There really hasn’t been too much news regarding Aston Villa throughout the past few days. There have been a lot of quotes from Wilkins regarding the signing of Richards and that losing Delph is a possibility. I’m not going to talk about those quotes in details, because I feel as though I have covered both topics in the past. So here is just a run down of some of the latest transfer news that has popped up in the last few days.
The Metro reported that Aston Villa have made a £3.5 million bid for Groningen’s Tjaronn Chery. Chery (27, years old) is a versatile midfielder whose main position is winger but can also play in central midfield. Chery scored an impressive 15 goals in the Dutch league last season. Allegedly Saudi Arabian side Al Ahli are also interested in Chery and would be willing to offer a larger wage packet but Sherwood hopes that the lure of Premier League football would be enough to land the midfielder. But there is more to this story, some tabloids are reporting today morning that Groningen have rejected Aston Villa’s £3.5 million bid.
I don’t really know too much about Chery, but his goal tally is decent for a midfielder, in the past 5 seasons he has scored roughly 41 goals for 3 different teams and Villa are in need of a decent winger. The £3.5 million transfer valuation is fair in opinion and I hope that Aston Villa don’t pay more than £4 million for a player that wouldn’t have much of a resell value in the future due to his age.
Aston Villa has also been linked Ajax defender Nicolai Boilesen. This report comes from the Netherlands, AD.nl claim that Boilesen has no future at Ajax and is interested in a move abroad, particularly to Villa who have expressed interest in the young defender.
“Nicolai Boilesen can benefit from interest from the Premier League. The defender has no future at Ajax is in the express interest of Aston Villa. Boilesen said late last season away to want at the club. He has an ear for a transition .
“At a training session of the national team of Denmark he was injured , however . He uniform number five had already been exchanged for a number seventeen omen.” – Translation
Boilesen is a young left-back who has got good pace. But just reading a little bit about him, Ajax fans claim that sometimes he runs around like a headless chicken and can forget the position in which he is playing in. I don’t particularly have any thoughts on Boilesen except for the fact that he must be somewhat decent as he did graduate Ajax’s youth academy. But he sounds similar to Bennett, not sure if we need two Bennett’s.
Adebayor is linked again with Aston Villa… reports say the same thing. Sherwood connection, trade for Benteke, ect… I don’t think that Benteke will be sold in a player plus cash agreement and I don’t think that the Villa board will allow Sherwood to buy a 31 year old striker, whose wage demands would be way to high and for a player with a questionable attitude. Villa should just focus on Charlie Austin.
Hull City have set a £10 million price tag for Robbie Brady in an effort to stop interest from the Premier League boys. I’d personally like Brady at Villa since I think he is a good player who can play as a winger or a wing-back. But £10 million? Come on Hull, he is definitely not worth the same amount as Fabian Delph. £5 million is a more realistic valuation. Plus Brady only has 1 year left on his contract. I just don’t understand some clubs valuation of their players.
Linked with dross players, how exciting.
Moderation eh!!!
Roll on the start of the season. At least we’ll know who’s in and who’s out for definite.
All of this speculation is getting a bit tiring already and we’ve still got weeks to go.
Another season of bottom 5 fuck all to look forward to. I really think we will go down next year especially if benteke goes. Just can’t see us staying up with the players we’ve got plus the ones we are being linked with are just bargain basement dross
just a bit of speculation here, if the club have granted “exclusivity” to a third party in view of buying the club, does this mean all assets(i.e.players) of the club are frozen until either the sale of the club or rejection of the deal. in the meantime who is running the club?who can sanction transfers? (Richards was a free) this is giving the press a field day in speculation.anybody with info on company law to give us a heads up.
I think it’s Tom Fox and Tim Sherwood working together to bring in new players. Maybe one of the assistant coaches could give a few suggestions but I reckon that Fox has been given a bit more power over the course of the summer
Normally during due diligence process, the business being sold carries on as usual run by the same management team as it’s in the interest of the buyer for their acquisition to maintain or improve its market position. Accept that football clubs are different insofar as there is a large capital investment required during the transfer window. No knowledge on this but would guess that the buyer has a copy of Villa’s business plan which would set out the investment strategy, the expected outflow in funds and eventual wages costs. If they gave been granted exclusivity then, by implication, Villa’s business plan is acceptable.
That makes sense to me. I don’t believe we’ll see anything different in our transfer strategy until such a time that a new owner appears on the tv brandishing the scarf in his hands…
Now that’s a decent shout Billy Boots, I had wondered what happened on sale of club and buying players, all this speculation has to be shite reporting, anyone buying would need to be involved in some way, I would think.
with all this speculation in the press i would think any club would of responded in some way, mind you i am from a time when you never knew who the chairmen were of any club, and newspapers reported news not what they invented in there minds.
Hitch does that include selling what is in effect an asset i.e benteke
Hi Billy, it’s a good question. I suspect that one of the reasons Villa are (apparently) holding out for the release clause and not interested in a player exchange is that contractually they would not be able to avoid selling (if a club offered £32.5m) and that would have to be accepted by the buyer. There is no reason during due diligence why the buyer and seller can’t discuss and agree on strategic decisions that may vary from the financial plans already declared.
thanks hitch i suppose that clears up that then
one other question in my head, if the release clause is triggered by Liverpool it gives them the right to speak with him ,if i can remember from the distant past doesn’t it give other teams the right to speak to him also? i know in this day its all been arranged through the agent beforehand
Yes. Not only can other clubs talk to the player but they will be encouraged to do so by the Selling club, because if two clubs are interested a higher bid than the trigger price may be needed.
Google translate is a bit rough but we’ve reportedly made a bid for 19 year old Oğulcan Cağlayan.
http://ahsenhaber.com/haber/ogulcan-da-premier-lige-gidiyor_h1897.html
Another player IV never heard off. The 99p bargain basement is still our ambition ffs
Pearsons been sacked
Ps not you BILL 😀
His son was one of the 3 players sacked by the club a couple of weeks ago wasn’t he? So not really a surprise…
Some fans are saying that there might’ve been a connection with the two incidents. Still I think it’s rather harsh to sack Pearson after that survival run.
They can have Lamberk
Pearson’s achievement was immense. That said, he is quite an abrasive character. Maybe with their Prem status assured they have been talking to other managers, feeling they could do better. Strong rumours of him being sacked before the end of last season. Something clearly went on there
“Abrasive character…” – the guy seems to be a bigger head-case than ‘Psycho’ Stuart Pearce!
I think he was brilliant in keeping Leicester in the premier league, and that they’re going to struggle to find a replacement; wonder what odds on Lambert ending up there?
You wouldn’t mess with Pearson. He is a big unit. Yes Mr Pearson from me!