Aston Villa Rumours Archive January 08 2013

08 Jan 2013 22:14:33
Phillipe coutinho heading to villa for 7 million

Don't think so. You have to sell before you can buy, and Saints already are in active discussions with Inter.
Inter want to sell to enable them to buy, so will not sit around to get a deal done.

I don't htink Coutinho will be coming to villa but Lambert has been given £10 million without having to sell. Cant sell too much apart from Bent until the summer otherwise the squad would be paper thin with no experience.

Well he must have more than 10m to spend because he wouldn't just blow it on one player!

08 Jan 2013 19:04:44
phillipe countinho set to join and darren bent will stay at the midlands club

Darren Bent will stay because no one esle wants him.

This is probably true, can't see anyone paying his wages atm. I hope he stays and plays.. Shocking miss last night though.

08 Jan 2013 11:53:35
Aston Villa's Paul Lambert is thinking about a £10 million bid for Inter's Philippe Coutinho or a straight swap for Darren Bent, a swap deal would greatly reduce the wage bill whilst getting a quality midfielder who can become a huge sell on fee if successful.

The Danny Graham £12 million rumour is a NO GO, Aubameyang is a possible recruit, plus young Belgium defender.

Not sure Inter would want Bent...

Bent isn't leaving & why would Inter Milan want Darren Bent?!?

Can people stop saying Bent is leaving, just because Lambert says he isn't, doesn't mean he isn't, he could be trying to rise the price

Why are people saying he is leaving he's not! Even if we have to pay Sunderland another 6million for him it is worth it because he's a goalscorer and that will keep us in this league!! What we need is this coutinho to sign so it gives us a bit of flair and someone to feed balls through to bent!

If somebody wants bent i'll pay for his taxi fare! He's had more than enough chance to prove himself and i personally don't want a 'goalscorer' that runs away from the ball every time its crossed to him. Playing darent bent as a target man is as effective as playing barry bannan as one and as bent is slower than michael chopra, he can hardly play as a supporting striker who runs onto balls. The 'bent is part of my plans' comment from PL is simply to try and raise his price-tag! Its not gonna devalue him so he might as well at least try and get more money out of teams. He's off to QPR anyway, their the only team stupid enough to pay £10m and 60k wages for a player who can only finish when its only a silver platter from 3 yards out but can't head and sleeps with team-mates wives.

He is also lazy, does not work for the team, and expects the team to provide the chances for him, where as Weimann and Benteke work for the team, help crest the chances, and their the ones scoring the goals

Bent is proven quality! 6-7 years of scoring to a prolific rate in the prem is proof of that!

If he is such a prolific striker, with years of prem experience why would you sell him............its clear to see the 2 things Villa lack are experience and goals?