This is a real punch to the stomach. Like you said Steve why sell him to a rival? If it was a top team fair enough but Villa? Seriously? Still at least we should see £2.82p reinvested into the team as we get told to be grateful for such wonderful owners that have led up to the brink of administration on several occasions despite being in the Premiership several times also.
If he was going to a decent team fine but a mid-table Villa makes me think what the hell is the point in supporting Norwich? I mean seriously? All we have to look forward to is another under prepared season. I hope Farke does a good job and gets a job a team that will back him like he deserves but he deserves more than he is getting here. What a tin-pot mickey mouse outfit we are. Just what is the point?
make them pay 50m imoProblem is FY, vanilla are ready to pay now and Emi wants to leave now. Arse anal would not pay the extra now and SW wants the money now. The only thing that will show real intent is for us to spend the whole lot on Pereira who wants to leave the Baggues anyway and is an equal replacement.
Aarons will be next to go to a rival.Words fail me……to Villa!? Why not sell all our players to our rivals!? Makes no sense to me. At least try and get 50 million for him. Problem is we probably couldn’t compete with the wages on offer. Now I wish I hadn’t voted Emi player of the season.
Transfer Market valuation is £22 m.
I saw tbst too. His contract is up and they want to cash in on him so have lowered the asking price.I read that as well Rex , but another site said Blackburn would want £14m for him. Dont know what to believe !
500k wow that's a massive offer oh we are staying up for sureSW will start bidding at £ 500 k
I agree with many of the comments about the reports of a deal to sell Emi. However, I can understand to a certain extent the way it’s been done.
it seems pretty likely that part of the resistance to him moving on when we were relegated was an agreement that he could go the next season. If that was the case then he is certain to go this window.
if we were to vacillate trying to squeeze the last million for Emi, it is very likely that our key targets would be lost. Doing the deal early assures the funds to proceed with business.
Happy to be top 26 side remember they said! FfsI don't think the issue is he is being sold, I think the issue is he is being sold to a team we should be seeing as direct competitors. It's not like he is taking a leap in quality to a team competing to even win something, it's a midtable team that struggled after Grealish got injured.
I don't even mind if we had missed out on some money and gotten him out of the country but instead we are strengthening an opponent and we aren't squeezing every last penny out of a highly rated player that has had an excellent season and selling him to a rival that we went up with and bested that season.
I think it speaks volumes about our defeatist attitude as a club that we seem star struck and question how we could even dare dream of matching a team that narrowly escaped relegation helped by a dodgy decision which meant a goal against them wasn't given and then they went on to finish midtable the following season. We have basically looked at their position and said that "Yeah we can't do that. Let just try get this season out of the way" for what the 4th or 5th time now?