Olise already turned Chelsea down a year ago, didn’t he? I don’t expect anything they’ve shown since has made them any more of an attractive option…
City’s interest, though, could be more worrying. With Silva and de Bruyne possibly off, that opens up room for him.
Palace’s new signing, Chadi Riad, wants people to believe he is 20…
Maybe he meant 20s 
Poor lad…thrown into a den of dickweeds…will he play or will he sit on the bench for a season…or is he the next in line to Slabhead…we shall see…
Brace yourself for 3 months of this…
Before they end up paying £80m on deadline day.
My sources tell me there’s a 37.5 mil bid incoming
Fixed
Villa’s FFP issues means they’re apparently about to sell Douglas Luiz to Juventus for 20m + Samuel Iling Jr and Weston McKennie.
McKennie is a terrible player who already failed once in the PL with Leeds.
Iling Jr has been talked about as one of the biggest prospects in the game since he was 16 but I think most of the hype is generated by the fact he moved to Juventus from Chelsea and people assumed it meant he’s world class. He turns 21 in October and is barely kicking a ball for Juventus (less than 1000 minutes this season) which is significantly less than, for example, Conor Bradley managed for us and Bradley only made his PL debut in January.
Iling Jr would also be joining a team with several good wingers already in place, not least of which is Morgan Rogers who is already fulfilling that role of “young, developing player”. Seems a pointless move.
For that and 20m they’ll be letting an absolutely pivotal player leave the club. Not good planning or negotiating Villa.
Matthias Braunoder from Austria Vienna to Como for €1.5m.
Chadi Riad from Betis to Palace for €15m.
Adam Masina from Udinese to Torino for €1m.
Thiago Helguera from Nacional to Braga for €3.7m.
Leopold Querfeld from Rapid Vienna to Union Berlin for €3m.
Matvey Safonov from Krasnodar to PSG for €20m.
Ladislav Krejci from Sparta Prague to Girona for €12m.
Charles De Ketelaere from Atalanta to Milan for €22m.
Joao Mendes from Porto to Vitoria Guimaraes on a free.
David Ospina from Al-Nassr to Atletico Nacional on a free.
Georgios Giakoumakis from Atlanta to Cruz Azul for €9.3m.
https://x.com/TeleFootball/status/1803500422876876879
That’s a proper transfer for Aston Villa, kudos. Imagine how good they’d be if there weren’t any regulations that prevent illegal sponsorships and other financial activities…
According to German media Dortmund have two days to match Villas bid.
Keke Topp from Schalke to Werder for €2m.
Andoni Gorosabel from Alaves to Bilbao on a free.
Luca Waldschmidt from Wolfsburg to Koln for €1.5m.
Nico Mantl from RB Salzburg to Arouca for €500k.
Lasso Coulibaly from Nordsjaelland to Auxerre for €2m.
Ayrton Costa from Independiente to Antwerp for €2.3m.
Maksim Glushenkov from Lokomotiv Moscow to Zenit for €6.3m.
Tim Kleindienst from Heidenheim to Monchengladbach for €7m.
Vitinha from Marseille to Genoa for €16m.
Paxten Aaronson from Eintracht to Utrecht on loan.
Marko Stamenic from Forest to Olympiacos on loan
Tim Iroegbunam from Villa to Everton
Brentford have signed Julian Eyestone, 18 year old GK from Duke University.
There is something poetic about it being Juventus who took advantage of a club that has been financially mismanaged.
4 moves in the last week or so from Chelsea, Villa and Newcastle signing each other’s youth players at considerably inflated fees. That is a pretty transparent book cooking process and worse looks like collusion.