Summer 2024 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[alan_clarke]

Tend to agree. But it wouldn’t surprise me if the friendly with Athletic was set up by Monchi with the intention of a captive audience with Nico

[eamonn]

A couple of places suggested that Matias Soule is now available and Leicester interested.

A bit annoying if he was Emery/Monchi's top-swap target with Juve last month.

[Brazilian Villain]

Tend to agree. But it wouldn’t surprise me if the friendly with Athletic was set up by Monchi with the intention of a captive audience with Nico

That was suggested on X, and that the intention was to show him around BMH. I was excited for a moment, until I realised the game is on Aug. 7th.

[nigel]

Tend to agree. But it wouldn’t surprise me if the friendly with Athletic was set up by Monchi with the intention of a captive audience with Nico

That was suggested on X, and that the intention was to show him around BMH. I was excited for a moment, until I realised the game is on Aug. 7th.

What’s the issue August 7th, mate?

[Somniloquism]

I'm guessing that it is so late in the window that he might have already signed for Barca?

[pablo_picasso]

Question: Who would you take and why?

Joao Felix for £40m or Jack Grealish for £40m?

Neither.

I would take that £40M & split it between Maximilian Beier & Brajan Gruda.

I hate the idea of that little traitor rat Grealish anywhere near Villa & if we are being honest, he has regressed as a player & we have progressed & moved forwards as a club.

As for Joao Felix, he is supposed to have this massive ceiling, but at 24, it would be good if he started to show it in a more consistent basis. And his heart is still for Barcelona. And they want him too, they just cant afford him.

So it seems stupid to take another player who agitates for a move elsewhere.

Had enough of that shit with that little prick Duran...

[villadelph]

A couple of places suggested that Matias Soule is now available and Leicester interested.

Looks like he's off to Roma for around €30m. Which is strange because he was labeled as untouchable when we were negotiating for Luiz. We'll see..

[Tuscans]

🚨💣 Atlético want €60m for João Félix & only a permanent transfer is considered — no more loans!
@medinamarca

[eamonn]

No more loans indeed! Who needs that shit?!

[ozzjim]

Soule at that price with a striker too and Duran going would be very in keeping with the Monchi Unai way of things. Then go big on a centre back.

[jwarry]

🚨💣 Atlético want €60m for João Félix & only a permanent transfer is considered — no more loans!
@medinamarca

Snap their hand off, mind you wages might be a oroblem

[cdbearsfan]

I'd be interested to experiment with Felix, but you don't experiment for €60 million. Good luck getting any non-Saudi club to pay that.

[Gareth]

With Felix, I don’t watch much European league football anymore but other than that eye watering fee that Athletico paid for him as he shown consistent form of a top player anywhere or are clubs still chasing the notion that they can be the ones to unlock the 100m talent?

Interested in views of thosr that have seen a decent amount of him? Barely put his head above the parapet at Chelsea

[Ger Regan]

Felix has a bit of a Zaniolo feel to it for me. Seems a bit too risky at that sort of price.

[pablo_picasso]

With Felix, I don’t watch much European league football anymore but other than that eye watering fee that Athletico paid for him as he shown consistent form of a top player anywhere or are clubs still chasing the notion that they can be the ones to unlock the 100m talent?

Interested in views of thosr that have seen a decent amount of him? Barely put his head above the parapet at Chelsea

He's never struck me as anything other than a perfectly reasonable footballer with a high reputation, that at the age of 24, he has never met.

Things might be different under Emery, but I wouldn't want to gamble €60M to find out.

Feels a bit Zaniolo to me...


Edit- Ger Regan beat me to it.