Aston Villa Rumours Archive August 01 2012 to August 31 2012

31 Aug 2012 20:38:29
Villa tried to get Gudetti from man city....
Mancini agreed on loan however deal quashed by city owners. :(

Clint dempesy joins tOttenham instead of the villa for less money..??? What is lambert doing??

Our signing are shocking! I can see Bent leaving if we don't start spending some big money on big players !come n lambert buy big league not championship!!please

A team gets about �5m extra per season for every league place they climb.
So we finished 16th last season, Say we finish 10th this coming season - thats �30m in the bank (minus wages etc.)
So next summer, we'll be able to build in better quality.

Wind your necks in fickle villains pl's signed who he wanted and I'm sure all his signing will be good in the end what villa needed is youngster's who wanna play good football and not over paid pre madonna's some of the best teams in EUROPE built teams from lesser known teams and players and turned them into superstar's look how long it took moyes but top 4 this season good football with average players never spent big and look what passion there fan's have and most of ours think were Barcelona Rome wasn't a built in a day so get behind you team up the villa

Get a grip - decent set of signings on a good budget ( more than Liverpool ) that has improved the squad, will force competition for places, is sustainable and gives us a fighting chance of survival

This might be behind getting Bentke, it will give Villa an opportunity to sell Bent in January if he performs well. �18/20m for Bent would more than balance the books and keep the ugly sisters happy. We must learn to think like an accountant to comprehend the financial dealings at VP. Bents wages would also balance out the wages being paid to all of the new signings.

We offered 5mil for dempsey tottenham offered 6 how did they offer less money? also dempsey didn't want to come to villa so it's got nothing to do with lambert!

How can you say the signings are shocking when no one has seen them.play yet?? At least give em a fighting chance

You complain when we sign big players with no sell on value and ruin our wage budget we then do the opposite and you still complain. How about you give the players a chance to fit in and get playing then judge some of the best players come from lower leagues Barry,Bale,Oxlade Chamberlain,Ashley Young,Chris Smalling and leighton baines to name a few. All good footballers start off somewhere we are just getting them before they are standard overpriced british players. Just back the team the players and the manager

Darren Bent was at his best when he played for Charlton surrounded by so called small name players, so don't kid yourself. Posting grumbles are wasting my time reading them, let alone your time trying to be pundits, end up looking more like Muppets.

Faulkner and Lerner aren't letting him you buffoon. Why else is he resorting to lower league players and players from abroad?

Lambert has said Lerner offered him MORE money!
(yes i didn't believe it either lads!)
Bent is STAYING! Villa don't need money , we've more than balanced the books & we're now operating on a loss of around �3.7m per year!
Which is nothing really! Sell Warnock & Hutton & we're operating on a profit - thats how financially well we are doing!.
And we offered �7m for dempsey not �5m ;)

A team gets about �5m extra per season for every league place they climb.
So we finished 16th last season, Say we finish 10th this coming season - thats �30m in the bank (minus wages etc.)
So next summer, we'll be able to build in better quality.
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DO your homework the league pay 800K per place a team finishes on top of the TV rights

We offered 5mil for dempsey tottenham offered 6 how did they offer less money? also dempsey didn't want to come to villa so it's got nothing to do with lambert!
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we offered 5 m up front with 2m in add ons he went to spurs for 5m and liverpool offered 4m

A team gets about �5m extra per season for every league place they climb.
So we finished 16th last season, Say we finish 10th this coming season - thats �30m in the bank (minus wages etc.)
So next summer, we'll be able to build in better quality.
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DO your homework the league pay 800K per place a team finishes on top of the TV rights
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No , you do your homework its �2m per place!

31 Aug 2012 14:21:15
Aston Villa are trying to secure a move for former AC Milan forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. #avfc�

Aston villa are more likely to sign a player from AFC bournemouth than AC Milan under Lambert !!

PL built a good Championship side with them signings

31 Aug 2012 17:15:42
What sort of club are we supporting? Our rivals that we should be matching QPR, Fulham, Sunderland, Southampton and Stoke are all adding "quality" to thier squads. AVFC bid accepted and player says f u I dont want to play for you even though there is not a bid from any other clubs. Worrying isn't it? Players actually saying that they dont like Villa. We can get some "unknowns" but where is the big bang that we all want? Seems like our powder is wet through and we cant even fire blanks. However I am still hoping that a surprise might come our way. Owen is still without a club but so is my old Mom!!

In Lambert we trust.

Even Brighton bought better than us

WAIT AND SEE

Every young player Lambert has brought has been highly rated as break through players for the future

31 Aug 2012 13:22:14
Sorry for the cop and paste but here it is

Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert is doing a good impression of pretending he never wanted Clint Dempsey in the first place. Lambert insists he has faith in hungry and young players from lower divisions to revive the club's fortunes. Lambert said: "It is my decision. Football decisions are mine and I will take responsibility on everything. I know from experience if you don't have the hunger as a footballer, then there is no point in playing the game. With people from the lower leagues, you are giving people opportunities. I have total confidence in them to go and do the business. You trust them to go and do it and they are hungry to do it.

If you buy only Championship players guess were you end up....

Good luck fighting relegation

Deano95

31 Aug 2012 12:34:49
Villa never had any intention of signing Denpsey, just a smoke screen to make it look like we were thinking big! He is destined for Liverpool.. We are looking to survive this season with lower level or inexperienced players who haven't played in the prem. unfortunately I fever for our prem future. Lerner to go please.

As usual. Everyone else is bringing in quality and what are we doing. Nothing. A championship left back and an unproven striker. I hope we make a couple of decent last minute signings but I got a feeling that we will have to make do with the poor squad we have. Everyone strengthening but us again. Are we sure our chairman is a billionaire?

Sort of strange, puddles have not gone in for Dempsey so what is going on. Could be that Villa have put in a bid and are actually waiting to see what other bids go in for him. This means that Fulham will still have a bid on the books. Bit of subterfuge going on, possibly by both teams.

Dempsey IS joining Villa IF Liverpool don't agree a fee with Fulham! (depending on contract talks though).
My sources indicate Villa have concluded a deal for Benteke in total worth �10.6m after a change of heart by Genk.
NUFC without Tiote & Villa with Bent,Benteke & Dempsey - quality!

Up The Villaa!

Gabby,Bent & Benteke , you think we'll struggle with that?
We'll be rocket fire with that!

Even if they do sign for the villa they can't play this weekend as they have to have been signed and registered before 12 noon on friday. any players signed after 12 noon will have to wait for their debut.

Bennett is set to start against newcastle as edna stevens is injured

31 Aug 2012 10:31:18
aston villa and fulham have agreed a 7 million fee for clint dempsey to come to villa park, dempsey will be on his way to vp to have a medical and personal terms

He doesnt wana come. Holding out for Liverpool.

He said no, wants to go liverpool... at least we had a go for him though .. positive

So Dempsey is holding out for Liverpool, the team that still owe us megabucks from the Downing transfer ! Why have they not made a bid ?

Liverpool no money thats why you havent been paid the downing money

30 Aug 2012 20:33:11
Obviously cresswell won't happen now we've got Bennett. Still hoping that deals for Benteke and Brahimi go through, linked with Zigic and zarate (both big target men) but why haven't we gone for klasnic? In my opinion he is better than Zigic at least, if not zarate also. Are we one of the 2 prem clubs reported to be in for benayoun? And how much truth is there in the gouffran deal? Ed what are your thoughts? And do you think downing returning is actually possible or just cods wallop?

Yet another transfer window where I sit glued to the tv will villa surprise us and actually buy someone decent here's hoping

You reckon zarate is "a big target man" ? He is 5 ft 9in ? Check your facts.

Zigic is off to Malaga {Ed001's Note - Mallorca.}

Zarates not a target man he's small and skilful like suarez all show no end product

Zarate isn't a big target man he is more of a second striker kind of player

Why is it soo many people have posted the same post about zarate? I think after the first post from someone actually knowing his size is a sufficient reply to the post. Stop hating over the Internet. Btw, zarate would be a decent signing, good creativity, but don't think he would work well with bent.

Ok ok, my apologies. But it only takes one person to make a point. I swear some of you guys only post on here to ridicule others!

30 Aug 2012 15:28:11
Villa will sign Benteke before the transfer dead line

I really hope so, it will give us a new dimension, he can go past players, has power, height, can score, hold up play for our wingers, has good feet too.

Can you imagine us at set pieces ...awesome options, hard to defend against, let hope PL knows this may be his most effective purchase

If he doesnt get the move, he will take legal action as Genk want 15 million for him1

30 Aug 2012 12:38:26
QPR, Fulham, Swansea etc all doing business.
We got 36 hours left to get sorted!

30 Aug 2012 09:05:10
I know QPR have more money, but surely we can afford Granero? We are showing little ambition

Think of te ridiculous wages he'll demand. The last thing villa needs is more mercenaries.

