Aston Villa may be forced to lower their valuation of striker Jhon Duran and allow him to move to West Ham.
Within the past hour, transfer insider Fabrizio Romano has tweeted that the Midlands club are attempting to put together a deal for João Félix. Romano has described the deal as ‘very expensive’ but, in the same update, indicated that Colombian striker Duran is eager to move to West Ham.
As C&H reported earlier today, the club has informed us that negotiations have been ongoing for some time, and this was confirmed by Romano via his social media platform.
Villa have just agreed to the transfer of former Hammers target Amadou Onana, who has joined for £50m from Everton. Therefore, Unai Emery’s team needs to raise funds before launching a mega-money bid for Félix, who won’t come cheap.
Hopefully, this turn of events will hasten Duran’s switch from Birmingham to East London in order to fill Villa’s depleted transfer fund.
Be careful what you wishing for Gonzo, after his comments he’s done at VP but the club still won’t sell him cheaply. It will be with a big % like they recently did with Philogene which was 30%. He’s off his head most of the time, still can’t speak a word of English, that’s after 18m at Villa and before in the US! However he’s definately talented and will score regularly the downside to that is he won’t hang around long.
It looks like Villa have conducted themselves very well this transfer season.
Made some astute signings early.
Pity whu doesn’t take a leaf out of their book..
It was exactly how whu portrayed what was going to happen.
Sadly that was all in dream world.
Tim had 2/3 Brazilians lined up and only 1 materialised.
Still scrabbling around for defenders/striker/left wing.
When will they learn and no Moyes to blame
Typical West Ham go after everyone and end up with nobody because they end up running out of time.
Great comments from both the Hammers & Villains here. Far better analysis and insight than the article!
Bottom line, Villa have no ongoing PSR concerns for the next couple of transfer windows. And have unexpected funds given the imminent sale of Diaby.
As for young Duran. What potential! What an enigma! For both clubs! If he stays, he will grumble (he always will), but will play his part off the bench and no doubt improve, and his value will likely rise. If he goes, it will only be at a handsome profit, wishful thinking to suggest otherwise…
Villa fan in peace again. Villa do not have to sell Duran to fund other signings. We are currently selling Diaby for over £50M & have plenty of other funds available to cover that PSR nonsense thanks to some clever academy sales.
Your owner taking private negotiations public & making demands will do him no favours & is only likely to make our owners decide to take £5M less & sell him to Milan.
We did with Juventus & Douglas Luiz & took £10M less so we that didn’t have to sell to a rival in Arsenal, so we have history for it.
The more Sullivan keeps messing us around, the less likely it will be that we will sell him to you.
Sorry, I meant £50m for Zubimendi.
You Hammer’s fans make me laugh. You complain that other clubs want too much for their players but forget that you sold Declan Rice last year for £100m+. We saw at the Euros that, whilst I like Rice, he is nowhere near the level of, say, Rodri or even Zubimendi, who I believe has a release fee of £100m, and never worth £100m (although Caiceido and Fernandes weren’t either). The transfer market is a two way market – the seller sets a price or the buyer makes an offer and the other party decides whether to accept, negotiate or move on. There aren’t many proper “9”s around – Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and, to a lesser extent, Man U haven’t got very good ones hence there is a premium. If Man U are paying £70-80m for Hojland then I can absolutely see a basis to argue that Duran is worth at least half of that. We’ll see whether both parties can reach an agreement but, if they do, it will be because they have found a valuation that works for both of them. If they don’t it will because we, or another party, value him at more than you do but that is a right as he is our asset.
rice is a world class talent proving it every week for club and country, arsenal are only going to make money on him – with duran @ 30m it’s an instant loss, club will be lucky to maintain half of that value in a years time
duran is a very limited football who has done very little, barely played and there appears to be constant issues with managers
spending 30m on him would have to be one of the worst transfers this window, he isn’t worth half that
Should have got el nesri when we had the chance but same old s*
Agreed. Given that he’s played for and been successful under Lopetegui previously at Sevilla, you would think he would have been the obvious choice. Proven at the highest level and well within budget.
Obviously he may have said he didn’t fancy it.
To be fair I still think Duran is a huge risk.
El-Nesyri seemed obvious candidate, there must be some reason he wasn’t pursued?
I think there’s too much wishful thinking going on. Wishing that someone would buy Zouma (ain’t gonna happen), hoping that someone will buy Aguerd soon (no secret to potential purchasers), Saints wishing someone will pay over the odds for KWP in last year of his contract. Same for Brentford with Toney. Villa thinking they can demand top dollar for an unproven young striker. Sullivan waiting for others to blink. And Loppy will be really p*ssed off when it all goes down to the last week of the window AGAIN and he’s expected to integrate new players when the new season has already started.
We have only spent £26m net this financial year after clearing last years PSR. We definitely aren’t desperate for money. The problem is with Durán and his agent not Villa. He thinks he’s prime Mbappe, serious attitude problems, even upset the Colombia coaches recently for not being played. Absolute brilliant talent and prospect but Lopetegi will have to start him every game.
:-)) nicely said
… let’s buy him, give him the time he needs and be paid off by many goals…
An one day he will grow up perhaps, too
The problem you will find if you sign him is that ‘if’ he starts playing well, then he will be making eyelash flutterings at Chelsea again.
He desperately wants to move to Chelsea.
And thats ‘if’ he starts playing well. He is just as likely to start partying in London & neglecting his football as he is to becoming Drogba MK2.
Its a coin flip…
If Duran can resist the allure of Broad Street, then he’ll resist the charm of Stratford High Road?
brilliant talent? hardly
he just shoots, granted he has a decent shot.. but he does very little else
hardly the striker that will bring in our real weapons like kudus and bowen, we need a focal point in attack how can link up play for our dangerous players
im not convinced that we are even in for him tbh – or that he starts if we do sign him
we need a different profile player, we should go for the 10m striker that took colombia to the copa final, he’d be a much better fit
Tbh, when u actually watch Duran, he has the right run’s and knowledge that could help us. He just didn’t get the service he should of at Villa. Yes we would be taking a big chance when we could get Sorloth but I think it’s building for the future as Sorloth may only have 2-3 years left before he starts to slow down. Tbh, I don’t think we should get AWB either because he’s a reliability and likes to dive in when he shouldn’t.
Aren’t Villa selling Diaby for £50m too, and sold Douglas Luiz
Yes we have and although we are not ‘desperate’ like the header states the funds would come in handy. I am not sure about Felix but in Unai i trust.
That was my point. I don’t see it as you being desperate to sell Duran.
Given the additional demands of the Champions League on a squad, surely Villa will need a competent striker to share the load with Ollie?
Is Duran soo unmaneable that Emery would sell him to a ‘friend’ in Loopy-tegui?
By any measure, Duran is not a £30mil. player at this point.