I know for a fact Watkins girlfriend wants a move back to London. A friend is painting his house. Who knows if he’d actually leave Villa. Would love to have him back.
Some.good points but the difference to the past is we are in the Premier league and unfortunately we are the minions. Getting a goalscoring CF or even attacker is extremely difficult - compare Mitrovic in the Championship to EPL. If you take Mbeumo, The number of chances he misses is unreal. We sit in the West Stand and duck every time he sets himself to shoot even in the warm up. I kinda still like Brian though - that's the problem with Brentford. It's like family.
I'm not totally convinced about Toney's commitment to the club. Not that he doesn't give 110% every week and all that. I just feel he sees himself at a richer club as a "big time Charlie potatoes" as Ferguson described Paul Ince. If we rejected a £35-40m bid from the top 6 (incl Newcastle) we'd have anotherTarki situation.
Surely most players see themselves at a richer club?
Because we simply are not going to pay £50m for him and however much he loves us he isn’t going to drop £2-3m of wages a year to come. WH need a striker, he’d link back with Said and they could afford him.
Also if he is the big boots type like that there’s kudos in going for big money now rather than being seen as a bargain buy.
Are you on a wind up?
Maybe Halil will be our next Watkins? Extremely interesting that he’s gone to Germany and Forss didn’t. A couple of loans, matured a little bit, seems to be happier to be at BFC. Unlikely sure, but the fact he his still involved is very encouraging.
Or the club just ignores the un-backed-up-by-fact rubbish on this particular site and waits for an actual bid to come in.
That worked well the last time a player we didn’t think we could afford was apparently likely to choose us over more money and a bigger club because his girlfriend liked a West London postcode.
If there’s anything in it we’ll be getting the new striker in anyway ahead of next summer (remember how we tried to buy Toney in the January when we still had Watkins & Benrahma and Wissa in the January when we went up). Assuming the club doesn’t already think it has the next striker in according to their plans. They’re more likely to let this go through to the end of August, particularly if there are multiple interested clubs, than to see him out the door quickly to buy and bed in someone new. I don’t think we’d buy purely reactively and wait to buy and integrate them until Toney goes.
Oh I think it's all rubbish and just gossip. But if there is truth in it we're like always replace with even better so I'm not worried. It's fun watching the choas on here though.
Like every other good player in the world, gives 100% in games but wants to play for the top club. When their time comes it comes.
players are like pebbles on a beach, we don’t need to keep chasing old players to bring back possible old times. Just sell, move on and find the next one, has the last 10 years not taught anyone anything.
Sooner or later? They have been coming in since last season,
I think you are so wrong. 50m for ake…..you think some quad trillionaire I sn’t going to throw some loose change for Toney. We need to get real,
Yep- remember all the “o noes, we’ve lost more than half the goals that took us up from L1 after forever and just have in some numpties from National League Luton and bloody Rochdale, rediculous that we’d throw it al away like this for the sake of a few thousand quid on Donaldson’s wages”.
Personally I’d like to see a like for like tall striker brought in as a replacement. Biggest problem when Toney was out was that we had no outlet when clearing our lines
