The Prophet

That's not what I said to be fair.

It was also widely reported Ashworh doesn't like to get involved in transfer dealings. He's more of an operations man, hence why he has Wilcox at Man United.

There's a distinction between a player being pushed or recommended by a manager and a manager having final sign-off on a target. According to the Athletic, Nickson and Andy Howe are responsible for the scouting and the selection of targets. They're then deliberated on by the transfer committee. This idea that it's all driven by Howe is nonsense.

Ashworth confirmed it. He more or less said there's no point in signing a player the manager isn't interested in. By all accounts we operate via a transfer committee, which Howe is part of. Blaming him for apparent failures and not crediting him for any of the success is incredibly agenda driven.

Howe will probably continue to have final say on transfers. It's fairly common practice. It hasn’t really steered us wrong to date.

It was widely reported we had plans in place. Whether Mitchell has come in and altered those, who knows.

Could use a transfer bath like.

Been announced by the club.

The club has rightfully always had the attitude that it's about getting the right people or players, rather than the timing of those. It's not ideal, but not the end of the world.

Are you ITK TCD? We haven't had a good forum ITK in a while.

He's hypothesising, as per.

Thiaw seems like one we've tracked for a long time.

A lot of Villa's business is low risk, with lots of potential upside.

Villa did sell a first team regular mind. Can't imagine they planned for that.

Nah, another grifter.

When he finally leaves, at least Barnes can join Longstaff and Burn in the firing line.

Soule to Roma.

Hey now.