Deal accepted for Morgan Rogers.

Not great for me personally, he's been getting better week on week and I would expect him to be more in demand come the end of the season.
It's the way things are now for most clubs outside of the Premier league, it's hard to actually build a good side, as any emerging talents usually don't hang around long.
 
Not in a rush to spend the money. If the long term player we want isn't available just now, I'm happy to sit on it until the Summer. We shouldn't waste it chasing a highly improbably promotion this season.

Worth reminding ourselves what people were saying about Rogers back in September. "poor man's Sami Ameobi" is maybe my favourite.
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Also worth remembering there were fans saying we sold Spence far too cheaply. Maybe we'll look back in future and think we had Villa's eyes out too? And if he's not good enough for those clauses to trigger, maybe he wasn't that good full stop?
 
Disappointed as everyone else with him leaving, but if his heads been turned and his heart isn't in the club its probably the best thing.
I just hope we have centre forward lined up .
 
Jonathan said:
So we either have about £6m to spend if it's £8m up front, or about £7.5m if it's £!0m up front, once you remove City's cut. F*cking sh*te deal either way, honestly.

This was a team in the top four of the Premier League apparently desperate to sign our player, to the point all we kept hearing was about how he's their number one priority. Comparatively you have a team in a relegation battle suddenly popping up with a bid for Adam Wharton at £18m right out of the gate. So what we have to show for it is about £7.5m up front at best, and then "possible add-ons" down the line, that potentially might not even come to pass.

And this was us apparently playing hard ball.

No wonder there's Villa fans replying to all these tweets about it saying they've scammed us.
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So what would you have asked for?
 
Jonathan said:
So we either have about £6m to spend if it's £8m up front, or about £7.5m if it's £!0m up front, once you remove City's cut. F*cking sh*te deal either way, honestly.

This was a team in the top four of the Premier League apparently desperate to sign our player, to the point all we kept hearing was about how he's their number one priority. Comparatively you have a team in a relegation battle suddenly popping up with a bid for Adam Wharton at £18m right out of the gate. So what we have to show for it is about £7.5m up front at best, and then "possible add-ons" down the line, that potentially might not even come to pass.

And this was us apparently playing hard ball.

No wonder there's Villa fans replying to all these tweets about it saying they've scammed us.
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Whats the obsession with Wharton?

Apart from both playing in the Championship this season, and having **** and balls, those are the only similarities.

They are far from like for like.
 
TeaCider said:
I don't believe that is the deal though.

It's a £500,000 difference from the offer he claimed we rejected a few days ago, it doesn't make sense for that to be it.

Multiple other sources are reporting a higher upfront fee, and I expect it will be.
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We don't know what add-ons have changed. Ornstein is only 2nd to Romano in terms of his connections when it comes to transfers.
 
MichaelDebeve said:
Whats the obsession with Wharton?

Apart from both playing in the Championship this season, and having **** and balls, those are the only similarities.

They are far from like for like.
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It's also a current, big-money, Championship to Premier League, ongoing transfer? Thought this would be obvious really.
 
TeaCider said:
I don't believe that is the deal though.

It's a £500,000 difference from the offer he claimed we rejected a few days ago, it doesn't make sense for that to be it.

Multiple other sources are reporting a higher upfront fee, and I expect it will be.
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Unless Villa make it public we'll never know what the deal is, but I'm sure we'll insist on an undisclosed fee, as we usually do.

As long as we can reinvest that money now on a top championship striker then I'll be happy.
 
InglebyUTB said:
We don't know what add-ons have changed. Ornstein is only 2nd to Romano in terms of his connections when it comes to transfers.
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John Percy of the Telegraph has very strong connections to Midlands clubs, and he's reporting £10m up front.

He was the first to mention a fee too.
 
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