Aston Villa Banter Archive August 20 2013

20 Aug 2013 19:43:42
I think Chris Baird would be worth a punt. Out of contract, can play rb or cb and has a wealth of experience to go with it.

Good squad player

Finch

20 Aug 2013 11:26:37
Notwithstanding the new contract, there is a possibility that both Arsenal and Chelsea will make bids for Benteke before the transfer window closes.
Arsenal are becoming increasingly desperate to sign players to appease fans and having failed to sign Higuain and Suarez, are now short on options. Villa will be a good place to demand silly amounts of money. Similar applies to Chelsea: if they fail to sign Rooney, Jose will look to find another forward with Drogba-style abilities. Benteke is the obvious target.

In many ways, a new contract is absolutely irrelevant. Nevertheless, the situation gives Villa an advantage, in terms of rejecting the bid or demanding an enormous fee.

Only have low to medium confidence in this. I suspect if a bid emerges, it will be close to deadline day.

I would like to think he is knuckling down for a season to secure his World Cup berth. wishful perhaps but I expect the contract to have softly stipulated that he can leave after the World cup. should the right offer come in.

Furthermore Arsenal fans may be waving pitchforks like angry peasants, but Wenger and the business brains are not quite so witless. they will have their targets and not rush into big money offers for players who do not already have the reputation of world class players who can help them push on to the next level. If they can get Cabeye for 15m a defender for 10m and a top striker then the peasants will stop demanding crumbs.

Again with Chelsea, Mourinho knows he has quality players, he is not going to go for another Demba Ba, he will wait to bring in HIS top targets, Rooney is undoubtedly the man they want. Lukaku, Shurrle, Torres and Ba as well as a literney of top class attacking midfielders, he knows there is very little missing from his jigsaw and a bid for Benteke does not seem a wise move for him.

20 Aug 2013 00:49:31
anyone think villa should go for milner in a loan deal? I really think he would come back to villa and could be the that extra bit of quality we crave to produce the chances for the beast benteke

Only take him back permanently.

Would love to have milner back whether it be a loan deal or permanent and I think it'd do wonders for our squad but his wages are a problem and I don't think that pellegrini (probably spelt that wrong) would let him leave on a loan deal especially if it included man city paying a percentage of his wages. Also if we wanted him permanently we'd have to something in the region of £12-£15mil