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14 Jun 2025 10:57:08
According to The Athletic, we've made an approach to sign 19-year-old Spanish winger Jesus Rodriguez from Real Betis. Anyone know anything about him? Given our financial situation, we could probably do with some help from Jesus at the moment ?
15 May 2025 17:41:52
So there's an article on the BBC today saying that there have been no negotiations at all over a permanent transfer for Rashford and that he believes United would be prepared to sell him for £40m to anyone this summer, not just Villa. So that says to me that he's hoping someone else will come in for him. It also says he's got no intention of taking a pay cut from his £325, 000-a-week salary (same amount as Vinicius and Bellingham) so essentially he wants someone to pay £40m for him and then a further £17m a year in wages. I suspect, therefore, that we will see him back permanently warming the bench at Old Trafford next season. Thanks for your efforts Marcus, but for that sort of money I suspect we can do better.
24 Apr 2025 01:31:15
Big headline on the BBC tonight : 'Villa hold talks over De Bruyne move'. Thoughts? ?
1.) 24 Apr 2025 09:32:05
Depends on the deal Menace he will still command a fairly sizeable salary and given we are already breaching the salary cap I don’t see how it’s possible to offer Kamara £300k a week something similar for Rashford and £150k for Asensio our income streams won’t sustain that kind of outlay.
2.) 24 Apr 2025 10:20:25
Kamara not going to be on 300grand a week lol wheres that come from that's insane if true lord? And kdb if he came would be the play maker we been missing would be a statement signing
3.) 24 Apr 2025 10:46:50
We're already wondering how we could possibly afford the full wages of Rashford and Asensio.
KDB is a fair bit older than both of them and spends way more time on the treatment table.
One of the best in the world but we just cannot afford that outlay without massively sacrificing elsewhere.
4.) 24 Apr 2025 12:54:26
VJ apparently £300k is what we have offered Kamara to sign a new long term contract as he enters the last 2 years of his deal. That was reported by a number of outlets a week or so ago.
5.) 24 Apr 2025 17:40:55
Thats crazy i'd put on 200thou but not 300 lord that's mental i know he's our most important player but seems too much for me heyho thou if he signs fair play
17 Nov 2024 11:19:42
Some interesting targets for January. According to the BBC, Unai wants to shore up the Defense with Diego Llorente from Real Betis. Apparently we're also the front-runners to sign attacking midfielder Oihan Sancet from Bilbao, even though he's got an £66.9m release clause.
1.) 24 Nov 2024 20:56:09
Wouldn’t class llorente as an upgrade, never heard of the other guy. I’d love to know how we are fixed financially, how much can we actually spend in January, anyone know?
07 Aug 2024 16:42:38
Brilliant bit of nonsense going on over social media. A Turkish journalist posted on X that Digne was going to Galatasary on loan. Digne swiftly issued a denial wherein the journo posted a screenshot of the letter from Galatasary to Villa outlining the terms of the loan. Perhaps Monchi forgot to tell Lucas something .
1.) 07 Aug 2024 17:22:53
Nobody has to tell Digne anything until the offer is accepted.
Someone forgot to tell the reporter that a letter from Galatasary asking if Digne is available means nothing. There isn't even a guarantee that it was actually sent to Villa, it could easily just be a draft.
2.) 07 Aug 2024 23:31:46
Hands up who wants to keep Digne then? Just flagging up the rumours RK. ?
3.) 08 Aug 2024 08:33:32
Digne is one of our highest earners therefore given we have Maatsen and Moreno who are left backs it makes sense for us to sell him if we can
4.) 10 Aug 2024 18:46:39
I actually thought Digne was one of our better players last year and I would prefer to probably keep him over Moreno (I don’t have anything against Moreno either, just think Digne is better suited to the prem) but I guess if there’s a significant wage difference between them, then I understand why it would be Digne to leave of the pair.
5.) 10 Aug 2024 21:04:29
I agree Nebuchadnezzar, we were at our best in the first part of last season and that was when Moreno was injured, looking at the minutes that have being shared out it looks like matsen and digne will be our left backs, Moreno seems to be the one that more fancies a move aswel.