Don't be jealous of clubs like Q.P.R or Sunderland, let them spend big envoy a little bit of time in the top half then fall into financial trouble like we have

30 Aug 2012 08:15:19
Have been offered Babel for £2million apparently

Wasn't given a chance at Liverpool to be honest, but his attitude may be a problem.

Hoffenheim have cancelled his contract so he is now a free agent

29 Aug 2012 23:26:06
The Mirror reckons we're going for Mauro Zarate, dunno if I trust that rag though?

Saw this too, I think it would be nice if it happened

So we buy a lad from Middlesborough, a lad from Chesterfield and Zarate? I think not! We are going to buy unknown players and Lambert is going to hope they do well..... In Lambert We Trust-ish...

What the hell is going on at villa signing average players with no premier league experience. Surely the manger must no after the first to games that were simply not good enough

Doubt it never impressed at brum on loan and never set the san siro a light with inter last season

Oh dear obviously not true villa fans think of the amount of people we have bought who have been amazing for us eg ashley young from watford.

29 Aug 2012 21:33:09
Joe Bennett to sign for Aston Villa in £2.5m four-year deal

29 Aug 2012 21:12:52
Villa cant buy players because they all want ridiculous wages. Reo c. wont come back because he would not be prepared to play for less than half he was being paid when at VP previously. Lerner wants performance related pay and he will force this through if he remains the owner, which must be questionable.

Wouldn't want reo coker back anyway he was over paid here and at bolton thus released by both clubs cause he ent worth the money he wants

Sounds reasonable to load contracts with incentives. The debacle of the last few years where players were prepared to sit on the bench and steal a living.

Randy Lerner is trying to re-build an ethos - that is not reliant on the whims of whinging, Football Manager geeks who only want a quick fix experienced hacks. If the club went for over-priced players we could have Roque Sante Cruz, Shaun Wright-Phillips, Danny rubbishu and Wayne Bridge.

In Lerner and Lambert I trust! {Ed001's Note - so long as it is win bonuses, goal scoring bonuses can make a player selfish and take shots when there is an easy pass on to an open team mate.}

The owner is a serious cheapskate... splash the money and help the team grow. His american football team were the worst team and he is doing that to villa also

Performance related earnings would not simply be win bonus. League position, crowd, team goals scored , many things would have to be incorparated. Guarding against relegation, honouring contracts etc. The players can only be paid by what goes through the turnstiles. Smaa crowd small payday. Someone must be able to work out a system of pay for performance.

29 Aug 2012 17:57:32
Aston villa have failed in there bid for benteke and gent have tld villa not to tryagain with any offer as they will turn it down

Joe bennett is on his way down from middlesborough as a fee was agreed so he will travel to villa park to have talks with pl

Charlton have turned down villas offer to even talk to dale stephens

Welcome to the villa Joe bennett! Posted on here yesterday that we needed 3 players in 3 days, now its 2 players in 2days! Utv

Whos the other player we have signed ??

29 Aug 2012 12:55:31
Not a rumour but why dont we re-sign Reo Coker. He was superb before his fallout with MON. He is what we need and would be a great addidtion to the squad.

Sliverfox

Great shout, bring back Rico :)

There is a reason that Hokey Cokey is without a club. I think it's something to do with him not being very good at football
Mendax

Hes not good enough

The season before he fell out with the clown MON he won the most tackles in the prem that season. That is exactly one of the players we need

Rio coker is great off the ball but TERRIBLE on it. he cant pass the ball. dont want him

Reo coker would be a great re signin. Left bolton as had a relegation clause in his cotract and left us cause we couldnt afford him so nothing to do with not bein any good. Would be the steel we need but cant see it happenin sadly

29 Aug 2012 12:03:11
villa should sign goufran for 1.5, benteke 6, benett 2, mcugan 3million by the end of the transfer deadline

29 Aug 2012 11:02:28
New bid for Benteke, and a bid for Bennet. N'Zonzi interest back agian

29 Aug 2012 00:09:09
Bid made for Middlesbrough left-back Joe Bennett.

Bennett does'nt want to come, whats that telling us

28 Aug 2012 21:12:48
Scout from villa at road so a lot of people are saying looking at Sam byramElland

28 Aug 2012 15:28:24
I've read from a couple of different places that Villa's bid for Benteke has been rejected. Shame.

Second offer on table now, no yes or no yet

Benteke supposedly gone on strike. I think brahimi will sign last minute loan deal providing no other team approaches with view to buy.

28 Aug 2012 14:45:14
Villa are set to sign Christian Benteke & Yoan Gouffran.
Charlie Adam is also linked in a deal worth £5m.

I really think with these players and a decent left back & centre back. We'll be a force from now on!

28 Aug 2012 11:59:48
Yoan Gouffran will be coming into birminghman airport in the next couplr of days to finallise a 2 year contract at villa park

Sorry but this is a rubbish rumour......coming to the airport in the next couple of days? not very precise information really.

Is the supposed signing to be made as well as the signing of Benteke?

If you are going to drop a rumor here, how about even a spot of evidence...

No he won't

Aparently hes's allergic 2 grass. Any1 else heard
This

Why do you need evidence for a rumour?!

28 Aug 2012 07:48:28
Villa are signing Christian Benteke.

27 Aug 2012 21:32:54
Villa apparently to make a bid of 4m for a striker based in europe, early rumours inc... Stefan Kie�ling and Jozy Altidore.

Christian Benteke actually mate
Very good signing if you ask me

27 Aug 2012 13:55:47
Rumour has it after yet another wonder goal on Friday from Lewis mcgugan we have bid 3million but as forest don't need the money will not even consider unless a bid was more in the 5 million region. Newcastle everton Southampton reading and fulham all interested but I think forest will not budge as they eye a promotion push this year.

Have also Been told this 3 mill but forest want silly money

Do you no what after all is said and done I think rl should sell the club to someone who is willing to invest in what is a big club it's about time we had some serious money to do some damage in the prem.

If it's so easy to find a billionaire to spend (waste) his own money on a football club then you should go find one! We should be very carefull about wanting a new owner, we only have to look at Portsmouth an Liverpool to see it can go so wrong! Even the galzers at united have put the club in danger, if united fail to get CL in only 1 season then they'll be in deep sh*t, which could easily happen to AV if we start thinking there better owners out here

I agree with you about clubs in trouble because chairman ruined clubs. But i paid well earnt money on Saturday to watch the reserves who just aint good enough

27 Aug 2012 11:22:57
I think that we desperately need to buy two highly rated attacking midfielders within the next week.

People are crying out for Owen, Carroll, Defoe etc etc, but what the use if you cant get them the ball??!!

Must find our own Cabaye/Arteta type and have them pulling the strings in the midfield.

This will (hopefully) allow NZogbia to start running at guys on the flank and perhaps Curruthers needs to be blooded as im more than confident he is up for the challenge.

Bannan/Delph/Delfouneso should all be transfer listed as none of them are up to scratch. Ofcourse i am also including Hutton/Warnock/Dunne in this......they need to go.

With the funds raised from these sales im sure we could buy in two quality attacking options that have diverse passing games and are not afraid to take a pop at goal from distance.

This will only enhance Albrighton/NZogbia/Ireland/Bent and what they bring to the table.

Midfield is gutless apart from El Ahmadi at present.

What are you talking about getting rid of delph bannan and delfonso there some of are best talents

I feel we need a gutsy, ball winning midfielder to allow el ahmadi to move up. Against Everton he showed a lot of technique but not that decisive playmaker we need, hopefully Ireland will step up to the plate to provide there.
But what we need is that anchor man, someone like obi mikel.

Nzogbia and ireland should go too

We have no money but because we are desparate we will throw the little good money after really bad players in a panic measure that will only manifest it's true consequences when we are relegated in April. Not May, as we will be down by Easter.

We are real desperate ince sounds good need to break bank on 2 quality players though maybe give fulham what they want for dempsey looks like certain players dont care feel sorry for lambert he is quality manager

Delph is complete joke we nee a c.adam with an ince defoe up front would be great if we dont spend simple were going down only lambert can save us paying price for appointing mcleish we begged the club not too now look what were left with a squad that dosen't care

Bannan and Delfouneso were major liabilities on the weekend. Bannan tends to look to thread the needle with 50 meter passes and seems incapable of making the easy ones.

Tell me where Delph and Bannan fit in to the midfield? Neither should make the starting 11 over Ireland, Albrighton and Gardner when fit and Curruthers......We already have the next batch of talented youngsters waiting.

We over hype our youngsters when we should sell a few off here and there keeping only the difference makers. I consider Gardner, Wiemann, Curruthers, Grealish, Burke and Daniel Johnson as difference makers.....perhaps Baker and Clark, but seriously the rest should be sold for quality

To the person who says Delph, Bannan and Del boy are best talents.... The only one i would keep would be Delph as he like to get stuck in and can pass a ball with a little bit of intelligence. Bannan is far too light weight and didnt use the ball well in saturday. but you would know that right as you were at the game? and as for Del boy well he is no where near premier league standard let alone quality! again if you were there saturday you would know this!!

