Aston Villa Rumours Archive January 01 2014 to January 31 2014

31 Jan 2014 20:53:56
Apparently someone's having a medical. Was tweeted by a former employee at 8:00 p. m, don't think she would lie.

What's the former employee's twitter then.

Who tweeted?

He's a Russian striker called kerzachov and is supposed to have best strike rate in Russian history!. Lance ITK

Lisa smith preparedpr, I think his French.

Who's HENRI SAIVET?

We'll no inns but could be blue nose! So keep positive and get behind the boys!

31 Jan 2014 15:50:40
Badger trust me no villa signing at a All

And to make things even worst west brom have bid for hoolahan aswel. looks like its going to be another nervy end of season. most the clubs below us have got players in today so let's hope the team can pull together again and keep us out of the relegation zone

Ssn Hoolahan to Baggies on loan?

Norwich turn down cash for Hoolahan but accept a loan offer. If this happens then it shows how pathetic Norwich are. Wouldbe embarrassed to be a Canary!

Lets hope next season there isn't villa fans like YOU. all teams have bought below us, so what! we are better than the teams below us. Lambert is doing a great job, he said he would improve us ever year and he is. it would of taken another 5 games for us to get to where we are now if it was last season. now either wrap up or go and follow SHA.

Well we did say if Wes left us it wouldn't be to Villa, the West Brom deal is not agreed either

Cba. gow is lambert improving us every year? wer lucky to be in tenth place and trust me if we finish in top ten I will aggree that there has been improvement we have the worst midfield in the prem and have done for last couple of seasons. fact. and without improving we will be dragged further dow

Worst midfield in the prem? Delph has been phenomenal this season, and still has a lot of potential, and may get an England call up after the world cup, Westwood had a good season last season hasn't been the best this season but has a lot of potential and could become our creative midfielder, El Ahmadi is having his best season with us this season and still has a chance to get better. Sylla is a solid rotation option hard tackler like Delph and has no fear. Gardner has a bright future if he stops getting injured and should be in the squad in the coming weeks, Johnson is also a good young talent but I think he's been playing for our reserves for too many years and will probably be sold in the coming years, Herd can play in a lot of positions but his best is probably behind the two CMs where Westwood currently plays, and he's a decent rotation option, Bacuna N'Zogbia Clark and Tonev can also play in CM and all are decent there, so for you to say we have had the worst midfield in the past few seasons is an absolute joke, I agree we need to sign one, but we definitely don't have the worst.

Mate on paper qpr's team is better than villas. Some of our 1st teamers like baker Clark El hamadi an few others on bench wouldn't get in any other prem team lamberts made some shocking signings. I wonder if houllier was still here what kind of side we would of had

Villa to sign Messi! Just made that up! I went to the same media school as king villa!

Clark and Baker aren't 1st team players. They are only playing because Okore is injured, Guzan Bertrand Okore Vlaar Lowton Delph Westwood El Ahmadi/Gardner Agbonlahor Weimann Benteke is a solid team and we don't really need to panic buy anyone, next season we might have Guzan Bertrand (Open to a permanent deal and we will have the money at that time) Okore Vlaar Lowton Delph Westwood Gardner/New CM Weimann Agbonlahor/Grealish (Amazing potential) Benteke with good rotation options such as Clark Baker Luna Sylla Kozak Helenius Albrighton Bacuna etc.

Deadline day and there's always someone who panics and signs anything that moves regardless of how good or bad they are - this year it seems to be Fulham and Palace who have brought in about 8 players each. While I wouldn't advocate us doing that, who have we brought in today? - absolutely no one. Surely Lerner could have bankrolled one decent signing to get the fans excited, preferably a midfielder who doesn't play for Norwich. I have never known a more boring deadline day from our point of view.
Clarrie Blue.

Our team has plenty of room for improvements and is far from a solid team. We should always be strengthening. I'm beginning to worry that some villa fans are becoming happy with mediocracy.

I think it's more like Mr. Lerner who is settling for mediocrity and without any financial support from the top the Manager is having to do the same.
With all the money washing around at the moment in football, particularly in the Premier League it wouldn't have hurt the Chairman to have given Lambert a decent amount of cash and told him to buy a really good player to ignite the season and get the fans excited but no - he couldn't be bothered.
I actually feel sorry for the Manager. Lerner obviously feels we are safe from relegation this season so to hell with the 36 to 40,000 crowds that are turning up every week. What do they matter? I used to have a lot of time for Lerner but not any more.
Clarrie Blue.

On a different note, which three teams would other supporters like to see relegated this season?
My three would be, in no particular order Norwich City because they are a small minded bunch of country bumpkins with ideas above their station
Stoke City because they are a vile club who everyone hates who should have gone down years ago and
West Brom because they are West Brom. What other reason is needed?
Clarrie Blue.

I think Norwich, because I see them like Wigan, should of gone down years ago and somehow keep scraping relegation, Stoke because out of the bottom 5 I think they have the weakest squad considering all of the other clubs have either strengthened or currently have a better squad than them, and any of the 3 teams that came up last year, Hull, Palace, and Cardiff, although I want all of them to stay up as they have made good signings and have good squads, I think that Fulham West Ham and Sunderland have much stronger squads.

How can you say Norwich because they should have gone down years ago? We owe so much to Paul Lambert, he is the reason we are premier league, and we have only been here a couple of years! if we manage to keep in the prem then we do deserve to be here. I am was gutted to loose Lambert as a manager an suggest you get behind him as he will eventually bring you the success you all desire. 99% of Norwich fans wish he was still in charge of us.

The striker Fulham signed is class

My word there are many regular posters on the site who should hang their heads they know they are listen guys you've been found out all full of red bull****!

31 Jan 2014 09:54:57
Hoolahan 100% staying at Norwich. This was the only signing lambert was really going for. Don't expect any ins at VP today, only outs.

Well as Norwich weren't going to do business, why didn't villa just move on, instead of dragging something out that was never going to happen

Lambert is a person if he thought norwich would change their mind and sell him to us! I stil hope he gets a decent midfielder in but not holding my breath. think its time for pl and lerner to piss off

I wouldn't say that Lambert should 'piss off', we are in 10th place and much better off this season than last season. We aren't that far off 8th place either! I think that Lerner is trying to sell us.

Yep I agree come the summer I think we will be sold

We will be sold in the summer, he lost interest in us, just like the Cleveland browns

I hope he does sell up but only to someone decent who will spend the money needed to get us into Europe.
Not sure I can see it happening though.
Clarrie Blue.

I think the media was trying to do the Hoolahan deal more then Villa. I think we tried to get him on the cheap didn't work and the media just went to town with it, knowing all the history behind the two clubs.

Clarrie blue,
That's the worry, if Lerner does sell then let's hope he sells to someone who has respect for our club an fans and not just looking for another toy or to promote other business or looking to drain the club of its assets like Gaydemak an Tan

Some fans think that another owner will solve all our problems but they don't think what if we get the wrong person who has no good intentions.

