Summer 2013: Villa Transfers, Speculation, Suggestions and Rumours

[jonzy85]

Is it wrong to hope that the as yet unnamed footballer from Ireland who is based in the UK and who has assualted someone, is Stephen Ireland?

Would be a good excuse to get him off the wage bill....

It's Anthony Stokes...allegedly!

[ADVILLAFAN]

Is it wrong to hope that the as yet unnamed footballer from Ireland who is based in the UK and who has assualted someone, is Stephen Ireland?

Would be a good excuse to get him off the wage bill....

It's Anthony Stokes...allegedly!

I thought it might be O'Shea, as he assaults people on the pitch and gets away with it....

[TheTimVilla]

Who is Anthony Stokes? Does he know Andrew Greaves?

[paul_e]

Who is Anthony Stokes? Does he know Andrew Greaves?

Anthony Stokes is great, he serves as an almost perfect example of the differences between English and Scottish football.  Has a 1 in 10 strike rate in England, about half of his games being cups and championship.  He has a better than 1 in 3 record in the SPL.

[regular_john]

Nobody would bully us with a spine of Guzan,Okore and Benteke

In fact with an additional 'nasty' in midfield we might be giving it out instead of usually taking it

Sylla?

[Dave Cooper please]

Quite a few of the Twitter 'ITK's are claiming we'll sign Norwich keeper Jed Steer this week.

Alan Partridge's biggest fan?

I just wanna be your friend, Alan.

No way, you're a mentalist!

[Phil from the upper holte]

I doubt he would come considering teams that are in for him but I bet the express and star know feck all

I imagine the Aston Villa correspondent of the Express and Star, or their football desk, know a lot more about it then every single person on here.

That's their job, that's why they have contacts at the club. Maybe their contacts have said we are not interested to put up a smokescreen, maybe they are being honest, I don't know, but you not have to be overly gullible to think local sports journalists are likely to know more than we do.

Possibly, I just don't overly trust Journalist's to get it right. If it's coming from Lambert direct then I'd be more trusting, (obviously he can't comment on every rumour)

[cdbearsfan]

Anyway what do we think about Harmeet Singh? Looked good for Norway U21 and was transferred to Feyenoord last August for £300,000. I am sure we make "a future potential" signing at £1m. Could be great for interest from the "locals" if he succeeds.

Definately not, we are not in the business of signing players because they will interest the locals .

Even if he happens to be quite good?

[Phil from the upper holte]

That would be a great bit of business. Get Okore too and send Clark on loan. Sorted.

Do you not think Clark is a bit old to go out on loan? I mean surely he's either in the team or sold at this stage of his Villa career?

[dicedlam]

That would be a great bit of business. Get Okore too and send Clark on loan. Sorted.

Do you not think Clark is a bit old to go out on loan? I mean surely he's either in the team or sold at this stage of his Villa career?

Not really. We had Simon Dawkins on loan at 25 years old.

[damon loves JT]

Yeah, but that was Simon Dawkins. *The* Simon Dawkins.

[Percy McCarthy]

Nobody would bully us with a spine of Guzan,Okore and Benteke

In fact with an additional 'nasty' in midfield we might be giving it out instead of usually taking it

Sylla?

Yes. I think he's going to be very good next season. Delph likes a tackle too, and he's learning to do it without getting booked quite so often. I still fancy them both to get the odd suspension, but as long as it's not at the same time we should be able to cope comfortably enough.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Clark shouldn't be out on loan imo

[ozzjim]

We need 4 centre backs, especially as baker and vlaar are made of dodgy balsa wood.

[Concrete John]

I think we'll sign one CB, who replaces Dunne, and that'll be that position sorted.