Summer 2013: Villa Transfers, Speculation, Suggestions and Rumours

[supertom]

Worth remembering that including Herd, Johnson and Carruthers, we have 12 midfielders already on the books as professionals. Maybe Lambert is currently satisfied with what he has?

Johnson impressed me in pre season, I like the look of him. Carruthers has ability so hopefully he'll come back from loan all the better. Herdy always works his socks off and might feature intermittently.

[paulcomben]

Barry Bannan on SSN now. Good luck as an Eagle, Barry. And use London Transport after a wee bevvy.

[Simba]

What was his quote, something like ".... it is difficult coming from Manchester City to a Club like Aston Villa" well, you money grabbing, lazy ****, enjoy Stoke City.

[PeterWithesShin]

We will never see Stephen Ireland in an Aston Villa shirt again. How fucking great is that?

[Mister E]

We will never see Stephen Ireland in an Aston Villa shirt again. How fucking great is that?

About as good as it gets - can Hughes take Charles as well?!

[paul_e]

We will never see Stephen Ireland in an Aston Villa shirt again. How fucking great is that?

To be fair that was true 6 months ago, it's just that we don't have to see the waster on the squad list any more now

[London Villan]

I hope we aren't paying Ireland's wages.

[Jon Crofts]

Just Alan Hutton to go then by my reckoning and that's all the wastes of skin & oxygen gone?

[KevinGage]

Really pleased that Ireland's gone. We should never have allowed Citeh to palm him off on us in the first place.  The way that we've been going about our business under Lambert would suggest that that sort of mistake won't be happening again anytime soon.

In fairness it was a deal that made sense at the time. 

There was always a risk, based on his general weirdness that the move wouldn't come off.  But that side (the 2010 vintage) was crying out for someone who could do something different, who could play between the forward line and the midfield and give us a different dimension, rather than banging the ball out wide for the whole time.

His time with us hasn't been a complete disaster, not by any stretch.  He was man of the match in one of his first full games for us in 2010 (Chelsea at home, I think) and he hit a decent standard of form in McPish's Horrible Anus of a year.  Not sure he deserved player of the year, but in fairness there wasn't a huge amount of competition. 

Even as recently as Man U at home last November he looked in good nick, but -in truth- he never delivered what was ultimately expected: Goals and assists.   He looked neat and tidy in possession, but the cutting edge was rarely there. 

[UK Redsox]

I don't mind you lot slagging off Ireland but can we please have less of the "baldest" insults 

[walsall villain]

Ireland deal never made sense at the time to me. As I recall MON had gone and we weren't sure who was to be the new full time manager.
So taking a player as part of the Milner deal who hadn't apparently identified by our new manager was daft.

[London Villan]

I think Ireland blew it for Lambert at the Bradford home game. I think he asked him to run the game and all he did was hide... I think once you cross Lambert that's it.

[UK Redsox]

Was it against Hereford that Ireland looked like he'd actually remembered how to play football ?

[Clampy]

I think Ireland blew it for Lambert at the Bradford home game. I think he asked him to run the game and all he did was hide... I think once you cross Lambert that's it.

Yep I think you're right, he didn't look interested that game and wasn't picked at all after that.

[olaftab]

Fantastic and he looks rather fetching.