CB Fry

I'm really nervous about dying here. I'm so scared. Why can't you see it in your heart to help us?

Where is this? Not seen it.

100% agree and this is where Villa have done great - they've put themselves on the front foot by getting some big signings in before the ink was dry on Grealish. It would be nice if we could do that kind of thing once in a while.

I think exactly this - Villa need the PR win post-Grealish, we've got more money than expected. I think the club telling Ings "we've sold you, my son" has changed the dynamic somewhat. That's where the bad feeling has come from. We've bundled him off. I think Ings and his people probably thought they were in control. Maybe not. On the balance of things, our club have got more of what they wanted than Danny Ings has got what he wanted. The issue we have now is replacement. Us doing well this season will be pretty much decided by getting that bit right. Not entirely convinced we will but let's see.

Exactly- people are so desperate to moan about the fact he gone to Villa that they're missing the fact that we have looked after ourselves first and foremost - our priorities were 1) get him to sign 2) if he doesn't sign maximise our return and sell quickly 3) absolutely not let him go into his final year un-signed While its probable that Tottenham or some other big club would have been more likely to try and nick him on Aug 31, and that Ings would probably prefer that, that wasn't our objective - once we accepted the Villa offer Danny's game was up. People are moaning now, but it's as sure as shit they'd be moaning a heck of a lot more if he was driving up to Spurs on the last day of August for £20m. If anyone really thinks that Danny Ings has got the move he was dreaming of, then good luck to you. Personally I think we've done just as well out of this situation as the player. Good luck in the Champions League, big shot.

I can see why you would object to people with a negative attitude.

What performances were happening "a few weeks back"? Beach football? Fuck knows why people are pretending that Danny Ings leaving this summer is some great big shock, especially when it is exactly the same people going on and on about what a shit club with no ambition we are.

If that goes through there's a guy on Twitter whose ITK credentials are going through the roof - called Ings and this one on the same day. Could still be a lucky bullshitter but quite a strong days work.

WHU don't have a great track record in taking Centre Backs from us if we think of Man United-bound Jose Fonte (very much the Ings of his day) and poor old Richard Hall. Vestergaard going for decent money i am incredibly comfortable about, if it allows us to roll the dice on a replacement. People pissing their pants about departures from a defence that were ropey as fuck last year I really don't understand.

Sorry I forgot to mention earlier but big thanks to Weston: me and him had a little side-bet on the date Danny Ings transfer would be announced- absolutely delighted i won that and quick as a flash he transferred me the £750 into my lawyers account this morning. Great service mate, cheers - good luck in our £950 bet we've got going on the first goal time for Saturday's preseason friendly. My lawyer is ready to go just in case - fingers crossed 🤞

He's getting squad number 47 at Villa apparently, just after a couple of highly rated academy lads.

Leicester looking mighty silly now they've announced a stadium expansion. In the next year or so the population of Leicester is going to shrink from 357k to 250k so I reckon they might struggle to fill it by the time they've finished it. Especially with all those funerals on Saturdays too.

You're the one using that quote as evidence that the club definitively said we were going to let him run his contract down.

Except it isn't.

Exactly. You have to be as thick as pigshit to think that we ever said that he was definitely staying to the end of contract. Pretty obvious we wouldn't let that happen.

Why do you need someone to give you a thousand pounds for you to explain why the British government is working on a plan to kill 16m people in the next year or so? Its almost like you want us all to die.

So its not a trend, but in your suicidal world the trend is just about to start as of now so it is a trend. Clear. Why do I think to wouldn't be difficult to find a post from you saying how shit Bertrand is (or even Koeman, or even Ings).

Like I say, funnily enough they're not you.

Why would that piss players off? Funnily enough they're not you.

Us selling a player that everyone knew we were going to sell must have come like a bolt out of the blue, it really must have shocked them to the core.

You have to bear in mind the fact we have as a club decided to cash in and accept the offer. I never ever thought we would go into his last year of his contract so we were looking to take the money. I don’t think for a second that Ings was anticipating that he would end up at a club like Villa: all the noise was about him testing himself at a higher level than that. But from SFC's point of view we don't give a fuck about that - if Villa offer an acceptable bid, we accept it and get him gone. Its not our problem that Villa aren't a CL club. Let's see: in five years time we may learn that this transfer was similar to when we signed Kevin Phillips: He always says how he never really wanted to join us and he was never really happy. This might end up the same. Ings and Villa have been thrown together, we've got our money. Let's hope we spend it well.

How much day-in, day-out playing was Ings doing during the 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons? Absolutely full of shit.

The Liverpool coaching staff still speak today of the huge improvements made by Danny Ings in his 14 games across four years. So much improvement. Really a bit strange that Liverpool sign a player for millions, that player then improves but despite this improvement the outcome is that Liverpool sell that player to a club in the relegation fight. Kinda weird really, aint it?

Well, this is going to happen one week later than I anticipated but all in all I'm quite pleased with this prediction.

I have it on good authority that Danny has been reading this forum and his mind was made up after reading your posts about how much bigger Villa are, how much ambition they have and generally how fabulous they are as a football club compared to us. So thanks a bunch.