Aston Villa Rumours Archive January 01 2023 to January 31 2023

31 Jan 2023 14:00:08
Looks like Traore is being recalled from his loan spell.

31 Jan 2023 22:27:44
I quite like traore, think was dissapointed the sent him out on loan he could be a wide player we need Been watching sKY'S Transfere show all day and am a dissapointed we aye been linked with anyone EVEN A LOAN ALTHOUGH THERE IS STILL 30 MINS LEFT TO GO.
Still In UE WE TRUST
UPV

01 Feb 2023 03:23:27
Hi Tony, I too like Traore but he is a bit hot and cold, he seems to be injury prone too. I think Unai may use him mainly for cover and as an impact player late on in games, he does have the ability to turn things around and maybe that role may suit him better, I just hope he stays fit enough for us to find out.

01 Feb 2023 10:53:58
adoo One AV

YES You right I think on all count's there, at least UE ain't wasted any cash on panick buying and prepared to be patient until the summer and the right player/s can be available
UP THE VILLA

18 Feb 2023 12:26:19
I quite like Traoré as well. I think that he is a decent winger/forward, and I'm glad that he will stay at Aston Villa! Up the Villa!

31 Jan 2023 01:03:51
Well I don't claim to be in the know myself but I have just heard that Unai Emery has set aside a significant amount of cash to seal the signing of Jonathan David.
This would be an incredible signing and one that would surely please all our fans, if this happens then Villa are getting to Europe and I'm going to party hard, I just hope it materializes, but the good thing is that we haven't got long to wait to find out for certain, this is massive news if true. UTV

31 Jan 2023 02:46:18
Personally I think we will make two significant signings but I have no idea who that might be, I don't think the media have a clue either. Hopefully it's a good day for us Villans and we get some real quality through the door, but if not I guess we will all have to wait until summer. UTV

31 Jan 2023 12:39:28
Hi One AV. We have been linked before, so I specifically watched him in the World Cup. In reality he is not an upgrade. I'm afraid he is another one pundits have labelled at our level and then lazily 'linked'. There are quite a few, Weston McKennie, Danjuma etc, etc. We really should be looking a bit higher, and I expect that we are.

01 Feb 2023 03:18:23
Hi Villa56, turned out that none of the links were fruitful, I'm a little disappointed as I did expect a couple of incomings but I'm happy we resisted the temptation to panic buy. I still think the squad is ample to take us comfortably through to the summer with progress where I expect that window to be a little busier for us. I'm interested to see how the Duran signing pans out, I don't know an awful lot of him if I'm honest, but he reminds me of Benteke, I have a good feeling about him and I think in time he could become that goal scorer we have lacked. Hopefully the rest of the season goes well and with a bit of luck Europe, but the likes of Chelsea and a few others have spent big so those top places will become congested, but you never know. UTV

30 Jan 2023 12:28:58
well according to sky sports in france we haven't bid for guendassi and is staying at his club until the summer.i would of liked 3 in personally but if we can't get the targets unai wants then let's wait until summer,blood some of our youngsters,or bring in a decent player on loan

30 Jan 2023 13:15:39
I was hoping for Guenduzi signing although it aye to late but think your right when you say loan Player and blood some of our youngsters

24 Jan 2023 20:13:29
45mil bid for neco williams rejected by player would been a quality signing,reporters in spain we have bid for real betis winger brazilian,also guendezzi close,and dembelle

24 Jan 2023 22:08:29
Id like to hear some positive news from all these rumours, our bench is getting thinner by the day, I wonder if we will sign a CB to cover for possible injuries or suspensions

25 Jan 2023 08:02:50
I get the impression if Emery can’t get the players he wants now, then he isn’t going to buy anyone for the sake of it, I think from what you can glean from the rumours the players he seems to really want are Guendouzi, Delafeou and Dembele I think we have a decent chance of landing the first two but with Dembele It wouldn’t surprise me if the club waited until the summer when we can potentially pick him up for free as opposed to paying a fee right now. It may be a risky approach but to be honest we aren’t in any danger of going down, and qualifying for Europe is an extremely long shot so it may well be that sticking with what we have allowing the coach use the rest of this campaign as in effect an early pre season so the current squad are fully au fair with the coach and how he wants to play, and then go big in the summer may be what the club decides go with although I must confess the striker situation does make me a tad nervous.

