According to Spanish sources, the Amavi move has been knocked back after the player failed a medical which showed that the player has a significant risk of the cruciate knee injury that he suffered while playing for France, re-occurring.
Now it’s well known that Sevilla will try any trick in the book to get a player’s price down (and why not? it’s good business sense, something we’ve sorely lacked recently) and if so, you’d hope we’ll give them short shrift and not even entertain the idea of them getting him on a loan or even at cut price.
And indeed “significant risk” is a matter of judgement that might well mean they’re trying it on.
For any expert in any area, you can always find someone who thinks the opposite, after all.
But my worry is what if this is all plausible and Amavi does have that significant risk?
Even though there is supposed to be a fair amount of interest in the player, surely this will see him being valued at a much lower worth?
All in all, this is a fairly big bombshell, as surely we were banking on getting a good few quid for Amavi, which in turn, must have made his sale pivotal to our spending plans?
I don’t want to be the doom-monger that some of you paint me out to be, but the fact is, this could quite easily put paid to any more spending in this window, because if as we suspect, we wanted another two or three players in, the sums are beginning to not add up
You would have to hope that Sevilla are indeed just playing their usual games.
But even then, just the talk of this will surely mean any other interest will wane, at best.
If we were in a better financial position, I’d have liked to see Dr Xia tell Sevilla that we’ll never do business with them again.
The trouble is, I suspect our hand might already have been forced and we’ll have to let him go on the cheap.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens.
Oh dear…Adomah looks badly injured at Tekford 0-0
Bloody hell…both Baker and Adomah off… 23 mins and 2 injuries already, are we cursed? Whats happening at Kiddy guys? Still 0-0 here. Samba looking good!
Adomah injury didn’t look good but. I think Baker might be a precaution following clash of heads. Agree Langford – Samba looks pretty useful and Green causing a lot of problems. Lansbury disappointing so far.
What a surprise Baker injured just for a change!
Chester just scored, 2 -0 Villa.
Villa 1 Telford 0 Andre Green
Better coverage for Telford game. Pic much better abd I prefer C and B to black!
ok who watched the telford game. what happened ? whats that team like. i watched the kids game
HT Telford 1-0….Adomah, Baker both off injured….Green the scorer.
Come in my man at Kiddy 🙂
I’m not happy Langford with our method, Hutton going forwards and exposing his position, mind you some good balls in from him which to me means we need a winger, Kiddy have had some chances it still looks the same football as last season to me. I’m getting old I know I am I believe in fighting for balls.
Bill – I’ve been flicking between games and missing the goals 🙂 Hogan looks sharp.
Yes Hitch he does,
Elmohamady will be here. I’m sure of that! Especially with Adomah injury looking quite bad. I’m staying at Telfird for the second half…please uodate the score from Kiddy for me.
Adomah is crap anyway we should flog him
2 nil to villa. hogans looks pacey not overly keen on richards he plays negatively he looks to pass to goalie all the time. tishbola also not keen on clumsy but he has been trying hard. mccormack looks interested. its first game so its understandable that were are rusty
Bill…don’t forget its preseason…..just experimental for now….is it 2-0 at half-time?
is samba on trial ??? and if so is he useful cause richards is dreadful
Samba, yes trial.
Chester is oozing class – think him and JT are going to be a hell of a centre back pairing
JT already showing his full commitment to the club by going to Wimbledon instead of playing tonight! Says it all
Hutch…yes indeed! Best CB in Championship by a country mile. They will allow our midfield to get further forward. There will be a great GD in our favour thus year IMO
Chester looking the real deal – looking forward to seeing him and JT playing together
Oops lost the first post so reposted – not sure what happened!
There under starters orders at Telford.
Please update me from Kiddy…cheers!
Kiddy put a load of trial players on.
Penalty to Villa…Davis brought down …Lansbury scores 2-0
McCormack missed a sitter, never mind , is Hutton on the pitch? Two chances from the right back position nearly goals for Kiddy.
Gabby…headed goal 3-0