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

[VillaAlways]

The best we can hope for is a top half finish and good runs in the cups and hopefully winning one.I think Eck is capable of doing that for us

[eastie]

If and I say if it is true that the young money was spent in advance on bent and that we have only the cash left for a keeper as kendrick says , then the sell to buy and playing youth policy we will be looking at will see other teams go past us like Sunderland and Newcastle.

Without decent investmest in this league you will struggle and maybe randy gave it his best shot and it failed , if he no longer can put the money in needed to compete then what will he do-stay and be happy to survive or sell up to a rich investor who can pump in cash to take us forward?

Hang on, the Young money was spent on Bent? So who was the Milner money spent on?

Milner minus the12 million we spent on him originally= Makoun

randys divorce or balancing the books? i dare say randy hasnt a bottomless pit of money and the financial crisis has hit hard over the last 2 years .
paying off mon , ged and gary mac plus bringing in eck?

[Concrete John]

Buying Bent in January was entirely in keeping with a sell-to-buy strategy, the money was raised through the sale of Milner.

Unless the board make a serious investment in the squad this summer, then it is time to accept that their investment strategy is Ellisian at best.

We can't know that - as in know what we would have done had Milner not gone.  When you factor in that we had also changed manager to someone the board had more faith in, then that could also be the reason we spent in Jan and not the summer.

I do agree with your 2nd paragraph though - we've got a new manager, who is their choice, and prety much the whole summer to target and negotiate with players, so no more excuses - come 1st September we'll know where we stand.

[ROBBO]

Money is everything you can run a club to perfection but if you don't have enough to splash around you are destined for mid table at best. The premiership is going the way of Scotland where only two clubs have a realistic chance of winning. I think we have possibly three but maybe only two both in Manchester. Chelsea would have been in it but somehow i don't think it will happen for them. What a sorry position football is in nowdays.

[Greg N'Ash]

i think most of us already know where we stand with the approaches for Martinez and AM.  Average managers used to surviving (or not) on a limited budget.You don't go and buy a Vauxhall vectra if you're planning to enter formula 1.

[eastie]

i think most of us already know where we stand with the approaches for Martinez and AM.  Average managers used to surviving (or not) on a limited budget.You don't go and buy a Vauxhall vectra if you're planning to enter formula 1.

so what do we do greg , give up, or just wait until we get a new buyer with wads of cash?

[Le Lapin]

i think most of us already know where we stand with the approaches for Martinez and AM.  Average managers used to surviving (or not) on a limited budget.You don't go and buy a Vauxhall vectra if you're planning to enter formula 1.

For fucks sake, give the guy a chance. Signing Darren Bent wasn't a Vauxhall move from the board.

[Greg N'Ash]

i think most of us already know where we stand with the approaches for Martinez and AM.  Average managers used to surviving (or not) on a limited budget.You don't go and buy a Vauxhall vectra if you're planning to enter formula 1.

so what do we do greg , give up, or just wait until we get a new buyer with wads of cash?

I'm guessing the new '(2)5 year plan' is to follow Everton's route - lower wages, a more balanced budget sheet in regards to transfers, with a much bigger reliance on our youth set-up. Getting the big earners like Downing off the wage bill would fit into that sort of scenario

[pauliewalnuts]

i think most of us already know where we stand with the approaches for Martinez and AM.  Average managers used to surviving (or not) on a limited budget.You don't go and buy a Vauxhall vectra if you're planning to enter formula 1.

so what do we do greg , give up, or just wait until we get a new buyer with wads of cash?

I'm guessing the new '(2)5 year plan' is to follow Everton's route - lower wages, a more balanced budget sheet in regards to transfers, with a much bigger reliance on our youth set-up. Getting the big earners like Downing off the wage bill would fit into that sort of scenario

Perhaps then we, too, could have a site like this:

http://www.evertontime.com/

[Greg N'Ash]

heheheh. quality.

[abc123cox]

Stop all this NEGATIVITY!!

Mat Kendrick
@MatKendrick Mat Kendrick
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Mat told me Villa will be signing players he has assurances of this from his contacts at villa! he couldn't mention any names but did say we have inquired about N'zogbia but more will happen in next 5 to 10 days!

please everyone lets just give it a bit of time

also still 56 days left in transfer window!

[Rip Van We Go Again]

i think most of us already know where we stand with the approaches for Martinez and AM.  Average managers used to surviving (or not) on a limited budget.You don't go and buy a Vauxhall vectra if you're planning to enter formula 1.

For fucks sake, give the guy a chance. Signing Darren Bent wasn't a Vauxhall move from the board.

No. It was more of a part exchange as Bent was bought with the Milner money.

Unless things change in a radical way, we'll have to assume that Mr Lerner Sir is a remixed Doug Ellis.

If so, that's a real shame after the big strides we made in the first 3 years.

[eastie]

i think most of us already know where we stand with the approaches for Martinez and AM.  Average managers used to surviving (or not) on a limited budget.You don't go and buy a Vauxhall vectra if you're planning to enter formula 1.

so what do we do greg , give up, or just wait until we get a new buyer with wads of cash?

I'm guessing the new '(2)5 year plan' is to follow Everton's route - lower wages, a more balanced budget sheet in regards to transfers, with a much bigger reliance on our youth set-up. Getting the big earners like Drandy gave it his best shot and we blew it , oh if only mon had bought bent instead of harewood and heskey.
owning off the wage bill would fit into that sort of scenario

[Concrete John]

i think most of us already know where we stand with the approaches for Martinez and AM.  Average managers used to surviving (or not) on a limited budget.You don't go and buy a Vauxhall vectra if you're planning to enter formula 1.

so what do we do greg , give up, or just wait until we get a new buyer with wads of cash?

I'm guessing the new '(2)5 year plan' is to follow Everton's route - lower wages, a more balanced budget sheet in regards to transfers, with a much bigger reliance on our youth set-up. Getting the big earners like Downing off the wage bill would fit into that sort of scenario

Is that such a bad thing? 

If you look at the spending power Randy has brought to bear since he took over it's not inconsiderable, yet it isn't enough to buy our way into the top 4.  Even if it was before the whole Man City thing has put paid to that.  So we look to the youth set up, which is a strength of ours anyway, and this allows us to re-focus the money we do have.

I still want to see deals like Milner/Ash/Downing coming it, but no more of the Sidwell/Beye/Harewood.  The kids taking the place of the latter so we can get a few more of the former.     

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Mat told me Villa will be signing players he has assurances of this from his contacts at villa!

It's no great stretch to say 'we'll be signing new players'
The question is what sort of quality will they be?