Aston Villa FC Rumours

28 Jul 2024 10:18:05
Bit of gossip for you regarding Villa Park. Was at the Witton Arms last night for a Reggae show and got speaking to someone who has been working on the VP redevelopment and according to him next season they are moving the players tunnel to the centre of the Trinity Road because of the filling in of the corners of the North Stand and Witton and Trinity thoughts?

27 Jul 2024 18:11:11
Just been doing a bit of digging, this is verified too. Jaoa Félix is 'only' on £115K p/w, not close to £300K as reported. I don't think the fee we'd have to pay is what bothers Villa fans but the wages he's on, £50M or less and something around what he's being paid weekly now and that is deal of the century imo 🤷🏼‍♂️

UTV

27 Jul 2024 19:29:34
I think ultimately we will get him but only because none of the so called ‘bigger clubs’ want him. For me as I have said previously I think he is too inconsistent and I am also sceptical about signing a player who doesn’t really want to be with us. I would much rather sign Raphina or Eze or being greedy both.

27 Jul 2024 20:13:24
I think he’ll come too, think we should embrace it, as I’ve said before, could become a legend, his best or peak years are ahead of him, maybe he’s got a point to prove, which can only be good for us 🤷🏼‍♂️

UTV

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 😂

28 Jul 2024 08:38:16
Try anything once Menace 😉

UTV

28 Jul 2024 09:14:06
Lol Md naughty boy lmfao

26 Jul 2024 22:47:52
Adeyemi of Dortmund being mentioned, I don't watch German league but good player from what little I have seen of himj

27 Jul 2024 11:09:30
Hes rapid aswell with the ball and without aswell, good player aswell

27 Jul 2024 13:20:37
Decent player, quick and versatile in that he can play through the middle or out wide, but not sure he is clinical enough if we want him as a back up to Watkins

24 Jul 2024 05:59:01
Moussa Diaby has just signed five year deal as new a Al Ittihad player and it looks like Duran won't be far behind in leaving after telling Villa that he wants to join West Ham.

24 Jul 2024 19:23:55
Haven’t seen Disby confirmed anywhere yet? Duran looks desperate to leave

25 Jul 2024 00:44:08
It's confirmed now.👍

25 Jul 2024 00:50:10
Duran will be gone soon too, he appears to have burnt his bridges with Villa and many of our fans, a good player with potential but a bad fit at Villa, I think his days are almost certainly numbered.

22 Jul 2024 11:25:58
According to The Sun (always reliable?) we are looking to replace Diaby with Atletico Madrid's Joao Felix. At least there's plenty of other Portuguese he can hang around with in the Midlands🤔

22 Jul 2024 01:00:47
Amadou Onana medical completed so expect an official announcement later today, a fantastic signing in my opinion who offers something we have lacked.
Tuesday is the long awaited new kit reveal, so I'm looking forward to this but I know all that quality Adidas gear is going to empty my wallet.
Hopefully by Wednesday there is some concrete news of a replacement for Diaby 😉

22 Jul 2024 01:31:34
I’m still not really sure why we are doing this for like €5m profit. we were already light up front as it was… but in Emery and co I trust

22 Jul 2024 03:40:58
When the player is happy enough to move on after just one season then maybe there were other issues, I'm pretty sure he wasn't forced out of the door, so maybe he or his family didn't like living in the UK, or maybe he couldn't cope with the premier league, or maybe he just wants the huge money he will make, whatever the reason he has gone now so we all move on, my guess is that there is a very exciting signing coming our way in the not too distant away. 😉

22 Jul 2024 13:24:15
I think an alleged salary of circa £20 million a year might have had something to do with it.🤔

22 Jul 2024 15:40:30
We've lost Diaby and Luiz who between them scored 15 goals and 13 assists and replaced them with Onana and Barkley with 7 goals and 6 assists.

Hopefully playing with better players will improve their stats.

22 Jul 2024 16:29:27
Diaby will be replaced

22 Jul 2024 19:19:34
Diaby isn’t sold yet let alone replaced, I expect a big name to come in and replace Diaby when he leaves, Barkley will get more goals with us than he did at Luton for sure, I don’t think Onana has being bought to score goals primarily

23 Jul 2024 05:35:27
I think Rogers will bag plenty this season and we also have JJ on the verge of a return, Ollie will score a hat full as usual and Bailey too will pop in a few, with the likes of McGinn and Barkley also likely to add goals we should have quite a lot of fire power, I also think a big signing is on the horizon and that will be a player who will also be expected add goals so we should be in good shape. Not sure how far Beundia is from fitness but he too has goals in him.

