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David Villa

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i have been thinking about this. i am almost certain that villa is not going to be coming to us.
infact i know he wont be.
 
africanspurs said:
i have been thinking about this. i am almost certain that villa is not going to be coming to us.
infact i know he wont be.
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Well in that case guess we should just close the thread then eh, if africanspurs says it's not happening it's not happening.
 
braineclipse said:
What's your reasoning affy? (I'm guessing you're not claiming to be itk :) )
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I'm doing the math and levy history correlation

the ONLY way he comes here is if the fee is under 9 million AND barcelona pay a large chunk of the wages

Otherwise this deal will NOT happen.
 
africanspurs said:
I'm doing the math and levy history correlation

the ONLY way he comes here is if the fee is under 9 million AND barcelona pay a large chunk of the wages

Otherwise this deal will NOT happen.
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The word a couple pages back is that the fee is very low because he is due a big payout from Barca if he enters the last year of his contract.
 
milo said:
The word a couple pages back is that the fee is very low because he is due a big payout from Barca if he enters the last year of his contract.
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Yes that coupled with Barca's v expensive splurge on Neymar means Levy might actually have them over a barrel a bit 2bh
 
africanspurs said:
I'm doing the math and levy history correlation

the ONLY way he comes here is if the fee is under 9 million AND barcelona pay a large chunk of the wages

Otherwise this deal will NOT happen.
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Do you think it's all just media speculation and we're not after him? Or do you think we're going in with some real low ball offers hoping to drag it out until Barca (and Villa) cave?
 
Also makes me laugh when people say Villa isn't a Levy signing. Levy has long known that signing older players/injury prone players/players falling out with their clubs is a great way to improve squad quality/plug gaps on a limited budget:

Sheringham
Poyet
Zeige
Redknapp
Naybet
Costa
Gallas
Van der Vaart

All fall into this category to an extent
 
yeah it's a bit of a fallacy that Levy won't sign older players with no resale value. without checking id say most, if not all of our sides during his time has contained at least one of these types
 
billyiddo said:
yeah it's a bit of a fallacy that Levy won't sign older players with no resale value. without checking id say most, if not all of our sides during his time has contained at least one of these types
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Yeah and it makes sense - what was our biggest weakness last season? Upfront. Lack of intelligence, confidence, clinical finishing - their pathetic goal return making it all the more remarkable we were anywhere near top 4 let alone losing out on the last day by a point.

A half-decent striker would have seen us cruise to CL qualification. BUT... In a world where Andy Carroll costs £35m even half-decent strikers are ridiculously expensive... But in Villa we can sign a world class one within our budget. We immediately go from being a quality side that's over reliant on Bale to a potentially superb one. Resale value or CL qualification?
 
NWND said:
Yeah and it makes sense - what was our biggest weakness last season? Upfront. Lack of intelligence, confidence, clinical finishing - their pathetic goal return making it all the more remarkable we were anywhere near top 4 let alone losing out on the last day by a point.

A half-decent striker would have seen us cruise to CL qualification. BUT... In a world where Andy Carroll costs £35m even half-decent strikers are ridiculously expensive... But in Villa we can sign a world class one within our budget. We immediately go from being a quality side that's over reliant on Bale to a potentially superb one. Resale value or CL qualification?
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also buys us time to really put the effort in to finding a real up and coming forward that won't shatter our budget - now that we have Baldini and are hopefully back to looking for the next G.Bale, L.Modric etc i think this transfer, should it happen is a VERY smart move for us
 
If that's true then it's happy times for us here!! I get the feeling that what we're witnessing is the next step up in a journey to a very special land!
 
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