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Jordan Amavi Official Joins Aston Villa

18 July 201518 July 2015| adam2231adam2231| 281 Comments| 5:53 PM
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Jordan Amavi has officially signed a new 5-year deal with Aston Villa after moving from Nice at a reported £10 million deal. Amavi is one of the highest rated left-backs in Europe after being ranked as one of the best left backs in Ligue 1. 

“I’m delighted to have secured the services of someone we consider to be a terrific young player.

“Jordan has been one of the outstanding players in Ligue 1 and is still very young and can become even better.

“There were a lot of clubs after him this summer so we are really pleased to welcome him to the Club.” – Tim Sherwood

Amavi is the latest left-back that has been brought into the club as Aston Villa look to solve a position that hasn’t yet been secured since Warnock’s and Bouma’s prime days at the club. Amavi arrival affects Cissokho’s and Bennett’s position at the club with Amavi set to become Sherwood’s number 1 left-back. Amavi is a very attacking left-back who also boasts decent interception stats. One of his flaws include frequent bookings. 

This is a great signing and I am very excited that Sherwood has brought in a player of Amavi’s caliber. At the age of 21, Amavi will most likely remain Aston Villa’s left-back for a number of seasons and being so young, Amavi does have resale value. Left-back is a position where not a single left-back has necessarily secured it for more than a season, hopefully Amavi ensures that we don’t buy an additional left-back for the next few seasons. I’m excited about this signing. 

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  1. Sherwood is not stupid. He will have known Benteke is leaving for months.
    I am sure Villa have already lined up replacement(S) for Benteke and that the deals will go through as soon as he has been sold. The sooner the better.
    My monies on Austin and a target man from abroad.
    Please note I am shit at gambling.

  2. The telegraph confirms benteke deal with the bin dippers what I can’t understand is this them paying 16 mil on completion of the transfer & the rest in installments???what fucks going on there??? Fucking tight bastards.

    1. If it’s true that’s ridiculous. We don’t have to accept that and we shouldn’t. Pay the cash or piss off. We should be charging them a 20% interest rate for withholding payment.

      How much was going to Genk for onward sale.. 10-15%?

      1. I now really hope UTD snap him up from under their noses that’ll teach um a lesson for being tight fisted.he’s supposed to be having a medical tomorrow but as we know things change at the drop of a hat in transfer Windows.

    2. What’s even worse is that we are allowing them to do it when we don’t need to!! Why not say to them he is £35m if u pay in instalments

    1. It’s how transfers work mate, every club does it. We are probably still paying for Gill and Sinclair and whoever else. I think, but don’t quote me, it’s something to do with the buying club obviously having a budget. So say (for arguments sake) Liverpool had a budget of 50 million, They may of already spent 35 million on other signings and only have 15 million left. So they would say to Villa we will give you 15 million now and 17.5 before June 30th. Then If Villa accepted it and wanted, say Austin, they would say to QPR we’ll give you 8 million now and 7 million before July 31st next year, giving them time to receive the money they’re owed from Liverpool. Hope that makes sense mate. That’s my view anyway. 🙂

      2. But if we force them to pay 32m it will mean we can spend more under ffp rules

        1. Exactly right ohhahh.. to me it says, if it’s true, we won’t be spending all the money made from the benteke sale, again.

          1. Yep have to agree gives us an excuse not to spend so maybe the club wanted it that way too typical

        2. Don’t expect instalments make a difference to that. His sale price is £32.5m, that’s what goes into our accounts but the bill is just recorded as part paid

          1. Almost every transfer is paid in instalments – with the exception of small amounts. For instance, when we bought Bent we paid Sunderland 3 instalments of £6 mill plus some additional bonus based amounts (that was from Niall Quinns own mouth. Getting the full amount up front would give us a little more bargaining power but wouldn’t make a huge difference.
            As B6 states, it’s usually for cash flow/budget/financial accounting and is most glaringly obvious when clubs have loans with a forced purchase at the end of the loan – it’s purely so that the payment is shown in the following years accounts. Nothing unusual about the Liverpool payment structure at all.

