Matthew Le God

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No it doesn't. You can still compete after selling players, we got better after Pochettino and players left in 2014 so it can be done. Villa are about to sell a player for £100m and rich owners investing. Not every Premier League club has the money Villa do.

Adams scored only 3 league goals less than Ings last season. So I don't know why you are being so dismissive of him. I don't write off players based on the league they have come from. Did you write off Mane, van Dijk, Pelle, Tadic, Wanyama etc because they didn't have Premier League experience? It isn't the Premiership and hasn't been since 2007.

Why are you writing him off due to the league he plays in? Ings also used to be a Championship striker and didn't score as many goals as Armstrong just did in it.

How can it be an 'exclusive' if they are basing it on reports from elsewhere? Plus the absence of a link to these reports is notable.

Yep, when Burnley sell a player for £100m, have billionaire owners putting lots into the club and a 42k stadium I think they'll put a bid in for Bednarek.

Well that is nonsense. He was at the Swansea, Cardiff and game tonight with the squad. He was also in gym sessions in training galleries. He just may not be ready for contact sessions on the pitch yet.

There is an element of risk going for Armstrong due to him not playing at this level before. However there is a potentially bigger upside. If he has two good seasons with us his value would be huge and he'd still only be 26 years old in the summer of 2023. Where as in 2 years Ings will be 31 and only have 1 year left on his contract, his value will be lower than the £30m paid for him. Villa prefer one option, we may go for the other option. We don't know which will turn out better. They may also both work out well for all parties.

You ignored @supersonic 's question.

Why have you written him off already? How do you think Armstrong managed to have a better Championship season than Ings ever managed?

He is five years younger, five more years of football to get out of him and potentially a much bigger future transfer fee to be had.

No idea if he is reliable or how he would know, but this Portuguese journalist (with a blue verified tick and 25k followers) says...

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/7108180/celtic-edouard-southampton-join-transfer-fight/

We can blow Norwich out of the water if it comes down to wages. Our wage structure is considerably higher than theirs.

Which physical attributes? Armstrong isn't slow. To dismiss him for being small is also daft.

He isn't being consistent in his argument. You can't dismiss one player for not having a certain level of experience and then suggest an alternative who is playing at an even lower level of football.

Are you aware how this is nonsense? You dismiss Armstrong for being unproven but.. both Armstrong and Edouard are unproven in the Premier League. If anything Armstrong is current playing in a far superior league. The Championship is a long way above the Scottish top flight for quality.

That doesn't justify writing him off. Plus we don't actually know for certain who the replacement will be.

£5m

Writing off a team before seeing who the replacement is... definitely reactionary!

Two strikers scoring 9 league goals is rare in a relegation fodder team.

Not really, the Grealish deal isn't going to collapse.

Adams only scored slightly less than Ings last season. Another signing roughly as successful as Adams and we'd have enough. Plus Tella is developing very quickly now.

If it was Burnley you might have a point, but Aston Villa can out do Saints for transfer fees and wages.