Aston Villa Rumours Archive February 01 2012 to March 02 2012

02 Mar 2012 18:29:08
Anyone know anything about the supposed takeover rumours?

Its not going to happen randy wont let villa go hes got his rep to think about and whats he done so wrong cos 4/5 yearsd ago villa fans loved him just cos hes stop spending doesnt mean hes rubbish at his job or been the owner come on we could have someone who leaves in trouble

Mcleish has money to spend but has to wait until the summer to splash the cash due to jenas,keane,heskey etc.. wages will then be made available.

Kev

Kev you mcleish aren't you

27 Feb 2012 20:54:16
With £24m Star striker Darren Bent out for 3 months.
McLeish will give the main striker role to starlet Andreas Weimann who has an impressive reserve record of 2 hat-tricks in the past 3 reserve games.
Gabby,Weimann,Heskey & Johnson are the only strikers left now at VP.
Delfouneseo will be recalled to fill in!

If you mean Daniel Johnson, he is a midfielder, not a striker.

Daniel johnson is like ireland (attacking midfielder) and i have heard something about bringing ex Inter striker Adriano in?

The fonz had chances last season, bring him back but for back up. Give Weiman a chance after his progress in the reserves it'll be good for him. And Heskey maybe could have a chance every couple of games but its not like hes ganna rediscover his leciester form is it......

Depends if walkers sponser villa for the rest of the season, heskey could be the mystery flavour...

McLeish has stated Weimann is the man! He has been ready for a while but you can not apparently drop "Benty" for a youngster.

27 Feb 2012 12:28:21
I havejust read that mcleish said (quote) " I will turn the villa fans around" yes right and I'm going to be priminister. The arrogance of mcginger is unbelievable. The thing is mr mcleish no one who cares wants you at the club. So it's about time you took the hint and went. What have you ever done as a manager , rangers would not survive in the championship let alone the premiership , scotland you did well there ( not ) and blues the players one the cup not you your tactics got them relegated. You say you will get the fans on your side and I know just how you can do it ........ RESIGN...... We will all be behind you then

The only cheer he will ever hear from the Villa is the one straight after his resignation, WE DONT WANT YOU AT OUR CLUB

Mcleish has already turned me around, bout 5 minutes before walking out of villa park... i couldnt take no more painful watching.

26 Feb 2012 00:45:48
Anything on the Guidetti rumour down below Ed cuz hes playing great in the dutch league at the moment. Would be great to have him as a back up for bent.

UTV {Ed001's Note - Villa, or rather someone representing Villa, have been to matches he has played in. Obviously they could have been monitoring any player in his team, but he does seem to be the target. McLeish tried to sign him while he was at Brum, so it would make sense.}

Good I want him at villa next season to provide a second strike threat

UTV

24 Feb 2012 18:33:58
Villa are not going to be taken over, lerner's stablising the club before spending. Would rather be where we are now, than in Rangers position

Villa have more chance of playing entertaining football and finding a decent manager than being taken over by a sugar daddy rich sheik.
mcliesh is a quality turncoat who knows nothing about nothing kro

Im not surprised were trying to stabalise after carrying heskey since august

23 Feb 2012 23:06:20
Villa could be brought at as early as febuary the 28th by the QIA

We haven't a hope in hell of that happening pal. Stop building people's hopes up. We will be stuck with Lerner and the mistakes he has made (mcleish mainly) for a long time to come. Even If it were true I'm sure the Arabs will lose interest when we go down at the end of the season due to lack of attacking football and piss poor tactics, not to mention that our most prominent defender is out for the foreseeable.

Ed can you shed any light on this story , is it a hoax or is there a faint glimmer of hope it might happen {Ed001's Note - I have heard absolutely nothing about it at all. The only company I have heard of sniffing around for a Premier League club is AEG, and they have shown no interest in Villa.}

Ed - The company is ran by AEG but it is ENIC the one which is sniffing about but they are buying no club. {Ed001's Note - ENIC already owns Spurs, keep up, AEG were looking to buy Spurs off them.}

It seems that there maybe some substance this rumor as there is a piece in the sun today saying Mr lurner maybe open to offers and my friend who is a season ticket holder texted me say somthing may happen in march

What does being a season ticket holder have to do with knowing if the club will be sold?