            1. So what happens if Liverpool went bust! Unlikely I know but clubs can go under

          2. Unlikely but it does happen, hence lots of lower league teams lose money when another side who owes the transfer fees goes into administration and also the reason why some clubs get a transfer embargo (forest) because they haven’t settled there owed instalments of transfer fees on time.

  4. Slight aside, but it seems Vlaar might be out for the rest of the year, after needing an op to remove a piece of Meniscus from his knee.
    I can’t see anyone rushing to sign him now and wonder if he wished he’d taken our offer up?

      1. I assume we’ve taken our contract offer off of the table? – can imagine him limping over to get his biro right now.

    2. Lol that’s funny. Good job we having got to pay the injury prone lump we dodged a bullet there

    3. Don’t like seeing any player injured. But he only has himself to blame and I am glad he didn’t sign and we had to pay him for yet another season of injury.

    4. Could be the end of Vlaar’s career – wouldn’t wish that on the fella!

      1. Nor me but as long as he’s not playing for I wish him all the best elsewhere

    1. I don’t mind any of our players being up for sale as long as we have improvements (not just cheaper replacements) lined up

      1. Exactly if guzan is being sold to help fund and bring in a better replacement then that’s great news.. but who can trust anything the media comes out with

  7. Some fans eh, complain about players loyalty to the club and then hope that we can find a way to avoid paying wages to a guy who is injured at work. As it happens he will probably be covered by insurance but there are some sad bastards on this forum.

    1. Eh? We’re not avoiding anything.
      Vlaar’s out of contract, which means we don’t employ him anymore!
      We made him an offer (from what I was told, the same money as his last contract) and he didn’t want to know.

    2. We’re not paying him – he’s not under contract with us and that’s his decision. I’m sure he’ll be ok for cash though for the next four months.

    3. I think vlaar has been more than well looked after by the club still getting paid a fortune while predominantly on the injury table. He also refused to sign contract offered to him as he thought he could move elsewhere even though he’s crap so no loyalty from him either

    4. gerry are you for real . if your going by your injured at work well he was originally injured at Feyenoord and was know for being injury prone even back then so maybe Feyenoord should pay his wages lol
      he was offered a new contract and turned it down saying he owed it to himself to play at a higher level than us and you now expect us to feel sorry for him. fuck him .

      1. Vlaar’s FUCKall to do with us now he’ll more than likely be back in shop window for the transfer window in January.who really gives a FUCK???

  9. If Villa are expected to pay peoples wages even though they aren’t employed by them I might give them a call and tell them I’ve broke my ankle. 🙂

      1. Yes, I read that and it’s a very good article.
        I didn’t put the link up though as it focuses on Delph and I think we all want to move on from that 🙁

  10. I was just thinking about Amavi again.
    If he proves to be as good as we all hope he is, moving to the Prem should work wonders for his international career and he might make the step to France’s full squad..
    Is Evra still France’s current LB? If so, he’s getting on a bit isn’t he?

  11. Very happy with the Amavi signing. We have been going for bargain basement left backs for the last few years and none of them have come off. Be interesting to see if he goes for a RB too…im gutted Trippier went to Spurs.

    I really hope we dont sign Adebayor. There are so many better, more reliable players out there. Austin seems the obvious choice, but maybe Sherwood will look into Europe again.

  12. Great article by andy,i get to go to villa about twice a season, myself and the missus stay at the indigo balcony suite, Birmingham has to get its head out of its arse as does villa .the city is grrrreat i love it and i have claret and blue blood running through me its about time the people in charge at villa started looking at themselves and started to realise what villa and the city is all about .The view from the motorway of Villa park gets me every time .Iam a romantic and i just wish my club and my city was again.

  13. Guzan didn’t get on the pitch v Arsenal, but he was certainly one of those Tim left in no doubt were a bunch of losers. Even the reported asking price £3m shows he isn’t held in much regard.

