January Transfer Speculation (or lack of) Thread

[bertlambshank]

I agree with TV offer a new contract.I am off to start a Facebook campaign.

[Toronto Villa]

I've always quite rated Beye. Never felt he was given a fair crack of the whip. Get him back from Donny and play him. If he proves himself then give him a new contract and we save a fortune.

when you consider a new full back might be 2-3 million plus signing bonus and wages, we'd be better keeping Beye around for a year or two more.

[Ryu]

I'm glad you're enjoying it, John. But logic twisting of this level hurts my poor head.

[PeterWithesShin]

I've always quite rated Beye. Never felt he was given a fair crack of the whip. Get him back from Donny and play him. If he proves himself then give him a new contract and we save a fortune.

when you consider a new full back might be 2-3 million plus signing bonus and wages, we'd be better keeping Beye around for a year or two more.

Exactly, money in the bank that we can then spend on a CM. Makes perfect business sense to me.

[Greg N'Ash]

If we can't get some money we should get none at all. Logic, Greg-style

well if you really think that 4k a month is going to make any difference.  Maybe AM will announce a signing in May and claim it was funded by the 20k Beye Memorial fund....

[hawkeye]

Dunno if any one can elighten me, but i have never understood how this situation developed. MON bought him, then didnt play him and he dissapeared. I never saw him make comments in the Media, when he did play he was played out of position with a scratch defence. So what happened?

[cdbearsfan]

I'd give Beye a new deal too. He's never really been given a fair chance at Villa Park. I saw him play for the reserves a couple of years ago against Crewe and it was like watching Giuseppe Bergomi in his pomp.

[Dave Cooper please]

If we can't get some money we should get none at all. Logic, Greg-style

well if you really think that 4k a month is going to make any difference.  Maybe AM will announce a signing in May and claim it was funded by the 20k Beye Memorial fund....

4K a month could be the diference between giving one of our academy a professional contract or releasing him, that player could then go on to play for our first team, thus saving us even more money, he could even turn out to be a star.

[Greg N'Ash]

Dunno if any one can elighten me, but i have never understood how this situation developed. MON bought him, then didnt play him and he dissapeared. I never saw him make comments in the Media, when he did play he was played out of position with a scratch defence. So what happened?

*sigh* MON buys shit player, MON realises he's shit 6 months after everyone else. Player disappears off the planet.. See also Davies. MFH, Sidwell, Shorey, add your own example.....

[glasses]

If we can't get some money we should get none at all. Logic, Greg-style

well if you really think that 4k a month is going to make any difference.  Maybe AM will announce a signing in May and claim it was funded by the 20k Beye Memorial fund....

£20000.00 is more than my current annual salary. £20000.00 could pay some of the non footballing staffs wages. Catering or merchandise sales people. £20000.00 may not feel like much to you, but if you ask any self respecting business in this current climate if they had a way to reduce a loss by £20000.00 whether they would take it or not, I think you will find they would take it.   

[PeterWithesShin]

He showed what he could bring to the club when he came on against Hereford. That mazy run was almost Messiesque.

[SamTheMouse]

Sorry, stupid question alert:

Do we know exactly how much Beye is on? And when does his contract run out?

[Greg N'Ash]

If we can't get some money we should get none at all. Logic, Greg-style

well if you really think that 4k a month is going to make any difference.  Maybe AM will announce a signing in May and claim it was funded by the 20k Beye Memorial fund....

4K a month could be the diference between giving one of our academy a professional contract or releasing him, that player could then go on to play for our first team, thus saving us even more money, he could even turn out to be a star.

while that's true, i suppose turning off the lights in the carpark an hour earlier would make a decent saving. The point is if we're worried about 4k a month then we really are in the shit.

[Percy McCarthy]

Nice to see greg's finger as firmly on the pulse as ever. It's a first to see him disagreeing with himself though.

[Dave Cooper please]

while that's true, i suppose turning off the lights in the carpark an hour earlier would make a decent saving. The point is if we're worried about 4k a month then we really are in the shit.

I don't think Villa are worried about 4k a week per se. but they have stated 9or at least McLeish has said as much in interviews) that there is a wage budget that he must stick to, so if saving a few quid on a couple of loanees allows him the room to offer a promising kid his first professional contract then that's good surely.
Anyway, I believe Beye is ready to take a small pay cut to get another contract here, so even more good news.