2 hours ago, dansubrosa said:

I get your sarcasm but it’s definitely an opportunity

He has no future at Atletico Madrid and he needs to go this window. I agree we don’t need him as much as a defender or a goalkeeper, but then again, it’s an opportunity to sign an elite attacker for maybe a good price.

We already have an elite striker in Jao Pedro why buy another? Welbeck is good enough back up… we need an elite goal keeper and a midfielder if enzo goes….

8 hours ago, axman2526 said:

55mill package plus Emi Martinez. Make it happen!

Martinez is just as bad as Sanchez, no thanks.

3 minutes ago, Remodez said:

Martinez is just as bad as Sanchez, no thanks.

And he's a c**t

I thought alvarez left City because his family couldn't settle in the UK?

For £100m I wouldn't go near Julian Alvarez with a barge pole. Scores a goal every 3-3.5 games, bad attitude and trying to force a move, 26 yo so will never recoup the money. Steer clear. Well clear.

Gone to Villa. Guess we'll also announce Martinez soon.

Big chunk of the fee is add-ons. Shame.

4 minutes ago, yaz said:

Big chunk of the fee is add-ons. Shame.

Bayern already did 15M for the loan. There is another 47.5M from Villa upfront. That's 62M plus another 18M in add-ons. Fair value IMHO.

Hmm. I wonder how much of that 17.5mill is easy to get to.

47.5m is more than enough for him!

Love Emery, but Garnacho and Jackson? Villa are going down. Login to your online bookie account and lump on now to make some money for yourselves.

Can the nightmare really be over?

8 minutes ago, Scott said:

Can the nightmare really be over?

He looks happy.

But I imagine not as happy as @nonotnowjim

43 minutes ago, loz said:

47.5m is more than enough for him!

Almost £62m in book profit, not including the add-ons.

On his day a very good player. I think he might do well at Villa. No hard feelings from me.

4 hours ago, just said:

He looks happy.

But I imagine not as happy as @nonotnowjim

to be fair - I have been pretty happy since he left to Bayern. As I argued back then, he had already left and wouldn't be back. We had already endured 2 seasons worth of hapless performances, and clearly the club had already decided he wasn't good enough - to the extent that they tried to sell him. He was never coming back as he was never good enough to play for chelsea.

But of course - some on here were grasping at straws... " it's just a loan to munich, he is better than delap, he will come back as number 2 to pedro, he will come back as a left winger" ... but they failed to read the room. A club who had already decided to sell is rarely (if ever) going to reverse that decision. Particularly with player so inept.

So yeah - i'm glad this is being formalised - but in truth he left in mind and spirit after that red card against newcastle.

Edited Thursday at 01:205 days by nonotnowjim

4 hours ago, Gordon Bennett said:

On his day a very good player. I think he might do well at Villa. No hard feelings from me.

wrong. On his day he runs around like a headless chicken with very little actual footballing ability. On the more regular bad days he runs around like a headless chicken with very little actual footballing ability - getting caught offside and collecting red cards.

A joke of a footballer and a terrible human being. I wish him nothing but the very worst for his life.

18 hours ago, AndyDowsleftflank said:

Anyways, I actually has some mixed feelings about Jackson. Parts of his game I think is world class, especially his link up play and his turns with the ball, and I would like to see what Xabi could do with him. Like Enzo though, he's a player thats good, promises much, but the end product is probably not enough to deal their flaws.

What the hell have you been smoking?! World class?!

And Enzo - for all his flaws, is a world cup winner, who starts for Argentina. Jackson doesn't get into the senegal team.

i don't know what you are trippin on - but give me a puff!

5 hours ago, nonotnowjim said:

What the hell have you been smoking?! World class?!

And Enzo - for all his flaws, is a world cup winner, who starts for Argentina. Jackson doesn't get into the senegal team.

i don't know what you are trippin on - but give me a puff!

Lucky strike. Two of them in the last week. Recommended!

There's a difference between saying he's world class, and that parts of his game are.

Unfortunately, his finishing and heading especially are crap so he will never be a truly great striker but yeah, I stand by what I said.

What a job Alonso is doing in letting the club know how bad some of their signings have been. Getting out of the squad, Jackson, Delap, Garnacho, Disasi & Badiashile - quite brilliant work.

Just Gusto, Neto, Fernandez and Sanchez to go.............................

Making some good money back on these players. Jackson was always going to be an easy one to shift with his obvious talent. Villa deal has clearly been agreed for months now.

25 minutes ago, All Barco no bite said:

Making some good money back on these players. Jackson was always going to be an easy one to shift with his obvious talent. Villa deal has clearly been agreed for months now.

Clearly more obvious to some than it is to others!

The best thing about this Jackson/Garnacho move is how blatantly obvious all parties are making it that’s it’s a work around of the restrictive rules.

Like when we were amortising contractors over 3 decades.

The meltdown from rival fans over something perfectly legal is hilarious.

38 minutes ago, Nibs said:

Clearly more obvious to some than it is to others!

He has got a few stand out qualities.