Summer 2010 Transfer Thread: B*llsh*t, Rumours & Wishes

[Mossie Hennebry]

We don't need any more players to finish 6th, so there's no panic.

[Moorski]

Football is a business & the good old days have gone now, it is about paying big money at the turnstiles to see the best players from around the world. we could expand on that but I think you get the picture.

[Merv]

I'm in the 'tuning' camp. It's a bit old fashioned and romantic (I'm 35 so I'm hardly one to hark back to the good old days) but I still like to see teams crafted, players signed from lower leagues and coming good, young players coming up through the ranks. I don't feel envious of City, I think it takes a lot of the ethos out of football by just signing anyone/everyone for huge, huge fees. They've just spent the best part of £100m on three midfield players and it's that kind of excess that is turning the PL into a ticking time bomb and harming our national side in the process.

Just my opinion though.

[Moorski]

Don't get me wrong I wish this cash explosion had not happened & we were back on a level playing field but if Randy suddenly started splashing out big bucks we would all jump on the bandwaggon.
It is a shame how the league has gone but it is the same in other countries now. Barca or Madrid win La Liga, Inter or maybe 2 other teams win Serie A, etc.

[Merv]

but if Randy suddenly started splashing out big bucks we would all jump on the bandwaggon.

See my post above. That's my preference. I'm not arguing the evidence of what's happened in the PL the past decade, nor that big clubs spend big money and tend to dominate other big clubs. Just how I prefer to enjoy football.

[JUAN PABLO]

I wish we would go the German way and stop these rich fookers owning the clubs and splashing the cash like Monopoly.   Its not doing our league much good, even thou Sky will love it..

[Mossie Hennebry]

I wish we would go the German way and stop these rich fookers owning the clubs and splashing the cash like Monopoly.   Its not doing our league much good, even thou Sky will love it..

Tom Humphries in the Irish Times penned a good article on the England/Capello failure yesterday, linking it with the amount of non-England players in the Premier League. http://bit.ly/dcJUwN

He has this little bit to say about the German system. From a Villa perspective, we have always been about bringing on youth, but is it the Premier League-style of football that hampers the young footballers' development? I like the idea of Street-League style weekends for discovering new talent.

Now imagine your name is Thomas Mueller and you are a few months older than Sam Hutchinson. And you are at the World Cup. You came to Bayern Munich as part of a youth scheme which specialises in gathering in players from Munich and its environs. Six of the current first team are from the city or just outside.

You came through one of the club’s talent weekends when up to 500 local kids will play in street league-style games while coaches look for those with natural technique and an understanding of movement.

They raised you to play within the club’s 4-3-3 system and coached you how to play in a couple of different positions. Coming through the system you trained at the same venue with the senior side, played a season in Liga 3 for Bayern’s second team and continued on stream.

You played 52 first team games for Bayern last year, yet another product of a youth system which has produced Thomas Hitzlsperger, Philip Lahm, Bastien Schweinsteiger, Piotr Trochowski, Andrea Ottle, Toni Kroos and Holger Badstuber, as well as up-coming phenomenons such as David Alaba, the youngest ever Austrian international, and Diego Contento.

By the way, 52 games Thomas? Shouldn’t you be as exhausted as the English lads? How come you covered 8,296 metres in the course of the Ghana game then? And just short of that in each game since? What’s the matter with you? You play in a league with a smattering of foreign talent but one which draws excellent crowds and depends on local players. You play for a club which turns a profit, owns 80 per cent of it’s shares (Adidas and Audi own about 10 per cent each ) and which is run by football men like Uli Hoeness and Karl Heinz Rummenigge. And this World Cup is becoming your stage.

[pauliewalnuts]

has produced Thomas Hitzlsperger, Philip Lahm, Bastien Schweinsteiger, Piotr Trochowski, Andrea Ottle, Toni Kroos and Holger Badstuber

I must surely be the only person who, when hearing Badstuber's name, gets a bastardised version of Bad Sneakers by Steely Dan on my internal jukebox.

Sorry. As you were.

[Monty]

I don't know what City will do when their wage bill breaks £200m and Platini tells them to break even.

One point about Silva is that he is inconsistent, despite his talent. He's also a bit lightweight even in the Spanish league. He will not adapt immediately, not a chance, at which point people will start to moan at him "you're paid how much? You cost how much?" (as if those things are his fault). The question will be, how does he adapt after that?

[Merv]

I genuinely, genuinely, forgot Silva was in Spain's WC squad. I've seen three of their matches and he hasn't stood out at all for me so far.

[pedro25]

Probably because he has been an unused sub in each of their matches so far.

[Merv]

That would explain it. That's why I can't recall him doing anything of note.

[Toronto Villa]

I don't know what City will do when their wage bill breaks £200m and Platini tells them to break even.

One point about Silva is that he is inconsistent, despite his talent. He's also a bit lightweight even in the Spanish league. He will not adapt immediately, not a chance, at which point people will start to moan at him "you're paid how much? You cost how much?" (as if those things are his fault). The question will be, how does he adapt after that?

It's a shame as I think it will stunt the development of Johnson. But then that's not a concern seeing as the England has such a depth of talent.

[PaulTheVillan]

David Silva created 60 goal scoring chances last season.

Wouldn't mind that inconsistency in our side, wonder how many Downing created? 5?

[Moorski]

Joe Cole was not interested in coming to VP.

KP-Boateng,Ireland, Keane could be possible targets imo