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25 Jun 2025 14:28:41
Well Davedean82, you were spot on regarding the season ticket waiting list. I got a nice e-mail on Monday telling me that since I had been unwilling/unable to personally attend many games last season and the season before at £75 a pop, I have now been bounced off the waiting list for having no points which is odd as it says Claret Club members get points (I've been one for years) and you get them for attending games (I have been to some). I have replied and pointed this out but it will probably be to no avail as I imagine I will have shuffled off this mortal coil before any season tickets become available anyway
1.) 25 Jun 2025 16:39:49
MD fans have been shabbily treated, an further example, season ticket holders who don't attend a minimum of 14 games this season can not renew their season ticket next season.Yes there are ways to ensure this doesn't happen if you can't attend enough games but I'm sure quite a few will forget, or unfortunate circumstances may pose a problem.
14 Jun 2025 01:14:05
Congratulations to Rachel Daly on her MBE. I know a few on here think the Women's team is superfluous. Good luck then explaining that honour to your granddaughters. Not sure any other Villa player has been subject to a similar honour.
1.) 14 Jun 2025 09:45:09
Menace she’s got a better first touch, and more of a football brain, than lots of men Iv seen .
25 May 2025 02:17:54
I'm going to stick my head over the parapet and prepare to be completely shot down in flames. If (as is rumoured) we're offloading Emi, then Man U are in the frame. If that's the case, then I would take Fernandes in some sort of exchange all day long. I know he's got a reputation as a bit of a whinger and diver (but so was Jack) but his commitment on the pitch and to his club can't be questioned. Thoughts? ?
1.) 25 May 2025 08:07:24
Emi won't be going to United. He's either going to Saudi for money and tinpot trophies or he is going to Barcelona for trophies.
Fernandes is part of the same cancer as Ronaldo that pushed United this far down this path. He thinks he is better than everyone and expects everything to go through him.
We maybe have different definitions of commitment because Fernandes is one of the laziest players around. Truly great players like De Bruyne are straight back to defending on a turnover, even Jack usually runs back quicker than Bruno does.
2.) 25 May 2025 10:02:45
I wouldn’t take Fernandes for many of the reasons rk has outlined furthermore who would you play him instead of? If Utd were an option for Martinez then I would be prepared to take one of Mainoo, Rashford or Garnacho as part of any deal. However I think in reality we will end up taking straight cash for Emi to ease our PSR issues.
3.) 25 May 2025 13:21:29
Hell don't want bruno, and there's no chance emi goes there
4.) 25 May 2025 14:31:21
I hate Bruno more than Savage, he’s crap unless he’s got Pogba tripping himself up in the box (usually against us) and scoring the pen, it’s a big nooooo for me
UTV
23 May 2025 12:00:30
Konsa, Rodger's and Watkins in the England squad. Plus Ivan Toney gets a recall. I still think he'd be worth a punt. I know it's only the Saudi League, but he's got 28 goals in 42 games this season ?
16 May 2025 21:55:30
15 mins to go at Chelski. Never more have I wanted United to score
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30 May 2025 00:26:09
Well that makes me feel a lot better. If there are 45k on the season ticket waiting list then, at around about the 2000 mark, I’m in the top 5%. At 66 years old, It gives ‘Villa ‘til I die’ a whole new sense of unlikely optimism ? BTW, if I’d gone to every home match last season, it would have cost me around £1500
23 Aug 2024 08:30:02
Daily Mail says we’ve been offered Sterling so it must be true ? Also says Unai is not sure if he’d fit in with his plans, which I think is pretty much what everyone else on here is saying.
07 Aug 2024 23:31:46
Hands up who wants to keep Digne then? Just flagging up the rumours RK. ?
28 Jul 2024 01:20:42
Sorry Allstar, I initially mistakenly read in your post that you’d been doing a bit of dogging which, up our way on Cannock Chase, is a particularly popular evening pastime - see Stan Collymore for details ?
17 Jul 2024 19:17:03
Based on Williams’s Euro performances, I’d drive over to Bilbao and fetch him back myself, though Barcelona and Arsenal are also in the picture ?
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01 Jun 2025 23:18:19
I think that’s over 500 arrests Dave, nearly 600 in fact ?
31 May 2025 23:31:22
Agreed Dave. Inter were totally humiliated. We put up a great fight and at least won our home leg. Well done to PSG, some fantastic football with just a few pi55-taking back-heels thrown in along the way ⚽️ ??
25 May 2025 17:30:37
Everton just switched the light on at the end of the tunnel
09 May 2025 15:18:29
The only connection between Leroy Sane and Villa is that, according to the press, he recently moved into one on the outskirts of Munich ?
28 Apr 2025 01:42:09
Thanks for clarifying Scotty. I’m sure Rashford’s fluency in Catalan will help him enormously. Would be amusing if Barcelona don’t actually want him though ?