Summer 2013: Villa Transfers, Speculation, Suggestions and Rumours

[eastie]

is it possible we will sign both Okore and Lescott.

Possible but highly unlikely , I think one of those would do nicely .

[saunders_heroes]

If we get Okore and someone like Cresswell I'll actually be happy with the defense.

I wouldn't be. We need experience, not another 20 year old rookie.

What we need are players who can do the job, regardless of age.

Taking a chance signing an untried 20 year old though. I'd rather a bit of experience to shore up a defence that conceded 69 league goals last season. Lescott would be a fine signing.

[eastie]

If we get Okore and someone like Cresswell I'll actually be happy with the defense.

I wouldn't be. We need experience, not another 20 year old rookie.

What we need are players who can do the job, regardless of age.

Taking a chance signing an untried 20 year old though. I'd rather a bit of experience to shore up a defence that conceded 69 league goals last season. Lescott would be a fine signing.

I don't think he is untried, he looked superb against Chelsea in Europe and has attracted lots of interest , hardly a rookie from the lower leagues.

[Mister E]

is it possible we will sign both Okore and Lescott.

Given that Vlaar has injury-history, the idea of signing both would be excellent, although it may be unlikely. And it would probably mean that we intend offloading Clark.

[PeterWithesShin]

If we get Okore and someone like Cresswell I'll actually be happy with the defense.

I wouldn't be. We need experience, not another 20 year old rookie.

What we need are players who can do the job, regardless of age.

Taking a chance signing an untried 20 year old though. I'd rather a bit of experience to shore up a defence that conceded 69 league goals last season. Lescott would be a fine signing.

Okore could be a better one. Taking a chance can work, can be better long term. Look at Benteke, Westwood, Lowton. It can also fail, but so can buying an experienced player. We've signed plenty over the years that have been a waste of time and money. While Lescott could do a job short term he's too much of an expensive milk bottle player for me, and I can imagine for Lambert as well.

[eastie]

Lescott would be a decent player but we wouldn't get back our money when his contract ends , okore could well double or triple his value with us as benteke has done - not that I would want to sell our best players , but okore could make more business sense looking to the future.

The aim is to get back up around the top 6 and keep our best players and add to them .

[Concrete John]

We were all bemoaning the the lack of experience in our defence last season and virtually demanding we get a new CB in January.  To me, nothing has changed from that.

Lescott (or similar) would iprove us more than Okore (or similar).

However, if Lambert goes the other way then we have to back his judgement

[saunders_heroes]

If we get Okore and someone like Cresswell I'll actually be happy with the defense.

I wouldn't be. We need experience, not another 20 year old rookie.

What we need are players who can do the job, regardless of age.

Taking a chance signing an untried 20 year old though. I'd rather a bit of experience to shore up a defence that conceded 69 league goals last season. Lescott would be a fine signing.

Okore could be a better one. Taking a chance can work, can be better long term. Look at Benteke, Westwood, Lowton. It can also fail, but so can buying an experienced player. We've signed plenty over the years that have been a waste of time of money. While LEscott could do a job short term he's too much of an expensive milk bottle player for me, and I can imagine for Lambert as well.

Lescott is 30 and he'll be playing PL football for a good few years yet. I'm not against signing Okore but one of the things we missed last season was experience, especially at the back. Vlaar was disappointing and was missing for chunks of the season anyway, so I think we need at least one more experienced centre back. Our defence was far too fragile last season, and we may not be as lucky next.

[PeterWithesShin]

Lescott is 31 in 2 months and on a reported 90K a week.

And we weren't lucky last season.

[Brian Taylor]

Shay going on a free..to celtic. Appropriate move.
Great service to club, and country, in his time with us.

[saunders_heroes]

Lescott is 31 in 2 months and on a reported 90K a week.

And we weren't lucky last season.

That's not particularly old for a centre back.
And I've seen defences as bad as ours relegate teams before.

[eastie]

Lescott is 31 in 2 months and on a reported 90K a week.

And we weren't lucky last season.

That's not particularly old for a centre back.
And I've seen defences as bad as ours relegate teams before.

Is he hungry though ? We need hungry players

[PeterWithesShin]

Lescott is 31 in 2 months and on a reported 90K a week.

And we weren't lucky last season.

That's not particularly old for a centre back.
And I've seen defences as bad as ours relegate teams before.

It is when factoring in a new contract for a footballer.

So? There was still no luck in us staying up. We stayed up because we deserved to.

[DrGonzo]

Lescott is 31 in 2 months and on a reported 90K a week.

And we weren't lucky last season.

That's not particularly old for a centre back.
And I've seen defences as bad as ours relegate teams before.

It is when factoring in a new contract for a footballer.

So? There was still no luck in us staying up. We stayed up because we deserved to.

And we all saw what throwing buckets of cash at experienced premiership players did for QPR.

[andyaston]

Lescott is 31 in 2 months and on a reported 90K a week.

And we weren't lucky last season.

That's not particularly old for a centre back.
And I've seen defences as bad as ours relegate teams before.

I have as well. However, we were pretty decent going forward and our players wanted to play for the manager which is more than I can say about many teams that have been relegated.