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Still think him leaving was the best thing that could have happened to him (for his career).

He was grinning ear to ear in those long shot clips of him after he got off the helicopter. He was absolutely buzzing and so he should have been. He did nowt wrong.

They’re doing a Chelsea and selling the women’s team to themselves. Don’t hate the player, hate the game and all that.

The PSR deadline is the 30th, it’s not even July yet. If we haven’t signed anyone by mid July that’s definitely a major concern. An unmitigated disaster would be signing nobody at all this summer. It isn’t one yet.

When do villa need to sell by? they don't seem to be rushing or any other clubs like last season @brummie

Twitter is just the vehicle, it's not the reason for the destination of travel. It's general public / twitter users that are the problem.

But we lose leverage if we stick to the same signing. Joao Pedro we tried for in the past ditto Elanga ditto Trafford. All three clubs know we want them bad. Why would you let them go for cheap when you know the richest club in the world (allegedly) wants them? We haven’t shown much in the way of going for alternatives when we are priced out in any way.

Francis Chip announced it yesterday

He'll be clearing his desk tomorrow

The window isn’t even open 😁

Good God, man. I must have missed the bit where we sold Isak to Sunderland for a tenner.

I blame Twitter and the constant need for 24/7 news. "Journalists" making up nonsense stories to drive up engagement is just grim.

Lasses back to work. Wonder if there are new faces out there with them already. Going to be a busy summer.

Think these journalists online on social media have just about driven all football fans to madness. Other than Man City and Liverpool fans, they're all just losing it over their club's perceived lack of urgency on transfer business. Every bid not accepted or player preferring another club leads to so much angst. Don't think fans were meant to be privy to all this information.

Publicly missing out on our top targets over a drawn out period definitely isn’t a good look.

Based on last summer and how we operate, I imagine we have a very short list of targets. Don’t expect anything quickly though.

Players and agents are after more money, and clubs need more to pay them, which is why the Super League idea came about. The EPL is the biggest league in the world, right? 'Cause of Asia, Africa, and all that. That's why the TV deals are so huge, and the Spanish and Italian leagues are jealous. The EPL is kinda the super league lte as it were. So, it's either this, or the Super League, basically. At least this benefits club's from Africa and all. The super league wouldn't.

I agree on this - offering £25m for Trafford when Burnley has always said around £40m and £25m here are borderline waste of time bids.

Targeting only English or current Premier League players leads to inflated prices we can’t compete with. We should be looking abroad, where quality talent is available for far better value. Should have learnt that lesson with the Guehi nonsense last year

Something like 8 European teams qualify for it, with them on about expanding it even further. The 4 Champions League winners, plus the best coefficient teams. Currently there is a limit of 2 teams from each nation, but if they do expand it, then that may get scrapped. So in the next 3 years we just have to get our European Coefficient up, and it doesn’t matter if it’s via the Champions League or not. It will take 3 excellent runs in Europe, but it’s doable, especially if we manage to strengthen our squad.

Think he’s past the mental block after last season. Best fullback in the PL.

That we haven’t.

I want players that want to be here. I won't be losing any sleep over those that don't by choosing elsewhere. Good luck to him if he chooses Chelsea. Welcome if he picks here where he can continue developing.

He's been excellent during this tournament, not a surprise really though, he's been underrated this whole season. I'm really looking forward to seeing him get a full season at RB with a new RW ahead of him and potentially a new CB beside him. What did surprise me was his really poor goal and assists record. Specifically assists though, I know goals is not what his games about (good job it's not). But he does need to start improving his assist number this coming season. 93 senior club appearances and 2 assists is something to work on.

To be honest our bid of £45m + 5m addons (if true), is weak. Feel we need to stop fannying around with weak bids for top targets. Even if it means ending up signing slightly less personnel than intended in one window.