Just about The only good thing Doug Ellis did for villa was find a good owner in Lerner, I hope Lerner will do the same when the time comes.


>Scg87

30 Jan 2014 19:04:17
Happy Chinese new year messages from the Villa Stars.
Could be nothing or could be the DWG takeover I told you about the other day. Anyway just had to post something to get the Clasie rumour off the top. Did anybody notice the Chinese advertising on the pitch side boards.

Ahhh maybe when david cameron met up with them last year he asked them to get involved with his beloved club.

How many have we signed now? King villa tell what to expect as I need a laugh!

How's this for a laugh, I was in Asia watching an English speaking news channel to catch up on Saturdays Villa result (pre mobile and Internet era) when the football segment started I told everyone to be quite so I could see how we had done, only for the female presenter to to refer to us as Astro Villa. Never lived that one down.

Seven in the summer and two so far this winter.

No more signings coming this window. Possibly Bowery going back to Chesterfield on loan

Larry Ellison to buy the villa, 80% done deal aslong as villa stay in the prem, getting rid of lambert, Ellison 5th richest man in the world founder of oracle worth nearly 50 billion.

{Ed007's Note - It's never happening and he rumour was started by some no-mark Man $hitty fan on Tw@tter. 99% of the stuff on Tw@tter is garbage, just edging it from SSN who sit on 97.3% but remember their sole aim is to entice gambling on their info/stories.}

29 Jan 2014 16:39:52
All over twitter Villa are in for a Dutch defensive mid, also so called insiders say they're is money if a perm deal comes about, just not looking to pay huge loan fees on players ect Zaha, Ince, Lescott.

Holtby can leave for 8-10million would be a great buy for us but can't see it comin off

I never knew Hoolahan was dutch, maybe from his moms side of the family.

Which dutch defensive mid are you referring to?

Load of bull, we can't have any more loans from over here so the bit about high loan fees is a joke.

Holtby will go to dortmund

Holtby is dortmund-bound

Loads of people don't seem to know this. It's loans from the same division, not country, so we could get another loan in from another premiership club.

Absolute lies again
Nothing on twitter why do some of you lot bother posting absolute bs
Common anybody got any genuine rumours?

We can loan two players from the English League not the same division, and as we already have Holt and Bertrand we cannot loan another from either the Prem or Championship.

We can however have as many loan players from Europe as we like, however I am not entirely sure how this would apply to the 25 man squad limit.

Don't know if this has been posted but the Mirror and Birmingham Mail mentioned PL was weighing up a deal for Midfielder Eunan O'Kane at Bournemouth.

They mentioned his performance against Liverpool, although I would be disappointed if we bought on the basis of one performance, especially as you would expect players to raise their game against higher league opposition.

Given PL's transfer strategy - he is only 23 and plays in a lower division, I wouldn't be surprised to see him at VP (if another team doesn't dig deeper first!).

Its Jordy Claise

2-0 after 8mins? sorry but we are the worst team in prem and are going down

Um pretty sure it's 2-2, keep believing

3-2 up now woop

Hello 3-2 almost four don't run before you can walk

3-3 dear oh dear ho dear we are crap

4-3 sunshine, and if your that fed up why follow us, keep the faith

Yeah like you were saying that after 8 mins

As there was still 82 mins left so I hadn't given up like some, we should enjoy a massive and much needed win

I always had faith :) good win but defence will be strengthened when okore returns. Would love to see gabby played in cam he recently stated he sees himself playing there eventually.

I don't even think the back 4 was our problem against WBA or Liverpool, it's the midfield who are like statues when we don't have the ball that is the real problem.

>Scg87

Gabby play CM? That's a joke right?

>Scg87

Gabby CAM, what a joke! You need touch, vision and awareness. As much as I like Gabby, he has none of these. Also "I don't even think the back 4 was our problem against WBA. ". Are you having a laugh? Did you see Clarke trying to defend against Anichibe? Far too tight every time, exactly like the game Everton game a while ago at Goodison. He won nothing in the air and got rolled/out musceled everytine. He has learnt nothing. And Lowton was worse than useless. Delph and Westwood worked tirelessly. However, Ahmadi is terrible. He must have pics of Lambert in a compromising position to keep getting picked!

WBA caused us very few problems problems in regards to the back 4, they've actually put in some solid individual performances the last 2 games.

The problems were when WBA had so much time an space on the ball 30-40 yards from goal an that's the midfielders responsibility.

Westwood an Delph stood around watching brunt an Morrison jog past them, if Delph an Westwood actually tried closing down an win some tackles then the defence wouldn't be left with players running directly at them, no defence at that level can be put under so much pressure without buckling at some point.

Although I'm not KEAs biggest fan, the one thing he must be given credit for is his aggression and willingness to make tackles, the amount of times KEA would close down make a tackle an then turn around shouting as to why he wasn't being backed up was laughable.

Delph is good going forward with quick feet an agility but he's not contributing enough defensively an Westwood looks so lazy an unwilling to make a challenge that we are so easy to play through.

All our defensive issues stems from our poor midfield.

>Scg87

29 Jan 2014 06:21:10
MOST DRAINAGE RUMOUR OF THE DAY!
Arsenal want Draxler £36.8mill & Benkeke (£25mill plus NB)

£25mill plus Nicholas what bulls%$t

I think Wenger has been promised 100 million to spend on players if he signs a new contract.

25m and. Bentner, that means they value Big Ben at 30m as bentner is worth f a to any club. How many goals has he scored, is he in the top 100 of strikers? Take it to the marines as the saying goes.

28 Jan 2014 21:24:49
How's this for a juicy rumour, it came from a solicitor that has acted on behalf of someone at Villa regarding their dealings at Villa Park. This could be corporate or functions i. e property auctions, wedding receptions etc. He reckons that Villa are about to be sold, so nothing new there as we've heard all this before, Red Bull and Qatar? Well no, he says it will be DWG. Who? Dalian wanda group a Chinese consortium led by Dalian Wang ( chinas richest man ). O. K so its from a solicitor which means its probably bull but guess what! Our P. M. Recently met with Dalian to get him to invest in our country which I believe 3 billion pounds has been earmarked. Could it be he mentioned Villa? Strange how the official site mentioned our growing popularity in China this week.

Another take over story, but as we have all gathered Lerner wants to sell, just wish he would hurry up

I think you will find that he is wanting to buy a football club, but has spoken with Southampton! Value £175 million

Is this the DWG group who have just categorically denied any interest in Southampton. A club in a better position, with a better playing staff and manager, available for less money (arguably)?

Hi Mendax you have to look at the big picture Villa better buy than the saints villajk

Well the spokesperson said the Southampton takeover was 'purely imaginary and inconsistent with the actual facts. ' Actual facts meaning that it is another premier league club? Possibly us?

Sounds like a load of wang

Aston Villa will be hosting a "chop stick challenge" on the eve of the West Ham game, part of the Chinese new year celebration. you see we are the twelfth most popular club in the far east.
lets hope the organisers realise it the year of the horse and not donkey.