Delph and Bannan maybe ........ Delfonso a TALENT ? wake up and smell the coffee ! No bottle,no positional sense,takes to long to get a shot in .

Bannan did give the ball away quite a few times against everton but that's only because he was looking to make the killer pass unlike some who weren't looking to create anythin, an as far as him being light weight, I thought he was 1 of few players who actually tried breaking up the attacks, closing down an making interceptions an should not have been taken off. Ohh an the best players in the world are 'light weight' so your way of thinking is in the past!

27 Aug 2012 09:09:07
VILLA NEED...

Carrol upfront, Brahimi or Phillips on the left, Height n Pwer in the middle, Huddlestone as a temp fix may do

27 Aug 2012 00:17:03
to be honest we actualy dont have a bad squad we just need to work in some places of the team.

To start of we need a lb preferably olson or the danish lad poulsen.if we can't get them i'd like to see enda stevens be given a chance. Im from ireland and I liked to watch shamerock rovers play and was very impressed with how he played.

We badly need a decent winger as albrighton has little expierience and n'zogbia hasn't been good enough.i've,heard a few rumours of downing coming back which even after the way he us I would still be happy.Would also like j.cole or malouda.

And finally the posistion of striker.In my opinion we need a big strong forward with good feet and to be able link up with bent.I'd love to see someone like drogba.

I agree with getting olsson, and i've also heard the downing rumour. Liverpool willing to sell, but want 12m. We're only willing to pay 8. Cole and Malouda, what would their wages be?

Poulson signed for sampdoria a couple days ago an drogba signed for a club in china a month back on a contract worth �8million a year so there not happening!

An malouda? Didn't he go back to France?

26 Aug 2012 22:09:54
Looks like Owen coming to the Villa

26 Aug 2012 20:58:09
Downing is back!! Lunch time tomorrow downing,Carroll deals announced

Biggest laugh yet

I'll hold you to that!
Both came on as subs agaisnt city.

Would you want downing back, bought him from relegated borough, with one leg, got him fit, back into the England squad and leaves for more money, no thanks, what's happening with joe cole? Season long loan would be good, he did very well at Lille

Would be better than what we got, thats �55 million worth;)

Thats what money bags Pool paid. Combined value in the real world �20m poss less this season.

F**K**G JUDAS ....... NO THANKS !

People really need to get over the fact downing left villa! He didn't leave for more money, hr left because he saw the future, he saw that we were going backwards an selling our best players, an let's not forget, he was brilliant for us an we more than made a good profit on him, so as far as I'm concerned there shouldn't be any hard feeling towards him

Liverpool going forward ? ........ I think not my friend !

26 Aug 2012 17:31:08
I have a weird feeling that this result was the right one for AVFC in many ways... The Perfromance-1-3/The Exposure in Midfield - Fellani/The Attack or Creativeness- where I must of missed Bent moving an Inch/The Defence-Why is is the imobile figure of Given still our 1st choice keeper, his name along side buddies such a Dunne should be Mr Static.

Now before you critics begin, this is just my opinion which is one most villans share.

Bayen paid £13mill for Marco Reus this the the game changing type player that we should have gone (check him out doubters, it's little money for such quality considering what English talent cost), however in his absence amoungst many other young or proven talent out there an option SOFIANE FEGHOULI available and not really much of a compromise, we also have BRAHIMI available at around £2.5-3 Mill, CRESSWELL at £3Mill, M>PHILLIPS at £6Mill.

Whatever purchases are made it is now a MUST that the quality and levels of these individuals must be above average and show intent to our rivals that we aim to compete and are not such "easy lays" easy to boss around on a pitch, The countdown is now, the verdict Adjourned until completion of the the window this friday.

We Need at least 4 players a midfielder with Power/Presence Height and Creative Quality, A Forward that go past and beyond players, Winger that can deliver and a defender that can Defend and Support, this is NOT a wish list we NEED this as a min for us to compete

For one lambert is working in it and I bet he will sign an game changer and secondly reus plays for boriissa Dortmund

Your valuation of players is way off!

Yes my bad should be B.Dortmund, and my valuation is just an estimate but pretty close.
If your'e referring to Philips at �6 Mill i'd say thats about what his worth, his still in the championship and that's the value of Sinclair's move to a bigger club,

The reason brahimi is not already at villa is cus PL won't pay �5m for him

Why do you think Reus would come to us?lol. He's 1 of the most talanted players in Europe! An if Kagawa cost �12m then reus will end up costing �20m

I said players like Reus, Dortmund as i was so elegantly corrected bought him this summer for about �13Mill we paid �24Mill for Bent(do the sums) all I was saying is that would should widen the net as there is much better quality outthere for less.

26 Aug 2012 14:25:00
Following a lacklustre display against everton, chairman randy Lerner has offered manager paul Lambert funds to go and buy players aswell as offloading some also.
Ins:
Lewis mcugan forest - 5million
Kenweyne Jones - 2.5m with Allan Hutton going the other way.
Bhrami rennes- season long loan with a view to a permanent deal
Douglas 5million

Outs
Warnock 1million to Sunderland, Bolton or forest
Hutton player ex stoke
Chris herd (loan) wolves

26 Aug 2012 13:57:14
Following a lacklustre display against everton, chairman randy Lerner has offered manager paul Lambert funds to go and buy players aswell as offloading some also.
Ins:
Lewis mcugan forest - 5million
Kenweyne Jones - 2.5m with Allan Hutton going the other way.
Bhrami rennes- season long loan with a view to a permanent deal
Douglas 5million

Outs
Warnock 1million to Sunderland, Bolton or forest
Hutton player ex stoke
Chris herd (loan) wolves

Is that douglas costa from Shakter?? Because he is linked with big spanish sides...

Douglas from fc Twente

26 Aug 2012 10:29:18
Paul Lambert to hold crunch talks about Villa's transfer policy and intentions/ambitions, as PL wants 3/4 more players> Probably a LB, Striker, Winger, and CM to replace injured Gardner. Could see Olsson, brahimi and Huddlestone. Not sure about the striker though.

We don't have a transfer policy as we don't sign anybody

If we want Huddlestone, we'll have to move fast as Stoke want to re-negotiate with Spurs and TH

25 Aug 2012 22:29:17
Well, what can I say... The reality pill has just hit the zone after today's debacle.

4 days to show intention, but feel deep down its not going to happen.

Catalyst needed badly to get us competing again, yes it's early days but the signs are not great. Getting stick all evening from Baggies fans just tells you exactly where we are.

Robbie Savage could actually be right..

Our youngsters are not yet ready, we do not pose a threat in any way and the only way we are staying up like last year is that there are 3 worse teams than us.

Baker is good though Guzan should be in goal!

Problem is that with this start who will want to come to VP now, unless someone wants to be the big fish ...but something needs to be done. We will know this week what the intentions are and what the level of ambition is. Experience needed, someone to help the young ones settle, develop and gain confidence.

25 Aug 2012 19:03:39
Spuds dont want Van der Vaart but Villa could do with him. Intelligent, imaginative, quick and shoots for goal. Everything that our current crop of spuds dont give us.

Are you seriously suggesting we sign
V.D Vaart? Lol. We couldn't afford to buy Johnson who's alot younger with re sale value, so what makes you think we will want to sign vd vaart or have any chance of signing him if PL actually attempted to
>scg87

VdV wants away from Spuds as he sees his chances as nil with Av-B, and to play might be a good idea. Yes, I think that he just might go for it.

25 Aug 2012 16:15:24
this is going to be a very long , poor and dissapointing season unless mr learner either decides he is actually going to back to team by putting his hand in his pocket! or he sells us on as if neither of these things happen i fear we will be playing championship football next season!!

a very worried avfc fan!

25 Aug 2012 12:33:19
We ll I know it goes against all off pl transfer policies but I would love to get Kevin Davies on a 2 year contract ,he is the best target man to play in the prem over the last 5 seasons,holds the ball up ,never loses it ,wins nearly every header and actually scores quite a few goals plus he wouldn't mind being used of the bench as was holt last year at his age.
We could get him for around 1mil tops and would give us a totally different outlet up front

Davies is terrible! hes a dirty players aswell, no good for villa we need someone who can create not hold the ball up and chuck in an elbow every now and then

You dont get anywhere without at least one rugged (dirty) b**ta*d in your team .Take a look at the so called big teams ....... Man C De yong & Kompany, Man U Scholes,Vidic & Rooney .Chelsea ..Terry & Luiz check out L'pool ,Arsenal & Spurs for yourself ........ get the picture ?

24 Aug 2012 19:13:04
everyone keeps point the finger at the board but the problem is with mons signings warnock dunne and mecleish,s madness hutton! we cant get rid of them and not until they go we not going to get anyone,if we can get rid of them i can see maybe 3 or even 4 more signings! if it does not materialise and we are in trouble come january then money will be spent to get what we want now! we are not in a position where we can have our cake and eat it but after those have gone and free up funds we shall be a force again!

i for 1 am behind the whole project !!!!!!

