Aston Villa Rumours Archive August 04 2012

04 Aug 2012 21:18:50
Aston Villa linked with Schalke player Anthony Annan

The 26-year-old is a combative centre midfielder

And would add further steal to the midfield giving Villa El Ahmadi,Delph and Annan as the combative midfield

El Hamadi and Annan would be a creat midfield pair with either two strikers or a striker and ireland in front on them

Ireland won't get in.

You wanna bet the money hes on

Steel? He's a 5"7 playmaker.

Annan could be the next Makelele, only playing for us!!

Next makelele? Haha. No he's more like reo-coker only better on the ball

Hes a defensive mid

04 Aug 2012 14:58:01
Anybody think it'd be worth putting in for frimpong from arsenal (loan or perm). Def think we'd be able to get one of either Sturridge, lukaka, guidetti. Would like to see A.Johnson from city, reckon its possible with the amount of midfielders they've got, if not him then one of the others. Or Huddlestone from spurs...I've always rated him and always wanted him at villa. What you guys think?

Deffo love to see sturridge and either frimpong on huddlestone at villa. Not sure bout johnson tbh

Can't stand frimpong the bloke does my head in. Petrov taught him a lesson last year

I reckon if we got adam johnson and scott sinclair we would be challenging for top 6 again. Those 2 players would give us the attacking flair that villa have been missing over the past 2 seasons. UTV.

Arsenal will only loan frimpong out if he's guerenteed to start games an i personally wouldnt pick him ahead of Karim, Ireland or Bannan so i dont see any point in going for him.

Sturridge an A. Johnson would be a great signings an Lukaku an Huddleston would be good signings my only concern with Huddleston is his injury record over the last 2 years an he wouldnt come cheap.

But with spurs on the verge of signing Damiao i reckon we should make a serious move for Defoe! AVB usually plays 1 striker so surely that means Defoe will leave. >scg87

Unless Makoun can't play why on earth would we need another CM

Rated THUD for many years. Did he go from Derby to Spuds? MON tried to get him I am led to believe. Could add to shots on target but not sure about being consructive.

We are crying out for a goal scorer-please randy put your hand in your pocket,and get us one!

We've got a goal scorer what we need is someone to supply him with the ball!

Dave80

Personally dont want defoe, i know hes a goalscorer but think hes just a bit too greedy at times and his age and wages are to the wrong side of what we want. think sturridge would be a much better option. would also like either sinclair or a johnson, both young pacy and skillful and like to take men on. think sinclair would ask for less in wages so could be our new a young as long as we dont sell him when we make him better. last signing i would like is ryan shawcross, might take a couple of ££££ but think hes a superb cb. we could then play clark at lb where i thought he was pretty decent when houllier tryed him there

Last time i heard defoe was going to reading and any rumors of simpson

Defoe might be 29/30 but at £8m he would be a bargain! How many strikers in world football can you get for £8m ish who guarentee 15-20 goals a season?! look at the price's quoted for Fletcher £10m-15m, Rhodes £6m an Hooper £6m, there's no guarentee's with them, Defoe has atleast 2 more seasons at his current level an guarentee's 15-20 goals a season if defoe scores 30 prem goals in the next 2 seasons then that would be money well spent! His age an re-sale value is irelevant!
Defoe would also give us flair an the ability to create chances for himself which would be a great asset when our midfielders are not creating chances. >scg87 {Ed007's Note - I don't know what makes you think Defoe guarantees 15-20 goals a season SCG, he has only scored over 15 goals in five seasons out of the 12 he has been playing and over 20 goals twice out of the five. He is nowhere near as prolific as people make out.}

Hi Ed, im interested to know what you consider to be prolific? The stats ive seen say defoe has scored 150 odd goals in 400 games, thats prolific to me! an keeping in mind for the first 5 years of his career he was playing at struggling clubs or atleast clubs who were fighting relegation at times. Defoes record at spurs in prem 79 goals in 220 games, looks ok to me. Last season he scored 11 goals in 25 prem games an considering he spent most of the season coming off the bench for the last 20mins thats impressive. An correct me if im wrong ed but defoe was also injured for 2 months last season. So you tell us ed, how many strikers could we sign with defoe's record at £8million (reported £8m)?

Another thing id like to point out is, look at the other strikers we've been linked with, Fletcher £12m thats what sunderland have offered, is he worth that? Looking at his record id say no! Rhodes £6m good goal scoring record but not at a high level so would be a gamble! Gouffran, is he even a ST? Not from what ive seen, he would also be a gamble! Defoe i dont see him as a gamble. >scg87 {Ed007's Note - Prolific to me is someone who can score 15+ goals a season, every season. The season before last he scored 4 goals in 22 league matches, the 9th season out of his career he has failed to score 10 goals or more in the league. Overall he has made 298 appearances for Spurs and scored 118 goals, it's a toss up between Defoe and Crouch to see who is the worst striker in or around the England squad.}

Ed, i dont know crouch's record but im pretty sure its no where near defoe's 118 goals in 298 games at spurs almost 1 in 2 by my math, 30 odd goals off. Ed Have you got any ideas as to who would be a better buy than defoe who AV could realistically get? >scg87 {Ed043's Note - i cant see us signing these players but see lambert looking out of the prem such as rhodes or possibly outside england but as for who im not to sure}

Ed, How strikers have scored more goals than defoe? Not many! An the ones who have, with the exception on shearer have scored all there goals at big clubs who are competing for the league with 'great players' creating there goals ie henry,
v. Nistelrooy, rooney, rvp, drogba, torres.
Who could AV get who would be better than defoe?? {Ed043's Note - there are not many if any but i doubt he will come to us because the clubs he plays for all are in the south or in london so i doubt for personal reasons he would want to leave spurs}