05 Jan 2012 20:37:28
I Come bearing gifts of news and rumours for my fellow villa fans to talk about.
First up players leaving Villa.
Collins is continually being linked with an exit, and has so far been subject of two bids, both in the region of 3.5 - 4 million (QPR And Sunderland).
Delph, appears to be nearing the exit doors on loan in a bit to get some more game time.
Heskey, the man the enigma the donkey! there are teams interested in the mule, but the stumbling block is his wage demands.
Clarke, there's rumblings of discontent and with the euro's coming up he's been getting itchy feet. But due to recent game time there's no immediate panic from him or his agent, but that could change during the month.
Finally The man of the minute in regards to our biggest piece of speculation in leaving us, Darren Bent. It's true there's been contact, but not from liverpool just yet. It's QPR which was quickly re-buffed. Liverpool are sniffing and they're expected to try and snap him up towards the end of the window.
Players possibly joining the mighty Villa.
Drogba, kaka, villa, forget all these players there names are banded around any clubs that's spend money in the past few years, and sadly ours keeps popping up with these due to Mon's slap dash spending.
Realistic targets that we're aiming for this window.
Starting with the midfield.
Krankjar or Pienaar from spurs, we're holding talks with regards to them, possibly buying the former and loaning the latter if we can agree on the termination of jenas' loan deal.
Kayal of celtic was going to be our target for CM, but he was recently injured in the latest old firm, Causing mcleish to go for option number 2 and target Diame from wigan.
Also Djalo that is on trial with Villa is entering into constructive contract talks, as the trial was purely a fitness and sharpness test, due to his lack of football for the last 6 months. If this goes through expect the move for pienaar to stop, and just push for the one from spurs.
Now on to our Shaky defence, we're not actively looking to add to it, as if we get our midfield targets, then clarke falls back and it gives us 3 capable CD's, Enda stevens gives competition for the LB spot, and lichaji is on the comeback trail. Only news i can offer is the one that everyone knows about the guy that's on trial.
And lastly strikers, While i'd have loved the rumours of Villa and Drogba i did actually laugh quite hard when reading about them. Sadly we're only chasing Keane. least we don't have to worry about kris boyd or bobby zamora coming in.
I thought the Djalo trial never happened in the end?
It's still an on-going trial, the guy is at bodymoor heath training with the rest of the squad, along with the center back.
All a load of rubbish....mighty Villa? what 30 years ago maybe
Villa were mighty in our 3-1 victory against Chelski mate.
Eck now has to clear some of the worse players (Heskey included!) and bring in some pace.
We have to get rid of Heskey somehow, he's been linked with a return to leicester every window for the past three, but how realistic this is I'm not sure. We're lacking the right sort of striker to play with either Bent or Gabby in a 4-4-2. Bent and Gabby are too similar to play together, we need somebody to link up the play rather than someone who plays on the shoulder of the last defender, but still need him to bang in some goals. Basically, a better version of Heskey with goals. Zamora is perhaps an option, but he seems to be getting on with Jol now after the winner against Arsenal and I'm not sure he'd be every Villa fans cup of tea. We need to look for a bargain abroad or in the championship/lower prem. Graham is doing a good job for Swansea for example
It said on the Villa website a few weeks ago that the Djalo trial was terminated.