24 Jul 2024 03:16:53
Let’s be honest Diaby was poor last season, throw the stats at me all you want but I watch football with my eyes and he looked lost most of the time.
I’d say Emery and co have seen we can make a profit and took it and ran. Diabys stats suggest he was a top performer last season and there would be plenty more sniffing round him if that was the case.

Great but of business for me

21 Jul 2024 23:46:13
According to very reliable sources Diaby is now a done deal €60 million Euro, Monchi in my opinion would have already been working on bringing in a big signing to replace him, he may already have close to the line, who that may be is a guessing game, I know who I would like to see arrive but we will have to wait and see but I don't think we will have to wait long to find out. 🤔😉

21 Jul 2024 17:03:55
Reported villa interest in Todibo of nice, any thoughts?

21 Jul 2024 20:45:41
Could we afford him. I thought we were in danger of falling foul of PSR rules. We have spent €117m and brought in €67m. If we were close before, surely being another €50m in debt won't help. Might be some truth in the Watkins and Konsa leaving rumours.

21 Jul 2024 22:37:21
We cleared psr by selling dougie 50mil, kellermann 20mil, tim irebhghen 10mil,

21 Jul 2024 22:38:24
Todibo is a beast whack would be an upgrade over carlos

21 Jul 2024 22:54:44
£117m spent is spread over 5 years or what ever where as the money brought in is off the balance straight away

21 Jul 2024 23:38:22
The thing with Villa is that we had to satisfy PSR by june 30th which ended that financial period after we achieved that we move into 24/25 period which is a whole new ball game, we have substantially increased income thanks to Chris Heck so there is that to consider as it will increase spending power, we also have champions league money and the increased income from those matches to include.
so it's difficult to say exactly how we sit, basically what we spend now we will have to balance the books by June 30th 2025 but we have that extra income as stated, Villa and Monchi will not buy players that we can't afford so whoever we get in we should be assured that the maths has already been done.

20 Jul 2024 22:21:13
Is Ramsey going to Spuds in a swap deal with del Cleso plus 20 million in cash are their any truth in these rumours

21 Jul 2024 23:39:33
Old rubbish if you ask me, Unai wants to keep Ramsey and Ramsey is happy to stay so for me this isn't happening.

22 Jul 2024 14:15:49
I agree OneAV, couldn’t see Ramsey wanting to leave for spurs instead of playing champions league with his boyhood club, city, arsenal or Liverpool you could understand but spuds are pathetic

19 Jul 2024 21:21:18
Rumours are that Spurs are closing in for Ramsey, £19m + Celso.

20 Jul 2024 08:47:34
No chance, lo Celso not worth 5 million in the last year of contract, Ramsey won’t leave for less than 50 million.

20 Jul 2024 11:40:21
We allegedly have an interest in Kulusevski I wonder if an exchange deal can be brokered with him coming to VP as part of any deal for Ramsey?

20 Jul 2024 20:12:51
Whack, sorry to say this but the rumour is getting stronger and stronger to ignore. If it goes ahead then Unai must see something in Celso that he likes.

20 Jul 2024 21:20:11
Emery had Lo Celso at PSG I think so knows the player, but I agree with Whack that we are undervaluing Ramsey if the deal is Lo Celso + £20 million, In the final year of his contract Lo Celso is worth £15 million tops therefore I would expect at least £30 million makeweight to make the deal happen. As Diaby is off, and Spurs are trying to sign Pedro Neto from Wolves if we let Ramsey go we should ask for Kulesevski as part of the package rather than Lo Celso.

20 Jul 2024 21:33:01
Whilst the rumour may be getting stronger it does not make it true, why pay 50 million for Onana if your interested is swapping 1 of your young stars with 2 season’s senior experience for a 28 year old soon to be out of contract plus a measly 20 million that you got for a kid who barely kicked a ball with the senior team, makes no football sense or business sense, rumours Diaby was sold for 50 million last week but still no medical, they are just rumours copied and pasted, I ain’t saying that a deal won’t happen but it won’t happen at that price, maybe if the throw in kulesevski it might make more sense.

20 Jul 2024 22:29:12
Agree and why would we sell to 1 of our rivals aswell

21 Jul 2024 07:59:17
Hope you are right but I am not convinced.