Love the positivity!:D

It's ridiculous that our clubs transfer policy has come to a complete standstill because of Warnock, Dunne and Hutton. Warnock and Dunne are in the last year of their contracts, Hutton was 2 million pounds. Just give them away or cancel their contracts and move on.

What is the cost of losing Premier League status - 90 million?

With AVFC failing to make a move for Johnson, maybe it's time we admit to ourselves we simply can't compete with most prem clubs when it comes to finances!

If we can't sign a quality player like Johnson for �10m then where does it leave us? Will we continue to sign championship or league 1 players who may do a job for us but are not good enough to move us forward!?
What players can we afford? Phillips?
T Ince? Olsson? Rhodes? Zaha? Even they will cost �5m-�6m ish an keeping in mind only 1 of them have played prem footy they would be a gamble, does not look good for our season! I'm not looking forward to the everton game, that's for sure!
>scg87 {Ed005's Note - Yous spent money under Martin O'Neill though and brought in some good players who played well for you like Downing, Young, Milner etc.! Have Lerner's finances dried up?}

Hate to be so negative but not signing Johnson or not even showing interest is soul destroying especially when it's Sunderland who have signed him!

I'm worried that if we can't afford 10m to sign a class player like Johnson then what kind of players will we be signing? Hoolahan? Lol
�10m? Will be the second best bargain of the season behind Michu!

I would say 10% of MON did well the rest were awful or not given a real chance ie Reo Coker, Cuellar who for some reason insisted on playing them out of position. Cant wait to see Fletcher play right back for Sunderland

Huddlestone would be class signing and as for striker bent is world class we aint gettin any better its the service albrighton is a shower and so is gardener give samir a run now

Pull you heads in! From the outside it looks as if Villa have been working over the last 12-months to establish a workable wage structure (forget transfer fees for the moment). Johnson is a good player - but he carries the baggage of a MCFC wage packet. which over 4-years will have the potential to kill Sunderland's financial fair play ambitions.

We are always going to struggle to attract someone from obscene (non-viable) salaries to Villa Park.

If that keeps us out of the market for over-paid squad players - then we will have to develop alternative strategies to attract players in our price range.

If you want to pay over the odds - become a Leeds or Pompey fan, or hope that the sugar-daddies do not get bored.

Well we need to attract someone decent because as I write this we are three nil down to the toffees and being given a football lesson and getting battered. The squad and players we have just can't cut it

24 Aug 2012 17:25:56
Brillant another injury, now gary gardner is out for 9 months. so more important now than ever to get more bodies in or savage is going to be proved right.

24 Aug 2012 14:33:12
Q] Any truth in the Kenwyne Jones and Jermaine Defoe rumours?

A] I can say that's not going to happen. I have seen the rumours linking us with some players but a lot of them aren't going to happen.

From Lambert Press Conference

23 Aug 2012 22:14:57
Have it on good authority that two players are coming in - Joe Bennett (Boro), left back and Christian Benteke (Genk), centre forward.

2 world class players there

You think bennet an benteke are world class?? Lmfao!! Or is that sarcasm. If you think there world class, how would you describe messi an ronaldo? Haha

Young and improving.

Just a guess here but I think it was sarcasm pal. Give your head a wobble

Well apparently if you scroll down Benteke has signed for a Turkish team so doubt it's true

No actually benteke hasn't signed for any1! He's still at genk

GIve hid head a 'wobble'? lol. I think that's why he asked if it was sarcasm. Haha

Really??
Is that why Benteke played for Genk last night???

I would be suprised if they say no player what was target was available and we sign nobody, If we dont we are inserious relegation contenders ihate to say this.

Either way. Messi and ronaldo are beyond world class! Effectively anybody playing for a half decent international team are classed as 'world class' messi and ronaldo are untouchable, they are the best in the world.

23 Aug 2012 16:26:21
Villa look set to match a £5m bid from olympiakos for chelsea reject yossi benayoun after failing to land bhrami from rennes.

�5m for benayoun? Lmao. How old is he? 31yo? Yet PL isnt prepared to pay the same for brahimi? Dont see him wasting �5m on a 31yo

What a signing that would be always rated yossi and pl could get best out of him top shout

What a signing that would be? thats a joke, right? �5m would be awful business. doesnt fit in with PL's transfer policy either

What is PL's transfer policy then?

Not signing 31year olds who are past their best for �5m thats his transfer policy. Lol

23 Aug 2012 11:13:19
Is it true miroslav klose wants to come to the prem? If so i dont think he would go to one of the top 5 clubs as he surely wants to be playing regular football, Ideal strike partner for Bent I say

He would not add anything different we need strikers that can go past players two footed and can score. Konate

Well its all very well and good saying konate when hes just signed for someone else! what about wagner love?

Klose is to similar to bent! Both pure goal scorers, not to mention he's 35 ish. We need a forward who has more flai on the ball who's capable of linking the mid with the front line, klose is not that type of player. >scg87

Konate who has recently signed a new 3 year deal with a Russian club?

Where is vagner love now? In brazil or is he still in russia? was brillian 3-4 years back when he scored loads of goals in russia but havnt seen him play in a couple years. Anyway, where ever he is he's likely on over �100k a week out of or league

23 Aug 2012 11:14:14
Richard Dunne and possibly Alan Hutton are on their way out of Villa park going to Stoke.

Stephen Warnock looking to go to Blackburn Rovers with us getting Martin Olsson in return

PL has already gone on record saying how important the irish boys (given & dunne) are to us.

23 Aug 2012 10:28:36
Moussa Konate moving to villa park, already shown the ground £5mill, for the new S.Eto "Bargain"...Remmber Ba/Cisse effect

He's joined Krasnodar mate.

Konate just signed for FC Krasnador in Russia

23 Aug 2012 06:29:32
Dunne and Hutton to stoke on aug 31
Shawcross to villa
and warnock to blacburn and Ollson to villa

PL has already said dunnes staying.

22 Aug 2012 22:08:34
Hey ed any idea who the mystery play was at thextraining groundxtoday? {Ed003's Note - Ixdon'txsorry}

Does any one think it could be jones or defoe

Love you too ed x !

It looked like Berbatov, he is looking for first team football.

I've got a mate apparently in the know and berbatovs on his way so might have been him

I think the fans would know who Jones or Defoe was

Berbatov himself came out and said that he won't go anywhere unless the team plays in the champions league! He might want 1st team, but also wants champs league and until that team comes in for him he's obviously happy earning a fat wage on the bench

22 Aug 2012 11:54:11
Aston Villa striker Darren Bent says he is ready for increased competition up front after reports have linked the club with moves for Jermain Defoe and Kenwyne Jones.

Villa are planning a swap bid for Blackburn Rovers full-back Martin Olsson

22 Aug 2012 01:22:46
Villa are apparently tracking Milan midfielder Rodney Strasser, the 22 year-old Sierra Leone international is keen to move on having not broke into the starting 11, Paul Lambert is also looking to push through a deal for Ipswich town's Aaron Cresswell.

Is it true there was a unknown player at bodymoor heath this morning and the security tried to rush him into the training ground

21 Aug 2012 22:02:18
I'm sick of fickle villa fan's the players we need more than anything Adam and jarvis Adam to support El ahmadi who looks a player and jarvis to give us some width we could also do with new cb and striker in Lambert i Trust tho its not gonna be a quick fix but we will have a go tho

Adam would spend more time serving suspensions than time on the pitch ....... wouldn't touch him with a bargepole . Besides that he lacks pace !

21 Aug 2012 20:19:28
Balde & Brahimi press conference TBC, will include confirmation of departures, leaked but not confirmed, also told new head scout has a Special Talent lined up and will cost no more than £3mil, reminds me of Laudrups bargain

Who is balde ? not bobo ex celtic

Ibrahima balde a ST who signed for a russian club a few weeks back so any talk of him joining villa is nonsense! An Michu was hardly an unknown, he did score 15 goals in a poor team in La Liga (R Vallacano) so every prem manager would have seen or knew who he was but my guess is, Swansea were quick to make a move for him

21 Aug 2012 13:19:07
Just saw a rumour that avb has told tom huddlestone and michael dawson they can leave spurs, they would be great signings for villa!

Huddlestone is rubbish and Dawson isnt any better than Dunne. Why are people insisting on taking other teams scraps?

Defoe, Jones and now these two. We are supposed to be competeing with teams like Spurs......how did the last Spurs reject go by the way, Hutton?

Cmon, lets get realistic. We are not going to spend more money on average overpriced english dross when we have just hired a new scout who is well networked in Germany.

If you had a couple of German names for us i would be more inclined to agree

Totally agree but for this to happen I reckon we would have to offload dunne, warnock, hutton and makoun.

Dunne would have to make way for Dawson and Huddlestone can be a creative presence and is available on loan.

Bent is hoping that Jones and Defoe join villa
50/50 i think.

