Rare humility from a Villa fan!
One Villa fan wrote on social media: “I love Bissouma, he is a baller but I would imagine he is well above our level however if he were to leave but man he is the type of player we need in our midfield.”
It’s clear the £40m is guesswork but educated guesswork? I think not.
In terms of recent box-to-box midfielder Big Six transfers, we have Rodri (who’d never played in the EPL) going for £63m and Ndombele (who had no EPL experience either) going for £54m (£64m with add-ons).
I wouldn’t swap...
We’re playing Merseyside club with the window open. No surprise that some of our best players are being linked to the two teams from there. What a bunch of muppets the press are. We’ll be waking up with ‘Lamptey To Everton’ tomorrow I imagine.
The difference is, we can beat Leeds without Yves but they can’t beat us (or even score) without Phillips (which is hypothetical of course because they have never beaten us in the Premier League).