Do it. Bin off Neto to free up that loan spot for Ferguson

    Burnwinter I suspect they accounted for this insanely long champions league and europa league program. Usually these competitions are done by December. Remember, participants can register up to 3 new players for knockouts.

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      lorddulaarsenal please no. I don’t want 6 months of false arguments about how signing Garcia got in the way of a striker.

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          Claudius He needs to sign the GK and a defender this window, just to send a message to the Arsenal fans that he'll get what he wants not what they want 😉

            We should keep an eye out for the best young players at United and Chelsea. Do the same to them where we legitimately feel someone can be part of the team.

            Rashford to Villa on loan might conceivably keep our Watkins bid alive ... ?

            Saw a thing saying that with Merino's signing and Raya's (delayed) transfer, we've already had two of the top five deals by size for players over 28 in world football since the end of season 23–24. Might as well increase that to three of the top five eh?

              Burnwinter we have a young team. We are about to lose a few more vets end of the year(Jorginho, Partey, maybe Trossard/jesus), and we have fully integrated two talented teenagers.
              So we have room for a vet

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                  Claudius Watkins just turned 29 and 4 years ago was playing in the championship. He’s hardly a vet.

                  Rashford to Villa could work in our favour

                    Claudius We definitely aren't losing Jesus at the end of the year because he's wrecked his ACL. No point selling Trossard either because we won't get a fee to speak of and he's still useful. We sign Watkins, I'm quite certain he'll be an overpaid bench option at best by the time he's 31, he'll go the way of Jesus. I'm against it. I don't think it's a move that'll bring us silverware.

                      If we were signing Asensio, I'd think we were acting like a small club.

                        I bet we end up signing Watkins and taking Tel on loan. Which would be a great way to end this window.

                        Watkins should happen. It will be a bit steep of a price, but it’s doable, and options are limited. We won’t go for Tel. He is unlikely to get significant minutes if we get Ollie

                        Watkins starts for Villa tonight which is not a good sign.

                        We will sign no one on Monday and wait for my thread on it.

                          QuincyAbeyie well yeah because we can attract bigger names, but he means as a way of operating. They lost an important player, even if he was just a back up, so they went straight out and got 2 good players in to help the team in the push for top 4 and the for the CL games. 2 players, that are, let's be real, big names for Aston Villa.

                          We needed a striker and a winger in the summer, and we fucked about. Then shit hit the fan, January came around, and here we are 2 days before deadline day, fucking about.

                          Remember when all the pundits were doing hours long jerk off sessions about how good this guy? I remember.

                          is this the kid we wanted a few years ago?