Dawsons going to qpr. and we aren't the same team as 4/5 years ago and we aren't competing with the likes of spurs this season. we need signings like this to help us move on

The fact that you think huddleston Is 'rubbish' an you think dawson is no better than dunne tells me you know very little about football! Lol. Now if you had said somethin along the lines of, why would we be interested in buying 2 players who are injury prone then maybe people might take you more seriously.

So we sign average players with little potential? In my view we should look at off loading Bannan, Delfouneso and Delph as well as Warnock and Dunne.

With our midfield those guys have no shot. Lets make profit and sign a few more quality signings....Guidetti, Toivonen and Brahimi.

Defoe and Jones are not that answers......neither is Huddlestone

Thank god you guys are not signing checks at Villa. Huddlestone and Dawson.......do me a favour.

Each will cost over 6mil and both are not difference makers. Hutton was 4mil ffs.

To state that someone knows nothing about football becauwe they prefer not to take overpriced rejects rather than trust the new scout is indeed hypocracy at its finest.

Next you will be calling for Michael Owen and Joe Cole. Wow, just wow really.

At the end of the day there is not a hope in hell that we end up with either of these Spurs rejects (thank the lord) so really, getting your panties in a twist about nothing.

Get real guys! Huddlestone and Dawson wouldn't be the worst, and they are players within our reach! I think you're forgetting that we narrowly avoided relegation last season and 2 experienced players like them would do wonders for our youngsters too

1year ago dawson was a regular in the england squad an if not for injuries last season he would have went to the euro's an huddleston is a very good football who'd only negative is injuries so any1 who says there not good enough for villa clearly knows nothin about football! I find it amusing people would rather spend big money on unproven players ie brahimi, guidetti an toivonen from foriegn leagues than buy proven quality, the only thing that would stop me from buying dawson an huddleston would be their injury records of late

'Wow, just wow'..... Lmao. So who would you suggest we buy then? Im guessing your not a big fan of cole or owen. Who are better than dawson an huddleston who we can afford??

21 Aug 2012 10:56:24
This isn't a rumour but by any chance would anyone like us to sign arshavin.i think paul lambert could get him playing at his best,but I thought he'd go to villa because of where we placed last year and he has really high wages.

His wages are astronimcal and he gives nothing to a team like arsenal, y would we want him.

Arsenal want �10m for a 31 year old!

21 Aug 2012 07:36:55
Yes Bent needs supply from the wings, but the wingers need to receive the ball in a position where they can deliver the cross and that didn't happen on Saturday, we had a lone striker, it's not easy for the lone striker to find space for a winger to be able to pick out the perfect cross, ideally a winger needs 2 strikers to aim for. So do we have problems on the wings - too early to tell. Our main problem is we only have bent up front, again it's not ideal fora winger, bents not a target man so the long ball over the top wasn't an option, the only way we could play effectively was along the floor through the centre, and Ireland failed. Albrighton and N'Zogbia will need to step up, but they need 2 targets to aim for in the box, and bent needs a strike partner. Priority has to be a front man!

Kenwyne Jones he was Bents partner at sunderland and they worked very well together. I think bents performances at sunderland lacked something when jones was sold.

20 Aug 2012 23:21:26
Anyone know how much caroll would want? I dont think hes on that much he was on peanuts at newcastle so i doubt hes any higher than 45-50k yeah thats high for villa but come on we paid heskey 60k to hold the ball up and fall over atleast theres goals in caroll and hes an england international personally i think he and bent would be killer. you got the big guy and the goal snatcher . Trouble is they both would need better service so i think jarvis or sinclair young hungry and skillful.

Naturalvillan

Newspapers think carroll is on �60k s week plus he got a big signing on fee, i dont think his wages would be a problem but that transfer fee is not possible, we cant afford to spend �20m on 1 player, so i can only see a loan deal happening an even that seems unlikly. >scg87

He turned us down.

Im near sure hes on 70 or 80k

Caroll would be better than defoe anyway..he has the ability to hold the ball up and link the midfield to attack. cant see defoe doing that

I thought Liverpool owe us money from the Downing deal?, i did hear �8 million !, if thats the case then offer a further �6 million for Carrol, bish bash bosh everyones a winner.

Everyones a winner? Well liverpool want �20m not �14m so they wouldnt see it that way

19 Aug 2012 15:52:35
I don't understand why we'r being linked with Defoe he is the same player bent is, it would never work. However a striker we should be looking at is zaha from palace. Another player we could try for wouldbe ince from Blackpool, either way these players are going to cost around 9m and it'l be upto randy to cough up but its an investment either way.

definitely need a left back and poulsen fits the bill, as does naughton from spurs.

Naughton signed a contract extention at spurs yesterday

Bent needs wingers and scores from crosses, Defoe scores by playing on the shoulder of the last man i would not call them the same and think they would be superb together

Tom ince is the player we need real quality

Hutton and warnock need to go before anyone else comes in and no 1 wants them leaving us stuck.

Zaha and Ince are wingers not strikers

Defoe won't be sold anyway, he's the only good striker at tottenham at the minute

Tom ince is a championship player,thats why liverpool sold him!

Defoe an Bent are complete opposites, Bent needs service to score goals, he's a goal poacher, a box striker. Defoe's ability with the ball at his feet alows him to create chances for himself. Perfect example is the goal that Defoe scored against italy, Ask yourself whether Bent would have scored that goal? Answer>Never! I think our chances of getting Defoe depend on whether or not spurs sign a top striker >scg87

Defoe and bent both play off the last man! Sure occasionally any striker will drop out to link up the play but these two would not work well together ask any spurs fan. A striker villa should look at would be in the shape of zaha as he can drop onto the wings a piece it together for the villa. I think you guys need need another cb also. But was really impressed with that moroccan midfielder on Saturday.

Defoe is not going to be sold - he is the only striker Spurs have. They would never sell him it would be madness.

Actually tom ince rejected a contract from liverpool thats why they let him go!

Really gets on my nerves when people point to their time together at spurs to point out defoe an bent didnt play good together, you'll find they only played a handfull of games together because spurs had berbatov an keane at the same time so stop saying 'ask spurs fans how well they played together' lol. Bull!

Zaha has the same potential gabby had. Both played on the wings at the start of their career and gabby moved to strike. Im sure Zaha could potentially do the same in time.

Zaha is technically better than gabby, he beats players with skill not just his pace so yeah can see zaha playing down the middle in the future in a similar way to how young played for us in his last season at AV

18 Aug 2012 17:33:43
im worried, a very poor performance.
Gardner was awful when he came on, we looked flat and weak.
We look set to struggle if today is anything to go by...

With Eck out and a new manager we are all pleased to have my most concrete prediction for the season, Fans to become vocally discontent - anger will be aimed at Lerner and Faulkner.

I think we have to all understand that we cant expect the team to change over the preseason and win most of the games like we were 3-4 years ago. It is a slow process and PL has said this as we have a young team; just look at our defense, Vlaar was the only older player in defense today with the likes of clarke and lowton. We should aim to play our football in the right way, we will stay up and lets work towardsw the future for next season.

You only mention Gardner who will be our best player one day soon!,the likes of Ireland,nzog,mature players were poor and need to be sold ,delpth too light weight,I like a passing game but we need a cutting edge to go with this way of playing

I am still waiting for a good performance from Delph. El Ahmadi looked decent but generally everyone was below par. The reason I mentioned Gardner is because he is being hailed as the great hope... unfair of me maybe but he gave the ball away 4 consecutive times at one point.

Yes unfair he needs time unlike Ireland and N'Zogbia who are both over rated and older and had enough chances,i agree about Delph

What you narrow minded people forget is that Delph has had a full season is 4-5 years. Give him ten games then you will see the real Delph. Unless he gets injured again :/

Delph injury nowhere near as Gardners !who i beleive needs 10 games and you will see the real Gardner

The real delph was left at leeds championship player at best MON wasted money

18 Aug 2012 09:42:38
Konate & Brahami to sign for Villa on by next Sunday Guaranteed.

An offer to purchase Guidetti is still hangning in the balance, whilst Sturridge has says he need CL football

If it is guaranteed, then surely someone has spilled the beans....where is this coming from?

We need it to be honest. We totally lacked any cutting edge against the hammers. We totally bossed the midfield for half hours but couldn't put the ball in the net. Bent was useless and seemed to be blaming everyone else instead of trying to make runs or get into space to receive the ball. Need another striker as we can't wait for Gabby to get fit and hope that he doesn't carry over his form from last season.

17 Aug 2012 19:01:46
Warnock isnt even that bad, excluding last 2 seasons, he has been consistently soliid. Wouldnt mind him staying, he didnt play when houlliier was manager, and everyone played terribley under the clown

After this comment only thing i got to say is i wud love it if we won the leuge love it lol !

Two seasons is a long time to be ahit though

How can you exclude two seasons, that's a massive time period. He's not goo enough. Get him gone

Last season every defender did poorly, and unde Houllier he was frozen out because he lived in Liverpool, and Houllier wanted him to live in Bham

17 Aug 2012 14:52:16
Jermain Defoe and kenwyne jones to be brought by the end of the transfer window with Hutton and makoun leaving on permanent deals

One of possibly, not both!

