Summer '24 transfer window

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Is it just me or is the usual buzz for football starting just not there now.

Usually, everyone is buzzing all over social media, the adverts are out etc, no matter what you think of the club it's usually exciting.

Feels like the riots etc have really made us all blank it out, just feels like we are heading into another pre-season game

Guarantee you if the Athletic posted in the next 3 hours that Mendy is sorted and coming for his medical, your buzz would return :D
 
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I’m still buzzing like
it's weird for me, maybe the efl drop some class ****ing advert and everyone is bang up for it again but my feed is just dead haha. Riots really ruined the spirit which is to be expected
 
Is it just me or is the usual buzz for football starting just not there now.

Usually, everyone is buzzing all over social media, the adverts are out etc, no matter what you think of the club it's usually exciting.

Feels like the riots etc have really made us all blank it out, just feels like we are heading into another pre-season game

I'm buzzing but apprehensive about it being called off, hope not!
 
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17 year old very young to rely on though, he hasn’t even trained with a first team squad. Villa have the money to be able to just buy up talent like this then loan them out year after year because their wage barely makes a dent. Such is the state of football nowadays. Imagine a football pyramid where clubs couldn’t just harvest talent and these young lads played in the lower leagues and got to show off their talent whilst making the smaller clubs a tidy fee when they eventually got a move to a bigger club.
I see what you mean however age is irrelevant
17 if good enough we use them
 
Yeah I've been clear that I don't particularly like Speakman but this idea that he'd prefer to keep Dodds in post and stay in the Championship, than be seen as the guy who took Sunderland back to the Premier League, makes no sense whatsoever.
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The Speakman conspiracies are out of control
 
I see what you mean however age is irrelevant
17 if good enough we use them

I agree mate but how many 17 year olds are playing regularly at this level and performing though? You see/hear about so many lads at that age who are going to be the next Ronaldo and within a few years they’re playing in L1/L2. Whereas it’s less of a gamble going with someone tried and tested at this level. It’s so much pressure to put on the shoulders of a 17 year old lad to make him our starting striker.
 
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Absolute gonk whoever posted that.

Embo left because he’s about 6th choice at best and needs to play regularly.

I also like how he agrees he’s pushing academy players out, then lists O’Nien (not an academy product) as the next one to go
 
Yeah I've been clear that I don't particularly like Speakman but this idea that he'd prefer to keep Dodds in post and stay in the Championship, than be seen as the guy who took Sunderland back to the Premier League, makes no sense whatsoever.

Of course it doesn't..none whatsoever. KS is DOF, and his brief is to get us success within the financial budget he's constrained by and the strategy he's been told to operate. Anyone who thinks KS is not trying to perform his duties to that directive has not engaged with the club.
He presumably has ambition and you don't need to look far to see that someone who can perform these duties successfully is much sought after at the top end PL clubs.
If he does a great job for us,he will be in high demand elsewhere,there's no doubt. The idea he's not working flat out to get us success is total nonsense.
 
Also gave potentially our best ever academy graduate his first pro deal (Rigg) and Neil and Patterson are integral members of the squad. Almost as if he gets rid of the ones not good enough and keeps the ones that are.
Everytime it’s a little quiet this comes up, it’s like some want us to fail so they can point the finger ‘told you so’ embarrassing