As Benteke returns to training this week, the squad probably won’t be too pleased with the Belgians transfer request. Sylla will be asked to re-settle Benteke at Aston Villa, and maybe even pursued the Belgian to stay at the club for another season. Benteke and Sylla have built a good relationship and actually spend a lot of time together away from the club and they both speak French to each other.
Benteke will also not feature in the friendly against Wycombe, not because of his transfer request. But because he is far behind in terms of match fitness. But if an offer doesn’t come soon, Benteke will probably continue to play for Aston Villa including the friendlies.
Apart in the training ground it will be interesting to see how the fans would react to Benteke’s appearance. When Barry played in a friendly after handing in a transfer request he was booed during the game. Benteke’s hero tag has been destroyed and relations between the fans aren’t good.
Good luck Sylla!
Say JD, a little off topic but is there any news on Hiroshi Kiyotake? Is he still an option or have the club scrapped the deal due to this Benteke situation?
Someone put something on twitter saying we had put a bid in but anything is rumour Untill it is proven false or true so I don’t know UTV
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This Gomis guy looks the business. Would love it if we snapped him up. What’s he valued at? Looks like the kind of player Lambert would love.
Around 7m it seems as he’s in the last year of his contract and Lyon wanna sell him to pay off his debts and to increase Grenier’s wages so he doesn’t leave.
Calm down lads.. This Gomis thing snacks to me of the Belhanda saga.. We may well have enquired about availability and fee and there chairman to get Interest up has said we are in for him..
I can’t see any other striker coming in if Benteke ends up staying..
Spurs have an imrpoved bid for Soldado! Wonder what that means re Benteke mmm
Oh and this is doing the rounds today as well.
Which will probably be rejected as they’re trying to low-ball Valencia as well. He actually does have a 30m buyout clause and they’re offering 20m.
you’re right there Andrew spurs are playing cheap, they need a quality striker but they’re trying to do it on the cheap, what they seem to forget is they aren’t even CL and outside title contenders at best, plus the rumors are starting again re bale going, if they don’t stop fucking about and show some serious intent they’re going to mess up big time.
Bentekke is a risk, man utd took a risk on weather RVP would be able to reproduce his form for arsenal but they stumped up the cash and made an offer arsenal found acceptable and bingo! if spurs are prepared to offer 20mil then they should be able to step up to 25mil, we don’t need to sell anybody, if they want they need to man up and pay the piper.
‘we sell when we want, we sell when we want, we are the Villa! we sell when we want!’ š
Fairplay to CB – saying he’s going to give his all for Villa still. He has obviously matured since Genk. Whether he goes or not he’s still been class his whole time with us. I really hope Spurs get Soldado now as i dont see any other club coming in for CB then.
I’d really love for Benteke to stay, but is anyone else worried about Transfer Deadline Day? That’s the time Spurs always seem to make a real go for their targets.
On the Spuds front.. don’t they need TWO strikers to challenge really.. that Levy is one tight git..
benteke withdraws transfer request and signs new deal