January Transfer Speculation (or lack of) Thread

[pauliewalnuts]

8mil for Aly Cissokho?! Yes, please.

I'm sure if Houllier was in charge we would of signed him in the summer..... rumours a deal was struck also for Ba and Cabaye

Other than the having any money and needing to balance the wage bill I can't think of any reason why that wouldn't have happened.

Cabaye cost £4.7m and Ba was free.

Do you think we paid for N'Zogbia's £10m transfer fee and his monthly salary with sweets and IOUs?

It's ok, Dave, Alan Hutton actually cost nothing and pays us for the right to play for us, too.

[JJ-AV]

I'd love to know who Houllier would have signed. Cabaye seems like it would have happened. There was that French 'keeper who had a look round Villa Park too wasn't there? And Makoun would have had a run.

Suppose he'd have probably have sold Gabby though, so it's swings and roundabouts.

[eamonn]

Just on Fonz again, MON held him in high regard and given his new team's lack of firepower I wouldn't be at all surprised if Sunderland came in for him. In the ''Who will MON buy off us first?'' sweepstake, he'd be my choice.

[ozzjim]

There was a lot of interest in Samba too wasn't there? Anyhow, I think we would have had a pretty impressive side on a pretty small net spend compared to what we have now. Houllier was the right man IMO, he had the dressing room sussed and knew how to get it sorted. For me it is a massive shame he did not get a full run at it.

[maidstonevillain]

There was a lot of interest in Samba too wasn't there? Anyhow, I think we would have had a pretty impressive side on a pretty small net spend compared to what we have now. Houllier was the right man IMO, he had the dressing room sussed and knew how to get it sorted. For me it is a massive shame he did not get a full run at it.

Could not agree more.

[Fernando Partridge]

Fellow villains does any one know how many loan signings we can make?
And do we have 1 or 2 players on loan- Jenas loan cancelled due to injury or we continue to pay so listed as loan?
Answers below pls

As Jenas is signed for the whole season, as nobody put an injury clause in the agreement with Spurs, we are allowed one more for this season.

Thanking you

[Concrete John]

But didn't his medical clearance to return to work not kick in until after the pre-season had started?  And how were we to know there wouldn't be a further complications at a later date?

Taking the football argument out of it for a moment, the club may well have acted purely due to health reasons.

[Rick_avfc]

At last, AVFC have tweeted that they have completed the signing of Keane.

[PeterWithesShin]

On Twitter

AVFCOfficial Aston Villa FC
Aston Villa are pleased to confirm that a loan deal has been agreed with LA Galaxy for Republic of Ireland international Robbie Keane. #avfc
9 minutes ago

[john e]

There was a lot of interest in Samba too wasn't there? Anyhow, I think we would have had a pretty impressive side on a pretty small net spend compared to what we have now. Houllier was the right man IMO, he had the dressing room sussed and knew how to get it sorted. For me it is a massive shame he did not get a full run at it.

i agree with what you say,
 at first i thought randy was looking to get rid of GH but now think it was the best thing for him as his health was certainly a worry, and GH himself has said as much, he wont manage again at any top level,
 so i suppose it goes down as one of those unlucky episodes, under 'what might have been'

[jembob]

Darren Gibson to Everton for £2m - phew!

[Phil from the upper holte]

I read in the metro that Bolton want Dunne to replace Cahill..Yes please

[Chris Smith]

There was a lot of interest in Samba too wasn't there? Anyhow, I think we would have had a pretty impressive side on a pretty small net spend compared to what we have now. Houllier was the right man IMO, he had the dressing room sussed and knew how to get it sorted. For me it is a massive shame he did not get a full run at it.

I think he knew how to piss off the dressing room, little sign that he knew how to sort it. We lost 6 first team regulars in the summer as it was, there would probably have been another 3 or 4 out if the door had he stayed. That's a huge rebuilding job and I think we'd be worse off because of it.

[Concrete John]

I think Gidson gets some unfair stick on here and is a good signing for £2m.  I would want him for us as we already have Bannan, Ireland and Gardner in that position, but still a decent bit of business for Everton.

[Concrete John]

I read in the metro that Bolton want Dunne to replace Cahill..Yes please

No thanks!

We'll need Dunne for the rest of this season, so as I can't see a replacement coming in this month it's be an awful bit of business.