25 Jan 2023 11:59:45
The fat lady is not singing yet. There will be at least one before the window shuts.

25 Jan 2023 12:39:41
LOTM agree with your thoughts on Emery not buying just for the sake of it.
However, we can’t let players go on perm or loan deals if it means leaving our squad depleted.
We need to bring in a striker at the very least, hopefully a winger too.
At the moment this window is panning out as average. The summer should see us making huge strides.

27 Jan 2023 09:09:52
Yes no panic buys. I have faith that Emery won’t buy for the sake of it too. Well bring in a max of 2 I reckon though.

29 Jan 2023 16:06:58
I’m not so sure we’ll bring in anyone now. I think we’ve got what we’ve got.
We’ve let players go either perm or on loan and now the squad is thin.
I don’t want to sign just anyone and signing players in January is more difficult.
If we don’t invest now and finish 9th or even 8th we’ll be more attractive in the summer.
However, if we fall away and end up 14th or 15th we won’t be able to attract those same players in the summer.
We have to be realistic.
It is a gamble either way.

19 Jan 2023 09:16:41
Ings to West ham official for about 15mil

16 Jan 2023 13:39:03
new striker in jon duran don't know anything about him don't watch mls,does any1 know about him

16 Jan 2023 20:18:00
Not played a game since 15th Dec and that was international friendly.
Season ended October in MLS so he's not done much since then.
Whilst playing last season 27 games 9 goals in what some would say it's playing in Div1.

Just have to see how it goes - could be a wonder kid, or a wonder why

11 Jan 2023 19:37:58
rumours going around we have agreed a fee for mousa dembelle hope its true he's a finisher

12 Jan 2023 02:53:28
Where did you see this Jonny?

12 Jan 2023 03:40:16
In his dreams I’d say??

12 Jan 2023 07:24:38
In fairness to Jonny I have seen the Dembele rumour too. Apparently a couple of Turkish sides were interested I think one was Galatasary but they have withdrawn interest because a premiership side has entered the race, the assumption was that Villa were that team on what basis they were assuming it was us wasn’t made clear.

10 Jan 2023 18:29:25
Do you guys think there's truth in the rumours about this South Korean kid?

10 Jan 2023 21:38:12
hope its true he's a good player whack realmadrid signed him 1st so he has to have a lot of talent for them to sign him,hes very quick and has an eye for goal

08 Jan 2023 13:30:42
Maggie into 1/7 now to join us. Pictures doing the rounds of him and his agent at the Belfry on Friday. Just putting it out there again

08 Jan 2023 14:27:48
I would take him but not for the money it would cost in transfers and wages.

08 Jan 2023 15:50:07
A loan wouldn't be a bad option AVF?

09 Jan 2023 20:51:39
There’s often a whole bunch of meatheads at the Belfry on a Friday. Mostly corporate-types so, frankly, I wouldn’t read too much into it ?

05 Jan 2023 22:47:51
Alex Moreno rumours popping up everywhere. also Weston makinne, how do guys feel about those 2 for starters?

06 Jan 2023 01:35:34
mkennie is class whacky proper box to box mid better than mgginn in my opinion,and moreno a very good player aswell good good tackler and marker

06 Jan 2023 13:45:49
I don’t know too much about Moreno but what I have seen of McKennie he looks a good player. For me the interesting thing will be how we use him so if he’s going to play as a box to box midfielder then I think Emery will have to move away from the 4 2 3 1 system because I don’t see McKennie starting in the middle of a three with Coutinho Buendia McGinn available as I would imagine Luiz and Kamara being the holding midfielders, but If we play a straight 4 3 3 I am not sure he how he fits in there either as Kamara is a must Emery seems to like Luiz so that leaves McKennie competing with the ones I mentioned above not forgetting we have Ramsey to come back in. I know we need a squad but I would rather see a winger,out and out striker come in before a central midfielder to be honest

06 Jan 2023 14:25:29
could be a replacement for mggin maybe,mgginn hasn't been great for a while now

06 Jan 2023 15:48:37
Looking over the wall at some of the Hammer's sites, they are despairing at the fact that we are positioning to sign McKennie as Moyes has had his eye on him for a while but they don't think Sullivan will hand over the required funds ?

