January Transfer Speculation (or lack of) Thread

[Hoppo]

Heard a whisper Mr Delfouneso is going to Small Heath after the weekend. Not happy if this happens anyone but them!!

[Rick_avfc]

Heard a whisper Mr Delfouneso is going to Small Heath after the weekend. Not happy if this happens anyone but them!!

Don't believe this story

[pauliewalnuts]

Heard a whisper Mr Delfouneso is going to Small Heath after the weekend. Not happy if this happens anyone but them!!

Why, though?

Who cares if it is them if it helps him improve?

[Hoppo]

Why help them? if you have to ask that question you just will never get it. Dont want to get into the being a Brummie Villa fan and all that but when you were brought up in Kings Norton and had to put up with the Kings Norton Zulu Juniors every time you came back from a game or a tot up town. Lets just say hatred for anything Small Heath never dies..

[Rick_avfc]

Heard a whisper Mr Delfouneso is going to Small Heath after the weekend. Not happy if this happens anyone but them!!

Why, though?

Who cares if it is them if it helps him improve?

A couple of negatives I can see from this 1)He may help them get promoted 2)If he is not playing too well their moron fans will get on his back, as he is a villa player, and this could affect his confidence even more.

I'm not fussed where he goes to be honest as long as he gets game time to help improve his overall game.

[pauliewalnuts]

We've slipped a fair way in the last year or two, but we'd have to go on a slide of titanic proportions to get insecure enough to worry about helping them.

Blues are an absolute nothing club, always have been, and always will be, so helping them out in any way is really about as threatening to us as Mrs Miggins Pie Shop expanding into sausage rolls is to Tesco.

If you're still worried, look at it the other way, if he does help them, they'll have had to come to us to get that help. Another reason to patronise them as we've been doing quite nicely since 1875.

[pauliewalnuts]

Why help them? if you have to ask that question you just will never get it. Dont want to get into the being a Brummie Villa fan and all that but when you were brought up in Kings Norton and had to put up with the Kings Norton Zulu Juniors every time you came back from a game or a tot up town. Lets just say hatred for anything Small Heath never dies..

I'm a Brummie villa fan myself, and I was brought up in a mainly nose area, too, so I know all about that.

[Tom wintle]

some of you will not agree but i would like to see at villa would be Dembele i have been watching him and he looks very good a the creative player we need.

[Hoppo]

I always knew you were the best miod on here Paulie!

[Concrete John]

A couple of negatives I can see from this 1)He may help them get promoted 2)If he is not playing too well their moron fans will get on his back, as he is a villa player, and this could affect his confidence even more.

I'm not fussed where he goes to be honest as long as he gets game time to help improve his overall game.

That is a good point. 

I wouldn't be against him going there if it benefited the player whilst also helping them, as such a petty minded 'screw ourselves if it helps screw them' attitude is what they're all about.  However, we'd be sending him somewhere where they WANT him to be shit, which would end up being counterproductive and he'd come back the same or a worse player for it.   

[pedro25]

He could come back a stronger character, and in some ways earn more admiration from AM for having the balls to go there.   

[Rick_avfc]

He could come back a stronger character, and in some ways earn more admiration from AM for having the balls to go there.   

I agree, if he was slightly older, but seeing as he is 20, he still is classed as young and it could affect him.  Who knows hey.  He might be a strong minded individual with a mature head and might not be fazed by abuse received from them (assuming he went there).  Whatever happens with Fonz, I hope he manages to find a club where he will be playing every week (preferably in the PL).

[boboonthecorner]

www.skysports.com

Alex McLeish has revealed that he is unlikely to add further players to his Aston Villa squad during January after the short-term signing of striker Robbie Keane from Los Angeles Galaxy.

The Scot admitted the only way he could add new signings to his squad was if players headed out of the club first.

Villa have had to lower their wage bill under McLeish after excessive spending over the past few years, but it has seen his squad weakened as more players have left the club than arrived.

And McLeish admitted: "It's a case of keeping and steering the ship in the right direction in terms of the wages.

"We have a clear vision through Randy Lerner (club owner) and Paul Faulkner (chief executive) that we have to manage the wages.

"We are still steering that course. There's no way we will add to the wages unless some of the wages are offloaded.

"I am not in any hurry to lose any of my players. Only if it was an attractive proposition would we do anything so it's very unlikely we would let any of our players go."

The Villa boss also insists there have been no approaches for James Collins despite speculation linking the defender with a move to QPR.

He said: "There's not been an approach as such. We hear there is interest for James and he should be proud of that. He should be proud he is a wanted man.

"But, saying that, he is an Aston Villa player. He has just moved into a new house so we would hope James is here for a long time to come."
Desperate

McLeish remains anxious ahead of the weekend clash at home to Everton and is hopeful that Keane can help inspire Villa to end a run of four successive home defeats.

He said: "Desperate is a word I don't like to use but the home form certainly is something we want to put right.

"We have lost to three of the elite clubs and Swansea beat us after we got a great result at Chelsea which was a real kick in the backside.

"It's up to us. I do feel we have been punished for every little mistake at home. But the one thing we have to concentrate on is concentration.

"I feel sometimes we can have little lapses and two against Swansea cost us two goals. We have to concentrate from start to finish as we did against Stoke, Arsenal and Chelsea."

[boboonthecorner]

Hardly surprising.

So having been shite all season the sum total of our January transfer window dealings is a veteran striker in the twilight of his career, for six games. We'll be behind QPR as well as Stoke come the end of the season.

[spangley1812]

Heard a whisper Mr Delfouneso is going to Small Heath after the weekend. Not happy if this happens anyone but them!!

Its unlikely as they couldnt afford to keep Chris Wood and they had to send him back..........but maybe the Fonz would be cheaper