Aston Villa Rumours Archive May 01 2017 to May 31 2017

29 May 2017 18:27:01
Haven't been on here for a while and been catching up on the mood. Just got a shout for a new GK, it might have already been said, John Ruddy, free agent from Norwich, 30 years old, ex England, ticks all the boxes if we haven't got as much money to throw around

UTV.

29 May 2017 21:18:13
I totally agree mate. But do think it's a fine deal for Johnstone.

29 May 2017 22:11:31
Meant done deal!
(But fine fits! )

30 May 2017 12:01:54
yeah like sounds of that might even go as far as saying get them both in and let what we have already go, don't see any of the keepers we already have as worth keeping and ruddy would be very good for helping johnstone learning off.

04 Jun 2017 14:12:03
Would be a great signing👍🏼.

27 May 2017 10:31:37
Aston Villa linked with Luke Shaw on loan but is he just a injury prone jordan amavi?

23 May 2017 21:15:21
my sources are telling me that we have put a bid In for Peter crouch. it is thought crouch would be open to the prospect of rejoining villa and spearheading the promotion push next season. other targets include sam johnson John Terry and a loan move for Patrick Roberts off man city who has done well at Celtic this season. kingy exclusive.

{Ed007's Note - I can guarantee you that Paddy Roberts won't be at Aston Villa next season.}

23 May 2017 21:34:08
You been sniffing the bostick Kingy?

23 May 2017 21:46:03
I would love crouch back pace don't matter his never been qwick but what's the point in giving RHM a contract if your always gona buy players davis looked good aswel.

24 May 2017 11:04:20
Kingy-your forgetting redknapp wants him too, be great if we did nab him though.

25 May 2017 07:56:55
Hi all crouchie would be a good signing but i would try and sign ryan woods CM from brentford class little player always gives 100% and hardly ever wastes a pass and he is localish lad as he is from Cannock.

14 May 2017 00:39:43
Reading reports that Bruce will have a budget of just 1 mill + what he can generate through sales.
Looks like we won't be getting the 3-4 top quality signings we were hoping for
I wonder what Bruce is thinking?
Perhaps we should utilise the loan market a bit more?

14 May 2017 01:14:03
If the players who spent this year on loan are sold, that must give us a sizeable pot.
Then Richards, and the like.

Think with the size of the playing staff, was always a sell before you buy pre season.

I personally don't think we need many additions any way. just a keeper, and a full pre season with what we have.


How's things mendax? Hope your well mate.

14 May 2017 01:27:35
Thats the reason he's trying to get mcshortfarce back on side again, looks like our once mighty club is going to be going cap in hand, you couldn't make it up with all these sticks and twists, but for me personally, i think this news is brilliant, now he'll have to work with what we got, and maybe that continuity will bring that ingredient that's been missing from our game.

14 May 2017 06:06:31
I don't belive a word of it rules are you can only spend what you generate well we have 3 parachute payments last year was 50 million and this year it should be 30 million. Plus we prob generate 6 million in attendance eg season tickets then there's player sales. We are selling this season but that's because Bruce wants to not because he has to! These jornos havnt got a clue at all. Watch the doctor laugh it off again.

14 May 2017 06:36:18
Just read what dr. tony has to say, and it doesn't sound as bad as made out at all. We do only need strengthening in a few places but branding figures about is mad. True we can't spend 50 60 million again but we don't need to Bruce brought most of his players in January. money we can generate Richie de laet 3 million amavi 10 million elphick 3 million verout 10 million gill 3 million there's 29 million we parachute payments we be fine. its Gabby and Richards need moving on Richards still on 50k so Gabby. Bottom line is the squad is far to big if we sell we have more money to spend but that's with any business papers gone bit over board if you ask me tho.

14 May 2017 11:52:56
I'm good Flackie
I agree with you on the numbers although I think a younger version of Jedinak is also a priority.

14 May 2017 12:21:10
I think he will be played further back next year, and I have a feeling tishbola will be back for next year.

I do think, with no additions, assuming Johnstone stays, we have the squad to come up.

A full pre season, and Bruce has no excuse. It's his team now.

