janpawel

Anyone know how he will fit into our high pressing style? Does he look good for it?

What time are they doing the actual draw?

Does singing Ramsey not rule out Mainoo? Doesn't he play on the left side of midfield?

Ekitike and Pedro looking like absolute bargains now

Wow! Could we handle in a FFP sense, signing both Wissa, JSL, and keeping Isak for this season and sell next summer?

When's the first domestic cup game? Reckon he gets his first start then with some sub minutes as and when in the prem?

So excited to see him in the team, hard to imagine a change / improvement to our midfield 3 as they are so good, but he hopefully will be that

Its an interesting topic thinking of strikers for us Clearly we like / prioritise a certain type, ala Isak, Ekitike, Pedro And there doesn't appear to be any left. Larsen and Wissa seem like a different type of striker, I wonder what we prefer vs what is the better value for money

£60m or so is a bargain for Eze, if we had sold Gordon, I'd have wanted us to get him for the LW Eze and Kudus is a great LW/RW combo

Just realised Samu had the surname 'Omorodion' before he changed it to the current Makes sense as I remember seeing that name a lot a while ago and been thinking, ain't there 2 young, talented Samu's out there. Nope!

Looking at Miley in isolation, I deffo think he needs a loan Considering our team, we prefer to play with 3 midfielders, not a 10 or AM. I think we need our 3 starters, and our 4th midfielder needs to be equally as good as the first 3 (hopefully Ramsey becomes this, maybe even better than Joelinton if he gets back to his previous form + Howe magic + playing in a better position for him etc) So thats 4 first team level players, the 5th imo needs to also be good, trusted to take serious minutes, 60 games needs rotation and injury cover Just rough numbers... Bruno / Tonali - 45/50 games each Joelinton / Ramsey 30 games each Could he take the 20/30 games off Bruno/Tonali without a drop in team performance, and would this be the best scenario for him to develop?

I don't think it was. We smashed the bottom 6 teams home and away looking at the h2h table From memory, we struggled against the likes of Bournemouth, Fulham, Brighton etc, those 8th-12th placed teams

He's massive, love a big CB

How bad must Villa be FFP wise if they sold their Woman's team for £50m and still need sales to comply / spend a little amount?!

Maybe cope, but I'm sure I seen a stat where Guehi is in the top 5 worst CB's at winning his headers (Schar was in there too mind) Not a good stat for a PL / Champions League chasing team

We deffo wanted sign him before Villa sold their woman's team like Shame we missed the chance before the PSR fuckery

Thats my ideal / dream like

What type of player is he, what are his attributes, would be a Joelinton rotation option etc? Never paid any attention to him, but loads of twitter people seem to rate him

The lack of midfield action perplexes me Howe showed last year he only trusted Bruno, Tonali, Joelinton He'd rather change formation than play Willock/Longstaff/Miley He's a smart bloke, he must know that we need at least 1 reinforcement there I'm hoping it's just that our targets haven't been leaked at all and something good will happen eventually. But its probably our retarded transfer approach of working on 1 position at a time

Think I'd be happy if we got Thiaw From highlights, he's Tall, fast for his size, strong in the tackle, wins his headers, and looks to be a brilliant passer of the ball into midfield / over the top Not sure what the data says He's been linked with us for ages, and we've not missed a single time when we've got one of our long term targets I'm sure we preferred Guehi last year / this year as he's a more 'plug and play' type, immediate impact, no doubt partly as Howe probably feels the pressure to not regress while we bed in new players

So Villa could have a midfield 3 of Kamara, Tielmans and Onana, and a front 3 of Watkins, Rogers and Guessand... If the formation allows Very good that like. Guessand looks a player off the YouTube scouting and stats too, though probably wouldn't suit our line ups

Surely that's not much profit with only 2 years amortised, and they bought him for around £65m - £85m?

Is this pure cope of the highest order But if we keep Isak for 1 more year, is there a chance he thinks 'fuck it, might as well have a good year so every club in Europe wants me, I'll get better wages etc' And we have Elanga + someone like Wissa on top of our very productive forward line?

FFS, didn't want him, especially for the price, but over the last week managed to read and watch a lot of him to convince myself he can make as much of an impact as Isak Probably all for nothing Hope we keep and get Wissa if not

The same reason we bought Hall for £35m to have him as third choice LB for a season I like it when we buy elite talent when the market opportunity presents itself