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The Summer 2020 Transfer Rumour Thread

Fulham now reported to be in talks for Watkins. If we are scratching around trying to save a few quid and miss out to the likes of Fulham then the club needs to reassess what it’s all about.

If we are targeting championship players then take the ones we want, pay the money and have the cream of the league lower. Our first choice. Not piss about while clubs stump up the cash and we are left scratching around for what’s left and foreign unknown from abroad.

I can't see Watkins being released until Brentford have found a replacement. Toney turning them down has stalled the usual domino flow of events.

By all accounts, Watkins favours Villa, so I would not get to worried at this stage.

Yes, I also agree Sky are a joke.
 
Here’s a thought, why don’t we buy the players Brentford are buying to replace Watkins and 50 cent, we’ll save money and won’t need to buy them next year?

I always think that when signing anyone just buy the player they are replacing them with.
 
I wouldn't give a shit if we missed out on Watkins to be honest.

He’s had one good season from what I can see, seems it’s a race to sign people but it’s a risk in doing so. Ideally, he’d have another season with Brentford and then we could judge him again to see if he’s a one season wonder
 
Eze off to Palace, good player, would have liked him here, Palace probably offering ridiculous wages though.

Pretty much identical comments to the Watkins ones! Eze is very hot and cold to me, yes he had a good game at VP a few seasons ago but we’ve bought a couple of players who have played well against us before and regretted it - Lansbury springs to mind.

I’d take a look at him in 12 months but he’ll be snapped up by someone taking a risk as palace are doing.
 
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Pretty much identical comments to the Watkins ones! Eze is very hot and cold to me, yes he had a good game at VP a few seasons ago but we’ve bought way a couple of players who have played well against us before and regretted it - Lansbury springs to mind.

I’d take a look at him in 12 months but he’ll be snapped up by someone taking a risk as palace are doing.
I’m hoping this means we’re looking for proven talent, instead of up and coming, time will tell.
 
All talk and no action
Are we waiting for a first sale ? I can hear Smith now, we never got them in till 2 days before the season started and they have to get.
 
No one really has a clue do they. The rumours are both fun and frustrating but I have to keep telling myself that till they're at Bodymore heath waving a Villa shirt around that it's basically all conjecture.

Maybe we are in for Watkins and Benrahma. Maybe not. We were linked with every player under the sun last summer but not one of these media itk's said we were bidding for Wesley or Luiz till We'd had a bid and personal terms accepted. Same with several of our signings last summer.
 
I honestly wonder what planet the people are on when they think we can afford and attract ‘proven talent’, they go for +50m! That’s not our league anymore/yet. We can’t attract those players without paying significantly over the odds on fees and on wages.
Therefore we have to take risks on Scottish prem, championship or foreign league players because that’s all we can afford and not risk the financial state of the club.

we simply don’t have the reputation or clout that we used to have.

if anyone says that ‘we have bullionaires so we buy anyone or pay anything’ is just naive as to how business works.

I laughed when I read that we shouldn’t take Tammy because he is a Chelsea reject and Instead we should compete with them.

We all know we need better players but we can’t go from zero to 100 in 3 years. Just need to look at Leicester and Sheff Utd to see you don’t need to spend big bucks, but instead recruit smartly which is what I expect Lange to bring to the table.
 
Messi is available but we don't need him we have Jack , next

could be a useful free transfer signing tho (altho getting on a bit now for the resale) to strengthen the bench.


Just need to cover the £500K+ per week obv........

getting shot of Suarez as well aren't they