Yeah cos when your a season ticket holder your invited to board meetings . Give your head a wobble you clown. Not gonna happen people get used to the championship with our championship kit maker .

Thats a good one they get better by the day

This could all be a cover up! Rumours, and that is what they are do come through. There is no smoke without fire is an old phrase, but it does seem that someone has forgotten the match to start the fire. Lerner wil do AVFC no good and the money men know he is prepared to sell at the right money. Dont dismiss all the snippets of info that come to the table. We are all becoming cynics and doubting Thomas's, only prepared to believe that we will fail. Lets live in hope and dump the negativity that surround Villa. By being a Villa supporter you know that we are meant to suffer. I am willing to believe that a fairy godmother is just around the corner and should I live long enough to see us successful again I will be happy. Over the years I have seen Villa win the FA cup, all the league cups etc, the 1st division, 2nd division, and 3rd division and of course the European cup in Rotterdam. That is more than supporters of several prem. club supporters have any dreams about. but yes, I want to see Villa at the top again and I hold my breath that something will happen and Mr Lerner will depart... soon. Do you think that M City supporters ever thought that they would be sitting at the top of the prem? I dont think so!!!!

Iwas only passing on what i've heard i did not say this come from inside the club however this is a rumor that alot of people are talking about WATCH THIS SPACE

21 Feb 2012 07:55:04
Villa set for a summer clearout of the players on lucrative deals..

Collins
Dunne
Heskey
Beye
Petrov
Warnock

with no longer having to pay Jenas' wages in the summer and McLeish having money to spend.

Expect 5-8 signings this summer!

I wouldnt personally get rid of petrov hes our most experienced midfielder and improved this season

Whos gunna replace these medioka players more medioka players that think they are better than what they are?


who we going in for nigel reo-coker? ollson of albion and probably swap shay given for paddy kenny, why dont we try and sign john arne reise and another quality player in fernando "carnt hit a barn" door torres. summer spending.... $347mil

Read vital villa posts (person above this comment) McLeish has my backing and i suggest you do the same. He is showing some sense - lay off him!

I dont think anyone wants eck to be given a cent to spend. He has pissed away 16 or 17mil on NZogbia (who is talented but will never fit in with hoof it up style), Given who is good, but 5 year deal at his age, Jenas on loan (destined for injury, not to mention we are still paying spurs despite his injury), Keane surprised many with his overall ability and feel for the game good addition, and not to mention Hutton, who is an atrocity of a footballer........

Despite literally dozens of goals being leaked from set pieces and defencive lapses, eck wont bring in the abundance of young guns for a crack. Baker, Clark (not in mid but CB), Lichaj can all do a job.

Herd to come back from injury, but what about the missuse of Bannan, Delfouneso, Wiemann (who keeps hammering them in)........we have Curruthers, Burke also who are not far away, and people want to give this guy cash to waste on dross.

Blood the youngsters, they love Villa and play for the badge, no more mercenaries who play when they feel like it. Get some pride back into the villa

IF you like FOOTBALL you can not support AM it makes no difference to me his blues connection ,its the boring way he plays,

Showing sense, have a day off. We are back to the O'Leary days in terms of performance's on the field - at least he had an excuse and did what he could with a dire squad. Even with the loss of Young & Downing we should be able to compete every week. McLeish, Faulkner & Lerner out!!

We need to buy another winger, matt phillips of blackpool looks like ashley young was at watford...

but do we invest in players that have a couple of good seasons then want to turn there back on the club...

Well said - get rid of beye etc.

Carruthers & Herd for centre-mids for me.
Gabby & Benty up front .. give Weimann another shot!
Win against Wigan & Blackburn - here we come!