07 Jan 2023 17:35:11
Think McKennie would challenge / potentially replace McGinn in our current set up, a 4-2-2-2 or 4-4-2 while defending - Ramsey on the opposite side with Buendia, McGinn and Coutinho as options off the bench. That's an incredibly dynamic midfield 4 with very good options off the bench and if we purchase Moreno and another striker our bench starts to look extremely strong with Ings, Bailey and Digne probably starting from the bench also. All of a sudden we have some great squad depth!

01 Jan 2023 20:26:32
According to Transfer tavern NSWE are looking for a new sporting Director. They no longer have confidence in Lange.

03 Jan 2023 14:04:01
WE are well behind many clubs when it comes to finding players.
Why do clubs much smaller than Villa get some real bargains from abroad and then sell them to us at a huge price?
Other clubs manage to lure "special" players for a reasonable fee who light up the prem?
Pool are very good at getting players with reputations and we fail. Nunez for example.
Unless we start getting players that other clubs are looking at we will never achieve what the owners want.
Some of our young players will still be going out on loan when they are in their 20's while at other clubs young players are already in the prem.
We are tardy when it comes to moving players through the ranks.
Chucky could see this and he jumped ship.
Archer and Barry seem to be in the same situation and several other young players.
End or rant!

03 Jan 2023 16:05:29
Nunez can’t buy a goal it’s a bit of a push to say he lights up the league, but Liverpool are seen as title contenders do players want to go there.
we got kamara for free and Carlos could be a great signing for the money we paid if he recovers properly, I see your point about the young players but our fanbase doesn’t have the patience to develop these players in the premier league, I think our promotion came 2 or 3 years to early for our younger talent to have had the chance in the first team, we can only blame ourselves in my opinion we want results and progress more than we want to see youngsters play.

03 Jan 2023 18:03:26
Whack certainly agree about the kids, Archer, Hayden, Young Tim at QPR are all players,we’ve had great hopes for .You sadly just can’t see with Emery how they will get a look in .He’s been brought in to do a job,it if he’s brave enough to take a chance . With the cup coming up perhaps Archer will get a chance .
We have invested in the academy recently, bringing in top youngsters from all over, we’ve had rave reports about many of them, so surely all this won’t go to waste

03 Jan 2023 19:35:55
Nunez cost the better part of £90mill, we're not shelling out that sort of money.
Barrie clearly isn't developing into the player we thought he would. He's starting to get game time now but not really producing to a level that suggests he'llever make it to our first team.
Multiple managers now have not given Archer much time. It's all well and good scoring goals but a manager has to see that you can get on the ball and do the defensive work also. Not letting him get another loan is poor management though.
We haven't done anything wrong with Tim and he's on the right track. He has players ahead of him but he's getting good experience at the top end of the Championship. If he starts controlling games a little more regularly I'm sure he'll get his chances with us.

03 Jan 2023 21:26:46
I’m not sure a manager would be too worried about a strikers defensive work rate if he’s banging in 20 to 25 goals a season in the premier league.Some of the great strikers only came alive in and around the18 yard box

03 Jan 2023 22:18:47
They are massively in the past, Ruud van Nistlerooy was probably the last of that kind. Maybe an argument for Aguero but that's a luxury afforded to a team with half a billion pounds of players around them.
If you're not contributing more than tap ins nowadays then you won't get played, simple as.
A forward who doesn't either get the team up the pitch or press from the front often doesn't get the chances required to score that many. The manager then sees them as a passenger and drops them.
Archer is too small to be a target man so would be relying on pace and positioning. Multiple managers and coaches obviously all agree that there is something lacking at this moment in time for him to be an effective option at this level.

04 Jan 2023 12:56:04
You don’t know unless you give the lad a run. He has scored at championship level which he has done when given the chance, which is all he can do and if the rumours are true re Muriqi then I don’t understand why Archer doesn’t get a run I can’t see him being worse than a 1 in 6 centre forward not used to playing in the premiership.

04 Jan 2023 13:31:02
I like him but he's only had half a season doing fairly well in the Championship. He did it with a team that suited him also.
Until we start controlling the ball more regularly against better teams then we need someone who is an out ball like Watkins or another strong (er) forward.
Another loan will do him good until Emery gets the rest of the team moulded to what he wants. A good run with someone else while we evolve will hopefully lead to it being right for him to come in.