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Aston Villa owner Tony Xia gives cryptic transfer update, fans respond

New owner Dr Tony Xia during the press conference (REUTERS)
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Make sense of this if you can Aston Villa fans…

Aston Villa owner Tony Xia’s transfer updates continue to get more and more complicated.

The Chinese businessman has been creating his own type of code, in an attempt to cryptically let fans what is going on.

The numbers to pay attention to are the 95 per cent and 99 per cent at the end, suggesting deals may be close – that’s providing we have understood his message correctly.


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A similar message hours earlier displays 50 per cent and 95 per cent as the final numbers, suggesting progress has been made, whether they are incomings or outgoings is unclear.

Supporters have been coming back to Xia to respond…

Xia’s messages may continually be confusing, but he is doing his best to keep fans updated while correctly keeping details of any deals under wraps.

This transfer window they have already concluded deals for goalkeeper Sam Johnstone (loan), defender James Bree, and midfielders Birkir Bjarnason, Conor Hourihane and Henri Lansbury, leaving fans hoping a striker will be due in before the deadline.

New owner Dr Tony Xia during the press conferenceAston Villa owner Dr Tony Xia