That blues winger Nathan Redmond looks promising, but it's normally them buying players off us not the other way around.

13 Feb 2012 16:46:28
hi ed do you know if Mcleish is meeting randy to talk about him leaving or if they is going to be big changes needed from both parties {Ed001's Note - sorry it took me a while to answer, was busy today with my daughter being on half term so didn't get a chance to ask around until after she went home to her mother's. From what I can find out, Lerner still backs McLeish, he didn't expect an easy ride and is going to give him the season, so long as the club isn't in a relegation dogfight.}

So long as the Club aren't in a relegation dogfight? It's a bit late for that, especially with Keane going and Clarke and Dunne injured.

Clark is not injured - muppet.
Cuellar is still better than the donkey of dunne.

Mcleish is going America to meet up with the Cleveland browns coach.

Meeting the Brown's coach. Excellent. I'm sure a lot can be gleaned from a guys who is one year on the job at the pro level. Oh, and the Browns went 4-12 last year. And since 1999 when they returned to the league after a couple years away, they have a .333 winning percentage. A meeting of great minds I'm sure.

Mcleish is coming back with a couple of wide receivers who do 100m in 10.2secs. All he will have to do is teach em to kick a ball. Perhaps he is going to advise them on tactics. OUCH

Dunne is out for two months and Clarke for a month!

Clark is out for 1 week you muppet.

Clarke is out for up to a month with a knee injury and medial ligament strain.

...and comparing Dunne with Carlos is plain daft - two different kinds of player. Ideally we need Collins or Carlos playing with Dunne. Brains and Brawn.

Mcleish and his coaches are out there to look at the browns scouting and rehab systems.

Ye and trying to learn how to attack

No, comparing scouting and rehab systems.. Learn to read.

I can read... Are U mcleish in disguise?

No I'm a villa fan living in the real world.

Any Villa fan that says we need Dunne is a idiot. Dunne is awful costs us a goal a game and gives away a pen every 5 games

A villa fan in the real world would realise that we need to learn how to attack, if u were manager ud probably set the team up 6-3-1 like mcleish. watch the villa v city highlights, and count on one hand how many shots we had in 90 mins...

We scored 3 against chelsea 3 against wolves 2 against QPR dominated them all the second half scored 2 against Arsenal look at the facts mate just cause we didnt score against city we don't know how to attack pathetic

Arsenal and chelsea played poorly and the villa did average, so please wake up and realise we are to defense minded under mcleish. we used to counter attack up the wings but havent got the quality in the wide areas to provide for benty like last season, thats why we have seen so many longballs being played...

We only play long ball when collins plays so wake up and smell the coffee you ignorent nob

Collins didnt play against newcastle and we played a lot of long balls that game, especially first half... but the only decent bit of play we actually created was the cross and goal. too many long balls not enough crosses. Did you remember the martin o'neil days a ball was put in the box on pretty much every attack... o and we could retain the ball and build on it rather than conceding possession by hoofing it up towards benty.

I agree we tend to bypass the midfield an awful lot. Im positive thats not mcleish's gameplan. Just a lack of movement, plus we havent really got a midfielder to come and collect the ball off the back four and play forward. As for the comments about how we ust to play under MON, since he left we've lost Downing, Young and Milner. 3 of the best english players in the country, how can you expect us to be better then that team we had at the moment. If were in this position next season at this stage ill be joining you in calling for mcleish's head. But for the moment i understand what the club is going through, just a shame alot of you have no clue.

12 Feb 2012 17:03:24
One name definitely on Villa’s radar is Rangers’ £2.5million-rated defender Lee Wallace – seen as a direct replacement for unsettled England left-back Stephen Warnock.

No more scotts please

You dont want wallace as a replacement for warnock mate hes not good enuf. hes not worth 2.5 mill either

To be honest a chocolate fire guard would be better than Warnock at the moment. Would prefer Izaguirre but his not going to cost 2.5mil.

