Aston Villa Banter Archive August 24 2012
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24 Aug 2012 22:20:18
This may surprise most of you, but Villa will play well & honourable in defeat to Everton 2mro, However this may be a blessing in disguise as it will make CRYSTAL CLEAR exactly what we {RL,PF} have to accomplish before 11pm next Friday,
A Marquee signing plus 2. Marco Reus/Sofiana Feghoui type players would be awesome....this is just a clue as to what type of level we will need to compete, look at the Laudrupt,Stoke,WHam,Swansea, Could we currently even envisage beating any of these team? last Saturdays result is the answer! In Villa we trust. that emans you to RL/PF
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24 Aug 2012 20:53:30
what was i said about o'neil if we don't move fast enough he'll sign all he can get his hands on, first fletcher now adam johnston. sunderland at least showing ambition mr lerner
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24 Aug 2012 20:32:26
Another target gone to Sunderland. I wonder if PL will ever buy another player???
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12-14 million for Fletcher and you are disappointed we "missed out" ?
It was that kind of ludicrous spending on average players by a hugely overrated, kick and rush manager that got us in the state we are in now
For chrissake !
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You will be eating those words when johnston sets up fletcher to score the winner against us.
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For pity sake.
The barometer of whether Fletcher is a good buy or not won't be whether he can score against Villa !
A lot of players are going to be able to do that by the look of it
Fletcher is another that will be added to the O'neill list of shocking buys....Davies, Harewood, Salifou, Warnock,Reo-Coker ...the list goes on.
Johnson could be great but you have to wonder why City didn't fancy him?
He could turn out to be another Stephen Ireland
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I think you'll find that Mancini said that he would like Johnson to stay but understood his desire to leave. I notice when you quote O'Neils bad signings you omit his success stories. Every manager has signings that don't work out. As for Fletchers price. He scored 12 goals and cost 12 mill. Bent scored 24 and cost 24million-judging by that we're paying for strikers at exactly the same rate as Villa. 1million per goal scored.
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24 Aug 2012 17:47:45
I think its going to be 1-1 tomo.
Hopefully this will spur a couple of signings over the next week, it'l be evident that tomorrow we still desperately need a left back too!
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24 Aug 2012 15:18:03
Is it me or do u reckon lambert is playing scapegoat just like mcleish did for lerners lack of enthusiasm and interest. He came out in the press and said we are still looking but wont sign defoe. Now to me that spells that he isnt being given any more money.
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24 Aug 2012 14:46:04
I believe that Lerner will wait until January before he opens his purse. He wants to see if Lambert can do anything with the current players. If by some miracle we are in the middle of the table, then nothing will be done. If we are in the upper level he will sell players, but if we are down the bottom as we all expect then he will blame Lambert give him a few miserable quid and tell him he has to improve. Even deadly Doug was better than these cowboys!
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24 Aug 2012 12:04:30
Does anyone else think we should get julio cesar
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24 Aug 2012 08:45:54
Was Savage right when he said we are Contenders? (for the drop) are at the very least a narrow escape, this is what most fans are concerned with as 9days to go and club are yet to prove him wrong by making their 2012/2013 season intentions clear by showing ambition
The Trust in Pl/PF/RL is deminishing as the deadline day draws close. Rumour RL is planning to sell before Jan is now sounding more true.
Some Villa Fans say be positive, have faith, I say actions speak louder than words. Every Pundit knows PL is a good manager but Villa need depth, a Marquee young Vibrant CF that can link up with midfield go past players two footed and generally make things happen, some quality and power in midfield that will allow us to compete and not be bullied off the ball (delph/bannan- little men with average quality that will not fair well against the likes of Stoke/Everton etc... who have big aggressive players)
Defoe/Berbatov/Benayoum links show a clear desperate lack of ambition, I hope our new head scount Michael plays a trump card before friday.
Forget puuting rumours on here (although I love em) not 1 has come true, our hopes are always dashed as other teams are make the decent buys, look at Laudrup the value being spent is nothing £2-3 mill but the quality he has brought in is clear to see.
Apart from Phillips who we need and would be ideal for our club, we nned to look abroad for better value for money, not getting Brahimi is a sad loss. For a Marquee players who is available and was subbed last week pointing to being unsettled is SOFIANE FEGHOULI.. as for the sceptics why NOT, we tedn to get good players after their best Ginola
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You say signing Defoe and Berba lacks ambition and then say we get players after their best and we do well with them. Make your mind up!!,
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