    Austin would need to get approved by Villa’s player insurance company. That company has probably told Villa their premiums are hiked unless they raise the medical bar, after signing a casualty-ward in the past 2 seasons and then subjecting them to SAS induction at BMH. I am not sure if Austin would pass the medical. As I posted before Bournemouth have bought in players as if they expect Wilson to go. For the situation where you have 9 men behind the ball and just 1 up on the half way line, Wilson is one of the best.

    I don’t object to Adebayor, just to 100K a week or anything like it. We have Gabby already who has looked even less interested and scores far fewer goals. Either player next season will be a real test of Tim’s motivational prowess – and my bet is it will be harder to get a tune out of Gabby even with Benteke out of the way.

      1. It was odd because they tended to be freak injuries, like not really reoccurring, he just kept injuring himself and pretty badly too.

        1. Jesus, Oohah, in your dream world, players never get injured do they?
          Benteke was obviously brought back in too early and many knew it, you apart.
          Which is why he looked crap for so long.

          And that’s all I’ve got to say about it, if you’re involved in the discussion.

          1. Benteke was still out for months though yes he was bought bk too early needed another month imo

  14. We’re linked with 3 strikers, supposedly in talks with them

    First Di Marzio claims we’re in talks for Watford’s Ighalo and Fiorentina’s Babacar.
    Belgian media claims we’ve contacted Brugge for highly rated Obbi Oulare, who’s 6’5.

    1. That’s a good story, at a time when we were still pretty much the BIGGEST CLUB IN THE WORLD, albeit fading.

      1. Agree we are still a huge club historically badger. People forget especially young generation that it’s only in recent times Cheksea and City have been good when we were watching proper football before the prem they were just yo yo clubs and no more than mid table at best.

    2. Amazing story the FA were just as spineless then as our government are now with terrorists. Pathetic

  16. Apparently we are bidding for Charlie Austin and are willing to meet QPR’s £15m asking price – big move on bets so Skybet reopened the market. Villa now 3/1 behind the bar codes

    1. H60, I really suspect Austin is the man we’re after. Or at least, should be.
      He has the required movement up front and ticks what I think would be Sherwood’s boxes.

      1. If I’m honest I’d be quite amazed if Charlie Austin went somewhere else. Why has he been hanging about so long? I’m hoping it’s because he knew that we would be bidding for him as soon as Benteke was gone.

        With Austin and the players we’ve already got it might be quite exciting, attacking more on the ground that lumping it forward. Have to admit that from the little I’ve seen of Gil the thought of Gabby and Austin running into spaces with Gil providing the ammunition is exciting me already. Just hope the rumours are true.

        UTV

        1. Think it has more to do with QPR’s asking price. 15m for him is too much, kinda like 10m for Phillips is far, far too much. If we were able to get his price down, then multiple clubs would be after him and I don’t think he cares if we get him or someone else does.

          1. I’m not sure about Austin I don’t think he’s anywhere near as good as Benteke but he is the best of a bad bunch of striker we can get. Don’t get me wrong I think he’s decent but would rather have him as a squad player tbh.

          2. Love your comment that everyone’s the best of a bad bunch. He’s not near as bad as you’re making him out to be. Technically I’d say he’s probably as good as Benteke, but overall not yet. Although he has shown his overall ability at times, and can stay onside.

            1. Ings is similar standard to Austin but will only be a squad player at Liverpool. We need to do the same sign a good striker similar standard to benteke and have Austin as back up

          3. Standard of Benteke. What striker can we get, actually get, that’s the standard of Benteke? I don’t know too many around that are even his standard, especially available.

            1. Exactly unless we are jammy enough to get an unknown that turns out as good.

            1. Oddly enough a lot of Liverpool fans on blogs are saying exactly that lol

  17. So far I’ve counted in the press that villa are interested in 8 different strikers, what a bunch of toilets these people are.
    They don’t have a bloody clue, like the others players we’ve signed!

    1. Can’t argue with that. I took my info from Skybet which is quite interesting; particularly that theyv’re reopened a closed book.

