Transfers January Transfer Thread 24/25

[Matt1882]

Solanke? Bentancur? Romero?

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Solanke - £90k a week
Bentancur - £75k a week
Romero - £165k a week

Romero is probably the highest or 2nd highest paid player in the squad.

Transfer fee is only a part of a deal. Solanke at £90k is £4.68m a year. £60m + £23.4m (5 years?) is a lot less, a lot, lot, lot less than £50m for Haaland plus is insane wages.
But for headlines, £60m looks like a lot. It gives the ENIC fanbois something to use.

 

[sudoku]

Assuming Tel stays for £45 mill, that is ball park £400 mill spent since Ange arrived.

 

[Brian Fantana]

Villa have spent a lot. Remember a few years back under Lambert one of papers said 'villa have 4m warchest'. More like a tea-chest. Times change.

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They’ve got to deal with the Rashford circus. A high price to pay when Emery ends up leaving him on the bench because he isn’t pulling up any trees.

 

[malin]

I know about wages, i know it was shitshow mostly till last days and some transfers could and should be done earlier.

But after all, we spent up to 100m if we trigger option for Tel.

 

[Brian Fantana]

Those cunts on the other site have the begging bowl out like clockwork.

 

[mikes01666]

What we now need is a stellar last third of the season.
It'll encourage the likes of Tel, Guehi, Disasi and all the others that we don't know about, to say yes to a team on the up.
No one of quality will want to join a lower/mid table, stagnating team for next season who can't offer European football.
We'll become West Ham, Everton or Palace.
... or Man U.

 

[r-u-s-x]

They’ve got to deal with the Rashford circus. A high price to pay when Emery ends up leaving him on the bench because he isn’t pulling up any trees.

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I missed it was the RM Asensio that was at PSG. Not bothered one but he went Villa.

 

[Bill Madrid]

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Poor old TOZ is having a bit of a mare.

 

[TottsAmazeballs]

Assuming Tel stays for £45 mill, that is ball park £400 mill spent since Ange arrived.

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I know we’ve bought for the system/future, but Ange has been backed better than any other manager since Eric took over.

Next season, assuming he survives, is his biggest ever. Have a feeling he’ll be here.

 

[Herclueless]

Does anybody know much about the kids signed from City, Liverpool, and Chelsea? Assume they were all confirmed?

 

[dudu]

I think if you are signing kids from the bigger clubs in the prem and the fee is zero to negligible it rarely ends up them being anything special . As I said Gray was 40 million from Leeds, cheap home grown 18 year olds are usually cheap for a reason

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True say.

 

[Richard Arlison]

I know we’ve bought for the system/future, but Ange has been backed better than any other manager since Eric took over.

Next season, assuming he survives, is his biggest ever. Have a feeling he’ll be here.

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When you buy young players you are backing the club. When you buy established players for now you are backing the current coach.

If Ange is still here in 2 years time then he was backed in these last 2 windows with the young players we bought but you also have to say that these young players came here because of conversations with Ange and his willingness to trust them with minutes, so it's not as clear cut as that. Ange has basically said he's prepared to gamble his short term survival on trusting an unusually high number of teenagers in his squad.

 

[PatagoniaPhil]

I agree but I think 40 million for Gray was quite an aggressive purchase, but it’s far from the norm

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Was as aggressive as Tel. Levy just loves kids. Cant help himself.

 

[PatagoniaPhil]

Villa have spent a lot. Remember a few years back under Lambert one of papers said 'villa have 4m warchest'. More like a tea-chest. Times change.

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They were already running at 92% wages to turnover even before this window.

 

[Shadydan]

Villa's transfer strategy is mental and totally unsustainable, they've already reached their ceiling until they can increase their revenue.

 

[Higgo]

They were already running at 92% wages to turnover even before this window.

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'... you'll never sing that".

 

[Pathfinder]

Palmer stands out for me, but not the norm admittedly

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Palmer was not "elite" when Chelski bought him, though - but he very soon became one. If he was "elite" at the time of Man City sold him he'd cost almost the double (it is rumoured that Chelski have received an offer of £150m: European giants 'tipped to make £150m bid' for Cole Palmer as Chelsea star drops masterclass vs Tottenham)
But, despite of me pushing for Spurs to buy him while he was at Man City, he was not a ready made "elite" player.

 

[Nabil Bentaleb]

With most of our injured coming back we actually have a pretty nice squad. Top 6 without any doubts

 

[scarletjim]

Key points about "option to buy" loans:

• Choice lies with the loaning club:
  The club that has the player on loan decides whether to activate the option to buy or not.
  
  
• No obligation to sell:
  The parent club is not obligated to sell the player even if the option to buy is triggered, they can still choose to not sell.

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Why are 3 people liking this nonsense? What is described above is simply a loan - how does it differ from a loan if no one has any clause that forces the other side to do something?

If we have a buy option, then the parent club DOES have an obligation to sell to us at the pre-agreed price (other conditional clauses not withstanding), that's the whole point of the 'buy option' clause. Sorry but what's written above is utter nonsense. It's one thing having one person make a mistake, but 3 others liking it is just bizarre.

 

[Phomesy]

Villa's transfer strategy is mental and totally unsustainable, they've already reached their ceiling until they can increase their revenue.

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They've certainly been playing funny buggers with other clubs to all get round PSR but that wage bill... That's gonna sting at some point.