bit for a few games, the price tag and the pressure in his head to justify it got to him. Emery though managed him well, took him out the first xi and with the focus off him, he was looking sharp again towards the end of the season. I'm cool either way with this one. If he stays, excited to see what he can do this season. On the other hand, if we get a profit on him and replace with a big signing. I won't argue with that. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam2003 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 4 hours ago, Leeroy said: It leaves us having to replace one key player, one player who made 50 appearances last season, and another player who is our only backup striker to Ollie. We still haven’t replaced Luiz btw. Selling Diaby before we have sourced a proper replacement for Luiz and then still needing to replace Diaby and without a key man in Kamara would make us going into next season woefully underprepared. It’s very annoying. What we need is a magic money tree (Although I know the PSR rules get replaced in a year, not that I think it will get easier but it’ll be calculated differently) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfTimePost Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 9 hours ago, Delphinho123 said: Seems to be gathering pace. Excellent. Get him gone and go and get Felix with the money. Probably the worst possible outcome 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted July 12 Author Share Posted July 12 43 minutes ago, HalfTimePost said: Probably the worst possible outcome Bring it on I say! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpTheVilla26 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 Yeah, I'd sell. If someone else has to go so we can bring players in, I'd rather it was this guy than JJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponky Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 Perhaps he hasn't settled and would like to leave. He comes across as a really lovely, sweet bloke but maybe Villa is just not his cup of tea. We just don't know what - if anything at all - is going on yet. Either way I don't think we saw the best of him last season but we saw glimpses of what he could be. I don't think we really played to his strengths until the last 5-6 games and by that time his confidence in front of goal was pretty shaky. Either way I think we now have the drawing power to take the profits we might get from selling him and spin them into gold and keep building to Emery's vision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeroy Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 8 hours ago, CarryOnVilla said: Who’s buying Olsen, who’s buying Dendonker, who’s buying Carlos, who’s buying Digne? Who’s buying Hause. we also just extended KKH contract. its a buyers market… we have no buyers for our cast offs Ok but you see the issue here - we can't offload our castoffs so are offloading players who could make a real difference. Selling Diaby is nuts given his potential. And we will still have the same problem of having all that deadwood on our books and a bloated squad like you say so selling him doesn't actually solve anything squad wise. From a profit perspective selling Diaby makes little sense either unless we're getting really big money for him. 60m Euros which is about £50m is nothing. We paid £34.6m for him but I think the add ons have hit at least £40m now so his book value is around £32m. £18m profit does very little for us. Selling Cash and a homegrown player make much more sense than selling Diaby tbh, especially as he could be worth so much more this time next summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeroy Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 50 minutes ago, UpTheVilla26 said: Yeah, I'd sell. If someone else has to go so we can bring players in, I'd rather it was this guy than JJ. Diaby did more than JJ last season in getting us top 4, fact. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpTheVilla26 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 Well yeah, cos he didn't miss most of it injured. But longterm, JJ is more important to this club than Diaby. And an inform JJ is a better player than an inform Diaby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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