  18. Austin is a good finisher I’d play him up top with gil and grealish just behind, Sanchez and gueye in center mid. And we need one more attacking mid or try Gardner just in front of Sanchez and gueye and play a 4-2-1-3 type formation. Probably still need one more att mid.

    1. I agree Austin is a good finisher. I think he would suit us. My worry is that he had a shoulder that dislocated easily- I haven’t heard that he has had surgery on it.

  20. Looking through the rags today there’s about 4 clubs not including us are chasing Austin & the only link to us is fucking adebeyor.

  21. nearly wrote a really nasty comment about our new signing but had second thoughts about it but some players need to shut there faces the player in question is Idrissa Gueye.

    New Aston Villa signing Idrissa Gueye has told L’Equipe he aims to use the Premier League side as a stepping stone to a big club.

    wtf hes not played one game for us but is already thinking about his next move.
    what is it with these foreigners . they never heard of good manners . i suppose if your dragged up in some shithole you say what you think but it pisses me off. have you noticed the poorer the country these players come from the more of a mercenary they seem to be.

    1. Quick comment on what Gueye said about his new employers: this is exactly what is wrong with the club and what the chap who wrote in the Mirror recently was talking about. When players come over to discuss a move, what the hell are they told? It’s not difficult; they should be told that you’re coming to a big club and we expect to WIN things, with YOU playing your part and earning your f****** wages!

      Really annoyed that he’s said that, but more annoyed that he thought it. The club needs to seriously evaluate how it’s perceived by others, but more importantly, how it perceives itself. Only the people who run the place can put this right. Memories of John Gregory telling Doug that he ‘talks big but acts small.’ At the moment, Villa think small, talk small, and act small. This MUST change! Tim Sherwood has a big part to play here. Psychologically, if you tell the squad you expect top 6 and a cup, it’s more likely to happen than if you say top 10 will do. Aim high FFS!

      Players need to shut their stupid mouths and people in charge need to raise the standard, in every way. Comment wasn’t so quick after all.

      UTV

  22. echoing dimingo above,

    Gueye has been quoted as saying

    “I wanted a change of scenery,” he said. “The most important thing was to come to England to improve and aim for a big club later”

    Jesus christ…what on earth happened to Villa. We have desperately lost our reputation the last 10 years

      1. i don’t hope he fails , i hope he goes on to be a new version of yaya toure (on the field not in his mercenary ways) but i do hope there is no release clause in his contract .

    2. He’s got to prove his worth first & if he’s as good as he thinks for the time being we’ll certainly benefit from him.I’m sure we’re not the only club players blatantly use.

        1. Hmmm, I wonder if the pissed off press in France might occasionally twist players words? Imagine how it would have sounded in the hands of the Villa OS……eg Amavi.

          That said, we are not recognised as a big club on the continent (not mega rich, not playing champions league) – sad but true. If we sign anyone good I believe we have a 2 to 3 year window to convince them we’re going places – if not they’ll want off and we need to sell them for a profit and reinvest. Kind of a sustainability model. Until we hit top 4 /6 then this will always be so.

          Bang up for Austin if it happens.

      2. Difference is other players don’t admit it. It’s like starting a job earning a £100k with Badger ltd and on your first day say I wish I could of joined oohagh ltd instead!!

          1. I don’t object to his attitude. If I were the Gaffer and he said that to me I would say “Right, if you play well enough to have Real phoning me next June offering £30M,for you, you will have done well. It’s up to you, you get 8 games against Champions League sides to prove you’re worth it.”

  24. for some reason if you click on link it doesnt work but if you copy and paste it does . very nice interview by our new leftback.

  25. Yes nice interview fro m Amavi.

    Not worried in the slightest what Gueye said. Isn’t it up to us to persuade him that we are indeed a ‘big club’?

    Perhaps by ‘big club’ he means Barca or Real in which case you can’t argue. Anyway he has ambition which is good and so long as he earns his money that fine with me.

    UTV

    1. It’s not the point he should keep that to himself. He’s disrespected our great club so he can do one as far as I’m concerned

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