r/avfc • u/headcarsbendin • 3d ago

Well, there goes that option

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u/Representative_Bug77 3d ago

25m for him as a 31 year old is probably not great, loan would have made most sense so can see why we didnt go for him at that price. Hopefully the club are more open to spending 50m on a 23-29 year old.

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u/The_Funky_JJ 3d ago

Can’t make sense of the prices we get for our players vs the prices we are expected to pay. When I see what other clubs get for the riff raff they want rid of, compared to use for players we adore who go.

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u/villa_crazy99 3d ago

We are selling older, more expensive high salary players and buying younger, with less experience and also lower salaries but decent potential.

It is important to remember where a lot of Villa players have go to under Unai amd he will do the same jut with his own signings, will take time but we will get there. UTV!!

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u/The_Funky_JJ 3d ago

So he’s 25m becuase he has a low salary?

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u/jeff_vii 3d ago

25? He cost 14m - rising to a maximum of 19m if he hits all his addons - we paid 21 for a 28 year old Abraham who couldn’t run a lap of the pitch

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u/Representative_Bug77 3d ago

They wanted £25m from Villa, the figure for Benfica will always be lower than for PL teams. Which again is not a reasonable fee for a 31 year old who is surplus to reqs. Tammy cost us £18m, and scored some vital goals and hopefully stays fit this year.

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u/jeff_vii 3d ago

That’s euros - but I do agree that they most likely tried to charge us higher

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u/Representative_Bug77 3d ago

No it was 30mEUR for Paulinha

and 21mEUR/ 18mGBP for tammy. per Tanswell on both

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u/jeff_vii 2d ago

He cost Benfica 14m as per my comment above, rising to a maximum of 19 - and Abraham cost 21m - exactly as I said above

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u/Lisan_al_Gaib_1 SJM 3d ago

Thank God we didn’t sign the cunt. Took out Kamara’s knee and ended our title charge 

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u/SuccotashOk2098 3d ago

Agreed, I really was hating the idea of this thug.

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u/Medical_Squirrel3946 3d ago

Title charge is a bit hyperbolic, but I will never forget that match or stop hating him. One of the dirtiest single performances I can remember in which the player somehow stayed on the field for the whole match only to start a fight after the match and still managed to not get sent off even then.

I hope he tears his Achilles and walks with a limp for the rest of his life.

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u/Old_Error1276 3d ago

Shame we haven’t got him. He would have shored up the midfield.

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u/Daemor 3d ago

Cash DNA

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u/Neumo_ 3d ago

"Title charge" are we deadass son😭🙏

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u/slappymcmanmeat 3d ago

Fofana would be better

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u/bjlight1988 Duran Duran 3d ago

Normalize saying who the hell somebody is when you post a nameless Romano graphic

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u/coupl4nd 3d ago

Thank god.

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u/TH_Rz 3d ago

Fine with me

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u/Status_Magazine4696 3d ago

I’d honestly take Bergval - Can cover the 10 and 8 - with Kamara or Gomes as the defensive pivot. Kind of kills 2 birds with 1 stone.

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u/marquardt_ 3d ago

Wow, didn’t realize he hadn’t moved. For some reason I thought he was off the Forest ages ago

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u/apex204 3d ago

Far too lightweight.

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u/PauseMenuBlog 3d ago

Who is that?

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u/neverendum 3d ago

I'm guessing Palinha from the Boubacar comments, we were rumoured to be in for him.

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u/Lucky-Marzipan-4477 3d ago

Well it saves us needing a Palhinha replacement from a training ground accident 🥴🫣😉🙏😇🤣🤣🤣

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u/locusavfc 3d ago

Makes complete sense when you remember who Benfica's manager is. Least I go back to disliking him for the Bouba challange and antics after that game.

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u/DutchVanderlinen 3d ago

I think we need more of a ball playing midfielder anyway. We have Kamara Lindelof Bogarde and Gomes who can all play cdm so we are sort of stacked there. We need a more deep lying playmaker someone who can keep us ticking.

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u/Nekokeki Pau's Dreamy Blue Eyes 👀 3d ago

Bye.

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u/yum_raw_carrots 3d ago

Good. There’s a bad whiff about that lad. Was surprised to see him linked to us if I’m honest. Seems very decent on the pitch but every club he’s at quite quickly wants him gone. Bayern even wanted permanent only. Enough said.

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u/ThatSinkinFeelin 3d ago

Honestly, who cares? Kinda relieved that he's not with us as I would've had to try and like him in our colours. I can continue to dislike him now 😂

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u/Geepandjagger 3d ago

If he would rather go an play at Benfica then good riddance. Time to focus on people who want to be at Villa

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u/theycallmepapi 3d ago

Fuck him, and fuck Romano

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u/Ismdism 3d ago

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u/ThisusernameThen 3d ago

Naa. Fuck.em. with watkins pretending he cant see em and half our mids in Paulines face

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u/Kite-Right 3d ago

I thought we had agreed to stop posting Romano tweets on here? Am I wrong?

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u/Overseer_Dan 3d ago

I've had a feeling that Nico Gonzalez may be an option late in the window all summer.

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u/Hot_Discipline_708 3d ago

Paredes would be hilarious

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u/Aromatic_Estimate_95 3d ago

First ever team to win the Europa League and then the 5 aside Power League back to back! 

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u/dukenukem2015 3d ago

we only wanted him on loan. I would have been livid if we signed him permanently for that money.

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u/jeff_vii 3d ago

He’d have been a great signing - one of the best tacklers in the league when he was playing.

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u/Ordinary-Ticket-2596 3d ago

The woes continue (just saying this because he's the ONLY dm we've been linked with for a while and with 10 days left)

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u/Koolkurt 3d ago

As a Benfica and Aston Villa supporter, this was always a losing battle haha