Aston Villa Banter Archive July 16 2015

16 Jul 2015 22:58:31
Rumours circulating roma president is trying to do a deal with us to sign destro from them, now don't know how reliable all this is but he would be a excellent signing, in my opinion much better that Austin

17 Jul 2015 03:57:38
You can't beat premier league proven players though - would be a risk to lay basically all our goals scoring hopes on a young unproven player. Now Austin and Destro I could be on board with :)

16 Jul 2015 22:16:13
Ok so Big Ben off, best of luck too him. What do you think to my proposals???

Valdes (free)
Richards okore vlaar(re sign) Amavi (9)
Gueye delph
Townsend (12) grealish Sinclair
Austin (15)
Decebt side that I reckon

16 Jul 2015 22:38:25
Vlaar??
Why??
Useless feck, wants out, can't defend, can't commit, thinks he's better than villa.
Pay some to have him.

16 Jul 2015 23:40:49
I'm with Flackie on this one
Vlaar has, barring the odd game, been a huge disappointment since he came to the club. Slow, often clumsy, injury prone (not that that's his fault) and never the leader we wanted and needed
Glad to see the back of him

16 Jul 2015 20:36:55
Did anyone really think CB would still be a Villa player next season??. With all the speculation surrounding him he has never once pledged his future to us!. The only way he would keep him would be by default with no other club willing to pay the buy out clause. I appreciate the fact he has scored some important goals for us but he would have been gone 12 months ago if not for injury and let's also not forget he tried to force a move after just one season with us!. This constant speculation surrounding a player who clearly hasn't had any real desire to be a Villa player for quite sometime is wearing thin. We are Villa and we are better than this, let's get players in want to wear the shirt and do it with pride VTID.

16 Jul 2015 17:59:39
I was just thinking, and this theory might be a bit 'out there' but if I was a potential buyer with a club left in fair disarray when it comes to what our squad was worth and Randy being tight recently.

Would it not be in the best interests for the potential buyers to wait for more players to be brought in, because let's face it if Randy does not invest a little we could well go down and then he'll really have to drop his asking price, so he is really forced.

Then once the squad is worth more in future resale less initial money has to be spent by the new owner. Just a thought, use it. don't use it.

16 Jul 2015 19:57:22
I think that’s a very good point villaSA, makes a lot of sense to me, and one reason things may be moving slowly.

16 Jul 2015 20:21:07
The moment Benteke signs elsewhere the club is down 32.5 million in value because really most of it is Lerner's to do what he wants with- maybe we will see some progress once he is out the door.

16 Jul 2015 13:11:40
Does anyone else remember when Lerner was buying the club originally, there was a period when he fell out with Ellis (not difficult) and the move was called off
A week or so later it was back on
Just thought I'd mention it.

16 Jul 2015 08:57:01
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New Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri
Has entered the race for the signature of Aston Villa striker Christian Benteke. Ranieri is believed to have offered Villa manager Tim Sherwood a life time supply of Mars bars for the services of the towering Belgian. Sherwood replied "I am very excited of the prospect of have a lift time supply of my favourite chocolate bar and I'm very overwhelmed"

It might as well be true. Every other bugger has been linked with Big Ben!!!

16 Jul 2015 03:19:33
Feel like we're being left behind in the transfers. Wijnaldum (Newcastle), Lens(Sunderland), Clasie (ok, Southampton had a better season than us). all quality players. feel like we're behind in the game.

16 Jul 2015 12:17:52
ye but we signed mark bunn!!! beat everyone else to that signing

17 Jul 2015 04:05:58
Yeah and we got Gueye who cost similar amount to the players you have listed, plus the links to Amavi sound promising.