Jordan Amavi has officially signed a new 5-year deal with Aston Villa after moving from Nice at a reported £10 million deal. Amavi is one of the highest rated left-backs in Europe after being ranked as one of the best left backs in Ligue 1.
“I’m delighted to have secured the services of someone we consider to be a terrific young player.
“Jordan has been one of the outstanding players in Ligue 1 and is still very young and can become even better.
“There were a lot of clubs after him this summer so we are really pleased to welcome him to the Club.” – Tim Sherwood
Amavi is the latest left-back that has been brought into the club as Aston Villa look to solve a position that hasn’t yet been secured since Warnock’s and Bouma’s prime days at the club. Amavi arrival affects Cissokho’s and Bennett’s position at the club with Amavi set to become Sherwood’s number 1 left-back. Amavi is a very attacking left-back who also boasts decent interception stats. One of his flaws include frequent bookings.
This is a great signing and I am very excited that Sherwood has brought in a player of Amavi’s caliber. At the age of 21, Amavi will most likely remain Aston Villa’s left-back for a number of seasons and being so young, Amavi does have resale value. Left-back is a position where not a single left-back has necessarily secured it for more than a season, hopefully Amavi ensures that we don’t buy an additional left-back for the next few seasons. I’m excited about this signing.
I actually could see Austin with Adebayor as super sub. That could really work.
For all those who’ve forgotten Adebayor used to a cracking player but that was when he was under….mmmm…what’s his name…some guy called Sherwood i think!
Adebeyor is exactly what we don’t need. Another injury priced overpaid mercenary the type of player we’ve been trying for years to get off our books. He will want a £100k per week ffs. Why don’t we just offer Benteke another 50k to stay instead. I’m still not convinced his heart is really in going to Liverpool and would rather move south than further north.
Always been a fan of Adebayor’s when he actually cares, like he did under Sherwood, but Adebayor doesn’t have the mentality that Sherwood wants and I can’t see it happening. He’d be a good 2nd choice and is different than Kozak is, technically is quite gifted, similar to Berbatov, but his attitude for a majority of the time is poor, although his strike rate is quality. I do think we’ll look for 2 strikers if Benteke leaves, as I believe we were in for a striker to partner Benteke. Embolo would be quality next to Benteke if he stayed.
Definitely be shocked if we were ever interested in Callum Wilson, let alone are now, English media have no clue who we want. If Sherwood wants a Premier League experienced striker, the best one would be Chicharito to partner Kozak (if Benteke left) as his runs are absolute class. There’s a lot of strikers out there that I think we could get/go for.
I agree. I don’t think anyone should take much notice of the media. I mean they didn’t predict Gueye and Amavi joining until negotiations were well under way so what do they know? Still prepared for a few surprises.
Also agree that Chicharito would be a brilliant buy. He’s still young but has experience and has played at the highest level. A real trier too which would please Sherwood.
Chicarito is quality, but I’m not convinced he would want to sign for us. I’d take Austin, as he is a proper goalscorer. Adebayor – not convinced, way past his best.
I don’t think it’d be too far-fetched. Not sure who else would go for him. Tottenham are linked but that’s about it. Oh and Orlando City are also linked to him.
Wake up & what do I read fucking adebayor link no no fucking no,I see Austin also being linked yes yes please yes.I hope adebayor is a greedy bastard & his wage demands can’t be considered.come on Tim good acquisitions to date don’t fuck up.
Sunday express mentioning 7 mil for callum Wilson from Bournemouth,there’s another player who could do a u turn on the club.
I suspect some media waffle here but people saying Adebeyor is exactly the type of player we don’t want blah blah………Yawn. Talented, often unplayable, an eye for goal (career stats better than 1 goal every 3 games), a point to prove, loves Sherwood and tried his arse off for him. He could be great for a season or two. If we could sign him AND Austin we then have options upfront with Kozak, Sinclair and Gabby. This would be refreshing seeing as the only option for 3 years has been Benteke or nothing. (Blimey – I sound like Adebeyor’s agent!!). It appears to be his family who are a bit loopy.
I wonder if Manchester United did move for Benteke whether they’d chuck Hernandez in as part of the deal?
I’ve woken up in a positive mood today.
Agreed. We have relied far to much on Benteke over the last 3 years. Having Adeabayor on a season long loan wouldn’t, imo, be a bad thing.
Hernandez would be awesome but I can’t see that ever happening. Hope I am wrong.
Media reckon benteke wants Utd over Liverpool lol and is holding out to see if they come in for him. This means he’s no chance of joining pool as their fans would go ballistic. If Utd don’t come in for him then he is in limbo and we can tell him to do one
If he does go then I will feel much better about it if it’s a champions league side – also Adam Lallana needs to keep his average / overpriced mouth shut – talking about it as if it’s a done deal.