Hi Villajk. I see where you are coming from but I don't think these guys look long term
As we sit tonight, we are very much in the relegation mix this season
Nobody is going to buy us while that is a possibility

28 Jan 2014 16:20:58
Just heard we are talking to Wes Hoolahan, he better be good if he comes UTV.

We can't talk to him without havin a bid accepted

Not quite right, we are talking to his representatives not him as that isn't allowed without Norwichs permission.

Well somebody is talking to Villa about him coming UTV

27 Jan 2014 21:06:34
Jeffrey Bruma is apparently a target now that Lambert has poured cold water over a Lescott loan deal, the big surprise this window is that Villa want to strike a deal and bring Jordy Clasie to VP - if it comes off it'll be the big marquee signing Villa have been deliberately denying will happen, Zaha was enquired about but wages were a problem, same scenario with Lescott.

If Zahas and Lescotts wages were too high then who's paying Clasies wages? You! I thought not, marquee signing my a**e.

Well if this is true would be fantastic, good attack minded Dutch played, can play centre mid or behind the striker

Clasie would be a great signing, fantastic passer an is an aggressive type CM so would improve us 10 fold.

Can't see it tho, he'd certainly have clubs who are in the CL looking to sign him

>Scg87

26 Jan 2014 22:59:09
Players out

Ireland - free
Hutton -free
Albrighton - loan
Weimann - Tottenham - 4.5m

Players In

Holt - loan
Bertrand - loan
Lescott - loan initially perm at end of season
Hoolahan - 2m
Dembele - loan initially perm at end of season
Jelle vossen - 11m

Dembele I really doubt he'll come to villa, I'm a bit bored of the hoolahan link now, Norwich say no deal so let's move on, weiman won't leave lambert likes him to much, just wish he could finish a little better,

Explain Weimann to spurs? They want to qualify for CL football and people who pay attention would of figured out we have Holt and Bertrand on loan already -_-

Tom ince is either joining us or Swansea on a season long loan

{Ed002's Note - He is out of contract in the summer.}

I would have Bertrand, Lescott and Vossen at the end of this season.

Ince is apparantly going to norwich on loan so we can have hoolahan, I know which of the 2 i'd prefer an says everything about our ambition

Ed when you say Tom ince is joining us or Swansea what team do you mean.

{Ed001's Note - he didn't say that, he just said he is out of contract in the summer. Meaning the team taking him on loan will almost certainly sign him at the end of it.}

I think he meant the poster stating us or swansea.

Aston villa

26 Jan 2014 11:52:25
Heard a strong link to Bibras Natkho on a free transfer. 25 years old similar player to Mata, would be a good signing.

Tbh never heard of him but if he's an amf and you say "like mata" il have some of that in the side

My mate's got a beard. a bit like Mata

He's a quality player and his contract has been cancelled so he's free to sign for anyone. He's a deep lying CM, not really attacking mid but can play their, more of an all round CM. he can pick out quality passes and unlock defenses and would be perfect for Villa. rated at £10m as well.

Not sure about this rumour as he has been linked with CSKA and VFB Stuttgart - was one of the better midfielders in the Russian League before his contract run out.

It shouldn't come as a surprise that Spuds have also been linked with him.

A £10 million rated player who is out of contract and subsequently able to demand a massive salary?
Yeah, Randy will be all over that

Why was his contract terminated if he is valued at £10m? If he is that good teams will be queuing up, and we will be at the back of it.

{Ed007's Note - His contract wasn't terminated, it expired and he turned down the offer to extend it.}

25 Jan 2014 09:23:54
Houlier just confirmed RedBull not interested in buying Villa.

I don't know why but I have a feeling this won't be the last we hear of red bull possibly taking over aston villa.

Red bull will almost certainly not buy avfc. Most of the bullsh. On here is just that.

23 Jan 2014 19:16:28
Villa set to sign Derby County's Chris Martin, £1.5million rumoured.

Please say it ain't so

Read that Fulham have just had a 2 million pound bid rejected so I doubt he'll be coming to us for half a million less

Fulham bid for Liam Moore not martin

Yet another former Norwich Player Lambert tried to get rid of

23 Jan 2014 14:29:33
Aston Villa are working on an ambitious move to sign highly-rated Barcelona striker Jean Marie Dongou on-loan for the rest of the season.

Hope so UTV

We have too many strikers already, I really don't see the point in this.

{Ed001's Note - you are in talks with Spurs over selling them a striker (I think Weimann), maybe a replacement?}

I really hope we wouldn't be stupid enough to sell Weimann (Or any of our strikers) and sign an unknown in, especially when it's so tight in the bottom half at the moment. Yes he has been not up to the standards of last season, but he is still a good player for us.

Spurs want Andi? they'd have to cough up £10m in my view to make letting him leave possible - especially in January.

I would love to see Weimann leave at times his finishing is awful

£10m for Weimann? I'll drive him there myself!

22 Jan 2014 05:20:39
Villa to make 2 big moves next week and try to sort deals for defour and morrison. Randy Lerner wants to sell and a deal is close with red bull but they have said it's dependant on villa being in the epl so Lerner will spend around 15 mil to sort both deals.

If Red Bull haven't noticed we are in the Premier League, if your talking about next season then a deal isn't close as Lerner will renegotiate in the summer. You see if a deal is close then it's as is, what next Red Bull insisting on a sell back clause if we get relegated in the next three seasons?
Lambert has said no interest in Defour and I don't think Ravel has the experience he said we are looking for. If anyone it's Hoolahan.
Finally staff at Villa Park said the guests being shown around at the Arsenal game were Arabs.
In summary your post is complete Bull.

Nice to see all your hard work is paying off kingvilla, Just been speaking to paul faulkner, it seems he is interested in making you head of public relations, well done son.

I actually can't see us signing anyone else, randy is tight with the money these days.

Not going to get a sniff of Hoolahan, his transfer request has been thrown out If Norwich do sell it won't be to Villa to much bad blood between clubs and if he is sold it will be more likely be for around £4mil

4 million for a nearly 32 year old with only 18 months left on his contract?
I don't think so. The million and a half we have supposedly offered is too much really.
Clarrie Blue.

Norwich are just messing us about because its PL, Norwich would have to be stupid to reject a close to 2m offer for a 31/32yo who is only warming the bench. They'll let him go

I'm surprised Lambert isn't going for Pilkington tho, younger, only 6 months left on his contract and probably better than Hoolahan.

>Scg87

Im a big fan of Pilkington but I don't know where he would play as the wingers we use were all originally strikers with the exception of Albrighton, Pilkington just isn't clinical enough

Well, do Norwich need the money? No I think not, Lambert up to his old tricks, have a read of the telegraph, Norwich will rather loan him to Birmingham city

All prem league clubs need money as they most run up a debt. Hoolahan has stated he doesn't want to play for Norwich anymore so they r better off getting rid. If it was any other prem club offering the same money they would sell. Only reason they won't is cus its Lambert. Playground stuff really!