16 Aug 2012 22:26:24
Stefan Kie�ling...watch this space

Could happen now that we have a scout who is german but still won't get my hopes up

Would love to know how you came up with that one......something to do with the new scout no doubt, but how about a shred of evidence?

16 Aug 2012 17:39:31
Villa being linked with Defoe again

If Andy Carroll comes to villa we will end up playing 'hoofball' and i cant go through another season of that, new manager or not. What about loaning berbatov ?

16 Aug 2012 13:22:29
Jean makoun set for rennes switch on a season long loan with brahimi coming to villa on season loan with a view to permanant. hutton to stoke for around 2 mil and warnock also likely to leave with sunderland and blackburn interested. kyle naughton could come in for around 4 mil with lowton to be used more as a utility man across the back 4. Stevens will be given the opportunity to be left back until january. Apparently lambert is also interested in defoe, dempsey and kevin kurranyi.

If we don't sign a Left Back, I think Lambert will play Delph there

Stephens is given until January to prove, but i feel he will play Lichaj there with Lowton RB.

Doubt Defoe will be going anywhere he is the only recognised striker at Spurs. Maybe if they sign someone it may be different

15 Aug 2012 19:17:11
with makoun on his way to rennes on a season long loan villa will try to get brahimi on a season long loan deal which could result is a straight sway at the end of the season pl wont sign another striker if this happens as he can play holman as a second striker just behind bent. UTV

15 Aug 2012 19:21:17
Hoolahan of Norwich to sign tomorrow 4m

Would be a really nice signing

15 Aug 2012 16:49:47
Mohammed Abdellaoue from Hannover 96 is apparently a target along with Aaron Cresswell of Ipswich Town.

15 Aug 2012 13:08:22
Makoun has been sold to rennes

14 Aug 2012 22:18:08
aston villa close to signing adam johnson from man city also lambert close to concluding deals for danny rose from spurs and john guidetti players will arrive after west ham game, hutton is going to stoke, 2 million kenwyne jones was offered to villa but lambert was not keen also warnock close to signing for sunderland 1.75 million there could also be a mystery big signing before the deadline end of august

names being mentioned

c adam liverpool
matty phillips blackpool
d sturridge chelsea
m davies bolton

Adam johnson will not come to villa his wages would deter us from signing him

This is lies. And Is anyone else getting annoyed that we have suddenly gone quiet on the transfer front

Another person, Try posting something sensible mate.

Heard Defoe for villa along with Johnson....

Would love to get Defoe but who would do the work between him and Bent? Johnson is already 3/4 done, but liverpool might hijack it.

Doubt we'll get Phillips as Southampton bid �7m and we don't want to spend that much money on a young player

Y not how much did we spend on A. Young when he was at Watford wasnt it like �9.6 mill

14 Aug 2012 13:50:26
I'm told by an extremely reliable source that Man City have accepted a bid for Adam Johnson from Villa.Watch this space.

I hope this is true & not just made up rubbish! Up the villa.bert

Yes but there's rumours Lambert from Southampton

No Adam Johnson bid, it is a tweeter hoax. Lambert has said he is happy with what he has got...... For those who don't speak Scottish it means he has no money but he is going along with the facade! Wake up

Adam johnson wont come to villa we might get him on a loan deal but i dont think johnon would come to us i would like him to but i dont see it.

In the villa fan forum with paul lambert he actually made it pretty clear he knows what he needs in the squad and he will get them before the end of the window. Some villa fans are just very ignorant and think they know it all

He said along the lines of..
Left Back
Left Winger
Striker

I think it will be
Poulsen/Bennett/Cresswell
Johnson/Phillips
Sturridge/Guidetti

Everton will surely have first refusal on Adam Johnson as part of the rodwell deal, stop dreaming

"Adam johnson wont come to villa we might get him on a loan deal" contradiction or what?!? Lmao

I do like Lambert, however he needs to understand that we need to sign more, for me, a full back and a striker. I'd love to see Keane back or Defoe.

Everton would have only gone for Johnson if they didn't get Mirallas, which they did

14 Aug 2012 12:16:32
Guidetti and his agent are currently weighing up his options with quite alot of loan bids coming in but man city are reportedly ready to sell interest from feyenoord,blackburn,sunderland and villa.

Also with a victor moses move to chelsea looking close Sturridge could well be on his way out of stamford bridge if he doesn't get the centre forward role guaranteed with villa possibly interested aswell

Personnaly i think guideeti should go to villa as he would get 1st team football goals and there is now to ex feyenoord teammates at aston villa now

I think we should loan out promising players to ferynoord since we just took their best players. We should give them a hand.

Why would Chelsea sell Sturridge? the only other striker they have is Torres, If your gonna make stuff up at least try to be creative.

13 Aug 2012 19:09:19
Shay Given has announced retirement from International Football

Shame to go out like he did at euros. Hope we get a trophy by end of the season to soften this blow for him.

If this is a villa rumour page then why did people disagree with the last comment??

13 Aug 2012 15:44:09
MON considering a move for Warnock, with Warnock entering the last 12 months of his contract.
Lambert would prefer to sell the player for a fee believed to be 1.5m although to get Warnock's 45k a week off the wage bill Lambert is even willing to loan warnock to sunderland if there unwilling to buy.

Dunne and Hutton to Stoke for 5m

These sales will path the way for Cresswell, Farina and Naughton to come in

Since when has MON ever been bothered about sky high wages and overpriced players? If he wants Warnock he'll pay the money

13 Aug 2012 10:45:09
Warnock could be on his way out after being left out the squad with PL playing Stevens and Delph in his position the weekend

13 Aug 2012 10:36:11
richard dunne is set to join stoe for 3m and join alan hutton who was released at the end of the season to go to stoke

Alan Hutton hasn't been released, Wish he was but it's sadly not true! he's sadly going to just sit there and pick up his wage packet, until some other mug actually wants a hatchet man.

Hutton wasn't released he was told to find another club he has 3 years left on his contract

Alan hutton wasnt relesed he played for us againist burton

Hutton was not released

Yh we get it it he wernt released

12 Aug 2012 18:42:21
Stoke offer 3m for Richard Dunne

11 Aug 2012 22:21:11
Aston villa set to sign jhon guidetti for 9 million from man city

Not going to happen! City don't want to sell a player who is a massive talent but want him to gain experience in the prem so at best a loan move could be on the cards. He was due to sign a season long loan with Sunderland but his continued health issue with a 3 month long virus could have put an end to that happening. So if Sunderland put off by that then why would we sign him?

Not a chance. Lambert won't pay 9million for a player who has barely played a Premiership match.

Would like for this too happen, but i just can't see Man City selling him. After he had such a good season in holland.

That guy ent worth �900k let alone �9m! Lmfao!!

Where did you hear that rubbish isn't he injured until like christmas?

Yes ive heard this one tossed around great player ive watched him myself he is an up and coming star

Mate i do not agree with signing him but i have just herd about a young manchester city player looking for a loan move out

Guidetti is the young man city player you doughnut

11 Aug 2012 14:45:24
Rumours in nottingham seem to be heating up with the Mcgugan situation. Fantastic talent and I think he needs a move to a prem club to prove his quality which he undoubtedly has. Just don't want us paying over the odds and hopefully Lambert would sort his ego out also dont want to be getting into a bidding war for him as i know other prem clubs have tried before. On the flip side Forest don't need to sell so could prove difficult unless Mcgugan pushes a move. Would be very nice just behind Bent smashing in them 35 yard screamers.

Not a fan of kenwyne heskey jones

Jones is a big lad who can hold up play and if pl got the best out holt surely he can get better out of jones who is more talented. People are saying sign chicarito, sturridge, ba, Cisse. Wake up it isn't going to happen be realistic. Everyone is blaming jones goal record but he's been at hoof ball stoke so he can only score with his head. As much as want guidetti and I believe I was first to mention him a few months ago but he's been linked with marseille and a few Italian clubs.

Mcgugan would be one of them players that would improve and become a complete player playing at the highest level.

Hi Ed, Hearing rumours villa have made an offer to loan A. Johnson, you heard anythin on this? >scg87 {Ed043's Note - not much so far but im sure city and johnson would like him to get prem experience and it would benefit villa with the lack of wingers}

10 Aug 2012 02:49:47
The mystery striker in the mix is Kenwyne jones who was apparently recommended to pl by Darren bent. Jones has the best header in the prem do I'm happy we needed a big powerfull frontman since we lost Carew. The deal I think is Hutton and 4 million

K Jones, another almost man. Great promise but no action. Really not sure about this one.

Im surprised an worried we're being linked with K. Jones he's the typical 'big man' striker i dont want to see at VP, i think the combination of bent an jones would leave us playing 1 dimentional football ie direct which is not the style of football i wanna see again!

