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This is starting to take the piss tbh.. we can’t even compete with Ipswich on transfer fees but are happy to keep feeding goztepe .:we are taking less for Alcaraz to take a inferior player ti loan out .. SR are as dodgy as gao

I agree with this a lot .. we have plenty on the wings .. and likes of edozie sam amo or sule could still blow up and are full of potential ., Fraser also has great end product and would be cheap.. so can’t really see the big deal with Clarke .. we could do moukoko for 15-18m

I’d be surprised if we don’t try for moukoko seems in our price bracket, record breaking youngest dortnund goal scorer .. seems the type we would be all over

Yeah agree love broja and always thought he has absolutely top draw potential . That 30m could look like peanuts soon.. exciting young strikeforce Ipswich have now . I have a feeling we might snatch moukoko

Bar jwp because of the free kicks goals from the midfield isn’t something we have really had much of for a long time anyway .. I’m getting to the stage I think Aribo should be our creative midfielder he looked great Saturday and has all the tools .. We seem to be doing our usual thing of spend our money everywhere but the places we actually need to.

The thought of only loaning a keeper because you don’t want to put someone in front of bazunu, and after giving new contracts to McCarthy and lumley is pure lol .. You wouldn’t wish these decisions on your worst enemy 😳

What did everyone make of Edozie yesterday ? I thought he did look absolutely brimming with confidence running at tino at every opportunity .i think he was a handful even though nothing quite cane off . Wasn’t it him that got the cross in for archers header near the end ? Tad frustrating but I liked his confidence think he gave us something differant to BBD though who tended to drift wide anyway

I’m genuinely excited by archer as he looks a real natural finisher But I think his success may be down to how much russ wants this type of striker as a starting option .. from what I gather he’s the type that is not gonna hold the ball up so much or be a physical presence like che, instead archer is a fox 🦊 in the box. i think if russ gives him starts every week he will probably do double digits for us but if he’s more like the Mara squad player then it could end up the same way as Mara did

Kinda hard to judge us from that game, the Bbd incident getting the red card gave us the opportunity to play our possession football.. then obviously after they scored from McCarthy’s horrific pass we had all the ball whilst they defended in numbers which is always quite hard to break down. Thought Aribo put in a Motm performance yesterday he was pulling strings, playing disguised clever defence splitting passes very clever use of the ball. He’s got a real intelligent playmaker side to his game that he doesn’t yet get enough credit for

I think his first touch looks amazing also,just seems to stick to him and in a second he gets in a position to shape to shoot .. it all looks so natural and like he knows exactly what he’s gonna do next .. kinda polar opposite of che

Do you think archer will be a regular starter though ? That 433 with Diaz and arms wide seems the only way to get all three in . archer giving me kinda ings vibes looks great In the boro video below love the celebration too

Been reading villa forums about archer and gotta say I quite like the sound of him personally.. his main strength seems to be his finishing and we haven’t really had a top notch finisher since Danny ings, also looks to have a really good first touch judging by the videos .. a BBD Archer Armstrong front three would give us a unique front three with no actual traditional wingers but all can score

In my opinion regarding players losing their value a lot of it also seems to come down to manager stability also ..abk and Alcaraz both looked red hot prospects under differant managers .. the likes of Carrillo and tall pall both signed just before changing managers and then both ended up outcast .. A lot of times Our bigger money signings tend to lose their place in the team to cheaper signings or loans .. which obviously decreases their value only the players getting regular minutes really hold their value for us .. sometimes it’s not about ability and someone like Martin prefers a jack Stephens to abk or smallbone over a Alcaraz it can be horses for courses

I was referring to increasing our spending ie take the van dijk money and go make 25-40 m signings like Brighton are .. we just believed we could keep shopping at Aldi and turning them into stars

Even when we had our really golden period of good recruitment and expensive player sales including Vvd, we never really kicked on like Brighton are trying to do here and spent said money on more expensive players .. we always tend to try go for the cheap rough diamonds but when it doesn’t work you just get left with a load of cheap squad filler that nobody wants .. really hope if we do make any more signings we go all out to secure players who are gonna instantly improve the first team not another wave of Squad filler shite We need some quality

Agree 100 percent .. people try to use our netspend as we are competing and spending money .. in my book buying a bunch of cheap squad filler players or players we can loan to goztepe is not competing at all .. anything over 20m or 100 k wages we get a nosebleed whilst for the rest of the league it’s normal

Rules out out then 😃

Yeah but we have been an established premiership club for a long time with premiership revenue same as Leicester we had one season down on parachute payments and now we are back . not really sure how you can compare that with tiny little Luton who have been out of the top flight for over 30 years and mainly a league one or two club ?

Netspend is a different thing .. but we are still trying to buy players in the same price range as we where ten years ago .. Brighton and Brentford have both stepped up and bid 27 and 28 m for cavalho and o Riley ,. That’s what I mean by not competing we are clearly shopping in a more bargain basement way Ad it stands we have last years championship side for the premiership . (Swap bbd for che ) are you happy with that ?

These kinda fees are starting to be the going rate in the prem now . I’m not expecting us to compete finically with the big boys,, but when you got teams like West Ham who you used to be on a par with spending double and can’t even compete with the likes of Brighton Brentford Fulham etc is there even much point in us being in the premiership ?

Your missing my point though .. what I’m saying is when your manager is openly saying you need to sell, Blackmore is saying players have bad attitudes and. Then players are getting left out of pre season .: this is putting ourselves over a barrel with anyone who might be interested in the player as they know we are desperate and in ABK.s case we now tarnished his character do you see Celtic leaving Oriley out of pre season even though he’s a 25-30m player that can leave or Liverpool with carvalho ?? We make ourselves look desparate it’s not a very good poker face when trying to get a good deal

Sorry but worst ever signing ? you where absolutely wanking over him like he was the next vvd and saying enjoy him while he’s here under hasenhuttll ? He’s had injuries wasnt here last year and now Blackmore says he’s got an attitude suddenly turns him into one of our worst ever signings and don’t forget we are probably not gonna lose money on him, he was cheap in the first place

This is another issue for me .. why do we freeze out the players we want to sell ? Surely that’s weakening our hand when bargaining for example tranzonspor must know Damn well we need to sell and will probably buckle to their lowball offers now at some point ., Same goes for ABK who is gonna pay top dollar when they know we need to sell? we are freezing the player out of pre season and in this case even tarnishing his character through blackmores Comments .. it’s not too shrewd really Is it ?

Well when we very first linked with him back in June it was said valued at 30m plus their last two record sales where 25m each so I don’t really know how long it takes to discover that our bids are at least 8 mil or more short . Our bids are way short of his valuation and we are messing them around thinking they are gonna back down when there is clearly other clubs interested .. to answer your question I dont exactly know our budget .. but would have definitely had cf and gk priorities even over oriley. I think our bids for wingers isn’t really a position we are desperate for so if we are bidding 15-18 for likes of carvalho that could instead be used on oriley or the other positions goalkeeper wise it’s a shame we didn’t go for johansson he looked good and joined stoke so we could have probably pulled that off for a decent fee would love broja as the cf but again it’s looking 25 m or so , so probably rules us out but yeah the main tweak I’d make is either sign Fraser on the cheap and let him compete with the likes of Sam amo bbd( if used wide ) dibling edozie sulemana .. and use that 15-18 we where gonna spend in a position we are not to bad in to fund towards oriley and a striker

Yeah I think it’s pretty obvious he would come we just need to agree fee with Celtic and this could have been done .. unfortunately we are doing exactly what trabzonspor are doing to us with tall pall , the differance is other clubs are interested in oriley so keep messing around and you find out