Summer transfer rumours, speculation and out-and-out b*ll*cks.

[The Situation]

My friend played football quite a bit with Daniel Sturridge when they were both young. Even back then my friend knew he was going to be playing at a very high level.

Not quite sure why we released him from our academy...

[hartman_1982]

My friend played football quite a bit with Daniel Sturridge when they were both young. Even back then my friend knew he was going to be playing at a very high level.

Not quite sure why we released him from our academy...

He was not released. His dad was a complete arse and demanded we buy him a house etc, which was something we refused to do. He then moved to Man Shitty via Cov.

[PeterWithe]

http://astonvillablog.com/villa-still-interested-in-bad-boy-barton/?

Barton is a good footballer, but he's a total c***. Shame really.

One of the benefits of our new manager is that he can go out and sign players like Barton and not be any more unpopular.

[Greg N'Ash]

barton and Ireland in the same squad. heh!. If that happens i'm putting a tenner on Villa having a player up on a murder charge bofore the season ends..

[ozzjim]

Walker will be first choice at Spurs next season and Redknapp will be lauded for making him into a great player.

[barrysleftfoot]

  I think Dean and Simon are his uncles.......and they are Villa fans.

  I'm sure they used to live in Kingstanding.

[Clark W Griswold]

Assuming that prat Downing goes as well, that would be another £20m on top, so my estimation would be £90-95m to spend now. I wouldn't be too offended with either of the following starting 11's, which wouldn't cost anywhere near that;

------------------------------------------------------------Foster---------------------------------------------------------------
--Hutton------------------------Cuellar-----------------------------Dann-------------------------------------L Young-----
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------Makoun-------------------------Delph------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------Adam---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------Albrighton--------------------------------------------------------------------------N'Zogbia-------------------------
-------------------------------------------------Bent----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subs; Guzan, Clark, New Def, Petrov, Bannan, Agbonlahor, New Winger.

Or

---------------------------------------------------Foster--------------------------------------------------------------------
----Hutton-------------------------Cuellar--------------------Dann-------------------------------------L Young-------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------Reo Coker----------Delph/Makoun------------------------------------------------
---Albrighton-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------N'Zogbia-----------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------Sturridge-----------------Bent-------------------------------------------------------
Subs; Guzan, Clark, New Def, Petrov, Delph/Makoun, Agbonlahor, New winger.

Foster £10m
Hutton £4m
Dann £12m
N'Zogbia £10m (Only 1 year on contract, not English)
Either Sturridge £16m or Adam £10m
Spend £8m on the 2 bench warmers.

Either £54m or £60m. No problem. Easy, this transfer lark.

[King of the Nørth]

Assuming that prat Downing goes as well, that would be another £20m on top, so my estimation would be £90-95m to spend now. I wouldn't be too offended with either of the following starting 11's, which wouldn't cost anywhere near that;

------------------------------------------------------------Foster---------------------------------------------------------------
--Hutton------------------------Cuellar-----------------------------Dann-------------------------------------L Young-----
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------Makoun-------------------------Delph------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------Adam---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------Albrighton--------------------------------------------------------------------------N'Zogbia-------------------------
-------------------------------------------------Bent----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subs; Guzan, Clark, New Def, Petrov, Bannan, Agbonlahor, New Winger.

Or

---------------------------------------------------Foster--------------------------------------------------------------------
----Hutton-------------------------Cuellar--------------------Dann-------------------------------------L Young-------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------Reo Coker----------Delph/Makoun------------------------------------------------
---Albrighton-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------N'Zogbia-----------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------Sturridge-----------------Bent-------------------------------------------------------
Subs; Guzan, Clark, New Def, Petrov, Delph/Makoun, Agbonlahor, New winger.

Foster £10m
Hutton £4m
Dann £12m
N'Zogbia £10m (Only 1 year on contract, not English)
Either Sturridge £16m or Adam £10m
Spend £8m on the 2 bench warmers.

Either £54m or £60m. No problem. Easy, this transfer lark.

 Dont think your midfield of Adam, Delph & Makoun would work mate. Need at least 1 defensive battler in there. We wont spend that much money either unfortunately. I can see Sturridge going to Spurs as part of a Modric deal now.

[Clark W Griswold]

 Dont think your midfield of Adam, Delph & Makoun would work mate. Need at least 1 defensive battler in there. We wont spend that much money either unfortunately. I can see Sturridge going to Spurs as part of a Modric deal now.

Its all a bit tongue in cheek and not to be taken seriously, but i beg to differ with the 2 points you make. If we get £35m for Downing and Young, and are quite likely to offload a couple more topping it up to say, £40m in, i reckon it's quite possible you'll see up to £60m go out the door, new manager and all. That is of course if we can get the players we want, i.e. we don't appear to be quite the shambles we have in the last couple of weeks to potential targets, or aren't gazumped on price / wages by someone else.
The midfield argument, if you check the 2 teamsheets you'll see the point i'm about to make. With a midfield 2, you need a ball winner, sit in front of the defence type alongside someone with energy and a pass in their locker. If you play 3 midfielders, you can get away with not using a dedicated ball winner as long as 2 or 3 out of the 3 have the ability to get around the pitch and put a foot in. I believe Makoun and Delph would, and Adam is hardly a lightweight. Those players need to be able to pass the ball to get the front 3 on the front foot in the final third, all of those can, in fact Adam is a star in that respect.
Just my view of course.

[KevinGage]

In one of the more surprising moves of the transfer window (until Barton moves to Arsenal, obv) Jeremy Toulalan has moved to Malaga from Lyon.

What odds Makoun moving back there?

[PaulWinch again]

In one of the more surprising moves of the transfer window (until Barton moves to Arsenal, obv) Jeremy Toulalan has moved to Malaga from Lyon.

What odds Makoun moving back there?

Hope he doesn't, I think he'll be excellent for us.

[David_Nab]

In one of the more surprising moves of the transfer window (until Barton moves to Arsenal, obv) Jeremy Toulalan has moved to Malaga from Lyon.

What odds Makoun moving back there?

Arn't they loaded ,Malaga just got brought out.Also signed Van Nistelrooy ..the Man City of Spain

[PaulTheVillan]

I've got a feeling Makoun will go in the summer. Hope not, I like him.

[eastie]

Has a decision been made regarding Bradley yet?

[Summers]

In one of the more surprising moves of the transfer window (until Barton moves to Arsenal, obv) Jeremy Toulalan has moved to Malaga from Lyon.

What odds Makoun moving back there?

Arn't they loaded ,Malaga just got brought out.Also signed Van Nistelrooy ..the Man City of Spain

Owned by a Sheik. Huge money being pumped into them.