Joey47

Disagree with that, we got Livramento from Southampton when they were relegated.

It all just depends on how you read into it though. Howe’s interview after Staveley left and Mitchell came in wasn’t really presenting a united front. Your point about Mitchell bemoaning our existing strategy and apportioning blame, he’s just saying that there’s room for improvement (which there definitely is). I do agree that maybe he shouldn’t have distanced himself from the failure of the window but at the end of the day I’d personally prefer more communication than less.

I agree with you in part but also when referencing the ‘Newcastle tax’ it’s about us overpaying compared to what other clubs would have paid. Almost all our signings have turned out to be great value but we still might have overpaid compared to what other clubs would have. Edit to add that this ‘Newcastle tax’ might be a complete myth but I personally don’t see a problem with publicly setting a precedent that we won’t be taken advantage of in the market.

I think Mitchell speaks a lot of sense regarding the “Newcastle tax” and not submitting to it. But as mentioned on here many times throughout the window, Guehi can’t be the only player for £65 million and under that would have improved our defence. I also like that he’s basically shitting on Ashworth and saying the scouting processes he had in place are outdated

Froggy: “Ten Hag is a good manager, it was all Casemiro’s fault. We actually deserved to win that game, we beat them in XG and didn’t look that bad for 10 minutes in the first half”

9:54, Gordon and Pope carrying their stuff in black bin bags

If the bid was reduced to £7M the original one (that we accepted) can’t have been much more than 10M. Surely some other clubs might be interested around that price? Although wages might continue to prove an issue, anyone know what he’s on with that 3.5 year deal?

“I generally feel like I’m a good judge of the truth”

Some people saying it’s a Palace leak to encourage other clubs to bid. But what other clubs would be interested in a 50-60 million CB? Maybe Man U or Liverpool?

Yessssss please let this happen

I just had a look through the comments and apparently he said it on his podcast. Not gonna stoop to actually listening through a Romano podcast though.

Did Romano actually say this?

Would be interesting to compare his PSV stats to Minteh’s Feyenord stats.

Interesting, football insider not the best source but if they were just farming clicks wouldn’t they go with “bid made” or “interest shown”?

Wasn’t the Luiz deal done before July 1st because you were at risk of breaking FFP rules? If those two Juventus players end up being useful for Emery then it’s probably a really good deal but how much do you actually expect them to feature this season? Also as others have mentioned the Diaby sale was probably pretty lucky in the sense that nobody other than the Saudi’s would have paid anywhere near that fee, not some genius business from Monchi. And all these great sales are well and good but what do you think about the re-investment thus far? Have Villa actually improved their first team much at all?

When he was at Burnley he was one of my dream signings during the Bruce era how far we’ve come… I’ve definitely become a bit spoilt and need to remind my self that back then all I wished for was a team that I could just enjoy watching. We have that now with Eddie Howe.

Not sure how reliable but seems to suggest we were the ones offering Gordon to Liverpool?

Was still following Minteh on the FotMob app and just got a notification pop up that he’s scored for Brighton in their pre season game

I thought he was referring to seeing a Romano tweet about Nico Gonzalez and for a second got excited thinking it might be related to a Newcastle bid I don’t think him signing a new contract last summer necessarily means he won’t move this summer

Yeah I realised after posting it that it might give people a couple of seconds of false excitement. Sorry about that

So it seems like last summer, Brentford bid around €35M then upped it to €40M+ and Fiorentina rejected both and then gave González a new contract

One of the comments on this tweet “for 40million I’ll tattoo Furlani on my back” Furlani is AC’s CEO. Do the fans not rate Thiaw that highly?

Yeah I think Onana will be very good for Villa. Have they signed a replacement for Douglas Luiz though? Wasn’t he one of their most important players last season?