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Leicester writer on the athletic says they will need a defender for sure but finances are tight. Fofana not the only injury they have back there. Evans hadn’t trained pre-season.

Isn’t Madueke a winger?

Depends if we get an offer.

No chance.

Would imagine he’s going to get game-time for Liverpool.

Interesting I will say this about Armstrong - We must be VERY sure he's the one for us with the money we're going to have to pay for him.

Has to be £50m+ for JWP. Ben White was £50m. Maddison is valued at £70m

Selling Ings was a ridiculous plot by us to avoid anyone asking Ralph questions about JWP/Villa today

We've read about the talk of interest in him from all over, but nothing seems to of come out yet. (perhaps not surprising considering the Ings / Livramento stealth moves). Pretty sure Spurs are out. Roma possible. Maybe Leicester now. His performances at the Euro's must have garnered some interest.

Leicester will be flush with cash if they sell Maddison.

Poor guy. Hope it's not a bad one.

So 2 or 3 more (maybe) - Striker (obviously) - centre-back / dm (either 1 of each or 1 who can play both) - Left-back (if I'm being greedy - surely if we wanted Doig, we can afford him now)

Good shout.

Going to be interesting how Ralph answers questions on Ings when it comes to players on last year of their deal re: Vesty. I suppose it's the same as it's always been - if you get an acceptable bid, then we look at it (take it!)

The Norwich bid indicates Cantwell might be close to being off, too.

Ralph speaking to the media soon..............................................................................

It's disappointing but not really surprising. (once the shock of the INSTANT WTF(!) nature wears off). People keep forgetting how minted Villa are - I bet he's doubled his wages. We know what positions we need to strengthen, but the maths don't work. The advantageous thing is we've got a fair bit of time & got good money. But what a loss he's going to be.

Expecting Man city to make a late move

He’s actually signed