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Week before Xmas as well. Toon will be rocking from 2pm!

Yes was very good tonight. Getting better each game. I even think he has a higher ceiling than Tino.

Thought he looked slow and sluggish last season. Like his injuries and age finally caught up. Remember Forest away seemed to spend the whole game wrestling with their CBs. Mind you, his finishing was still lethal and movement and positioning in the box. But definitely slower when running outside the 18 yards box.

We would never had bought him when Brentford did, coz no PL experience.

Be interesting if tje sack him and then come in for Howe.

Plus the summer before. £130m on Tino, Tonali and Barnes doesn't look so clever now. Mitchell is right. The whole recruitment approach needs improving. With less emphasis on 'must have PL experience'.

Too right. Why pay £18m for someone like Duran with no PL experience when you can sign Osula for £15m 😫

Remember Howe wasn't our first choice. I wonder how Emrey is doing these days....... I hope Howe stays and is a great success but nothing lasts forever.

I probably didn't explain it well. But if we had sold Bruno this summer for £70m-£80m then we would not have had to sell Anderson for £15m, which is all we really got for him. I would have replaced Bruno with Bruno v2 from the continent. Our recruitment team have already shown they can identify good players. Let them do their job. We need to get less attached to players as fans and sell at peak value. But I get your point about the market for players like Bruno being very small with only a few clubs paying that sort of money. That's when we need to sell, when those rare deals do come around. Spurs with Bale, Liverpool with Coutinho, Villa with Grealish, West Ham with Rice.

Maybe and I understand your response 😁. I just don't think he's as good as some people on here make out. He was available last summer for £100m and probably a lot less if anyone actually put a decent bid in, but no club did. We need to sell one top player to progress. For me it's Bruno before Isak or Gordon or Botman if he comes back pre injury form. He's the oldest and easiest to replace, we've already got Tonali.

I know I'm in a minority on here but I would have preferred to sell Bruno for anything north of £70m and kept Anderson.

And we only got £20m for him in real terms. That's with being generous with a £5m valuation of the Greek guy.

We did for years under Ashley. He loaned us well over £100m for more than a decade. That loan was cleared when the takeover completed.

Is that centre parcs Penrith?!

In that case he'll not be going out on loan! Can't see Wilson playing more than 10 games this season. Hope I'm wrong though.

About this time last year we beat PSG. The support was fucking immense, even during the warm up 30 minutes before ko. It was deafening during the first half especially.

Bloke next to me at the match said that the guy who owns that little piece of land outside the east stand is wanting £5m-£8m to sell it to the club. That's the rumours anyway. Noticed the club have put a sign up about it, naming the company who owns the land and the companies house registration number.

Agreed. And if he doesn't sign the new contract before the end of the year we'll have to sell him in January. Thats assuming we can get a higher fee in January compared to next summer.

Did they not pay £305m to acquire the shares of the company, which includes all it's assets and liabilities? One of those liabilities was a £140m loan to MA which they could either choose to repay or keep on the BS, subject to any conditions in the sale and purchase agreement regarding repayment of the loan due to change in ownership. Same way MA had 90 days to repay the £55m securitisation loan on acquisition from Hall and Shepherd. Anyway it's old news now and not relevant going forward 😀

£1.7bn? I'm not completely disagreeing as I haven't seen the detailed figures but off the top of my head, £305m purchase price, about £140m to clear the loan to MA, capital invested via new equity must be about £400m or so? Maybe it's more than £400m but to say it's £1,700m all in is a bit of a stretch. As I said I've not seen the accounts for a while so maybe it is more than I thought.

Wouldn't mind replacing him with anyone that's available for more than 10 games a season! That would be an improvement.

Isak at the time, maybe? But looks great value 24 months on. Tonali, most expensive ever Italian? Tino? Hall? He may be referring to those.

Speak for yourself mate 😀 I'm in my 50s had a ST over 30 years, seen us lose numerous games finals at Wembley, seen us finish runners up in PL twice, play in the CL three times (four if include getting knocked out in the qualifiers), I'm 100% OK with us doing a 2008 Man City. Be no complaints from me if we do!

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/aston-villa-premier-league-transfer-33593600 The same story is being reported across a few papers this morning. Villa were also very close to a 10 points PSR, hence the Luiz sale on 30th June.

Yes, except for superstar one in a generation talented CBs!