29 Jul 2015 10:38:07
Reports in French media suggest that Veretout is still set to join Villa and flying in today for talks. Links to Leicester are due to Villa haggling over the final few details with the chairman of Veretout's current club stating that if Villa do not agree the deal tonight, it may well open up the door for Leicester or another club.

1.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 14:26:09
Yeh, I have been reading this as well DBS, we need to learn when conducting ourselves over transfers that when we are presented with a good deal to shut up and make it happen.
We have the chance of obtaining a very good player for peanuts in todays market, I say shut up and stop haggling Villa, get the deal over the line or rue the consequences.
We have lost players for decades because of a quid hear and a quid there, Deadly Doug was the master at it, learn from it.
We are building a new squad why loose an obvious target because of minor issues.

2.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 14:55:34
Exactly villadave, let's hope Villa have learned their lesson and can get this one over the line!
Generally speaking, i like what Sherwood is doing with the squad in terms of replacing 'deadwood' for what hopefully turns out to be higher calibre players. Still think we need two or three proven players who can hit the ground running (CB, CM and a number 9) and improve our starting eleven, but that might just be me being greedy after all of the recent activity.

3.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 15:38:45
I think you’re a bit like me DBS, we are like kids in a sweet shop at the moment with all this activity going on, we want everything on show.
Its great though and makes us all feel good.

4.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 15:56:22
agree with dbs 1983 and villa dave this is an old tacktick used by us for many years and we have lost a great many top players if we don,t wake up we are going to loose veretout next who I have read really wants to join us have a go tim will ya put the suits right and leav,e tim to get em in top ten or better anyone carbisbay.

5.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 21:50:37
Remembering us lose robbie keane to coventry ! Lol

6.) 29 Jul 2015
29 Jul 2015 22:25:46
jb19, I remember us losing Keane to Coventry too, over half a million. Also, apparently we lost Falcao to Porto over some other similarly stupid number, I think it was we decided he wasn't worth 5 million pounds.

7.) 30 Jul 2015
30 Jul 2015 07:33:22
We lost out on being owned by city's owner due to dilly Dallying about. Villa were the team they first approach to buy but doug thought it did not sound right lol bless him.