The issue I have is that with the release clause in place then anyone can activate it and it could go to the last day of the window while…….leaving us in financial limbo.
Hernandez! No chance! Real Madrid to Aston Villa! Pffft!
Bojan – Barcelona to Stoke
Sherwood is not stupid. He will have known Benteke is leaving for months.
I am sure Villa have already lined up replacement(S) for Benteke and that the deals will go through as soon as he has been sold. The sooner the better.
My monies on Austin and a target man from abroad.
Please note I am shit at gambling.
The telegraph confirms benteke deal with the bin dippers what I can’t understand is this them paying 16 mil on completion of the transfer & the rest in installments???what fucks going on there??? Fucking tight bastards.
If it’s true that’s ridiculous. We don’t have to accept that and we shouldn’t. Pay the cash or piss off. We should be charging them a 20% interest rate for withholding payment.
How much was going to Genk for onward sale.. 10-15%?
I now really hope UTD snap him up from under their noses that’ll teach um a lesson for being tight fisted.he’s supposed to be having a medical tomorrow but as we know things change at the drop of a hat in transfer Windows.
What’s even worse is that we are allowing them to do it when we don’t need to!! Why not say to them he is £35m if u pay in instalments
Ps are city paying them back in installments?? For sterling or Chelsea for Torres??? More fool us if true.
It’s how transfers work mate, every club does it. We are probably still paying for Gill and Sinclair and whoever else. I think, but don’t quote me, it’s something to do with the buying club obviously having a budget. So say (for arguments sake) Liverpool had a budget of 50 million, They may of already spent 35 million on other signings and only have 15 million left. So they would say to Villa we will give you 15 million now and 17.5 before June 30th. Then If Villa accepted it and wanted, say Austin, they would say to QPR we’ll give you 8 million now and 7 million before July 31st next year, giving them time to receive the money they’re owed from Liverpool. Hope that makes sense mate. That’s my view anyway. 🙂
I didn’t know that MATE cheers for the info.
But if we force them to pay 32m it will mean we can spend more under ffp rules
Exactly right ohhahh.. to me it says, if it’s true, we won’t be spending all the money made from the benteke sale, again.
Yep have to agree gives us an excuse not to spend so maybe the club wanted it that way too typical
Don’t expect instalments make a difference to that. His sale price is £32.5m, that’s what goes into our accounts but the bill is just recorded as part paid
Almost every transfer is paid in instalments – with the exception of small amounts. For instance, when we bought Bent we paid Sunderland 3 instalments of £6 mill plus some additional bonus based amounts (that was from Niall Quinns own mouth. Getting the full amount up front would give us a little more bargaining power but wouldn’t make a huge difference.
As B6 states, it’s usually for cash flow/budget/financial accounting and is most glaringly obvious when clubs have loans with a forced purchase at the end of the loan – it’s purely so that the payment is shown in the following years accounts. Nothing unusual about the Liverpool payment structure at all.
So what happens if Liverpool went bust! Unlikely I know but clubs can go under
Unlikely but it does happen, hence lots of lower league teams lose money when another side who owes the transfer fees goes into administration and also the reason why some clubs get a transfer embargo (forest) because they haven’t settled there owed instalments of transfer fees on time.
Good point
Slight aside, but it seems Vlaar might be out for the rest of the year, after needing an op to remove a piece of Meniscus from his knee.
I can’t see anyone rushing to sign him now and wonder if he wished he’d taken our offer up?
LOL breaks my heart.
I assume we’ve taken our contract offer off of the table? – can imagine him limping over to get his biro right now.
If we hadn’t before, I’d guess we will now Kent.
Would callum Wilson do a job for us ?
Just like us to put him on 50k a week !!
Lol that’s funny. Good job we having got to pay the injury prone lump we dodged a bullet there
Don’t like seeing any player injured. But he only has himself to blame and I am glad he didn’t sign and we had to pay him for yet another season of injury.
Exactly we can spend that money elsewhere now
Could be the end of Vlaar’s career – wouldn’t wish that on the fella!
Nor me but as long as he’s not playing for I wish him all the best elsewhere
daily mail reporting Brad Guzan made available for £3m .
I’m surprised at that.
Means we surely must have someone lined up?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3167055/Brad-Guzan-available-3m-mass-exodus-Aston-Villa-continues.html
I don’t mind any of our players being up for sale as long as we have improvements (not just cheaper replacements) lined up
Exactly if guzan is being sold to help fund and bring in a better replacement then that’s great news.. but who can trust anything the media comes out with
Some fans eh, complain about players loyalty to the club and then hope that we can find a way to avoid paying wages to a guy who is injured at work. As it happens he will probably be covered by insurance but there are some sad bastards on this forum.
