Aston Villa Rumours Archive February 01 2013 to March 03 2013

02 Mar 2013 12:40:34
Aston villa will make a a £7m bid to lure lassana diarra back to the premiership once the transfer window opens The definsive midfielder is currently at russian club anzhi and is unsettled.

Cant see this happening not in lamberts age range

Love the player can't see it though

Where did this rumor start?? he`s about 7 years too old for lambert! he's looking for kids not oap1s in football ages

Lassana Diarra to old? He's 27 lol. PL has already said he needs to add experience! You p**nk

23 Feb 2013 19:16:21
What is very frustrating is that every week PL gives the same post match comments, "we deserved more, blah, blah, blah" Arsenal batterd us when it went 1-1 and ended up having 20 odd shots on goal. PL is delusional.

Tbf to him he's been dealt a duff card with this squad.

Oh you disagree with me please state how this squad is good then

Didn't think so

The Squad still has more quality than: Norwich, Sunderland, West Ham, Wigan, Reading, Southampton, Swansea, Stoke, West Brom. So your statement that PL has been hard done to is rubbish. VTID

We have got the worst central midfield in the league, the worst left back in the world, and a team who can't defend set-peices. That's how are squad is bad.

Lack of strength in depth is our downfall. Lambert has done well imo

Lack of depth in the squad has always been our downfall! Even when we were properly pushing for champions league our back up strikers were heskey and delfouneso!

Yes your club has quality as you say, that's why you are perched down just above the drop zone, And I hope you make up the three that are going down QPR READING AND VILLA

19 Feb 2013 10:52:43
Benteke to join Spurs for �25m.
Lambert will then splash �9m on Wilfried Bony & will have funds to add to fund a �40m summer transfer kitty (if we stay in the EPL).
If we face relegation, Benteke will be sold along with Given & no money reinvested & will push the next season for the Championship title.

Yeah sign bony then he can leave after a season the main problem Is players like benteke can see the club has absolutely no ambition and want to leave! We need a new owner yes mr learner has spent a lot and got our club in a position were we are fighting for our lives so big deal if you don't wanna spend anymore move on and let someone who wants some success take over!
Dave80

With Benteke its not a matter of our ambition. He will be able to go straight into a top four side and would leave whether we were trying to push up the table or not.

16 Feb 2013 13:31:20
With Benteke's agent preparing the ground for a move for our brilliant young striker, what is the likelihood of our chairman doing a Daniel Levy and refusing to sell?
If he does sell, how can he (with any sincerity) claim to have any type of ambition for Villa?
I can understand the principal of putting a block on signings of the magnitude of the Bent deal but only if we subsequently hang on to the successful signings we make at the other end of the financial scale.
Mendax

If we go down he goes, if we stay up he goes. Unfortunately we are a selling club, with limited ambitions. The MON era was never sustainable this period was inevitable following our attempts and subsequent failures to land Champs League. I wish Benteke all the best and who can blame him for wanting join a club with a chance of trophies. VTID

Depressing isn't it
Mendax

Why couldn't villa do what swansea did with michu and tie him down for 5-6 years straight away

Its just the agent doing his job and creating a bigger market for his client.

If we stay up, we really need to show some ambition and find a decent buy or two in the middle of the pitch.

Create a supply chain to Benteke so he is getting plenty of touches.

Our midfield is beyond woeful

A 5 or 6 year contract don't mean he will remain at one club for the whole of his contract, he won't remain Loyal, you Villa fans must learn that if your manager does not believe in loyalty to his contract how can he expect the players to be, Even if you stay up Benteke will be gone before the new season K/O

A 5-6 year contract would mean we could keep him for 3 years and still sell at a massive profit.

where as at the end of the season villa can force another year but as soon as Benteke gets 2 years left he'll be gone as to still maximise the revenue

We signed him on a 4 year deal anyway! Also it's not the end of the world if goes is it. Let's face it, he's missed as many as he's scored, a few that springs to mind is the first leg against Bradford costing us a date at Wembley so let's stop making out he's some sort of hero because he ain't!

We could do with the money and bring in 3 or 4 quality players in!
im sure lambert will have options to replace him aswell.

Is that not the logic that lead us to losing the likes of Barry, Milner and Young and gaining the likes of Sidwell, Nzogbia and Ireland?
Benteke was an absolute bargain. It doesn't necessarily follow that all Lambert buys will come off so spectacularly. Joe Bennett being a case in point
The only way we can hope to progress as a club is if, when we do pull a rabbit out of the hat, we hang on to it and try to repeat the trick
Mendax

Yes but one the other hand do we really want players in our side that express an interest in leaving for arsenal a month after joining us?

