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and Maguire when he went to Leicester....

I think if anyone is offering £5m, then I'd take it with, ideally, a % sell on clause too. He's not going to play ahead of Adams, Armstrong, Broja or Tella. We also have Redmond and Walcott who can be effective there too. Wish him luck if he does go, but not sure we can turn down £5m with a year on his contract now.

I'm sure official "discussions" haven't been had, but it's completely naive to think that transfers aren't discussed all the time by agents / players / clubs. I've no idea, and I don't care enough to look, but I'm sure Prowseys agent has clients at various other football clubs, so a bit like walking past someone in the office in the corridor and asking them how their weekend was (pre-covid), is probably similar to asking if x y z player could be available...

Not what I was told by a mate of mine who spoke directly to him... I was told he wants to stay, but "unsure what the club will do". Clearly he was aware the club needed to raise funds for transfers, but this was before Ings went. I'm pretty certain he will stay, unless it's silly money (£60-70m), which then is fair enough for the club to accept. It will take something ridiculous for him to leave now though IMO.

Looks like a backup / alternative to Adams, with Armstrong / Tella being the other striker. I'd be happy with that front line.

Nixon seems adamant it's £15m + Obafemi. Done in separate deals....we'll find out.

Possibly he / his agent showed he was interested, perhaps Arsenal were looking to raise funds and they tested the water, who knows, I wasnt involved in negotiations, but it's pretty rare that a club bids for a player if the player and club will 100% say no.. Villa know we're skint and if they offer enough, we will likely accept, but it would have to be a huge bid for us to consider I think.

Yes - or they wouldn't have bid for him.

JWP will not want to break his consecutive apps start if he can help it, so I'm expecting him to start.... Forster; KWP Bednarek Salisu Perraud; Romeu JWP; S Armstrong Walcott; Adams Tella Wouldn't surprise me to see Stephens, Diallo, Redmond, Djenepo or A Armstrong start..... Nice to have a few options, just a shame they're all about the same quality.....!

I'd be offering him a new 3 year contract and send him on loan. Depending on his salary.

"Up to £15m with addons", not "+ addons". Others not mentioned Obafemi either.

£15m inc addons according to others. I'd like to see Obafemi go out on loan for the season and get some games.

Surprised no other clubs have been interested in Willock.

Just do not see it happening, unless it’s silly money £60-70m

Borja, Chamberlain and Armstrong in, Obafemi and Long out…. Poss Vestergaard out and an older more experienced head in….Phil Jones? Wouldnt be the worst window in the world…

Minimum, I reckon it's touching on the £150k mark. They were willing to pay Grealish £220k supposedly to stay...

Think captains aren't the same these days. He's a class act, hugely dependable and has a weapon that no-one else really does in the league. Captains that go round bollocking people, don't exist anymore.

Their striker is off to Inter to replace Lukaku - Zapata

Will get a Lallana / Lovren style reception assuming he plays IMO.

The Ings announcement seems to have completely deflated the fan base, so it's not a big surprise I guess. Wouldn't surprise me if we have a slow start to the season, with this feeling around the club.

Won’t be a better time to ply them at their place, but we’ll probably lose. Hope we put up a good fight and try and sneak a win. Apparently we sent back a load of tickets which is pretty pathetic tbh. First game in 18 months .

In my lifetime, and with the current squad limitations, it would have to be VVD at his best, and probably a tight decision between Niemi or Pahars.

Absolutely, it's madness that Ings / Armstrong's contract situations are the same, and they're going for basically the same money. Blackburn said they wanted £25m from the start and it looks like they'll get roughly that. An extra £5m of potential addons for Ings is a bid mad. Contract situation with players is always an odd one though, as even though you're over paying based on that, you're still getting a decent player for a not-horrendous price. Whether Armstrong is worth £25m odd I'm not convinced.

From the info I was told, the deal was completed on Weds, but it had been lined up for weeks, and he'd had talks before. Again - no idea if it's true or not.

TBF, I'm surprised they didn't have options lined up, knowing it was likely Ings would go. You might not be able to actually buy them, but you can sort everything else out until you do have the funds to buy them. If you look at the Lukaku situation, there are rumours that he's off to Chelsea, Inter have lined up Zapata from Atalanta, and Atalanta are looking to bring in Abraham as a replacemnet.