Aston Villa Rumours Archive May 18 2013
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18 May 2013 19:45:11
Just heard Aston Villa are looking to Loan Lukaku from Chelsea.
Darren Bent also rumoured to be going to West Brom for £4m to replace Lukaku.
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Villa wouldn't sell Bent to West Brom & certainly not for a mediocre £4m! that's a loss of £20m!
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No one is going to pay a fortune for Bent. We want to sell, he wants to leave - that drives the price way down.
We need him off the wage bill. £4 million sounds about right
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Bents fee was 18 mill plus add ons.
No add ons activated due to lack of playing. so loss smaller but still, thanks to O'Neill, massive. But have to get him out and off wage bill. would prob accept 6-8 mill.
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Villa will sell bent & he wants to leave. But it will be for about 10mil
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What has o Neil got to do with Bent? Houllier signed him
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Bent will go for 6-10m tops depending on how many clubs want him so now that's Everton, Fulham and Baggies
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Who will pay10 m for bent when there's better strikers for less he's worth 5m
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Could always just play bent and see he's just what we need, a proven goal scorer. scary how good him and benteke could be together given the hance I think. shame the wage is so high
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How it's martin oneills fault when he was signed by houiller I would like you to explain that one to me bet you was not complaining when his goals kept us in the premiership
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Villa wanted £12 million last season. That price has halved at least.
£6 million, maybe less
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Looking back on things, I am not the biggest fan of O'Neill's transfer policy but blaming him for a Houllier signing (Bent) is a bit harsh
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How can you pin this one on O'Neil when it was Houllier that bought him?
£4mill sounds cheap but realistically we won't get much more. Best to sell for whatever and get him off wage bill
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Bent no matter who he plays for will bag 15 goals a season, we need to get rid of him but he's still worth atleast 8m
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6 million would be a good deal considering all factors
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Norwich signed RVW for 8m, why would anyone buy Bent for that much. I would take 3m. Played next to no games, crippling our wage bill and no relegation clause to reduce costs if we were to go down. let's get rid of him please.
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Lerner will never take a loss of £20m on a perfectly good player!
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Van Wolfswinkle might have cost £8m but he's unproven in the prem, Bent for £8m would be a bargain for any club because he's a proven prem goal scorer, we all know what you'll get with bent, he guarentees goals, chances are RVW will be a flop, it's only common sense.
But I do think because PL has made it blatently obvious he doesn't want DB, he has devalued him, which I think shows his lack of experience
>scg87
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8 mil from Newcastle
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I don't think anyone should be beblaming houllier because when we actually signed bent he probably kept us up
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18 May 2013 11:55:10
Dortmund likely to sign Benteke as replacement for Lewandowski. German club set to offer £20 million for the forward, the whole sum payable over 4 years, according to German media reporting.
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Did benteke not say, he is happy at villa!
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£20m over 4 years? £5m a year? We could loan him out for £5m a year Lol so why would we except that? Nonsense!
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Because that is how most transfers are constructed, especially continental club deals. When we signed Bent, most of the money went to Spurs because Sunderland hasn't finished paying for the player.
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The deal is done based on 2 teams agreeing, an if we decide to agree to a deal where we only get £5m a season over 4 seasons, then someone seriously needs to be sacked.
I guarentee you the €40m that Munchen are paying for Gotze will not be paid over 4 years.
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Benteke isn't leaving aston villa as things stand - papers are always are just looking to get people to buy their papers, doesn't mean what you see is true.
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Absolutely guaranteed that Gotzes fee is payable over instalments.
It's how nearly all transfer fees are paid.
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Dortumund more likely to sign Dzeko for 12-15m instead of Benteke for 22-25m.
Benteke will not be leaving this summer for less that 25m, and this will have to be paid 70% up front.
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The bigger clubs don't need money up front, but its the teams like villa that need to sell, and use that money to buy replacements. Without transfers out we won't be able to get ins, where as teams that turnover 100's of millions a year can splash that on players and use sales as a constant income for the next few seasons. There is no way we could afford to only gain £5m a year and lose our biggest member of the team, because we wouldn't get a replacement half as good for that. IF benteke does go, we will not accept the payment in instalments, we cannot afford to.
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Benteke's keeps saying how happy at Villa
His agent, Him and Lambert have said he'll 99% stay
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Almost certain that Benteke will stay.
But most transfers are conducted in installments. Until last season the only club that paid and received transfers up front was Newcastle.
How difficult is this: pretty much every transfer has an "up front" fee which is paid in installments, normally over the length of the players contract. "Up front" doesn't mean a lump sum. It means that part of the fee that isn't dependent on clauses.
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What else would they say?
There not going to come out an say he's off
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Lambert can not be trusted. He said he would not leave norwich nd he did. Benteke will leave. Don't trust lambert. Come on the villa
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Should it even be Lamberts decision? Is he really any better than Mcleish?
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18 May 2013 08:18:20
Villa transfer plans
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aiden mceady (moscow) or jefferson farfan (schalke)
Douglas (twente) or Cresswell (ipswich)
Figeuroia (Wigan)
Pina (mallorca)
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Bent
Ireland
hutton
given
Bannan (loan)
fonz (loan)
curruthers (loan)
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Is agree with most but I doubt farfan will trade champions league football for villa- of and I think we will sign Sinclair rather than mgeady
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Remember no big names coming in it'll bargains from abroad and talent from lower leagues
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Don't think we will get douglas but I would like us to sign Callum Mcmanaman
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Would absolutely love douglas! Absolute unit, him and vlaar would have a great understanding too!
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Fonz will not go out on loan again, he will be kept as part of the first team under Lambert who is keen to work with him.
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McGeady's disciplinary record would make him a huge gamble plus he's been linked with Villa every year for about a decade now and it's never come off. Can't see it.
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18 May 2013 02:27:35
Fabian Lustenberger is set to be cherry-picked by Lambert for a minimal price due to Hertha BSC being relegated from the Bundesliga.
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Hertha BSC have just been promoted back to the bundesliga
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Think this was a link from around January, I vaguely remember seeing something on here about it, maybe we'll back in for him, tidy little player.
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