Are you expecting us to play like Spain? If we get someone instead of jones

�4m plus Hutton for a striker that couldn't hold down a regular first team spot last season ! Not the sort of deal PL should be doing. Sturridge would be a much better option and probably wouldn't cost a great deal more

If you remember from his NCFC games last season, He always played holt against certain tactics but also started holt on the bench if he felt it did not need a big man from the start. I think he likes the option a target man gives him and where as in the past Villa have played a big man as a striker and just put him up there. Lambert actually has several formation set ups and is not afraid to bench players if he feels another tactic is needed. Holt City captain and there top scorer yet he started half the games on the bench as a option. So Jones may well fill that roll and actually get back to form.

Stop moaning lads , do you not have faith in Lambert his bringing the best out of Ireland and N'Zogbia already who was useless last season ? i can gaurentee if he brings Jones in he will provide us with the ariel threat and score us goals with the assists of Holman El Ahmadi N'Zogbia and Ireland , you lot think were going for someone like Higuian or Villa it ent gonna happen Lambert is a shrewd manager but his spending little but getting the very best out of the squad , get behind the team i for one if Jones comes i will be 110% behind him , fresh start new club new team , him and bent played well at Sunderland got every faith he could do it again at us , Stoke arent exactly the best team at scoring goals i think he will do well for us IF we get him

A diffrent sort of striker compared to the ones we have for diffrent approaches at diffrent times. in pl i trust !

Why would some 1 waste their time asking "do you expect us to play like spain if we get some1 other than jones" what a foolish thing to write!

Jones is at his best when the team he's in plays long or direct football which is exactly the type of footy we villa fans were complaining about last season! Its not complicated! If we have jones partnering bent then we would end up playing direct! If we have sturridge partnering bent then we would be playing the ball along the ground an that is the style of footy i wanna see! What about you?

Well, if we can get rid of Hutton and get a proven prem striker then it can only be all good...Really, fans should trust PL a bit more...we got rid of heskey and if he thinks K Jones can do a job then who are we to argue...

Why are teams like west brom getting players like lukaku we need a powerful striker he would have fit the bill and on loan aswell so no real financial outlay,links to jones from stoke dont make me laugh may aswell resign heskey,we are so weak upfront and this needs addressing before west ham

Jones is inconsistant, is a good scorer off his head although apart from holding the ball is just another Heskey when the balls at his feet in front of goal he has more chance of hitting the corner flag rather than the back of the net.

would rather:
Sturridge
Lukaku
Rhodes or
Mcgugan

Some people really do come out with some of the most cliched bull**** ive heard! In PL we trust??Lmfao. if every one thought like that then they wouldnt be on this site giving their opinion! Dont be so naive! Do try an have an opinion of your own!

Who are we to argue with PL?? Errrrrrrr the fans!! Thats who we are! We had our views when McL was manager like wise with GH, so i for one will speak my mind now that PL is in charge!

We need a striker a lb and a talented indaviual before anyone says anything we got gardner!! so who else is left to cover the other 2 slots ???

in business you have to balance the books and also acheive with the business bringing in money to strentghen the business!! leave it to randy lerner he is not going to let us down!!!!! last season he had to get someone in to cut the spenditure down and prove themselves and he did pay him to go and paid more to get what he thought was best for the club just like ellis! we do not like it but id rather have a person like randy behind us and a talented manager that can get the best out of our youth system and save us money and our club to be the best it can possibly be !!!!!! we as a army can get there without money!!!! trust in randy, he aint a billionaire for no reason ?

The reason I "wasted" my time was because your are a complete person. Pl Likes to have an Aerial threat to mix it up against different teams, and switch him and gabby regarding form and the teams we are playing. The last few years bent has had to win the headers up top and as I can recall seeing he isn't the best at doing that or holding up play. Nzogbia will be back to his old self next year and I'm not a big fan but I'm hoping albrighton can shine as well

We have N'Zog,BB,Albrighton,Holman all who can feed the beat up on crosses.
Jones would be great , for �6m max + Hutton!

People seriously need to stop talking about sturridge coming to villa. U r in cuckoo land! RDM has said he has a place in the Chelsea side. Lukaku is at West Brom and Rhodes n McGugan arent in the same league as Kenwyne Jones. On his day he will trouble any defender. Its just getting consistency out of him. I for one would love to see him at Villa.
Gta lower expectations or ur all gna be very disappointes. Give PL time and in a few years time we will be. Ompeting again

Agreed about sturridge no chance we'll get him but think jones is quite a safe bet. think we should shop around europe and try and find a gem. need to get rid of hutton and warnock and send either gardner or delph on loan dont think there quite ready. Bring in a left back (Ivan Strinić) left mid (Brahimi) and striker (Mohammed Abdellaoue) Think these three will add talent to the squad and not to expenisive. and if sahin joins arsenal even a cheeky loan for ramsey would add that extra bit of quality to centre mid.

So all this talk about redundancies then are not true

I'd prefer villa to take the punt on Rhodes or even a loan of Guidetti
as i put jones in the same category as Carew, etc

Lets be honest we want strikers who will produce goals and dont care if they're a well known name or not now look at ba cisse at newcastle hernandez at united all 3 where gems found for next to nothing so with some effort Villa could find one to and with all the scouting of the Dutch league why not Guidetti

Imo pl signings are gonna be either martin olsson money plus warnock or rose on loan for LB, CM will be magugan from forest, LW matty phillips and 2 ST 2mil + hutton for K.Jones and 9mil plus fonz permenant and gardner loan for S.Fletcher could do with a CB Douglas or Yoshida but think pl will use lowton at CB if needed

So PL wants to spend �6m-�8m on jones so he can have an aerial threat? Thats alot of money to spend on a player who is just gunna be 'another option'. That money should be spent on players who are gunna play week in week out.

An bent has had to win the headers because we've been playing long ball football! He wouldnt need to win headers if we didnt lump the ball 40yard every game!

K my fellow villa fans, so if we are in a match against any team and say its not going our way in the attacking half. Passing the ball through them isnt working and we have a big man on the bench who can come on, change our game and add another dimension. Their defence would have to change their own tactics and could be easily caught out and we sneak a goal.

PL has the right idea. Stick by our man or shut up cryin bowt his decisions.

Am I the only one who thinks Sturridge is awfull? Don't want to see him at the villa

Richard dunne is a cb

Why is it you say we cant get sturridge but at the same time think we could get Ramsey? Lol

I wish people would stop saying Demba Ba an P. Cisse were 'unknowns'! They were scoring goals consistently for their teams! Cisse was 1 of the top goal scorers in germany 2 years running, so defo not unknowns!

Sunderland fan here jones is the laziest sod you will ever see

09 Aug 2012 19:36:59
ASTON VILLLA'S Bargain of the season-Moussa Konate £2.5Milll + Cresswell £3Mill Totalling £5.5 for a Young Promising ENGLISH! player and a striker still blossoming that can actually finish with both feet and takes efforts from outside the box and can get past players. It doesnt take a NASA scientist to establish that this is a no brainer, we need players in those positions, we can afford them without demolishing a supposed wage threshold and they both fit into PL philosophy...It's your right to disagree, but you cant deny everything written is FACT?

By the way they wouldn't be my 1st Choice "I Had a Dream" in it villa's 1st 11 was Sofiane Feghouli

So are you saying they are nailed on to sign or is it your inner championship manager that is surfacing?

This site seems to be less about rumours and more about armchair managers spouting their fantasy eleven.

Do everyone a favour and occupy yourself with Championship Manager.

p.s. From Transfer ITK on twitter.

Villa have had a bid accepted for a current Premier League striker.

Isnt feghouli a rm surely we would buy matt Phillips instead get him on the cheap develop him and then he could command a massive price. We could also do it with zaha although he has not decided whether he should play for the English or Ivorian national team

Kenwynne Jones apparently as Stoke want to offload to bring in Lukaku from Chelsea on loan, would rather we went for Lukaku than Jones though!

09 Aug 2012 19:14:00
Lukaku's agent said he's close to signing on loan for a Premier League team outside London. Could he be a Villa player next season?

09 Aug 2012 08:21:37
Villa have offered a three-year deal to Italian defender Simone Farina who has apparently impressed Paul Lambert while playing for Serie B side Gubbio

Would rather buy a more established prem/championship CB

08 Aug 2012 16:50:54
Apparently, Adam Johnson could be on his way out of Man City to make room for Sinclair. If true, Johnson would definitely be somebody I would love to see at VP.

I bet liverpool, tottenham even arsenal would'nt mind A. Johnson either. if sinclair just wants a pay packet and happy to be on the bench and play in the carling cup games then if man city want him then good luck to him, but if he wants to make the england squad and play week in week out then us, liverpool or stay at swansea would be better for him. liverpool i would think are favourite if he's for sale

07 Aug 2012 18:13:50
Its gone quiet on the villa atm. any links to LB's?

Villa hijacked sunderlands deal with fletcher player swop on cards two young guns going as part of deal.

