January Transfer Speculation (or lack of) Thread

[Davey B]

Davey, Curtus Davis is fucking terrible.

I'd never thought a professional footballer could be so easily terrified by the concept of the ball coming near him.

   Nightmare, i hope its not him that we are looking at as cover then!

[dave.woodhall]

Davey, Curtus Davis is fucking terrible.

I'd never thought a professional footballer could be so easily terrified by the concept of the ball coming near him.

   Nightmare, i hope its not him that we are looking at as cover then!

There's a good player somewhere in there but that pub player quote will always haunt him.

[TheSandman]

He was very good when he was next to Laursen though I don't know if Sunderland have a Laursen at the back. I dare say I doubt MoN would seriously be looking at him after how Davies reacted when MoN left.

[pauliewalnuts]

Every time I hear his name I think of that sliced clearance against Rapid Vienna. 

I remember that home match when he saw a ball lumped from at least 50 yards away into the sky coming down towards him, in at least 20 yards of free space, unmolested by the opposition, and him looking up and concentrating really, really hard so he'd manage to control the situation, and the ball landing about 20 yards behind him as he stood there looking bewildered, thinking it was still in the air.

To think O'Neill spent nine million of your British pounds on that hopeless pub player.

[Davey B]

Every time I hear his name I think of that sliced clearance against Rapid Vienna. 

I remember that home match when he saw a ball lumped from at least 50 yards away into the sky coming down towards him, in at least 20 yards of free space, unmolested by the opposition, and him looking up and concentrating really, really hard so he'd manage to control the situation, and the ball landing about 20 yards behind him as he stood there looking bewildered, thinking it was still in the air.

To think O'Neill spent nine million of your British pounds on that hopeless pub player.

To be fair, i used to see him on MOTD / Sky games when he was just starting out at WBA. He looked pretty solid for them!

[djtbc]

They'll be after Redmond surely? Similarities with his Ashley Young signing for us.

[Davey B]

They'll be after Redmond surely? Similarities with his Ashley Young signing for us.

Ssssssshhhhhhh man, you'll alert everyone else! 

I hope you are right, but MON has said we need defensive cover! Could be a smokescreen, but being us, I have a gut-feeling Curtis is the more likely target! 

[ozzjim]

You have to think MON will fancy Redmond. One player I would like from Blues that. Unless................


Zigic!!!!!

[Davey B]

You have to think MON will fancy Redmond. One player I would like from Blues that. Unless................


Zigic!!!!!

He wants a target man aswell. And apparently money is tight up here now! Could be right aswell Ozzjim! 

[Somniloquism]

Every time I hear his name I think of that sliced clearance against Rapid Vienna. 

I think that was the time when I realised there was no hope for him. Before then I was willing to believe it was partly down to his injury issues and just a lack of confidence that a run of games with Dunne would break.

For Davey's benefit the incident happened like this. Villa had just took the lead in the second leg of the tie and overall and the ball came to Davies 10 yards in our half 2 yards from the byline, facing our goal with an attacker coming towards him from our goal. Instead of turning away from him and playing the ball upfield, playing the ball inside to someone, or just knocking it out for a throw in a very safe area, he decides to hoof it against the incoming attacker to get a throw in. He totally misses the guy with the ball and it sails over our bar for a corner. They then score from this corner to take the lead overall on away goals.

[Davey B]

Every time I hear his name I think of that sliced clearance against Rapid Vienna. 

I think that was the time when I realised there was no hope for him. Before then I was willing to believe it was partly down to his injury issues and just a lack of confidence that a run of games with Dunne would break.

For Davey's benefit the incident happened like this. Villa had just took the lead in the second leg of the tie and overall and the ball came to Davies 10 yards in our half 2 yards from the byline, facing our goal with an attacker coming towards him from our goal. Instead of turning away from him and playing the ball upfield, playing the ball inside to someone, or just knocking it out for a throw in a very safe area, he decides to hoof it against the incoming attacker to get a throw in. He totally misses the guy with the ball and it sails over our bar for a corner. They then score from this corner to take the lead overall on away goals.

   Not good!

[ozzjim]

Davey, we were linked with and reportedly scouted Zigic time and again when he was here, and I am sure he claimed to have never heard of him at one point, although clearly he had, but just did not acknowledge that any player existed outside of the UK unless he inherited them.

[Davey B]

Davey, we were linked with and reportedly scouted Zigic time and again when he was here, and I am sure he claimed to have never heard of him at one point, although clearly he had, but just did not acknowledge that any player existed outside of the UK unless he inherited them.

Well, the window is open now, so we'll find out who we are or are not going to get! Don't know a lot about Zigic to be honest, other than he's a big target man type! Been reading some links from facebook, etc, and the amount of different names we are linked with is bordering on ridiculous. For us having "not much in the kitty!" we are in for a lot of players, lol! Apparently you guys are interested in taking Craig Gardner back now aswell! Think most of it is the newspapers typing tripe to try and sell their product!

[JJ-AV]

If Bent goes - Samba, Diame and Steven Fletcher with the money would be great.

[Mazrim]

Bent hopefully isn't going and it wouldn't be great if he did under any circumstances I can realistically envisage.

For fucks sake, I've only be wishing him to Villa for the last 7 or 8 years or something. I hope he retires at Villa.