19 Aug 2015 11:45:13
i know we have been very active in transfer window and seem to brought in a few good looking players but i'm starting to wonder at what point (supposedly) lower rep teams became a better option than us. now is it a wage cap thing? is it manager just not looked at that player? or did we bid and the player just laughed?
cabaye, wijnaldum, clasie, caulker, steklenburg (remember southampton only been back few years in prem), shaqiri, afelly, m'vila, ayew (big bro), diamanti, capoue, lambert, rondon, ogbonna. all as far as i feel are highly rated and could boost our team,
19 Aug 2015 12:39:00
i also this don't include players that have gone to bigger teams like begovic, or moved to poor team from the prem and as i was writing i forgot inler has signed for leicester for about 3 mill, solid midfielder would have loved him to sign
19 Aug 2015 14:08:57
My local pub team took on a new player this week, why did he not sign for villa??? Did you think TS didn't want to sign the players you listed?
19 Aug 2015 14:39:25
Maybe, just maybe, we didn't want them??!
I bet you as a child looked at everyone else's Christmas presents and wanted them.
19 Aug 2015 15:23:52
I bet fans of teams who consider themselves bigger than us look at several of our signings this summer and say 'why join them not us?'. Several of them were linked with other teams. Look on the bright side and just wait for TS to hypnotize Ronaldo into joining us.
19 Aug 2015 17:27:54
How many other clubs are looking on enviously at our signings of Amavi, Traore, Gana and Richards ?
Quite a few I reckon
19 Aug 2015 19:38:50
as i said at the start would like to know if we was even looking at said players other than internet rumour just out of curiosity
19 Aug 2015 21:05:45
Where??
20 Aug 2015 07:18:58
What difference would it make? I don't understand what you wanna get? We've signed 9-10 players yet it seems your still not happy. just get behind the team
20 Aug 2015 09:43:00
Of those players listed, many of them have issues - mainly excessive transfer fees, excessive wages and age meaning there is no sell on fee potential. Compare them to the player we have brought in. Richards is at a prime age and cost nothing and has gone on to be given the armband, so well worth the high wages. Amavi, after only a couple of games has garnered universal praise and when he moves on, we will make a massive profit.
We have a framework in which we have to work (Basically the player sales money and maybe 15-20 million extra) and I can only see maybe one more signing coming in this season - If we had gone in for some of the ones listed we would not have been able to bring in as many recruits as we have, and we really did need the 10+ players in to begin the rebuilding process.