Hope they are going on loan our youth are great compared to most teams

Latest rumour is Kenwyne Jones from Stoke

Kenwyne Jones is not a good player but he is strong at headers

07 Aug 2012 17:55:38
Villa bid 13m for Steven Fletcher

Source: Radio

I don;t understand why he;s worth this amount of money, i don;t rate him at all

I cant disagree with this post, but greatly question the validity of the report on the radio. Surely it would have been made more of than a report. Movement between 2 midland clubs would greate massive interest in the Midlands.

Cause Fletcher is a game changer
He can come of the bench and win games

I agree dont think hes worth 13mil but i definately do rate him great in the air bullies defenders and holds ball up well would defo welcome him down the villa but not at that price...

Yea coz we are going to spend 13 mil on some1 to sit on the bench. Why dont we go for Berbatov or Defoe

Can come off the bench and change the game? we need someone to start on the pitch to do this

Big fish in a little pond. this player, in my opinion, could not improve the current villa squad.

I don't believe that fletcher is a game changer. if he is, how come wolves only won 5 games last season with fletcher coming off the bench ready to win the game. this is probably because wolves were already 3-0 down.

Also i think the reason we haven't signed berbatov is because he wants to play in champions league. Though i would love defoe at villa park i think that tottenham will keep him due to lack of strikers and the mix up with the transfer of adebayor.

Fletcher for 13m no no no no, not worth 6m. don't do it lambert would be a backward step on the good work you have started, kenwyne jones is far better and would get him for 6m.. although would prefer defoe myself..

13M for fletcher, lmfao. who works out these prices for players, cause you need to go wobble your head infront of a mirror. the hole of the wolves sqaud is probably worth 20m. 4/5M at most. we paid over the odds for bent cause we really needed him. we are not going to pay over the odds for a player we dont need. bent is only only worth around 15m. so 13M for fletcher. grow up. lol

Fletcher is a typical MON signing. He has some quality but is grossly overpriced and will presumably be on a huge pay packet.

Who on earth would pay �12m for Fletcher?
Martin Oneill thats who!

Id rather us go for rhodes, take a gamble around 4million

Fletcher please no lambert don't do it! I'd take kenwyne jones for 4-6mil definately over fletcher! Watch out for reserve player Adam Rando pacey winger coming through the ranks

The reason for 12 million for Fletcher is double figures 3 years on the trot ( with teams best placed finish 4th bottom who struggled to score goals). He had the 5th highest shot per goal ratio in top flight european football. Not bad for a target man who you can play an out and out goalscorer off. When the Bent, Downing, Carroll, Henderson etc deals went through the resultant outcome was you forced the price up for the likes of Fletcher and Jarvis. So if you think its too much you only have yourselves to blame.

06 Aug 2012 13:09:02
Cresswell(def),annon(defmid) look to be comming in this week and there is movement on 2 French attackers bhrami and grounid have been linked

Your imagination knows no ends. Would like to believe trhat AV could get these players.

Giroud has signed for arsenal, Brahimi isn't coming as Rennes want to sell him straight away but we want to Loan him for a season to see whether he is good enough. Cresswell I can't see us signing him due to Ipswich wanting 6m which is a rip of near enough double Ron Vlaar, an Annan Stoke are favourites as we don't really want him an don't need him

Cant see how ur doubting the 1st txt we have been linked with all 4 for months,and they say there is no smoke without fire i could see us getting at least 2 of these

We've not been linked with any of them for 4 months!
Annan was only linked with last week, Cresswell we've been linked with for maybe 3 weeks?
Brahimi for about 6 weeks and i've heard nothing about Giroud but he's signed for Arsenal!!

05 Aug 2012 21:28:04
ASTON VILLA "Missing Jigsaw Pieces" -Moussa Konate/Dembelle/Cresswell/Feghouli Top 7 finish..Check em out you sceptics, their profile financial viability to AVFC. this is the definition of IMPROVEMENT will add so much to this new squad to balance and energize the transition. Ed what dya think? {Ed043's Note - these are all top players which could only improve villa, however getting them to the club may be difficult}

Approximate value: Konate - �5 million. Dembele - �15 million. Creswell - �6 million. Feghouli - �8 million. Total - �34 million. Financially viable? Err....no.

Messi would improve Villa but we might struggle to get him in too. Don't be naive. No chance whatsoever Dembele or Feghouli would move to us. Think again.

Kouyate is class liked him before he scored that goal past that shoddy gb team he can play cm or cb so it would be a good move

Snow White and the 7 vertically challenged people would improve Villa at present. However we need a Superman. Capt America looks to be want away so rumours of the Sheik of Arabie need to be confirmed ASAP. There are lots of fairy stories out there but lets hope that an oil rich sheik is willing to spend a days earnings on AVFC.

Lerner just sold Cleveland Browns for 100 million= and has always had money easy 34 million to man like him is �10 to us

05 Aug 2012 08:46:12
Sunday papers report that Lerner could be ready to listen to offers for our AVFC.
Regardless of what Faulkner states it looks likely that new owners will be found. Sooner rather than later will suit me, how about the rest of you supporters?

Lets hope he does,hes not been putting his money where his mouth is-please take faulkner with him,we must be the only team that takes weeks to sign a player after agreeing a deal!

Faulkner is on the FA Committee.
Losing PF would be a HUGE mistake!

Would love to see billionaires come in and buy us to premier league glory like city. persons playing for us week in and out playing for money and nothing else. John terry will be there to lift the trophy for us

Lerner is a billionaire mate.
10 times over!

Rl is a billionaire

RL was worth 2.8BN before his divorce
and has just made 1BN on the sale of the Browns

And also remember he's having financial problems with his credit card company MNBA

Lerner a billionaire 10 times over?? No mate i doubt that. Lol. Forbes mag last year had his Net Worth down as $1billion dollars

04 Aug 2012 21:26:23
VVV Venlo chairman Hai Berden has admitted that Maya Yoshida was on Aston Villa's radar before Ron Vlaar's move was finalised, and believes the defender is ready to join a bigger club.

Yoshida, who is currently captaining Japan's Olympic squad, has earned rave reviews for his performances in the Eredivisie over the past couple of years.

Berden says it looked like he could have been on his way to Villa when Vlaar's switch to the Midlands from Feyenoord briefly appeared to have collapsed.

Thats a shame I'd want him at villa too.

Clark, Vlaar, Yoshida, Dunne and loan baker out to championship team

04 Aug 2012 20:35:41
Carnt belive forest done us 3-1, all these dreamers are Gunna have to wake up cus we ain't goin top ten unless we can build the lads confidence, we drew more games than anybody last year, winning won't be as easy as everybody thinks this year.

Oh no we lost a friendly to forest it's the end of the world, we are gonna get relegated, lads confidence is low. Your the kind of Villa fan we can do without, doom monger!

Always one downer ... its the 1st friendly we've lost + we tried out new tactics today

Maybe i am just getting old but i am sure us Villa fans (or so called fans) are the most fickle. It was those fickle fools that got rid of Houllier when he was trying to play football with MON's donkeys and what happened they got him out and that Scot came in. Now our season is over two weeks before kick off. Support the club or stay away.

No, a realist. If a prem side has a confidence problem this close to the start of the season then there are problems. These guys are on pay that would enable all of us to change our lives for ever and they are short of confidence. Utter b-ll-cks!!!

Here we go - the moaning has started already. One defeat in a pre season friendly and the whining starts. Its just a pre season friendly that all. Yes it is nice to win but as Lambert has said before even a ball was kicked, its about getting the lads up to fitness, assessing what he has got and trying tactics. Stop moaning after one loss in a pre season - just remember what we had last year and be thankfull. Up the Villa.

Pre season is all about building fitness and for a new gaffer trying different formations and tactics. This loss means nothing get a grip.

Up the villa!

I posted this because we have delusional fans that are claiming we have a chance of a top 6 finish, wake up and smell the coffee!

I havnt seen any1 write that with the current squad we can get top 6! With 3 quality signings ie A. Johnson. Defoe. Olsson then yes maybe. The most we should expect with the current squad is top 10 an that will be difficult as it is. >scg87

Realistically there are 7-8 teams better than the villa, so we are going to have to raise our game before we take on the likes of city united arsenal Tottenham Chelsea newcastle Everton and Liverpool.

Man city lost to oldham they must be getting relegated too! LOL get a grip and realise frendlies aren't important!!

Chelsea lost to brighton they will be joining city in division 1 next aswell

Dreamers, difference between us, Chelsea and city is they still have players out from the euro's, but the only guys that went out of the villa squad was Dunne and given. Doom gloomers with there sarcastic arm chair views, be nice to see u up villa park for once

You must be a bluenose if u are proud of villa loosing, wether it be a friendly or a premier league game, you do want to win so don't kid yourself the "oh its only a friendly" that we shouldn't have lost

We shouldn't have lost to forest but like Paul Lambert has said let's not dwell on this result and move on, good luck against werde Bremen lads

04 Aug 2012 13:41:22
Apparently us and Sunderland have made enquires regarding the availability of Adam Johnson.