I heard the same then this tweet came out https://x.com/yagosabuncuoglu/status/1811025062713086081?s=46
It is that bad isn’t it I wouldn’t have bothered with Turkey trip. Delay until we have more first team players.
This^ The buy back etc made me assume we wouldn’t keep him. Without Villa’s clauses we wouldn’t have had him in the first place and he was low risk for us too because we always knew we’d likely get our money back at least. Like a free loan really
The Philogene sell on clause is absolutely fine. It's still a massive profit after having someone for a year and it should give us the funds to repeat it 2/3 times this window. It's smart for Villa to take him back and means it's been a win win plus we'll still get add ons and a sell on.
Brentford are another one, Watkins, benrahma, maupay, konsa, mepham and laughably woods, all bought cheap and sold for a big profit in the 3 seasons before they got promoted. It's the best way to do it
I don't even know why they are travelling Turkey. Turkey is great for warm weather winter camps, which doesn't really exist in Championship schedule. But in summer, Turkey is just great for beaches, even league games are starting in mid-August and stops each 20 mins for water breaks.
If it wasn't Turkey it would be somewhere else hot like Portugal. Pretty standard thing for UK teams early in pre-season.
If you're from Hull most places are at altitude. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