Hoolihan would not go the the dark side of the city, even on a loan.
Norwich will concede if PL keeps the pressure on them providing the price is right.

Go and take a look on the pinkun web site there you will see a topic with the heading Bad Blood between Clubs, It was written by a Norwich insider, he is Mick Dennis he's often on tv and sits with the directors home and away, read what he has written you will see Norwich will not sell to Villa and anyone else it will cost £3mil+

Few bits of bull in this thread.

Norwich ARE debt free, and have been so for 12 months + - well documented in the press.

Norwich have also made it clear that Hoolahan is NOT for sale this season, and would not be released to any club that they are in competition with; Not just Villa, that is any of the bottom 10 clubs. - Why would you give an advantage to your opposition? be stupid to do so, especially for the £750k that has been offered. - It's all PL mind games, with Hoolahan the mug in the middle.

21 Jan 2014 20:56:48
hutton is off to west ham in a deal which will see diame plus 3 million come to villa park
other transfer I have heard is Manchester United have offered 15 million plus welbeck for the beast benteke

You have a shocking imagination

Um I really not, I do admit diame and welbeck would be nice they won't happen

Diame PLUS £3m? Oh go on then!

Both not going to happen

Hutton plus 3million for diame

Well unfortunately this deal will not happen, as after tonight's game diame won't pass a medical

What on earth are you valuing Hutton at for Gods sake?
Less than a million is his true worth at the moment.
Also, you can be sure that the one player we will NOT be selling in this window is Benteke so give it a rest.
Clarrie Blue.

Diame has a £2.5m release clause doesn't he?

Nope 3.5 mill release clause so hutton valued at 500k so with 3 mill on top would make 3.5 million

21 Jan 2014 13:46:16
Ashley Young to return to Villa Park, the deal said to be worth around £8million or £9million.

I honestly cannot see this happening, as his wages would make it impossible

I wouldn't want him back for 4 million let alone 9 million.

I would take him back as he would definatly add something to our team but as above said his wages would be too high so think this one is a no go. I just hope lambert has got somebody in mind now the defour link has crumbled. we need a decent midfielder who can pick a pass rather than the usual lob from defence to benteke (other than 45 mins against liverpool)

I'd take him back tomorrow. Ashley Young providing crosses/free kicks/corners to Benteke instead of Albrighton/Tonev/Wiemann/Westwood etc etc. Absolute no brainer. Having said that, it will never happen due to his wages. I also seriously doubt we have £9m to spend, and even if we do, it won't be spent on someone who will be 29 at the start of next season, with limited/no resale value.

I don't want a diving board installed at villa park

He not welcome back to villa please don't let this be true

He can't take a free kick or a corner and his deliveries are awful. Everyone says he his good at them things. Just watch his corners next time he plays, front post every time, can't get it above the first man. And his free kicks go in the second stand every time

Young himself would never agree to come back to Villa for two basic reasons.
One, he left us to supposedly better himself so he would see it as a failure on his part and two, he knows what sort of a reception he would get from the crowd.
This move will NEVER take place.
Clarrie Blue.

19 Jan 2014 18:05:55
Alan Hutton is on the verge of joining West Ham on loan till the end of the season.

I do hope that's true, more funds freed up

Should try and get ravel Morrison in a exchange and cash deal.

Are West Ham deliberately trying to get relegated?
First Roger Johnson and now Hutton. The mind boggles.
I didn't think that even Big Sam was that stupid.
Clarrie Blue.

19 Jan 2014 10:13:01
ASTON VILLA REALISTIC WEEKEND RUMOUR OF THE DAY!

1} Experience & Leadership of Thomas Vermaelen in on Loan as cover Okore to partner Vlaar

2} Wilfred Zaha deadline loan

3} Paul Lambert has also stated not much truth in the Defour link but has other options, he wants to make a two footed talented Attacking Midfielder CAM his Marquee signing as it could be his last.

But who? he has a rumoured £10mill to spend on him as the rest are to be loans Edz?

He also admitted to close friends his disappointment that his two left back purchases Luna/Bennett are yet to settle

Why would you write realistic, this is far from being realistic

Written for those that understand the term Realistic "Rumour", I personally agree and would be hopeful of some positive outcome, it may that this post has no real substance, but that's why it's called rumours and we love it when it concerns our club, especially if something materializes.

I bet you go onto Aston Villa rumours Now and why not? for the intrigue and rumour

2 and 3 seem sort of realistic but if we do get vermaelen on loan, I will do a nude run at villa park!

1}experience and leadership? Holt.
2}Bertrand on loan.
3}two footed CAM? Hoolahan for 1.5 million plus Hutton.

How many players are we allowed to loan

PL clubs are allowed to have 4 loan players (hence Ireland was signed permanent prior to the Guidetti loan at Stoke)

You can only have 2 from premier league teams so we can have 1 more, and 1 more from out the premiership. Can not see the hoolahan deal coming off even with Hutton in the mix

18 Jan 2014 01:39:17
Just read all the latest news for today, seems we have bowed out of the race for Defour and Lescotts wages have shut down any deal for him, Lambert has said he has not approached kiyotake and refused to comment on Hoolahan earlier (probably because of the whole history with Norwich ect). Joey Barton and Kyle Naughtons name being thrown around a lot, can't really see Naughton as we have just signs Bertrand and Barton isn't really the type of midfielder we need, hopefully we sort an attacking midfielder and a centre back before the end of the window! Hope to see Benteke back on form tomorrow! UTV!

Barton is exactly the type of midfielder we need! He has the fight and the eagerness and he would come with experience!

Barton from what I've seen (I don't watch too much championship football) is a sitting midfielder, who occasionally goes forward, I wonder who that's like. DELPH! We need an attacking midfielder who can score the occasional goal and pick a good pass, a number 10 so to speak, similar to Coutinho, De Bruyne, Mata, lallana, Barkley ect ect! (Wasn't saying they were our targets btw just examples)

In bartons last season at Newcastle he had more successful forward passes than any other midfielder in the Premiership. Some of his antics are bad but when we beat Newcastle 3 seasons ago he was by far the best player on the pitch. he is an attacking player

He played at Newcasastle 3 seasons ago, players change with age, he is not a "number 10" so to speak.

17 Jan 2014 15:47:49
Heard from a close associate to Marc Albrighton is on evertons radar for when his contract expires, wether or not he goes is a different scenario as he has grown up a villa faithful.


TaR

Albrighton will not leave Villa. He will get a new contract and he will stay at the club he loves - Aston Villa FC.

I didn't say he would go, I just claimed Everton expressed their interest in his services?

TaR

Personally, I don't think Albrighton is going to cut it, I was a big fan but he's just not shown me enough to say he's going to turn in to a quality player.
Besides that I think we're paying him to much which I don't think he deserves, that's just one reason why I think he could be allowed to leave.