15 May 2017 12:16:32
I think we will be absolutely fine guys I believe that we have the potential to move the following on

Richards - 2million
Gabby - 1million
Elpkick- 2million
McCormack -5 million
Amarvi - 10million
Veretout - 8-10million
Gil - 4 million

Potentially over 30 million from dead wood and surpus players

I wouldn't also look at selling grealish for 10million if viable as he just doesn't cut it for me

Then add

Watkins from Barnsley
New CB possibly the lad from Bristol city
New left back - Rico Henry maybe

Then would go forrestieri, or vibe and I think the. We have a good team able to challenge for promotion

If Brighton can do it with there team then why can't we?

We just need to play better quality football . No sideways passes and quicker ball.

10 Jun 2017 22:05:18
That's why need someone like Garry Rednapp who can do deals not sure about Steve Bruce who is a good mabager/ coach.

10 Jun 2017 22:21:22
Isn't saying we have to sell players before buying is saying we have been awful at recruutment. So I would SACK everyone that was involved in buying these failures.

10 Jun 2017 22:45:21
The problem with that plan is we will be a selling club therefore a buyers market discount those transferred by 50% it going to be a fire sale we should have started this 9 months ago in one and twos them we get a better deal.

10 May 2017 22:19:47
Marley watkins is again being linked with us, available for a bargain price is helping matters as well it seems.

10 May 2017 23:21:28
Bargin price his on a free lol. His a Barnsley player. Another 1 who will crap himself playing infront of 36 thousend everyweek we need top players who can handle playing for such a big club but as a squad player free suppose couldn't hurt.

11 May 2017 02:30:20
Wtw - if you know anything about barnsley supporters its that they don't suffer fools gladly, so i don't reckon he'd bottle it. yeah we're a big club, but that means zip in this league, just makes us a bigger scalp, and maybe signing a lesser known player is exactly what we should be doing, so that football is the main attraction, not a players reputation, these type of players maybe precisely what we need, it might stop some people from living off past glories and top league snobbery, remember, of all the 'top' players we've bought i think only 2 deserve to wear the jersey, we need to smell the coffee and a boot up the harris to wake up, shut up and put up-earn the right to go up, not expect it-but what do i know!

11 May 2017 13:12:48
McCormack, Lansbury, Hogan, Hourihane - all bottled it so far.

11 May 2017 13:23:19
Names do not mean nothing to me mate. But Steve Bruce has said himself that the championship players he has brought haven't got to grips with playing such a big club mate and expectation level. I still say if he only buys 5 players get proven quality in. We have been link with kolarov the Man City full back his on a free and the link with Defoe is nice as well these prob won't happen but this is the type of players we should be going for!

I am still amazed that Lansbury is on 50k a week it's crazy he is poor and on big bucks we need proven players and I think Steve Bruce knows that because if he gets a bad start like Rdm pressure will be on. This club is a Premier league club and needs to get back there quick no more excuses.

11 May 2017 15:29:31
Where have we been linked with Kolarov? and where's the information saying Lansbury is on 50k a week?

11 May 2017 15:35:30
WTW

did you actually just put Defoe and kolarov in the last post about proven names coming to villa?

Please sir if your going to spout off please talk sense, because both players will never grace the championship in claret and blue

Brighton have just got promoted from this division . The majority of their players have come from the championship or lower leagues .

So your point is floored .

On the flip side, I do agree that some of the new additions have looked out of sorts .

Far to many have not played like they did at previous clubs. There are far to many side ways passes in the middle of the park and the ball is not quick enough

Steve Brice needs to allow the players to be far more expansive in their play . He also needs to tell jimmy danger to pass more often.

I would love to see veretout in the team personally I would send Grealish out on loan for a year and let's see why veretout has got

I would also be very tempted into having a good go at getting forestieri from Wednesday if they sell that is.

Watkins from Barnsley is a good shout being a free transfer

Failing that Jota and Vibe from Brentford certainly add some flair.

11 May 2017 17:32:47
Kolarov was on a man city fanzine, popped up on newsnow and lansbury link was through football manager who have professionals who investigate these thing to make it realistic and so far they have been correct as sky sports now use them as well.