Eh? We’re not avoiding anything.
Vlaar’s out of contract, which means we don’t employ him anymore!
We made him an offer (from what I was told, the same money as his last contract) and he didn’t want to know.
We’re not paying him – he’s not under contract with us and that’s his decision. I’m sure he’ll be ok for cash though for the next four months.
I think vlaar has been more than well looked after by the club still getting paid a fortune while predominantly on the injury table. He also refused to sign contract offered to him as he thought he could move elsewhere even though he’s crap so no loyalty from him either
gerry are you for real . if your going by your injured at work well he was originally injured at Feyenoord and was know for being injury prone even back then so maybe Feyenoord should pay his wages lol
he was offered a new contract and turned it down saying he owed it to himself to play at a higher level than us and you now expect us to feel sorry for him. fuck him .
Vlaar’s FUCKall to do with us now he’ll more than likely be back in shop window for the transfer window in January.who really gives a FUCK???
Couldn’t give a FUCK about vlaar & couldn’t give a FUCK about your description of some on here.
If Villa are expected to pay peoples wages even though they aren’t employed by them I might give them a call and tell them I’ve broke my ankle. 🙂
Lol
This is a good article about us being a big club from Mirror http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/andy-dunn-column-aston-villa-6093368
Yes, I read that and it’s a very good article.
I didn’t put the link up though as it focuses on Delph and I think we all want to move on from that 🙁
I was just thinking about Amavi again.
If he proves to be as good as we all hope he is, moving to the Prem should work wonders for his international career and he might make the step to France’s full squad..
Is Evra still France’s current LB? If so, he’s getting on a bit isn’t he?
Prob be gone in a by september
I definitely think we will sell him before he retires! 😉
Very happy with the Amavi signing. We have been going for bargain basement left backs for the last few years and none of them have come off. Be interesting to see if he goes for a RB too…im gutted Trippier went to Spurs.
I really hope we dont sign Adebayor. There are so many better, more reliable players out there. Austin seems the obvious choice, but maybe Sherwood will look into Europe again.
Great article by andy,i get to go to villa about twice a season, myself and the missus stay at the indigo balcony suite, Birmingham has to get its head out of its arse as does villa .the city is grrrreat i love it and i have claret and blue blood running through me its about time the people in charge at villa started looking at themselves and started to realise what villa and the city is all about .The view from the motorway of Villa park gets me every time .Iam a romantic and i just wish my club and my city was again.
Guzan didn’t get on the pitch v Arsenal, but he was certainly one of those Tim left in no doubt were a bunch of losers. Even the reported asking price £3m shows he isn’t held in much regard.
Austin would need to get approved by Villa’s player insurance company. That company has probably told Villa their premiums are hiked unless they raise the medical bar, after signing a casualty-ward in the past 2 seasons and then subjecting them to SAS induction at BMH. I am not sure if Austin would pass the medical. As I posted before Bournemouth have bought in players as if they expect Wilson to go. For the situation where you have 9 men behind the ball and just 1 up on the half way line, Wilson is one of the best.
I don’t object to Adebayor, just to 100K a week or anything like it. We have Gabby already who has looked even less interested and scores far fewer goals. Either player next season will be a real test of Tim’s motivational prowess – and my bet is it will be harder to get a tune out of Gabby even with Benteke out of the way.
Benteke wasn’t exactly non injury prone was he
It was odd because they tended to be freak injuries, like not really reoccurring, he just kept injuring himself and pretty badly too.
Jesus, Oohah, in your dream world, players never get injured do they?
Benteke was obviously brought back in too early and many knew it, you apart.
Which is why he looked crap for so long.
And that’s all I’ve got to say about it, if you’re involved in the discussion.
Benteke was still out for months though yes he was bought bk too early needed another month imo
We’re linked with 3 strikers, supposedly in talks with them
First Di Marzio claims we’re in talks for Watford’s Ighalo and Fiorentina’s Babacar.
Belgian media claims we’ve contacted Brugge for highly rated Obbi Oulare, who’s 6’5.
http://7500toholte.sbnation.com/2015/7/19/8999927/aston-villa-history-world-war-two-nazi-salute-queen-elizabeth
What a story!!!!!
That’s a good story, at a time when we were still pretty much the BIGGEST CLUB IN THE WORLD, albeit fading.
Agree we are still a huge club historically badger. People forget especially young generation that it’s only in recent times Cheksea and City have been good when we were watching proper football before the prem they were just yo yo clubs and no more than mid table at best.
Amazing story the FA were just as spineless then as our government are now with terrorists. Pathetic