11 Feb 2012 16:40:01
Lots of links to Wigan players, apparently the one Mcleish really wanted was Hendry Thomas, expect Villa to go back in for him during the summer regardless if Wigan go down?

Hendry Thomas - I hope this is a wind up!! I'd rather have Henry Thomas (Elliott from E.T)

10 Feb 2012 15:37:36
Qatari rumours gone quiet! Knew it was BS all along!

Totally agree. No one is going to buy a club that is playing dull boring football under a manager no one wants. We can't even fill villa park anymore. We are not a good investment.

At the right price everything is available. Villa are rubbish but Lerner is unwilling to go forward. He is aware that in the next couple of years restrictions will be in place on players wages and he has stated that he wants performance related earnings. If this is so then the players owe us the fans a lot of money. Just imagine if they were performance related at the moment, they may well play a bit better, it wouldn't take much.
Its not McLiesh its the players!!!!

It's the manager. Most of these players are the same ones we had under ONeil. They haven't turned in to s**te over night. It's directionless management from a man who is out of his depth and no one wants at Villa park. Do agree on the performance related pay though.

Oneills starting line up.
Friedel
L.Young
Collins
Dunne
Warnock
Downing
Milner
Petrov
A.Young
Carew
Gab

5 players out of 11.
Lets face it, this season is about slimming the wage budget down. Lerner has promised money in the summer. Judge Eck when he fails with HIS team. Did you really think we would get top half when we lost our 2 best players in the summer. GET REAL! Personally I'd be happy with 17th because i know this season is a transitional period. Mcleish aint going nowhere, deal with it. We aren't performing too far below where we should be with the current squad.

Other teams lose their best players and don't implode like Villa have. You telling me that our team is weaker than Norwich, Newcastle or Swansea? All teams we couldn't play as well as if we had fifteen players on the pitch. And no I don't want to see how our useless manager gets on with his own team. Look down a division and you can see what happens to a team he assembles.

Difference is Paul Lambert and Brendan Rodgers have been incharge of their clubs longer then Mcleish has. Theyve built their team and have got them playing their brand of football. Im not saying anyone wants to see it but thats the only way we can judge him. And you mention Newcastle, were the Toon fans absoloutely ecstatic that Pardew got the job? I dont think so, and look at them now. Hes assembling his team because hes had money to spend and they look very good. Pardew was hardly amazing at West Ham and Charlton was he. We have money to spend in the summer. So far its a job well done by Mcleish, Lerner told him to keep us up whilse we slim down the wage budget and thats what he will do. Thats what happens in a transtional period.

3 of those playes still playing are defenders and we are awful at defending but wasnt that a strong point under oneil

Very true. But i think Titus Bramble could keep a cleansheet in our defence if he was getting bonuses everytime the team won a game and kept a clean sheet. Just like Carew would get a bonus everytime he scored a goal. Also this defence is another 2 years older since Oneill left. Dunne just cant do what he ust to. I do agree our defence has somehow got awful, and you'll say well thaats mcleish's fault. But then ill just use the same argument someone did against me earlier, his team was poor at small heath but they had a solid defence so surely its the players right?

Dont give am any money be a total waste

Hi browsing this and recall great defence with MON was centred on Laursen - went downhill after his demise.... :-)

09 Feb 2012 17:24:09
A friend of mine works within the hospitality dep at Villa Park and says they'll be a rock 'n' roll concert during the summer, Marc Albrighton and Barry Bannan are apparently promoting it (decent indication they're both staying)

Both are villa fans so we knew they were staying.

They may be fans, but if they are promoting the event it is an eye to make money, nothing to do with loyalty.

Bannan is a Celtic fan.

06 Feb 2012 18:41:31
It's February, where's our Qatari takeover?

The Qatari talks are still ongoing with Lerner still getting regular flights over there with a Villa executive General Krulak.

Total s**t. No one is going to buy this club. Your talking out of your a**e. Go back to playing championship manager.

Proof?