Concrete Ron deal done

[luke25]

As ever we go about our business in the correct manner by keeping our mouths shut and concluding the deal as soon as possible.

[rutski]

i have watched this transfer from afar and if you read back for the various pages, there are some posters on here who are real fuckwits and are ready to slag the club off at every available opportunity. they cannot wait to jump on the bandwagon and just have a go at us, and they really piss me off.
let lambert, faulkner and randy get on with it and when you have anything to judge the club on then do so, and that basically means let them get on with it and play football.!

[hilts_coolerking]

i have watched this transfer from afar and if you read back for the various pages, there are some posters on here who are real fuckwits and are ready to slag the club off at every available opportunity. they cannot wait to jump on the bandwagon and just have a go at us, and they really piss me off.
let lambert, faulkner and randy get on with it and when you have anything to judge the club on then do so, and that basically means let them get on with it and play football.!

Some choose to see the negative in everything the club does, some choose to see the positive in everything club does and the other 98% are relatively normal.

[luke25]

i have watched this transfer from afar and if you read back for the various pages, there are some posters on here who are real fuckwits and are ready to slag the club off at every available opportunity. they cannot wait to jump on the bandwagon and just have a go at us, and they really piss me off.
let lambert, faulkner and randy get on with it and when you have anything to judge the club on then do so, and that basically means let them get on with it and play football.!

Absolutely, theres one or two that seem to love anything negative about the club.

[pauliewalnuts]

i have watched this transfer from afar and if you read back for the various pages, there are some posters on here who are real fuckwits and are ready to slag the club off at every available opportunity. they cannot wait to jump on the bandwagon and just have a go at us, and they really piss me off.
let lambert, faulkner and randy get on with it and when you have anything to judge the club on then do so, and that basically means let them get on with it and play football.!

Some choose to see the negative in everything the club does, some choose to see the positive in everything club does and the other 98% are relatively normal.

Absolutely.

Just as it wasn't a disaster when we went away without concluding the deal (someone said it'd be "heartbreaking" to see him go to Sunderland now - talk about exaggeration), neither is it an amazing piece of work we should all salute.

It is a piece of routine football business.

[GordonCowansisthegreatest]

Looks like our "Team" Captain is sorted now!!!

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Pleased about this, a partnership of Vlaar and Clark has to be better than Dunne and Collins, plus both are comfortable on the ball and can pass out from defence. Bodes well for the style of play next season.

Baker's looked good on the US tour - another option and Lambert does like to use ALL of his squad!

Agree with you both. I think we'll probably keep hold of Dunne for another season as we'll need 4 centre backs and can't see us signing another.

Collins will probably be off next week, my guess is West Ham.

[TopDeck113]

Well done, Villa.  My only concern is whether he's going to be a bit gobby with the media if and when things don't go his own way... Time will tell!

[Toronto Villa]

i have watched this transfer from afar and if you read back for the various pages, there are some posters on here who are real fuckwits and are ready to slag the club off at every available opportunity. they cannot wait to jump on the bandwagon and just have a go at us, and they really piss me off.
let lambert, faulkner and randy get on with it and when you have anything to judge the club on then do so, and that basically means let them get on with it and play football.!

Some choose to see the negative in everything the club does, some choose to see the positive in everything club does and the other 98% are relatively normal.

Absolutely.

Just as it wasn't a disaster when we went away without concluding the deal (someone said it'd be "heartbreaking" to see him go to Sunderland now - talk about exaggeration), neither is it an amazing piece of work we should all salute.

It is a piece of routine football business.

While I might agree with most of that, what exactly constitutes routine? Football must be one of the only industries where that word can't be used with any sense of consistency. What I will say that for us I hope the way we've done business this summer becomes our routine and not what we became accustomed to as routine in the last 18-24 months.

[Ron Manager]

It's one of those situations where neither side is in the right or wrong and that could have been resolved by better communication from each side.

He's been quoted as saying the Villa 'apologised for the way they acted' so that suggests we fucked something up.

Or he's trying to save face.

Exactly!

[pauliewalnuts]

i have watched this transfer from afar and if you read back for the various pages, there are some posters on here who are real fuckwits and are ready to slag the club off at every available opportunity. they cannot wait to jump on the bandwagon and just have a go at us, and they really piss me off.
let lambert, faulkner and randy get on with it and when you have anything to judge the club on then do so, and that basically means let them get on with it and play football.!

