Who Would Be Your Perfect Signing This Summer

[Tree13]

If villa go down could maybe try for a loan with a option to buy deal for benteke

Yes, with bells on. And send Kone the other way on exactly the same deal.

Benteke won't want to play in the Championship - he put a transfer request in last year FFS. And the money clubs might not want to risk buying him due to the nature of his injury.

The spanner in the works however is that Villa are likely to stay up by the skin of their teeth: Norwich have Chelsea and Arsenal left to play, and Fulham and Cardiff are already too far adrift IMHO.

 

[paul11]

Benteke would be an even bigger risk than a Traore type at this point. Major injury, he has a track record of goals in the Prem (unlike Traore) but I would take neither.

That's why it would be a good idea to take him on loan for a season before buying him take make sure he has fully recovered from his injury

 

[detroiturk15]

That's why it would be a good idea to take him on loan for a season before buying him take make sure he has fully recovered from his injury

A loan wouldn't be the worst thing, but then his value could jump to where it was at the end of last season. He's a good player from what I see, very few of us probably watch enough of him to make definitive statements on his qualities. Is he a Martinez-style fit though? That's the question.