Having a hard time taking our £40m bid seriously, and I would imagine Villa felt the same.

    MistaT it’s an anchoring tool. If you want to pay £60m, you don’t bid £60m. You put in a low number - first to lower expectations and also to establish if there is actually an intent to sell. You can always pay £60m eventually. What you don’t want is to be rejected at a first offer of £60m. That’s the worst possible situation.

        Apparently, Villa are in for Felix and Asensio and have already signed Malen.

        They will let Watkins go if we make the right offer, even with Duran having left.

          daredevil Apparently, Villa are in for Felix and Asensio and have already signed Malen.

          A real smorgasbord of mofos

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            Sicario2 - Tier 1 they are selling Duran because they are in PSR trouble. I don't think they are letting go of Watkins for £40m but apparently they've stuck an £80m price tag on him so its not an impossible purchase. All depends on whether a fee can be agreed.

            Sicario2 - Tier 1 we probably wont get Watkins but John Cross knows about as much as us on here. A real hasbeen when it comes to football scoops.

                  Qwiss I’m all for Watkins joining but £80m for a 29 year old is crazy.

                      80m for Watkins, 50m+ for Tel...the market has gone crazy

                      Real could be open to a loan deal for Endrick as he's hardly getting any minutes for them. Bring him in so he'll tell Rodrygo in the summer how amazing we are

                        Tactics -- and that's without considering Saudi Arabia

                        [James Benge] Al-Nassr already readying second and final offer worth up to £90 million for Kaoru Mitoma. Brighton are reluctant to sell.

                          Can we trick them into getting Jesus?

                          edit: not 5 minutes after I posted this

                          I would sell for 90

                          daredevil Remember that Gyokeres has also banged them in in Europe, incl. a hattrick against City, and for Sweden. The likes of Seferovic and Bas Dost never passed the eye test either.

                            What's Ascencio done lately? Worth a loan?

                            Thought he was a decent player once upon a time, but haven't heard much of him at PSG.

                            In light of the €60m Tel fee, the €77m Duron fee and the €65m Mitoma offer, how do people feel about a potential 70m euro fee for Watkins? Discuss.

                              Claudius not good. All those fees are inflated but two of them are fined by Saudi money. We are my funded by Saudi money.

                                  Don Pacifico here’s the thing. I think it gets worse from here. These guys are building 2km tall buildings. What’s £100m to them. They need to create a football culture before the World Cup. They’re going to bid up players

                                  We should pull Zinchenko and Jorginho aside and ask them to think about their children. Consider a nice palatial existence in Saudi.