11 May 2017 17:33:49
I'd take 1 of Forrestieri, Vibe or Jota.

11 May 2017 17:34:55
Villa kenn no harm in showing ambition and to be honest we wasted so much money on poor players from the championship i don't want to watch championship players that get scared of playing in front of a crowd. let's have it right Aston Villa is a amazing club to play for they should be honoured to play for us not scared.

Steve Bruce his words not mine the players have been here 4 months now there's no more excuses they need to step up an deal with expectation because Aston Villa is a wonderful football club who need to be in the premier league.

So i doubt his going to make the same mistake again an buy championship players who have proven like Chris has said up above quite frankly have bottled it.

11 May 2017 17:06:49
Jota is a good shout. Would love to get helder costa from wolves think he would be a great addition.

11 May 2017 19:08:44
There's showing ambition and there is being down right stupid.

11 May 2017 22:12:56
Wouldn't believe Lansbury being on 50k, probably on half that, to my knowledge they are all on around 25/ 30, not 100% fact but when Gardner got a new contract Bruce aid something about he was on less than everyone else and he deserved to be on the same, and a couple of papers said it was believed to be 25/ 30k mark. Only players I can see being on more would be Amavi, Gabby - players who were signed start of last season or before where they didn't have relegation clauses, Richards is probably on a whack.

11 May 2017 22:17:46
And WTW to me our best players this year have been Kodjia and Chester, so it's 50/ 50 one was from the championship and one the prem. best player signed in January must be Taylor so that's definitely something we should aim for, funny both play regularly for Wales but couldn't get a game at their clubs. We could all probably name 4 or 5 players who would improve us however it's useless if the players are then told to do something they've never done before. Bruce has got the success of this football club on his shoulders this summer, I hope his up to it.

11 May 2017 22:45:33
Wtw - if lansbury is on 50k a week, how much do you think kolarov and defoe would want-and a side point, their no spring chickens, do you think they can grind out 2-3 games a week? -defoe said he was cream-crackered after playing 4 games in 2 weeks back in january, he wouldn't last a month in the championship, but if you can persuade the doctor to get them in, i'll tip my hat to ya and buy you a sticky bun next season!

12 May 2017 00:07:47
Aww mate a sticky bun sounds amazing mate i will be praying they come now any chance off cup of tea with it? They are examples of players we been linked with mate not saying there coming but i would like them an other fringe prem stars. Also Chris great post again i agree with you about doesn't matter what players come in if Steve Bruce tells them to defend or play out of position. I hope Steve Bruce gets it right in the summer 1st of all his going Barbados on holiday then hope he comes back with a plan!

08 May 2017 15:32:24
Was speaking to a few bretheren and the conversation got round to brucie and what style of play we should try and stick to. a leicester supporter who was in our company than gave his tuppence worth, which was that brucie was suffering from 'small club manager syndrome', he enlightened us with his opinion that because bruce had always managed at smaller clubs (sunderland i replied were nearly as big as us? ), he didn't have as much of a squad to choose from, hence more often than not the team mostly picked itself.

so continuity was there, and because he knew each players limitations the nucleus of the squad could compensate and thus a unit formed, now of course we laughed him off to the bar to buy a double round for being so stupid, but today, a few of us are wondering if having too much choice has been causing brucey to chop and change, and dither sometimes, and so opportunities are lost.

what do you think?

08 May 2017 17:40:23
The problem with Bruce is not that he has too much choice, quite simply he is not up to the task. He has turned good players in to clueless amateurs, we will be having these discussions all next season. Trust me we have seen enough to suggest things are not going to change. in the last forty or so hours of football under Bruce and I have watched most of this I have not seen fifteen minutes of quality, or any cohesive tactical nouse, that's down to the manager.

08 May 2017 17:42:51
There is evidence to support it, as when we went and won 8 games in 9, we was down to the bare bones and the squad picked itself for the majority. However it doesn't explain his stupid tactics because as seen yesterday, we can attack we can make chances, just not in the "easier" games. Makes no sense to me.

