We've done sweet fuck all with transfers and this thread is closing on a 1000 pages.
How?
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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I've done similar on a night out in Bournemouth to be fairCrawling around on the floor against Bournemouth was beyond embarrassing.
We've done sweet fuck all with transfers and this thread is closing on a 1000 pages.
How?
I mean in reality:
We've made Tel permanent, which wasn't an automatic or a given until it was announced.
We've signed Tokai
We've triggered Danso permanent
Vuskovic's transfer has become official now he's 18
Hojbjerg's transfer to marseille has been triggered
and I think Veliz has just gone out on loan.
The irony of some of the "insults" on here is that they are ones you only hear on school playing fields, thrown at someone to imply their have a school age mentality.
It's about as mature as "I know you are, but what am I" or something.
Some of it, including "your a gooner" are right up there with legendary put downs like "I know you are by what am I?"
**your** spelt wrong on purpose to emphasize the childishness of it.
Benteke too. Dude almost did an Odemwinge to come to Spurs and then after we dithered for weeks, goes into training and then signs a new contract
Was in the (then) local years ago. We were all young 20s and a girl who was a regular was, as always, battered out of her brains.
She stacked it over a kerb outside and was on a par with Veliz. Laying on the pavement crying and acting like she was dying.
"Arv broke me ankleeeeeeee, phone an ambulance, 'ere's free pand twen'ee, get me a cider"
True story.
Can't remember her name (all of it) but I can remember what drink she wanted and the money.
That isn't what happened, according what I'm sure Jack said since. We agreed terms with Jack, Villa told him to pack and say goodbye, we offered the £25m they wanted, and then they stalled it whilst the takeover went through before rejecting it on TDD, putting a freeze on all sales
So, outside players who were already here or already left, we’ve signed a 20 year old from Japan who most likely needs a loan or 2 in Europe first
Absolutely smashing it this year. Pre season has started and Levy already delivering on his ambition to win the PL and CL
I doubt Grealish knows what happened behind the scenes. I doubt that dribbling idiot knows what was in his cornflakes this morning tbh,
This is funny no matter which version of dribbling I read this as
I can definitely believe it. You can't hid that level of incompetence. That's exactly what we say last season.
Talk about stat padding. Half of those are automatic.
We've loaned out a bum.
We've taken another unknown punt at 5m.
We've done sweet fuck all with transfers and this thread is closing on a 1000 pages.
How?
Scrapsville.
You would really have thought it impossible.
CL-bounce my backside.
It's hard to fathom that Levy would not have sanctioned one proper statement signing, if for nothing else than to thank the fans for their stupendous patience at the lack of silverware, and to hard Frank a significant welcome gift.
Definitely now falling behind the new top 5, if you accept Newcastle have comfortably overtaken us.
We now sit with Villa and United in my opininn, and that is a fair behind that group of 5.
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The point wasn't "It's been a great window"
It was "There have been things happening - it's not like there' s been no movement at all or nothing to talk about"
I'm sure a good 200 pages were taken up with people arguing over whether Tel should or shouldn't be made permanent, and once he had, whether or not it should have happened
Daniel Levy was well aware of Villa’s financial strife and knew that that gave him leverage. Spurs’ first bid for Grealish was £3 million plus Josh Onomah, the young midfielder who had spent the 2017-18 season on loan at Villa Park.
That offer was rejected and Spurs slowly started to increase their bids. At the same time, Xia was desperately scrambling around for investment, hoping to sell an equity stake in the club to bring some money in. But all parties knew that it was inevitable that Grealish would end up at Spurs, who would gradually raise their offer until Xia and Villa simply could not say no.
But salvation for Villa came in the form of Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens. They came in from nowhere to buy a controlling stake in the club. Usually, takeovers like this take months to go through but Sawiris and Edens, having proven the hundreds of millions of pounds at their disposal, took control in a matter of days. And with the takeover, everything changed. The new owners’ first message was that there was no chance they would sell the club’s crown jewels that summer. The sale of Grealish to Tottenham was off.
Chester, who was also lined up for a sale, still remembers the meeting.
“Once the takeover happened, (then-Villa manager) Steve Bruce called both me and Jack in the next day to say the owners weren’t going to sell us,” he told The Athletic last year. “We went in one after another. Steve told me that he had told them how important we were to the football club.”
Tottenham still wanted to sign Grealish, and he was interested in joining. But with Villa’s finances suddenly looking less perilous, Spurs lost all of their leverage in negotiations. In early August, Spurs made a firm offer of £25 million but by this point, Aston Villa were in a position to say no, which they could not have done before the takeover. Their window of opportunity had passed.