>Scg87

Why would everton be interested they have just signed a winger in aiden mngeady and he can play on the right too before u smugly say he's a left winger.

Because he demands low wages, is a good rotation player & Martinez has a track history to turn bargains into achieving starting players.

People only want to listen to what thy want to happen instead of actual rumors. The source is reliable. Marc is from the same hometown as myself & the source was contribute from his personal associate.

Believe what you want, IT MAY never happen but I know their is/has been interest. Maybe them signing McGiedy was the signal of the end of the interest? We will see


TaR

I think you'll find Albrighton is not on low wages.
He was given a large increase in wages in his last contract.

I would call 20k as "high" wages for a football player.


Half the people on this site haven't got a clue

TaR

17 Jan 2014 10:27:15
We have signed Ryan Bertrand on loan for rest of season, totally out of the blue (pardon the pun). very good signing please more like this UTV

Finally a signing villa fans can be happy with. More please :)

Good signing he's better than Luna. I hope there's a transfer fee agreed at the end of the season if he does well.

Brilliant transfer, played at the top top level (champions league final) but why didn't we try and buy him? Are funds really that tight? Hopefully if he's successful he'll want to come back next season on a permanent deal! Now all we need to try and sort a solid experienced centre back and most importantly a creative, attacking midfielder.

This is a great signing, top draw, his wages may be the reason it's only a loan deal, as he is on more than Steven defour which makes me laugh, Scott dann wouldn't be a bad move, he i

Well great deal, that's our 2 loan deals, can only spend money now

Mourinho probably wants to see how he progresses given constant first team football. Ashley Cole is nearing the end of his career and if they don't sign Luke Shaw, they will need Bertrand next season! Excellent signing though!

You are allowed two loans from premier league clubs we only have one as Holt is from Wigan

No chance of signing him permanently, we need to stop living in dreamland! Cole is likely to be gone in the summer, and they want Bertrand to get games so he can replace him. Good loan signing though

They are after Luke Shaw, Bertrand might be able to join us for somewhere in the region of £6m in the summer I hear

17 Jan 2014 05:42:44
Scott dann will be villas next signing and is set for a medical later today. The defour deal is dead as Lerner will not pay the wages or fee required. I'm hearing the joey Barton links again. It has also been put to me that Lerner won't spend as if villa are still in the prem in the summer he will sell to red bull. He thinks these cheap bargain buys will do the trick. I'm not convinced.

{Ed002's Note - I suspect there will be loan signing next.}

16 Jan 2014 22:38:11
I understand scott dann will be signing for aston villa very soon really don't know what to think of lambert anymore

Funny story this as 5 years ago I'd have been happy with it, but now not so much

It could be an experienced defender to help Vlaar, he needs help.

To be honest Scott Dann is the type of defender we need. Nothing fancy/special but someone who will defend and do his job. Good signing.

Scott Dann, like his partner Roger Johnson are terrible. Between the two of them they have a half dozen relegations under their belts. That's not coincidence. that's bad football.

15 Jan 2014 12:15:14
Danish media (TV2 Sporten) Claiming that Helenius is on his way back to Aab Aalborg for rest of season.

Do not understand why he has not been given a chance, I think I am depressed from yesterday but trying to stay postive regarding holt, hope he can push ben20 to score more and more
but I would of loved to seen helinus just behind ben 20 with baccuna and albrighton on the wings with delph and westwood in the middle but let's see what the rest of the window bringd and welcome holt hope you do well for us!

I want klose but I don't think we need a striker

14 Jan 2014 20:16:04
Leicester City manager Nigel Pearson is set to replace Paul Lambert as Aston Villa manager.

Very much doubt it when lerner is giving pl the go ahead to turn us into norwich

What a Leave Leicester top of the league what utter rubbish. UTV

Lacina traore is going to west ham on loan. Why didn't we sign him not holt ergggh. Personally I think Lerner should cough up 10 m for ravel Morrison. It's not like he's near the end of his career and won't be sold on for loads when he wants to leave

Traore is on stupid money.
West Ham will go the way of portmouth if they get relegated.
So want that to happen

With the money Monaco have I don't think they will care if we pay all his wages or not

13 Jan 2014 19:46:35
There's a strong rumour that a player is having a medical at Villa tomorrow to become our first signing of the window, not sure who though.

Probably some 18 year old no one has ever heard of

Have just read a rumour that grant Holt is strongly linked to come in on loan

Well here we are again. Two shots on target from Arsenal and two goals.
Every sodding game it's the same.
Will we ever keep a clean sheet at home again??
Clarrie blue

Jesus christ if that's true we are scrapping the bottom of the barrel now

Oh God looks like grant Holt is on his way

Grant holt why the f are we spending a penny to get a player in on loan when he can't even get into the wigan aide? absolute joke. and I thought it couldn't get any worst

Its grant holt

It's Grant Holt, no funds available so it's only a loan.
Before you go on about how low we have sunk remember its Lerner not Lambert who has the final say on transfers. Wigan still paying some of his wages, well done Lerner.

I think I want to cry.

Any player with Premier League experience will be ok in my opinion.

You could do a lot worse than Grant Holt trust me

If he scores goals I don't think any of us will care to much, can't see him starting to much tho

Lets face facts we were never going to be in for anything other than a championship player or a prem player that is sat on the bench at best gone are the days when we will get anywhere near the top six and unless lerner sells up its going to be relegation sooner or later. bad times

I just wish lerner would sell up. even doug ellis would spend some money if he was still the main man! this is seriously worryin

LERNER OUT NOW!

Looks like the fat boy comes to town! Holt will put himself about and get space for others.
So Steer, Hoolihan, Holt, looks like PL is buying his old team. What a slap in the face for the Villa squad.
Could it be that PL is saving the pitance that SCROOGE is putting up for a "super buy?"
If Lerner is being that tight then again I state LERNER OUT.
Somebody else is stealing my objective.

To be honest things are not as bad as they may appear. The defence is perfectly adequate when everyone is fit and Okore is going to be a great signing. We have a good bunch of forwards when they get the service. It is really only the midfield that needs sorting out and if that could be done then I for one believe we could easily challenge for the top 6 again. But that is the point - the midfield needs overhauling and Lambert either can't see it or Lerner will not provide the funds to do it. If he did, we would take off, I'm sure of it.
Clarrie Blue.

Problem is, okore won't play for us again because by the time he's fit we will be in the championship and he is way too good to want to play in that amateur league. midfield terrible, worst in league, so why not sign grant holt?! (sarcasm, for those that didn't detect it. ) What on earth is going on, why another terrible striker who has scored 2 or 3 goals in 20 odd games for a championship side this season? there must be hundreds of midfielders that are better than the ones we currently have who would be available for a cheap deal or at least a loan, even the country boys managed a decent, cheap signing in jonas gutierrez who could have done a good job for us but it just seems like PL can't be bothered to have a proper look around for what we actually need! get him out, he lost the plot and his marbles a while back now

No point looking around as Scrooge won't open his purse. PL is having to get whatever he can for as little as he can, and that means Holt on loan.
Let us give Holt a chance, he was electric at Norwich but Hughton changed the way they played and Holt was left on the fringes.
Not my preferred choice but in our situation I am going to give him a chance.
God knows we need any help we can get.
Lerner out.