Benteke’s alleged love of Arsenal does not seem to have affected his performances
I am sick and tired of us losing good players based on the maxim that “ you can’t keep an unhappy player”
Exactly how unhappy can you be on 30-40 K a week?
Does anyone really think for example that if we had refused to sell Milner, that after a slight period of unsettlement he would not have simply got on with his job and City would, eventually, have moved on to other targets?
My point is, the unhappy player theory is somewhat overstated
As fans we are making it far too easy for Lerner to sell off our prized assets
We need to demand better from the club
Mendax

If he wants to stay then brilliant, if he don't then he should go, we at the club need a influx of players who want to play for the club and help the club climb up the table!

up the villa

If we get £30m for Benteke i'm happy.
BUT we have to buy quality again & get some more players who can be as good as Benteke.
But on the other hand - Benteke might want to stay another year & Villa can do that, small-ish wages & a 4 year contract as it stands.

And what pedigree have we shown in recent years as far as investing the money we get from selling our best players?
Absolutely none
Lerner wants out and until he gets what he wants he is determined to recover every penny of his investment
Mendax

12 Feb 2013 20:39:26
Villa are still on the look-out for bargain buys from the Championship with Cardiff City's Matthew Connolly recently under scrutiny. Villa had a scout at Huddersfield Town's John Smith's Stadium on Saturday to see a goalless draw between the Tykes and Championship leaders Cardiff in which Connolly, 25, impressed. This guy anygood ed? {Ed001's Note - came through the Arsenal system, technically sound but not sure he is top class.}

Saw him at qpr a few times, looked half decent. Not sure why we would sign him, offers very little.

05 Feb 2013 15:27:26
Any chance of someone being positive on here for a change you take the rough with the smooth a win against west ham could kick start a move up the table having seen the other teams around us there is no way we should be in the bottom three so have some faith and remember it could be worse you could be a bluenose

Its West Ham you are playing, all those long high balls into the box. Andy Carrol against your defence, looks like you will have to wait until next week for a kick start.

Thanks for telling me we are playing west ham I'm sure I mentioned them in my first comment

Disagree all the teams aroud us have far better records than us in the last 5 games inc qpr

But our strike force has clicked and soon shall the midfeild and defence.
n lambert I trust!

I kind've agree with what's been said. we do need to stop having a go, I def think lambert is the man for us and like how he's trying to play. we've been unbelievably unlucky with injuries (especially christmas period), but saying that squad size really came to the top of my mind. I thnk our attacking play is really start to show promise. our major weakness is set pieces, we need to stop giving away free kicks so close to our box because we can't defend them at all. I knew fellaini would punish us from 1 last week, just gutted I was right. i'll be honest, I never expected anything from that game so to come away with a point we've got to be atleast a bit happy. we got 2 tough games after the hammers but 3 points sunday would give us a little bit of much needed confidence.

Hi you Villa fans, West Ham fan here been reading with interest your negative comments and thoughts, if your team play with the way the fans are thinking then thanks 3 point for the super Hammers. Get a grip it will be a hard battle for both teams and possibly a 0-0 draw or a sneaky 1-0 win either way, but let's be honest it is probably unlikely that neither of us will go down. Good luck Villa but maybe not on Sunday lol.

Paul lamberts claret and blue army!!!!

Failure to get at least a point at Arsenal and you will be defo bottom 3 again. Let's be honest it is probably likely that Villa and West Ham will go down.

Upwards and onwards!!!

Now let's keep going and the muppets who keep coming on here slagging
villa off stick to your own teams websites you all must be really jealous of our team

Yeah course we are, we would love to be in the bottom 3, really really jealous

01 Feb 2013 10:16:35
Aston Villa failed in a beat-the-deadline mission to bring in out-of-favour Stoke midfielder Wilson Palacios, but did manage to land Tottenham's Simon Dawkins before the window closed.

Simon Dawkins. Do we really need another striker, especially one on loan. This just signals how bad shape were in as a club. We seem to have left it to the last minute and as usual haven't strengthened significantly where it's needed. What's has happened to our scouting system looking for players. Oh that's right. Lambert dismantled it and the scout we had in Germany looking for players quit. Great, just great. Thanks a bunch.

Dawkins will be a good asset actually because he can play practically anywhere!

Dawkins will play as an attacking midfield. Bit like Gabby, when he feels like it.

He's a lm/ lw.

Dawkins plays lm or behind the striker. So I can see us finally playing 4-4-2 Dawkins lm nzogbia on his favoured right

Have heared a rumour that from next season loan players will no longer be allowed

Dawkins will not even get in the starting 11, he'll be lucky to get on the bench lol he's been signed on loan as cover, gabby is more likely to play as a LM than dawkins. Pointless signing as far as I'm concerned! >Scg87

Well gabby seems to be getting a knack for scoring this season. Play him up top