Winter Transfer Missed Opportunities and Regrets

[Niall_Quinn]

OK, don't then!

[Niall_Quinn]

We’ve had a 60m bid for Watkins rejected.

I have no idea how we think we’re getting this over the line, other than the fact he is an Arsenal fan.

Seems like a token bid to me.

Watkins? He's got 2 more goals than Havertz. And Havertz isn't a striker. I mean, to be honest, apart from Salad and big girlie weirdo, most of these PL strikers are abject shit, all on 10 goals, 8 goals, 5 goals? STRIKERS? Sound like duds to me. Havertz has done okay considering he's more of a midfielder than a striker. It's the 150 mill chancers that should be embarrassed, not him.

[Mac76]

Seems like a token bid to me.

yeah, kinda

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Why didn't we try and get him years ago?

Definitely just doing it to appear like we're doing something.

[Mac76]

Why didn't we try and get him years ago?

Definitely just doing it to appear like we're doing something.

It's not even exciting, I miss the Wenger years when he'd mumble something about going for Messi...

[Niall_Quinn]

Silly bid, what’s the point of spending that much on a player of 29. Who frankly is as good as he’s going to get. I don’t mind bringing players who are 30 or older if it’s a bit like Jorginho where you don’t pay that much in transfer fee and they are there to add a bit of maturity to the squad. Ultimately given we are a club that’s never going to go berserk in the transfer market I wouldn’t want that kind of money spent on a player any older than 25.

Plus Villa aren’t going to sell. And why would they

Because it's about money and not football? No telling how many little envelopes find their way into little pockets when a deal is done. That's my conspiracy theory mind on the go again - we all know George Graham was the only one ever to take a bung.

[Niall_Quinn]

Why didn't we try and get him years ago?

Definitely just doing it to appear like we're doing something.

Maybe we weren't in a hole so obviously of our own making years ago - though I can't prove something so preposterous is true.

[Niall_Quinn]

We really are trying to sign Watkins. Now! When the window is closing. What an absolute fucking joke. Who at the club has concluded Villa are going to sell their top striker with 5 minutes left until the deadline?

I thought this was more online hype, but it appears it's actually what we have settled on. A completely pointless bid and an underbid at that - 60 mill? Who actually sat down and decided that was an offer Villa couldn't refuse? Why not 60 thousand or 6 quid? Just as realistic.

This has to be a wind up?

[Mac76]

We really are trying to sign Watkins. Now! When the window is closing. What an absolute fucking joke. Who at the club has concluded Villa are going to sell their top striker with 5 minutes left until the deadline?

For which read 5 days...

But yes, apparently

[Marc Overmars]

What’s also daft is that Villa are selling Duran to Saudi. Are they really going to let him and Watkins both leave?

Just nonsense really from us.