Supermac

Holt was a great player and leader and Norwich hav'nt replaced him, villa fans give him a chance his leadership skills will help your younger players. Good luck grant.

I guess Holt suits the long ball football we play.

Finch

Norwich fan in peace here. Wish we could have Holt back at Norwich - unfortunately we've got a bigger d!ck as manager than it seems Lambo has turned into. We thought he'd run out of Premiership ideas when he went to Villa, looks like we were right. Sorry for you guys, sorry for us too. Good luck Villans. OTBC.

I think we should give holt a chance if we use him correctly off the bench I can see him scoring a few

12 Jan 2014 18:06:32
Heard about kyle naughton coming to villa for about 5million upwards
Joleon lescott is oficcially a no no

So that's 3 left backs that Lambert has bought in 18 months. 3 lots of wages and 3 transfer fees to satisfy one position
The wage reduction policy seems to be working well

Naughton's a right back!!!

He can play either right or left back, and he is better than Luna and bennet combined

Naughton is a solid enough right back, but terrible at left back. We already have Lowton and Bacuna who can do a job there. 5 Mil is way too much for him. We could spend that on a decent midfielder.

My point is more about the folly of our transfer policy. Bennet and Luna were both gambles which have not paid off. We now have to replace them because neither are good enough. Plus we have no chance of selling them on

Naughton was a left back at Blades, with Walker at right back Spuds bought them both from under our noses when they were first noticed.

SupermMac

I bet we don't sign anyone before jan 31st

We need an attaching midfielder not A right back

I scour the papers and the tv for any news or rumours that we are about to sign anyone in the January window but every day it's the same - nothing. How long is Lambert going to dither about before he gets his finger out?
Having said that it is a fact that so far not one other Premiership club has yet signed a player in this window, unless I've missed something.
Clarrie Blue.

Cardiff have signed 1 or 2, I wouldn't worry about the papers too much ;) haha

Looks like a last minute job again! Bright spot is that Benteke was last minute.
Shame he hasn't produced the goods this season.
How about tonight? A point would be good.

I'd be very happy with a point tonight and I would think it's probably the best we can hope for. Having said that, three would be very nice!
Can't honestly see us scoring more than one goal in the game.
Clarrie Blue.

Just praying Vlar and baker pass their fitness tests, can see it getting embarrassing if we have to use Clarke and Lowton.

Clark will be hailing a taxi some time tonight. It bis all he is good for!

Supermac

11 Jan 2014 09:25:54
ASTON VILLA FC NEWS!

Supposedly John Crew's Recommendation was an actual smokescreen, the actual player was Mohamed Elyounoussi very talented creative AM/FW £1.2mill this will allow PL the flexibility to still add experience in £7mill Defour with a possible loan for an international CB on the cards.





Doubtful if these will materialize, but hopeful

Elyounoussi is indeed a talent, but I think what we lack of someone with a bit more proven quality?

Is Defour still coming?
Most reports I've read seem to say it is definitely off.
Clarrie Blue.

First rule of football "Don't believe everything you read in the papers!" Defour to be unveiled at the arsenal game!

Defour won't be coming stop day dreaming

I'd like to believe you over Defour but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Also think Lambert seems to be spending far too much time trying to sort out the signing of Hoolihan and putting other urgently needed business on the back burner as a result.
Clarrie Blue

I'll eat my hat if defour comes. doesn't fit the wage structure, get real villa fans

finch

Posted a few days ago that Defour is valued at £40m by people that know. Seems that we value him at £7m. That is why we can't get him.
If Scrooge won't open his purse he should go.
Lerner out.

Well it was only in 1 paper I saw he was rated at 40m, all other reports have him available for 8m euros, also I've learned with pl until the players have signed villa tend to keep it quite hush hush

I don't care what paper reported Defour is valued at £40m.

Whoever thinks that is a complete plank!

Porto will be lucky to get 7million euros for him.

>Scg87

Is mat Kendrick always right because if he is
Defour isn't coming

Well we will have to wait and see what pl has in-store for us all. At least it looks like Ireland Will soon be off our hands

Not sure why ireland is hated so much, he is still on our books and is actually our most creative force by a mile on his day.

It's because he hasn't had his day in a villa shirt, it's just a shame he was brought in to replace Milner and he never could,

Technically he wasnt brought in to replace milner - he was offered with funds to purchase milner - completely different types of players though so if you was expecting Ireland to be as hardworking and industrious as Milner was then he was never going to succeed

09 Jan 2014 19:15:09
A few days ago I posted the rumour about AVFC being readied for a sale, well a follow up to that is apparently the RedBull offer was 180 million and not 150 million like first thought and and the asking price is nearer to 225 million not 250 million.
Randy is apparently here for a few weeks so I make that two apparentlys which could mean a change of ownership soon or nothing at all.
I think if Lambert is not given any money this window then it's pretty clear Randys not too keen on the Villa anymore. Oh and those saying we will buy on the last day of the window remember Lambert likes to get them in early.

Where are you getting this from?. I'm not sure if all the IF'S came in what sort of stature Red Bull would want the club to be heading for, making profit? European places? Title contenders? Either way a change at the top would seem to suit the fans, it's so frustrating seeing players available or looking for loan moves and our name not being linked with them, Ince, Zaha etc
UTV

Most of its from twitter and other social media. the bit about the stocks movement was from a trader again he tweeted this last week and which has since been confirmed on certain Villa forums.
the Redbull connection was from their press about buying an English team to invest in which could compete (advertise Redbull) in the champions league. lazy London media automatically presuming it will be a London club, and the current champions league teams are far too expensive.
the rest is my own research into potential buyers and sellers and common connection I. e. gerrard houlier connecton. nothing is from reliable sources as our chairman is very quite.

Yeh to be honest if welcome that (reputable company doing well in other sports) over a cut-throat businessman looking for a toy, my friend is an avid Leeds fan, he's been talking a lot about red bull buying them out, and apparently they needed to own the stadium for it to go through, new guy has bought a bigger stake to own stadium so they might be going for them, I'd assume it's cheaper, although I suppose we can be classed as a sleeping giant? More attractive to take-overs I presume. Come on lescott sign already haha

The leeds option was looked at last summer but they were too high risk as its champions league that's the target and this was felt is too far off i. e. signing new players to get to the premier league then adding new players to progress further whilst still balancing the last lot. with villa a big name manager and high wages would achieve the same much sooner i. e. Man city. add to this the training facilities are top knotch, then Randy has converted 90 mill debt into shares which balances the books.

I don't believe anything regarding this redbull takeover bid

Sleeping Giant? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Blimey, I know we are great, but let's not play fantasy football eh?

