January Transfer Speculation (or lack of) Thread

[JJ-AV]

Diame and Samba.

If Bent goes to Liverpool, I'd give Drogba his 2.5 year contract too.

[Concrete John]

Diame and Samba.

Suggestion, speculation or ITK?

I think they'd both be good additions to stiffen up the spine of the side and hopefully return us to some form of defensive strength.

[Fernando Partridge]

For attacking wide players i think the Swiss player Shaqiri would be excellent signing but highly unlikely but I think Bragas Hélder Barbosa could be gettable. Scores quality goals against Birmingham too!!

[JJ-AV]

Suggestion.

Samba would be pricey. £15m+ now, but get the groundwork in for the Summer when they go down.

Diame is on a free. Sort a deal with him for the Summer and they'll sell him on the cheap.

He messed up a bit the other night too, but Figueroa is a good, attacking left back, I think.

Given
Hutton - Samba - Dunne - Figueroa
Diame - Petrov - Ireland
N'Zogbia - Drogba - Gabby

Selling Bent and Collins would see us about even. Before factoring in Cuellar, Beye, Heskey going etc.

[PaulWinch again]

Diame and Samba.

If Bent goes to Liverpool, I'd give Drogba his 2.5 year contract too.

I think a 2.5 year contract for Drogba would be nuts, he'd want big wages and is pretty injury prone.

[ozzjim]

Drogba cough Ginola cough....

[JJ-AV]

If you believe media reports, he supposedly wants 100k a week for 2 years (starting from this Summer).

Again, media reports suggest Bent is on 80k per week. I know this is very rough, but £26m in and 20k p/w extra over 2 years would leave us with about 23.5m left to invest in the squad elsewhere to break even.

I just don't think we should totally discount selling him. Even though I do not want him to be sold, I could see the board and McLeish deciding it's the best option.

[Rick_avfc]

Spurs have been linked heavily with Samba and Hoillet.  Now, if you were either one of those players who would you choose?  Spurs or Villa?  A club challenging for the league and most likely playing CL football next season or a club who have no direction at the mo apart from heading downwards, no ambition and have no clue?
Simply choice really. Villa all the way! ;-)

[Concrete John]

Suggestion.

Samba would be pricey. £15m+ now, but get the groundwork in for the Summer when they go down.

Diame is on a free. Sort a deal with him for the Summer and they'll sell him on the cheap.

He messed up a bit the other night too, but Figueroa is a good, attacking left back, I think.

Given
Hutton - Samba - Dunne - Figueroa
Diame - Petrov - Ireland
N'Zogbia - Drogba - Gabby

Selling Bent and Collins would see us about even. Before factoring in Cuellar, Beye, Heskey going etc.

When Spurs were linked with Samba recently I'm sure it was for a lot less than £15m.  I also think Alex might be gettable from Chelsea.  I'd like either and then play Clark in midfield, who drops back incase of injury/suspension to a CB with Herd then coming in.  I can't see either fullback being changed as we'll try to work with them and get more out of them, as evidenced by us looking at cheap back ups in the shape of Stevens and that Nigerian RB we have on trial.

Diame or similar is needed in the centre though, with Ireland hopefully eventually giving way to Gardner.

The top of the pitch is most interesting as I think we'd be mad to sell Bent, which leaves the head scratcher of where we fit Gabby in.  I think the 4-2-3-1 is the way to go, so that would mean some rotation between Gabby, N'zogbia and Albrighton for the wide positions, with Gabby playing up top when Bent isn't available.

Given

Hutton
Alex/Samba
Dunne
Warnock

Clark
Diame

CNZ/Super Marc
Gardner/Ireland
Gabby

Bent

Subs:  Guzan, Stevens, Carlos or Collins (one should stay for experienced back up), Petrov, Herd, Bannan, Weimann.       

[PaulWinch again]

To be honest if I were a player like Hoillett or Samba I wouldn't choose to go to Villa. We have shown absolutely no ambition of late and appear very much in the decline.

[Concrete John]

If you believe media reports, he supposedly wants 100k a week for 2 years (starting from this Summer).

Again, media reports suggest Bent is on 80k per week. I know this is very rough, but £26m in and 20k p/w extra over 2 years would leave us with about 23.5m left to invest in the squad elsewhere to break even.

I just don't think we should totally discount selling him. Even though I do not want him to be sold, I could see the board and McLeish deciding it's the best option.

It'd still be £10m of the club's money paid to a 34 year old player - just can't see it happening.

[Chris Jameson]

Kieron Dyer in a head to toe body cast and hooked up to a life support machine seen having a medical at Bodymoor Heath today.

[Mister E]

Apparently, Josh McEachran will be deciding within the next 24hrs whether he wants to come to villa or swansea on loan.  I dont really know much about him, what is his natural position?

This is insanity with the kids we have. He brings virtually no experience with him so why 'blood' him for Chels?

[Mister E]

Drogba cough Ginola cough....

Seasonal illness, Ozz?

What madness to bring in someone like Drogba whom Chelsea have had trouble motivating.
If we are wanting to run the club on strict financial lines, then you have to invest in younger playeres with some resale. End of.
Bringing in the likes of Drogba runs completely contrary to what we're being told.

[Mister E]

Suggestion.

Samba would be pricey. £15m+ now, but get the groundwork in for the Summer when they go down.

Diame is on a free. Sort a deal with him for the Summer and they'll sell him on the cheap.

He messed up a bit the other night too, but Figueroa is a good, attacking left back, I think.

Given
Hutton - Samba - Dunne - Figueroa
Diame - Petrov - Ireland
N'Zogbia - Drogba - Gabby

Selling Bent and Collins would see us about even. Before factoring in Cuellar, Beye, Heskey going etc.

But hang on a minute: I thought the club had decided not to go spend on new players! I can't see 4 established P'ship players coming into the squad anytime soon.