“We were in such a bad position financially that if Tottenham had done their work early, then I’m sure Jack would have been a Tottenham player,” Bruce said on radio on August 17 that year. “Before the takeover, everyone was for sale.”
How close did Jack Grealish really come to leaving Aston Villa for Tottenham?
In the summer of 2018, it looked for all the world like Villa's homegrown hero was about to head to London with Spurs. What changed?
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(Villa also absolutely would have sold Grealish after the takeover, we'd just have needed to pay a lot more, 40M+, which would have been well worth it in the end, but again, we were after Grealish for the deal, not because of scouting conviction that he was going to explode into a top player)
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Kudus I guess I can understand. Lookman though I’d rather just get Dibling in and develop him in house.
I’m so tired of this middling crap.
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No chickens hatched yet but really would be funny if they spent 3 years defending a rapist and whining about refs, then after dropping stupid money on Havertz, decided to drop the whole bollock on a Swedish Lukaku.
I mean he would know enough to have been told to pack some bags and all that. A club that was dead-set on selling a player wouldn't unsettle them in that way for no reason.
Just like I feel west ham are doing now, I feel like Villa were dicking us about to have a plan B for if their takeover fell through.
He was really exciting at Villa, eventually, but I feel like he's been completely sterilized under Pep and is just a cog in a machine there
When they were talking about things happening, I think we all knew what they meant. You being pedantic about transfers that had already been done wasn't engaging in good faith was it mate?
May as well have included all the work the groundman did to get the pitches ready for pre-season if you wanted to point out how busy the club has been.
Daniel Levy was well aware of Villa’s financial strife and knew that that gave him leverage. Spurs’ first bid for Grealish was £3 million plus Josh Onomah, the young midfielder who had spent the 2017-18 season on loan at Villa Park.
That offer was rejected and Spurs slowly started to increase their bids. At the same time, Xia was desperately scrambling around for investment, hoping to sell an equity stake in the club to bring some money in. But all parties knew that it was inevitable that Grealish would end up at Spurs, who would gradually raise their offer until Xia and Villa simply could not say no.
But salvation for Villa came in the form of Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens. They came in from nowhere to buy a controlling stake in the club. Usually, takeovers like this take months to go through but Sawiris and Edens, having proven the hundreds of millions of pounds at their disposal, took control in a matter of days. And with the takeover, everything changed. The new owners’ first message was that there was no chance they would sell the club’s crown jewels that summer. The sale of Grealish to Tottenham was off.
Chester, who was also lined up for a sale, still remembers the meeting.
“Once the takeover happened, (then-Villa manager) Steve Bruce called both me and Jack in the next day to say the owners weren’t going to sell us,” he told The Athletic last year. “We went in one after another. Steve told me that he had told them how important we were to the football club.”
Tottenham still wanted to sign Grealish, and he was interested in joining. But with Villa’s finances suddenly looking less perilous, Spurs lost all of their leverage in negotiations. In early August, Spurs made a firm offer of £25 million but by this point, Aston Villa were in a position to say no, which they could not have done before the takeover. Their window of opportunity had passed.
“We were in such a bad position financially that if Tottenham had done their work early, then I’m sure Jack would have been a Tottenham player,” Bruce said on radio on August 17 that year. “Before the takeover, everyone was for sale.”
How close did Jack Grealish really come to leaving Aston Villa for Tottenham?
In the summer of 2018, it looked for all the world like Villa's homegrown hero was about to head to London with Spurs. What changed?
(Villa also absolutely would have sold Grealish after the takeover, we'd just have needed to pay a lot more, 40M+, which would have been well worth it in the end, but again, we were after Grealish for the deal, not because of scouting conviction that he was going to explode into a top player)
Every player has their price, but he was just a championship player often found looking like a drunk starfish on a pavement orI driving a range rover in pink fluffy slippers, so there was also a hard limit on what someone should have been risking on him.
I feel like the reality was more that the scouting conviction was there, but Poch wasn't interested in him as a main signing. Much like a Spence/Clarke/Rodon, if it's a decent enough deal you can sign them in as a prospect without it being lumped on the manager to make them a starter, but when its Archie Gray money then there's a different expectation really.
Don't agree on Kudus,but I'm happy to be proven wrong.
I think we really need to own whatever strategy we are aiming to work with. God knows what it is mind.