Some choose to see the negative in everything the club does, some choose to see the positive in everything club does and the other 98% are relatively normal.

Absolutely.

Just as it wasn't a disaster when we went away without concluding the deal (someone said it'd be "heartbreaking" to see him go to Sunderland now - talk about exaggeration), neither is it an amazing piece of work we should all salute.

It is a piece of routine football business.

While I might agree with most of that, what exactly constitutes routine? Football must be one of the only industries where that word can't be used with any sense of consistency. What I will say that for us I hope the way we've done business this summer becomes our routine and not what we became accustomed to as routine in the last 18-24 months.

In the same way there's really nothing extraordinary about this deal, I don't really see how we've ever had a problem completing transfers, to be honest. Look at the Bent deal. Knew nothing, then boom, it happened, and nobody in football saw it coming. Our problems have been elsewhere.

What I don't get is why so frequently, everything has to be so extreme. It's either all good or it's all bad, there isn't much in between. All that wailing last week over Vlaar, for example. Did people not think "hang on, if we really wanted him, we wouldn't be doing anything to jeopardise the deal"?

We've had a totally standard summer so far. Nothing amazingly brilliant has happened, and nothing terrible has happened. To be honest, that's exactly what I wanted this summer.

This time last year, we were making the most baffling managerial appointment I think I've ever seen anyone make, and starting a course of events which very nearly got us relegated. Against that background, I'm really happy to take nice and steady this summer. Unexciting suits me just fine.

[Ad@m]

It's one of those situations where neither side is in the right or wrong and that could have been resolved by better communication from each side.

He's been quoted as saying the Villa 'apologised for the way they acted' so that suggests we fucked something up.

Or he's trying to save face.

Exactly!

I know footballers are generally very stupid but lying to the press about your new employers apologising for their conduct would be right up there as a major faux pas.

[Toronto Villa]

i have watched this transfer from afar and if you read back for the various pages, there are some posters on here who are real fuckwits and are ready to slag the club off at every available opportunity. they cannot wait to jump on the bandwagon and just have a go at us, and they really piss me off.
let lambert, faulkner and randy get on with it and when you have anything to judge the club on then do so, and that basically means let them get on with it and play football.!

Some choose to see the negative in everything the club does, some choose to see the positive in everything club does and the other 98% are relatively normal.

Absolutely.

Just as it wasn't a disaster when we went away without concluding the deal (someone said it'd be "heartbreaking" to see him go to Sunderland now - talk about exaggeration), neither is it an amazing piece of work we should all salute.

It is a piece of routine football business.

While I might agree with most of that, what exactly constitutes routine? Football must be one of the only industries where that word can't be used with any sense of consistency. What I will say that for us I hope the way we've done business this summer becomes our routine and not what we became accustomed to as routine in the last 18-24 months.

In the same way there's really nothing extraordinary about this deal, I don't really see how we've ever had a problem completing transfers, to be honest. Look at the Bent deal. Knew nothing, then boom, it happened, and nobody in football saw it coming. Our problems have been elsewhere.

What I don't get is why so frequently, everything has to be so extreme. It's either all good or it's all bad, there isn't much in between. All that wailing last week over Vlaar, for example. Did people not think "hang on, if we really wanted him, we wouldn't be doing anything to jeopardise the deal"?

We've had a totally standard summer so far. Nothing amazingly brilliant has happened, and nothing terrible has happened. To be honest, that's exactly what I wanted this summer.

This time last year, we were making the most baffling managerial appointment I think I've ever seen anyone make, and starting a course of events which very nearly got us relegated. Against that background, I'm really happy to take nice and steady this summer. Unexciting suits me just fine.

I think given the backdrop of last summer this summer is amazing if you think about it. It's not like we were taken over and have a new group conducting affairs. Unless off course you believe in body snatching and that the real Randy and Faulkner are now under the influence of aliens that happen to be Villa fans. Somehow the board have seen the light and everything has been efficient which is how it should be I suppose.

I'll take quiet and steady all the time if that now becomes the norm.

[Holte L2]

Ooh aah Ron Vlaar, say ooh ahh Ron Vlaar!

[paulcomben]

Has anyone else mentioned that Koeman is the cheating tosser who messed with Graham Taylor in that England qualifier? Shoulda been sent off, then scored a free kick.