09 Jan 2014 11:45:50
Tom Ince, Paul Ince and Paul Faulkner spotted at a restaurant in birmingham last night.

No that was someone who just looked Faulkner, not the real one.

The guy was Swansea's Player Liaison Officer Huw Lake.

Not going to happen, too much hype around him to him to come to us

The restaurant was mcdonalds

Interesting post. Also read elsewhere that they were seen in a McDonalds somewhere in Wales, near Swansea.
Wonder where they actually were?

Anyone heard of nakhi wells?
the bradford player who scored agains us?
Dont want it to be true!
not the player I want or need!

Think it was a service station mate

What you mean Nahki Wells who scored against villa in the league cup semi last year!

What you mean the Nakhi Wells that's just signed for huddersfield?!

08 Jan 2014 15:01:31
Defour to be in by Mondays game. Arrived today for talks with the club. Another one surfacing is a possible loan move for Richards off man city till end of season. I'd love this one to come off as really rate the player.

Kingvilla you have just ruined my afternoon. There I was thinking that we may be having a go to get a "name" and you put in your post.
Obviously it now cannot happen.

Also Richards is a supporter of the dark side of the city. Remember his header a few seasons ago against Villa. He was the happiest man in B'ham that night

Yep was an fa cup tie v mcfc and he was an unknown 17 year old at the time. hate him, good player though.

Would we take him on loan?

07 Jan 2014 19:18:37
Villa are closing in on Renato Ibarra apparently.

Aaron Cresswell also i'm hearing now.

dutchvillan

Would anyone say that one of our main priorities in this window is another unknown foreign winger?
I'm not sure I would, to be honest.
Clarrie Blue.

07 Jan 2014 15:44:34
Villa seem to be closing in apparently on Lescott with a price varying from £4-6m. Lewis Holtby loan seems to be sinking but apparently remains as a plan b. Tomas Rincon rumours are gathering speed, a rather experienced right back valued at around £1m. Rumours also gathering pace of a move for Rickie Lambert at £4m.

Would love Joleon Lescott and have heard the same rumour about Tomas Rincon for under £1m if we can get Defour as well, Xmas 2014 come early Here's hopin Fingers X UTV

Rickie lambert your having a laugh there was talk of someone coming in with a ten million pound bid we need to be spending more than a million pound on players you pay for what you get i think we need a left back as luna has been done more than wayne bridges wife, 2 wide players who can can put the service into benteke an attacking midfielder who can pick a through ball out and create something players to leave will be given hutton ireland bent nzogbia will leave at the end of the season,

Ireland and zog are our ONLY creative players, 1 loaned and 1 injured still. zog will rescue us from relegation if he gets the chance when fully fit again

Apparently SD are linking us back with Hiroshi Kiyotake. would be delighted to have him, also have N'Zog back in the side. Kiyotake, Guidetti & Defour please Lambo and i'll forgive you!

06 Jan 2014 12:11:15
allegedly Villa may be in for Lewis Holtby. Most likely a loan move, however if we could get him permanently it would be great. Creates a lot of chance and his running would be great alongside Delph.

Not gunna happen

Again would be good, but can't see that one coming off.
just seen on tv that Cardiff, Norwich, Swansea and someone else in for Zaha on loan, seriously, why aren't we in the mix for him would be a great addition.
with West Ham in trouble I love to have a cheeky bid on Matty Jarvis.
also i'd love if those Barton rumours came to fruition

Would be a great signing! If it's on loan (which i'm presuming it would be) I can't see why it wouldn't happen as there is a lot of competition for places at Spurs and he's quite far down the pecking order suppose it would just come down to wages for a change.

Highly unlikely, unfortunately, as holtby is just the type of player we are after as we continue in search of some guile and creativity.

if, and that's a big IF, we sign sign anyone at all it won't be for a couple of weeks at least

Would love to see Holtby but I can't see it unless it's a sweetner for a Benteke deal.

After yet another abysmal show on Saturday there can be little doubt in anyone's mind that we URGENTLY (now not in two weeks or at the end of the window) need a decent CB, a creative midfielder and a striker as a MINIMUM

Spurs have Adebayor, Soldado & Defoe and don't have CL football! they can't afford to have Benteke also.

Would prefer Gyilfi Sigg, can score and create, wanted him before he went to spuds, just what we need UTV

04 Jan 2014 18:44:22
PL looking at Emilo Izzaguire (think that how u spell it) from Celtic £3 million, LB with great pace & champions league experience.

I hope he is looking for a new job

How long is our Randy going to persist with his inept tactics? I for one have had enough!

Lerner will never sack a manager half way through the season. He'll give him money this window and its results or the door!

No chance mate. Zero funds as we are about to be sold.
Hoolahan can come if we get rid of Ireland permanently for 1.2 million.

Sold to who?, Randy ain't going to sell Villa half way during a season at the end when we know here we are is the best time to sell certainly not know.

Not if were relegated, at least at the moment were still in the premier league.

Enjoyed that game today well won :) lol
utb

Another awe-inspiring post-match interview from lamberk where he said the same old trash about us "not being good enough", well done mate you have noticed that we are a joke, question is, what do you plan to do to resolve our demise? 90 percent of fans sick to the back teeth with your piffle! sort it out or walk, we've had enough!

The same Paul Lambert name yous where all shouting to get when he was in charge at Norwich, aye I remember it

Yeee things look grim but were still above Norwich could be worse!

Could be a lot worse

True we wanted Lambert but at Norwich he seemed to actually know a thing or two about tactics. We might have made a bad call but enough is enough, we can't put up with such poor managerial decisions.

Give him this window to add then look in to it in the summer but I have a feeling he will turn it around, all our strikers are just that strikers, we are short on a winger, cam or 2, dm, cb, lb and rb.
If he can get quality here and add to what we got and still not get results then fair enough he had ample opportunity but till then I would keep him!

04 Jan 2014 11:01:03
According to inside fotbol the agent of Steven Defour has said his client would be interested in a move the the premier league and more specifically Asotn Villa no more is expected to develop until the 10th of January he has been valued at 7m euros by Porto

Would love him at the club. Also if we can get Heitinga that shows intent. Guidetti or Saha on loan as well. Still think full back is a serious weakness though!

Everton fan Heitinga showing intent?. Intent on being relegated you mean, the guy is a liability, stay clear, go for Lescott instead ten times the player.

I agree that heitinga is not prem class at all, jus look at what benteke did to him in the 3-3 draw last season and that wasn't even his worst performance!

03 Jan 2014 21:48:00
AVFC to be sold, expect announcement on stocks soon.
Let's hope a Saudi princess takes our fancy and decides Sir Alex needs one last challenge?

And were did you find this information?
Kingvilla perhaps

Rumours of stockbrokers being readied were on twitter yesterday. That doesn't mean there is a buyer ( that we know of ). This is a rumour site after all so keep your knickers on dear.
The bit about king abdullahs sister and Sir Alex is wishful thinking, she makes the man city sheiks look like benefit cheats and man utds demise just proves Sir Alex was arguably the best manager of the modern British era.