08 May 2017 21:47:13
Not seen 15 minutes of quality in 40 hours of football, bit of a drama queen because you don't like Bruce.

08 May 2017 23:01:23
Come on chris, we're all part of a broad church, hopeful is only airing his concerns because like us all, we love the club.

09 May 2017 09:47:18
Saying things like, haven't seen 15 minutes of quality in 40 hours of football, is just melodramatic.

09 May 2017 13:36:37
Well said chris your one of the few that actually make sense.

09 May 2017 14:13:45
I don't really care how exciting or entertaining the football is atm. We need results. When we went on that 8 wins in 9 games we didn't play that we'll then. But so what. I couldn't care if we scrape every game 1-0 next year and the goal comes off kodjias left testicle. This division is like quick sand and every year a big club like ours is stuck in it you sink a bit deeper. Look at forest Blackburn and Leeds. We don't want to be another one of those. Steve Bruce has the best record of getting out of here so we need to stick with him. She knows what he's doing. UTV.

09 May 2017 17:40:42
Cheers Clarat. Good point Rich, I think the only reason he hasn't got everyone on his back is because of his record in this league. When we went on that run of 8 in 9, we played defensive and it looked horrible, no one cared because we was winning, however when we're playing awful and not picking up any points what so ever (Fulham, Reading) it starts to wind people up.

Ipswich at home we played well, created chance after chance and got hit on the break and lost 1-0, sometimes that's the way it is. What so confusing is twice this year we've drew to Brighton, and our performed them and out played them, they got gifted a penalty Sunday and the chance to play against 10 men, then they scored a solo worldie in the other game, the sort you see 3 times max a season.

They came second, why can we mix it with the big boys and play, show how we can attack, create brilliant chances, and then when the little teams come we score and then sit back and try and defend for 80minutes?

Bruce needs to prove himself this transfer window as well, so far everyone he's signed has regressed in form, and he got better results out of Gustede, Ayew, McCormack and our "weaker" midfield from before January, than he has since January!

Biggest season in recent history, if we don't get promotion chances are we will rot in this league for 4/5 years, and it starts in the summer, get that right and give us the best platform to use this quality squad we have in the right way and get us out of this awful league.

07 May 2017 18:08:36
Thank God the seasons finished, let's enjoy the summer buy some top players and fight to go up next season. Duno if anybody saw the craig gardner interview on youtube but he slates us for cheering against our own team says he can't even mention our clubs name and says blues have better fans than us.

07 May 2017 21:52:09
Yeah, saw that. He's doing his brother a lot of favours there isn't he.
What an absolute pillock. The new Mark Tate
Blues fans would never have acted the way ours did at Blackburn had the position been reversed of course.
I've eaten things that had more intelligence than that idiot. He makes Gabby look like a University Challenge contestant.

07 May 2017 22:54:37
He seems to forget blues staging a full funeral the day we got relegated with hundreds of them there, embarrassing. Villa fans wearing Blackburn tops was stupid but it was 50 fans max, and not the sort of people who care what people say on social media, in their home heads they were just having a laugh. Thought it was funny when he tried to say the blues fans were top class people, an was insinuating all villa fans are lower.

forgetting his brothers a villa fan and he's a self proclaimed villa fan. They celebrated like they won a cup, dancing on the pitch taking squad pictures on the pitch and then first opportunity he gets he mentions the villa, sums them up. We know ourselves you can't cheat relegation every year, that's twice in 3 recent years they've stayed up by one goal, it is going to catch up to them and it will be so sweet when it does.

08 May 2017 11:19:59
I hope your right mate i hate them scum bags. Harry has a habbit of doing well tho but as they have very little money can't see them doing much. 1 thing I will say is forget Birmingham City let's focuss on Aston Villa and going back up to where we belong! What does people think off harry maguire i belive we could get him and looks decent.

08 May 2017 17:41:55
Macguire is a good player, but the likes of southampton, stoke and west ham are sniffing around, and with a place in the Engand team on offer.

i can't see him coming, like i said a while ago, flint is in the mix, and if we miss out, the Barnsley centre-half is another option, but don't rule out Michael turner, or samba getting a pay as you go contract, and i believe dr. xia has also said we must sell before we buy.

