January Transfer Speculation (or lack of) Thread

[JJ-AV]

Zamora is exactly the sort of signing I want us to keep away from. He'd cost about £6m and be on a massive wage, what's the point?

[UsualSuspect]

Zamora is exactly the sort of signing I want us to keep away from. He'd cost about £6m and be on a massive wage, what's the point?

MON is keen, just his type of signing.

6 million quid, big wages and no resale value.

He's got Sunderland written all over him.

Thankfully

[PaulWinch again]

Zamora is exactly the sort of signing I want us to keep away from. He'd cost about £6m and be on a massive wage, what's the point?

Agreed, I think we need to cast our net a bit wider and get value for money.

[Rick_avfc]

Moving away from Zamora for a min, has that Portugese player started on trail yet?  Djalo?

[Steve R]

Whatever we do need right now it is not yet another ageing journeyman at significant cost who will give variable mid-table service for a few years before departing for the square root of sod all by way of a fee.

Surely we should have learned something by now.

[TaxDodger]

I think I'd rather give Heskey another contract than sign Bobby fucking Zamora.

[Shrek]

Whatever we do need right now it is not yet another ageing journeyman at significant cost who will give variable mid-table service for a few years before departing for the square root of sod all by way of a fee.

Surely we should have learned something by now.

Your talking about Paul Faulkner and Randy Lerner.

[Rigadon]

Oh joy.  Another 'do a job' player. 

Can we sign a younger, cheaper version with some potential to be a LOT better than Bobby Zamora.  He is the very essence of journey man.

[JUAN PABLO]

Whatever we do need right now it is not yet another ageing journeyman at significant cost who will give variable mid-table service for a few years before departing for the square root of sod all by way of a fee.

Surely we should have learned something by now.

Or pay the wages of an injury prone player who is owned by another club

[Toronto Villa]

aside from our move for Shay, I don't think we'll be signing an 30+ players. The club are down that path now and want to get rid of wasteful contracts or contracts tied to players past their prime. AM will allowed to spend on players that will give the club their best years plus a mandate of bringing through the kids. Clubs with money to burn might look at players who are at their prime right now. We'll be in the untapped potential or up and coming stars market for a good bit yet.

[JJ-AV]

I'd like us to look at Diame at Wigan and Hoilett at Blackburn.

Both of their contracts are expiring in the Summer, so they'd both be available in Jan you'd imagine. Although Spurs have supposedly already started the groundwork for Hoilett.

Hanley looks a prospect at Blackburn too.

Another bid for Johnson and/or Milner on loan too perhaps? Now Citeh are out of the Champs League the amount of games against top opposition with be limited for those pair, and they'll need alot of football before the Euros.

[TheSandman]

I'd go for Hoilet and Diame. If Blackburn are really in financial schtook I'd go for N'Zonzi before Diame though.

[Mister E]

I don't see any players coming in; hopefully he'll offload some of the dross and give us a clear run at the close-season opportunities.

[Villanation]

If we are seriously looking at Zamora its for a definite reason, its one of maybe two possibilities, first being Bent is on his way, despite what was said by Faulkner recently about Bent going nowhere (in actual fact that probably means he's nailed on to go) it clearly isn't working for him at the club, he will have been with us for 1 season come January and I hate to imagine what his goal tally will be for that season.

The other reason could well be Gabby, personally I'm astonished that we have held onto him, you only have to look at our games this season and Gabby looks head and shoulders above everybody else on the park, I can't imagine he's going to replace Heskey with Zamora and I don't believe we are going to commit to the overhead of paying Bent, Gabby and Zamora all in the squad, not to mention Delfouneso, if Zamora is coming to Villa its in place of Gabby or Bent

[Rigadon]

Hmm, not sure I can agree Villanation.  There would be a riot of the club sold Gabby and the club would know this.  Can't see him wanting to leave either.