If Villa were to be taken over by an Abramovich type person, I would stop supporting the team as the heart of the club would be ripped out. I've long had a dislike of clubs that buy success such as your Man City's - I would much rather be in a more modest position in the table and keep the club that we all know and love!

I think the hearts already been ripped out mate when it comes to modern day football, we all know we are still running at a financial loss. when the bomb squad have all gone then how many years to cover back all the losses?
in the mean time were always three games away from being relegated. no ambition for cup runs, league games are a difficult watch.
give me Ronaldo strutting on the wings anyday over Abrighton.

Don't be ridiculous jon, to say you would STOP supporting a team shows you don't truly care about them anyway, we could do with less support of your kind! who would you 'support' instead then?

This will not happen, has stated above the heart has been ripped out of the club, but I wish it was true imagine seeing great players playing great football for this great football club villajk

AVFC asking price is 250 mill.
Red bull current offer is 150 mill.
Now that price and offers are out expect change.

Who are you trying to kid?You would be in the queue for a season like everyone else!.

With all due respect guys, I believe football to be about good sportsmanship and where teams are on a similar footing, since money entered football, the game that I loved was destroyed. Now I've supported Villa all my life and I have been delighted that we've kept the old morals of the game and not descended into financial oblivion.

Don't get me wrong, I am a fan like you and I want to see Villa do well and challenge the upper echelons of the league, BUT I wouldn't be prepared to risk the collapse of the club not just on a moral level but also on a financial level. What would happen if the sheikh or tycoon pulled out, the millions spent on wages would ensure that we spiral dpwn the divisions (just look at Pompey & Harry). You're also forgetting that whilst we are experiencing success that will hit you hard in the pocket, merchandise and season tickets will escalate beyond belief.

Don't rip into me and call me a crap fan or say that you can do without me, I am a fan and want Villa to do well, just not at the expense of what we have at the moment. Just look at Everton & Arsenal who have all had steady backing and are now thriving as oppose to Pompey & Leeds who had an injection of cash and plummeted down the divisions. No "long term" good comes out of multi billionaire backing!

Red Bull would make the team play in red & white, change the club name like they have already done with the three clubs they already own, are you sure you want that?.

Gerrard houlier is their head of global football, he knows Randy.
Claret and blue army will become red and white army, Villa Park probably Villa Wings Arena, Red Bull Villians the new Aston Villa. Please no.
We are heading towards a crossroads were the devil is going to make an offer for our soul, time will tell if he is successful or not.

First off, the only reason Red Bull changed colours an the name of clubs they currently/have owned is because them clubs have no tradition, no identity and no marketing value.

Secondly, the reason why RedBull wouldn't do the same with a club like Villa is because our name an colours are apart of the clubs identity and marketing potential. RedBull will look to build on that indentity not destroy it.

>Scg87

Hi all, Some weeks back I posted a similar line that the Red Bull teams play in red & white. The ED. pointed out that this was not true.

03 Jan 2014 15:22:24
Heard through a friend that reason Johnny Heitinger pulled out of West Ham loan is PL is sniffing around. 6 month loan till Okore fit. AndyKaff

He said that he dose not want to go anywhere

Actually he said "I cancelled West Ham and we now await the interest of other clubs.
"There is some, so I'm confident that I can find another club before January 31. "

02 Jan 2014 20:25:59
Ashley young will be coming to Aston villa on a loan deal, 100% true information (source close to young)

I have just been reading that Villa are looking at two forwards.

Jurgen Locadia from PSV and a
Polish striker Piotr Parzyszek of Dutch side De Graafschap.

All the reading seems positive, but I am not sure myself.

villadave

Would love to see that happen, finally service for Benteke

Well we are going to need a striker now seeing as kozak broke his leg today and won't be back til next season

Maybe it'll just open the door for Helenius? In pre-season he looked impressive. Shame about Kozak - was starting to like the lad (4 goals in 8 starts - facts tell the story!)

Parzyszek has agreed deal with Benfica. Both those stories we was linked over month ago. So why are you reading old news?

Why I am reading old news.

Because I live in an isolated part of uk and have only just received the papers lol.

We all make mistakes

Who are you mate, why not sign off

villadave

Well guys my names andy I stood on the old witton bank to see vilaa play bournmouth in the old 3rd div in1981 while in the navy I lost a leg in the falklands, bit sore that one! nowdays I come by wheelchair I have to say I've seen dross come and goyou often failed to see one managers style as deadly bless him tried to find the right setup to eold lady'i have to say lamberk is the least since inept since venglos most westwoodabsent without leave fo 60 mins every game clark cluelrss bowery- words fail me we'd be better with bent, at least he's a finisher, tonev? baffled, stevens ditto lowton doesn't know where a fullback plays'huttoncould at leastdefend!gardner well thought of but no goo in the physio room3 months of every seasonlamberk-out no style directon, no difference in playing style since o'neil threw his out anddid a runner IN LAMBERT I DO NOT TRUST WER'E DELUDED IF WE THINK A COUPLE OF DUTCH BOYS WILL SADAY WE NEEDA HUTH, A ROSICKY OR A RIMMER BETWEEN THE STICKS ADS GREATNO NE BETTE IN ION ANYWAY KEEP THE FAITH I'M OFF TO OIL MY CHATHE DIIR GIMME A WAVE IN THEAREAI'LL AWAYS BE HER MAKE SURE YOU DO TOO VIS TA FOR READING BLESS ANDY REEVES

Roberth huth seen at bodymoor said he was just lookin around at the facilities??

01 Jan 2014 03:15:05
just heard bowery going to porto. great experience for him if true.

If this is true, i'll personally pre-order my season ticket for the next 10 years.

Hope so

Is it April 1st? as could have sworn it is Jan 1st :)

We've never lost a league game that Bowery has started. Fact.

If there is any truth in it then it might be there is truth in the Defour's link. With a player desperate to achieve recognition for his ability and eagerness to succeed he may be a decent. addition however I believe the elk of Omar Abdulrahman a snip at less than £4mill should be the benchmarks for the No10 CAM position,
Chelsea's LB Bertrand would be ideal but maybe out of reach now with Everton & Liverpool sniffing.

Zaha & Ryad Boudebouz shortlisted but again dependant on wage demand
An out and out striker that can go past players and find the target is an area of concern but again reliant on funds as it would be in the £30k wage band

Lol that has to be the strangest rumour ever on this site.
Can anyone tell me why Porto would want Bowery?

That's a club who buy in brazilians by the ton, so I'm thinking they could get 10 thousand Brazilian strikers for pennies an still they'd have a better player then Bowery

>Scg87

Bowery to porto? that is the weirdest and least likely transfer rumour I've ever heard. apparently we will get messi to replace the champions league-bound, league 2 standard bowery!