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Wants to be in Larndon too!

Can’t say I’m going to lose much sleep over this one. Questionable temperament to start with and also showing he’d be happy to sit on the bench on inflated wages, move on. We just need to accept that nobody in the premier league wants to do business with us, they are clearly using us to drive up prices. We need to take some risks and widen our net.

Seems obvious that clubs we want to to buy off are alerting other teams,Our bid for Pedro might have gone in a few weeks ago. If we bid £100 mill for him chelsea were gonna have a phonecall anyway

Seems the choice is; move quickly and secure less-coveted targets (worse players), or gamble on 'wasting time' by trying to sign better players. Mind you, when you've got professional gazumpers like Chelsea and Man City lurking around, you wonder if we'd miss out on top targets whether they're in the Premier League or Timbuktu.

Villa are owned in 1/3s by Edens, Sawiri and one other firm. For one of those owners to purchase the women’s team from Villa, then it’ll need to for enough money. Its a bit like Reuben’s buying our women’s team, but would need to pay enough that PIF feel it’s worth.

Sell

If he ends up at Chelsea, he’s been intending to go to Chelsea all along.

Do you really believe this? It's not like bargain polaroid TV's on black Friday in Asda. Christ.

Shola to come out of retirement

Can someone explain ? Is that like me deciding how much to transfer from one account to the other, they are both my accounts but I'm being performative about it ?

Very excited about him playing out from the back for us. Will add another dimension to our attack!

Oh James.

Clearly we didn't lose out on him last time, we decided to sign Isak instead.

When they have a full 11 of wingers to choose from

I think Madueke is available but we’ve moved on. I’m all in on Dibling even if it is silly money and the same as Pedro. I think anywhere up to £55m is fair for Dibling personally and I do think he’s in a similar category to a Lewis Hall or Tino in that a lot of clubs wouldn’t take the risk on him yet

Bruno was to upgrade on Shelvey. Botman, Lascelles. Isak, Gayle. Now we're trying to upgrade on significantly better players meaning the pool is a lot smaller, meanwhile our own targets have changed beyond survival/consolidation, again reducing the pool of players who can help achieve our new targets. Then you've got the inflation of prices which has changed even in just the last three years, plus the risks of PSR are far more established and emphasise the need to invest with as much guarantee as possible. = Targeting PL players in the first instance.

I do wonder whether we might go for a younger player or two. Someone like Dibling makes alot of sense to me. The issue again is cost. If hes going to cost the same as Pedro then its mental that some clubs can hold out at such a high fee. Also, I do wonder at what point Madueke becomes available at Chelsea.

I think any transfer strategy was abandoned the last two years because of PSR concerns. This summer should be the reset; I’d not be averse to that decent blend again of PL shopping meets continental diamonds. Antonio Silva and Ederson are the ones I’d like to see come in. Think they’d be brilliant for us. Up front / RW - can’t say I’m as aware of who’d do the job on the continent.

Exactly

Losing out on top targets, regularly, is going to damage to our appeal as a club to both current and prospective players. This cannot carry on.

I’d love to know the story behind the Bruno/Botman/Isak signings. Whatever that strategy was it’s been long abandoned.

More like we were beaten on price rather than timing.

To me it seems fairly simple this summer; the top targets are here and that's where we'll try first. If it doesn't happen, move onto the theoretically more attainable targets; players on the continent or those less-coveted PL players.