08 May 2017 21:48:04
He hasn't said that anywhere ever.

06 May 2017 08:51:28
Every year at this time of the year fans reflect on the past season and look forward with optimism to the next season. We long suffering villa fans have done this over the last five years only to be disappointed. We have investment loyal fans what we don't have is a manager who wants to give us quality football but has a strategy to maintain his credibility as a football man.

Please guys don't back a man who is only focused on his own credibility we deserve better. The last four months have been turgid and is not likely to improve. The signings have been poor and will not get us challenging for honours. I really don't have a solution or a magic wand, wish I had, but what we have is going no where no matter what rose tinted glasses you wear.

So please guys don't sit back and hope good times are ahead because it ain't going to happen. Want far more and expect far more or our club is going to end up like Wigan, Blackburn and blues.

06 May 2017 10:42:07
You make a point but then have no explanation or evidence following it. If you called Bruce useless, a dinasaur, clueless then you probably have a selection of games where we've been awful in the final third and abject of ideas and play hoof ball. However only focused on his own credibility? How? What planet are you on? Where do you get this stuff from?

06 May 2017 17:05:04
Hopeful really? Look mate I understand your anger some games this season we have been simply awful and Bruce hadn't hid from that but I still think his watching players seeing who he can trust. I am not a massive fan at all his football is awful but because of his record we have to give him time his record says he knows what his doing.

I don't think Bruce is great but his not selfish or concerned with his own record as you put it his a top bloke trying his best his honest I just think his not our type of manager that we are used to seeing. Kodjia getting injured as put a huge dent on our promotion hopes but as a team we should be setting up an scoring more goals. Grelish and many others have got to be scoring and playing better its about desire! My outcome give him a pre season and let's at least let him have ago to turn it around if it fails go for wagner.

07 May 2017 00:12:28
I agree wtw, but we the way we play at the minute stifles players like hogan, Hourihane and Grealish from stepping up, we are in our own half majority of the time with 11 behind the ball. Defensive football when we have one of the best attacking squads in the league.

05 May 2017 00:59:00
We certainly seem to be having a clear out at the academy. Some of them, I thought where rated quite highly, a couple of them where given a contract last year . They certainly must think, that they have better prospects coming through . I just hope that none of them don't, develope well and come back to bite us on the bum . It must be realy hard to judge them at this level, how many times have we seen realy good kids stop developing and go backwards . There again we have let a couple go, the went on to good things . Onwards&Upwards Villaforever.

05 May 2017 12:07:09
A lot of the ones released have been at the age where you'd expect them to break into the first team for the last 2 years now, in that time we've probably had 5/ 6 managers (Sherwood, Garde, McDonald, Eric Black, Di Matteo, Bruce) and I don't think any of the ones released have a senior cap to their name. For 6 managers not to give them a chance, having gone through every situation possible; senior players not caring, senior players being awful, having nothing to play for. If after all that they haven't been given a chance, it tells me their not good enough, Green, Hepburn-Murphy, Kienan Davies, Toner and Niall Mason were all in and around their team and evidently their the only ones who have progressed.

03 May 2017 09:41:00
Patrick Roberts - on loan at Celtic, can't imagine he'd get into Man City's team, was brought at the same time as delph to fill home grown quota. May have interest from Prem Clubs and as he came from Fulham in the championship might see it as a step back, however would be brilliant if we could get him on loan.
Bertrand Traore - on loan at Ajax from Chelsea, looks similar to Atsu (on loan at Newcastle)

We currently have 2 wingers at the club, green and Adomah, near enough every team in the top 6 have out and out wide men, we need more options out there and competition for places, there's two quality options where we would only have to pay a portion of their wages. Also nearly every team in the top 6 seem to have utilised the loan market, a lot of the players that are good quality in the league can't make it in the prem (Bamford etc) so loaning a few (1 or 2) and then losing them when they help us go up wouldn't be such a bad thing, as I'd back Tony to provide funds for quality replacements.