AM'S first three signings?

[JUAN PABLO]

I heard a rumour that Gardner (C) could be making a return.

Now THAT would be interesting.

see , we are turning into Blose already..

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Are you seriously asking why N'Zogbia would leave Wigan to come to Villa?

Same as we asked about their manager as well.

Depends what our transfer budget is.
I can't imagine it being too high.

[Steve67]

Ben Foster, Scott Dann and Charles N'Zogbia please.  Lots of ins and out over the summer, I just hope that Randy backs him as the Villa squad looks a bit on the light side to me and I don't think many of the kids, other than Clark and Bannan will make it.  We desperately need a keeper, left back, centre back, winger and central midfielder.  The presure is on Randy now to justify the appointment. Spend, spend, spend.

[Surrey Villain]

Now I've got the Plan.  Make McLeish Manager to facilitate the signing of Foster and Dann (unfortunately sound like a comedy duo or a pair of Irish singers) then sack him for some good reason written into his contract before the season actually starts and bring in a proper manager.

[JUAN PABLO]

Id like Nzogbia , Gervinho and Dann . probably be Ridgewell , Fahey and Hieb .

[Concrete John]

Are you seriously asking why N'Zogbia would leave Wigan to come to Villa?

Same as we asked about their manager as well.

Depends what our transfer budget is.
I can't imagine it being too high.

I can't imagine it not being.

[Merv]

To be fair to him, McLeish made some decent signings at Blues - Foster, Dann, Johnson, Hart on a season's loan, Ferguson. Came close to signing N'Zogbia, obviously went in with a serious £10m bid for Pavlychenko; Bentley and Hleb on loan last season - at the time many of us would have welcomed those two. So he may well have a decent shortlist in mind.

Against that, it's almost certainly back to the MON era of going mostly British only, so I can't see the team moving on from being fairly one-dimensional in approach and style.

[Damo70]

Foster

Johnson or Dann

Pavlychenko or Zamora

I reckon he might still have the hump with N'Zogbia though.

[ozzjim]

I think defensively it will be mainly british. Going forward I think he will look much further than MON ever did.

[Nev]

Barry Ferguson is the very antithesis of everything I believe in as far a football is concerned, his behaviour when representing his country was appalling and I don't want to see someone like that in a Villa shirt.

[taylorsworkrate]

The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion we don't have a hope in hell of signing any of Blose's decent players (Dann, Johnson, Foster).

They'll be other clubs in for them without a doubt.  After all the bad blood, why would Blose do anything to help us out?

[Leighton]

I would imagine that we would have a very good chance of signing N'Zogbia from Wigan, purely because the way that Whelan said we conducted ourselves with the Martinez approach. It's easier to do business with people you respect and can work well with.

[PeterWithesShin]

Are you seriously asking why N'Zogbia would leave Wigan to come to Villa?

Same as we asked about their manager as well.

Depends what our transfer budget is.
I can't imagine it being too high.

I can't imagine it not being.

If it isn't high then we will really know where we stand regarding Randy's ambitions.

[PeterWithesShin]

The more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion we don't have a hope in hell of signing any of Blose's decent players (Dann, Johnson, Foster).

They'll be other clubs in for them without a doubt.  After all the bad blood, why would Blose do anything to help us out?

Well get the same way regardless of whether McLeish is manager. Offer the most money.

[luke25]

Ben Foster, Scott Dann and Charles N'Zogbia please.  Lots of ins and out over the summer, I just hope that Randy backs him as the Villa squad looks a bit on the light side to me and I don't think many of the kids, other than Clark and Bannan will make it.  We desperately need a keeper, left back, centre back, winger and central midfielder.  The presure is on Randy now to justify the appointment. Spend, spend, spend.

I agree with this word for word apart from changing Bannan to Albrighton.