collapse collapse

Please donate to help towards the costs of keeping this site going. Thank You.

Recent Topics

Kits 25/26 by cdbearsfan
[Today at 05:51:48 PM]


Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc. by Bent Neilsens Screamer
[Today at 05:50:31 PM]


The International Cricket Thread by PaulWinch again
[Today at 05:49:20 PM]


FFP by kippaxvilla2
[Today at 05:23:30 PM]


International Rugby by UK Redsox
[Today at 04:27:48 PM]


Pre season 2025 by ChicagoLion
[Today at 03:54:07 PM]


Yasin Ozcan (now out on loan at Anderlecht) by Somniloquism
[Today at 01:41:10 PM]


Other Games 2025-26 by VILLA MOLE
[Today at 11:18:27 AM]

Follow us on...

Author Topic: Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.  (Read 2841958 times)

Offline IRISHPHIL

  • Member
  • Posts: 255
Re: Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.
« Reply #3435 on: June 02, 2011, 03:45:31 PM »
missed out on oscar wendt
will have to find another player , so can act as his agent

Offline whydelilah

  • Member
  • Posts: 209
Re: Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.
« Reply #3436 on: June 02, 2011, 03:51:28 PM »
The Demba Ba fee was structured over his contract, Hoffenheim took a big risk and it backfired.

Demba Ba had a clause written in that he could cancel his contract if West Ham were relegated, which is what he has now done.

West Ham ended up paying around a Million for the 6 months he was there.

Hoffenheim are the losers in that deal. They took a risk, it backfired.

Offline Salsa Party Animal

  • Member
  • Posts: 2144
  • Age: 52
  • Location: Trinity Road Lower Stand or Dance-floor or Bedroom.
    • http://www.youtube.com/user/Salsapartyanimal
Re: Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.
« Reply #3437 on: June 02, 2011, 04:25:29 PM »
Problem is we don't know who the next manager is and who are his targets for Aston Villa.

Offline KevinGage

  • Member
  • Posts: 14104
  • Location: Singing from under the floorboards
  • GM : 20.09.20
Re: Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.
« Reply #3438 on: June 02, 2011, 05:14:04 PM »
Can't believe that Friedel is signing for Spurs (apparently). Must look good as a highlights goalie. And he'll be on a nice 50k a week until he's 42...fair play I suppose.
Van Der Saar has retired younger having retained far more of his goalkeeping faculties than Brad.

I like Brad, but there were definitely signs of the old reflexes going last season. If 'arry believes he's a decent enough solution to their goalkeeping woes I can't see them being top 4 next year either.

Offline Nath_AvFc

  • Member
  • Posts: 13
  • Location: Aldridge
Re: Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.
« Reply #3439 on: June 02, 2011, 07:23:06 PM »
Been reported on twitter just that a well know german newspaper is stating we've signed/very close to, Bradley for 5 million euros.

Offline TheSandman

  • Member
  • Posts: 34781
  • Age: 34
  • Location: The seaside town that they forgot to bomb
  • GM : May, 2013
Re: Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.
« Reply #3440 on: June 02, 2011, 07:56:16 PM »
I think given a chance he might do well.

Looked tidy enough in his cameos at the end of the season.

Hopefully, if we have lined Ailsa up we are signing Bradley because he wants him and are not making signings that the previous man had lined up.

Online The Left Side

  • Member
  • Posts: 8006
  • Location: Somewhere between Brum and Vancouver
Re: Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.
« Reply #3441 on: June 02, 2011, 08:00:28 PM »
Blimey I hope he doesn't turn out to be bad, the last bald player we signed without a manager in place is still hanging around.

Offline ozzjim

  • Moderator
  • Member
  • Posts: 30995
  • Location: Here.
  • GM : 30.08.2022
Re: Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.
« Reply #3442 on: June 02, 2011, 08:33:28 PM »
Maybe it is an unwritten club rule. While we don't have an employed manager, we HAVE to sign a bald player in that time.

Offline cdbearsfan

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 72407
  • Location: Yardley Massive
  • I still hate Bono.
  • GM : 03.02.2026
Re: Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.
« Reply #3443 on: June 02, 2011, 11:08:11 PM »
I think Bradley might do well given time to get to know the team. If it's about £4 million, and still relatively young, it's not much of a gamble.

Offline TheEgo

  • Member
  • Posts: 1738
  • GM : Sept, 2013
Re: Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.
« Reply #3444 on: June 03, 2011, 10:01:42 AM »
Friedel gone to Spurs

Offline Concrete John

  • Member
  • Posts: 15175
  • Location: Flying blind on a rocket cycle
  • GM : Mar, 2014
Re: Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.
« Reply #3445 on: June 03, 2011, 10:05:02 AM »
To be fair, I can't see Bradley, once aclimatised to the PL, being any worse a player for us than NRC, so it fills one hole in the squad.

Offline Duncan Shaw

  • Member
  • Posts: 3674
  • Location: Epsom, Surrey
Re: Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.
« Reply #3446 on: June 03, 2011, 10:07:59 AM »
But why on earth would we make that decision when there is no manager in place.  Unless there is one and he has rubber stamped it behind the scenes.

Online achilles

  • Member
  • Posts: 2495
Re: Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.
« Reply #3447 on: June 03, 2011, 12:51:14 PM »
But why on earth would we make that decision when there is no manager in place.  Unless there is one and he has rubber stamped it behind the scenes.

My sentiments exactly!

Offline pablopicasso_10

  • Member
  • Posts: 1355
  • Age: 46
  • Location: villa territory
    • studio eleventytwelve
Re: Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.
« Reply #3448 on: June 03, 2011, 12:55:55 PM »
which decision?

if its bradley, i havent seen any official confirmation that he has signed permanently...

if its friedel, that was out of our hands as he was a free transfer... we offered him a deal, so did spuds... he chose spuds...

Offline Jimsta

  • Member
  • Posts: 2953
  • Location: Nakhon Ratchasima , Thailand
  • GM : 13.05.2020
Re: Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.
« Reply #3449 on: June 03, 2011, 01:03:13 PM »
Wigan have bid 3 million for Boltons keeper Ali Al - Habsi.
Good keeper but Robinson and Foster would be better for the Villa.

 


SimplePortal 2.3.6 © 2008-2014, SimplePortal