[AXEL TUANZEBE. CA 118. PA 152.]
152 is a top Premier League centre-half. 152 is not a superstar and it is not supposed to be. 152 is a man who plays 300 matches and nobody in a pub ever argues about him.
And he is 20, and he is quick, and he covers the exact 40 yards of grass that Ibrahima Konaté left empty on Wednesday night 4 times in 45 minutes.
"Does he want to come?"
"He wants to play in the Champions League," Dougie said, "and Aston Villa are in the Championship, and I did not have to say anything clever at all."
So that is the window. A goalkeeper on a free, a centre-half at 5 million, and a right back who arrived on Monday with a Golden Ball in a flight case if you do not count Mateo and James.
3 men bought outright and added to a squad that finished 2nd, and 2 of them are 20 and 19.
I am not signing anybody else this summer and I have told Dougie to stop sending me names.
