January Transfer Thread: Speculation, Lies, Absolute Cr*p and Bosman Rumours

[curiousorange]

Lerner - c***
Faulkner - c***
Lambert - c***

I think you need to apologise.

The last thing a c*** wants to be compared to is those 3.

That's true. You don't mind how much you spend on an actual one.

[eastie]

@JamesNursey: Simon Dawkins joining #avfc on loan. He's a #THFC midfielder who has been playing in the MLS

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Can we at least allow any new signings to arrive at Bodymoor Heath before we decide they're shit?

Orient loanee who has a nodding acquaintance with Spurs?

If it looks like shit, smells like shit and tastes like shit.

Then it probably IS shit.

[Monty]

Looking at Dawkins videos what strikes me is how his technique is a little unsteady and he doesn't look as quick as we'd hope. Woohoo.

[eastie]

Ive suggested this before but nobody showed any interest. Why dont we play Benteke at centre half . Big, physical, wins most of the headers
and his passing is good. Leaving Bent and Weimann up front and Agbonlahor under orders to stay out on the wings and provide the crosses.

If he doesnt buy a centre half I suppose he will stick with Vlaar and Clark...which shows how stubborn and stupid he is.

I presume you are joking about Benteke!

No Im not.  Think about it Dion moved back with ease, Allan Evans moved back with ease, Dick Edwards moved back in the sixties
Benteke might do well short team and we have to come up with something.

Dion did'nt move back there until he was in his 30's.

Sorry but it's a terrible idea.

Same as curtis davies was a terrible idea - he's shit!

[eric woolban woolban]

We didn't to bring in Martin Laursen as defensive coach and then promote him to manager at the end of the season.

[VillaAlways]

People actually believed the twitter account had been hacked(including me) That's how much of a joke this is

[exiled on the wirral!]

Ive suggested this before but nobody showed any interest. Why dont we play Benteke at centre half . Big, physical, wins most of the headers
and his passing is good. Leaving Bent and Weimann up front and Agbonlahor under orders to stay out on the wings and provide the crosses.

If he doesnt buy a centre half I suppose he will stick with Vlaar and Clark...which shows how stubborn and stupid he is.

I presume you are joking about Benteke!

No Im not.  Think about it Dion moved back with ease, Allan Evans moved back with ease, Dick Edwards moved back in the sixties
Benteke might do well short term and we have to come up with something.

I like Benteke, but I dont want him anywhere near our penalty area, especially when we have to defend a corner!

[Risso]

Which is probably fair enough from their point of view.  After pouring £200 - 250M into a black hole and getting nowhere and the only return being whatever they've taken back as interest and management fees why would you continue to say yes to more if you had no interest in the "project" and could see other "more deserving causes"

Still hurts like a bitch on this side of the Atlantic.

At least we don't owe all that money to a bank.  Problem comes if someone has to borrow money to but Lerner out.

Trust's have to do impairment reviews of their investments for audit purposes.  I once audited a billionaire's network of trusts, and one investment was a game reserve in South Africa.  They had to write down the investment because the lions had eaten too many of the zebras and gazelles.  The Lerner trust is going to have to write down the value of their investment in Aston Villa by tens of millions because we have a squad full of donkeys.

[dave.woodhall]

The most worrying thing for me is if Lerner is in a right old mess financially and is struggling to sustain bankrolling the club anymore. I'd much rather he'd just decided enough was enough for the time being but the cost cutting has been so quick and severe it certainly doesn't look good does it? and we all know what happened to last club that fell apart at the seams this quick, they still haven't come back now.

I still can't lay the blame at managers feet for the state we're in. No one would have sorted this shit out with the money and wages available.

One thing Lerner isn't is struggling financially.  He's a stirling billionaire, not just $ billioanire.  How much of that value is liquid and instantly usable is another matter, as is if he has funded us directly or through the Lerner family trust - I think he needs agreement from other family members to access these funds.

That's the only thing that could possibly make a modicum of sense - the trustees have blocked him. 

And they do have that power, and may well use it if other beneficiaries object to the money being spent.  However, even in those circumstances, surely even some corporate trustee in Delaware can see that the value of the TRUST'S investment is going to get hammered if we get relegated.

It's the only idea I can come up with.

[atticus snood]

Simon Dawkins. What have we come to?

[PaulWinch again]

Fucking hell this is embarrassing, we have slumped to a new low.

[Clampy]

its weird, how names get mentioned all day and you think no way do we want him and then might end up with Hawkins . Then you think , I wish we had that WP etc now .

I'm sure a few on here are thinking that Curtis Davies was'nt a bad idea after all.

I would sooner play Vlaar and Clark than Davies so that would not have worked as far as i'm concerned.

And if one of them get's injured?

[curiousorange]

No doubt our reactions will be seen like the McLeish debacle, ie we're against it and we won't give him a chance. Just for the record, Planet Earth, this guy could be a genius, but we wanted to shore up our defence and strengthen the midfield, not provide temporary cover for a reserve winger.

[fbriai]

Ah, I'm going to bed. Hour ahead over here and the kids'll be up early in the morning. Thanks to all of you for a thoroughly entertaining day. I hope you get some news that makes it all worthwhile over the next couple of hours.

UTV!