Summer 2013: Villa Transfers, Speculation, Suggestions and Rumours

[walsall villain]

I like the understatement of the nature of our signings and the lack of press interest.  I read a fair amount of football related material and have not heard of any of our signings to date.

Takes you back to the old days before the internet and wall to wall football coverage on TV and in the press when we bought players no-one had heard of.  For the teenagers, Barry Stobart, Tommy Mitchinson, Dave Poutney....I could go on.   

Making me shudder too. The glory days, NOT! I hope the new breed are a lot better than those.

[Clampy]

If (and it's a big if) Newcastle have offered us £6m for Bent then i'd tell them to go away add a few more million onto it.

[olaftab]

I like the understatement of the nature of our signings and the lack of press interest.  I read a fair amount of football related material and have not heard of any of our signings to date.

Takes you back to the old days before the internet and wall to wall football coverage on TV and in the press when we bought players no-one had heard of.  For the teenagers, Barry Stobart, Tommy Mitchinson, Dave Poutney....I could go on.   

Teenagers? I am 50+ and been supporting Villa since I could walk out of the house on me own and I have not heard of these names!

[olaftab]

If (and it's a big if) Newcastle have offered us £6m for Bent then i'd tell them to go away add a few more million onto it.

Yes. For anything less  no and he can stay a cover.

[villa kicks]

Alan Pardew is winning a battle to tweak Newcastle’s “Buy 'em young” policy by landing Darren Bent.

The £6million-rated Aston Villa striker is the subject of a scramble for his signature after being told his career at his current club is over.

Buying an established star of the 29-year-old's age would go against the Toon’s core desire to focus on players who are under 26 and therefore carry a sell-on value.

But manager Pardew has long argued that there should always be room for an exception - and, after last season's worrying brush with relegation, Bent is the man he wants.

Former Sunderland and Tottenham frontman Bent is a long-standing target of Pardew’s, after the pair worked together at Charlton Athletic.

If Newcastle push though their interest and make a deal for Bent work, it would be a major sign of backing to the manager who was under fire last season after such a poor showing.

Bent’s past as a hero for their arch-rivals from Wearside represents no bar to the Magpies' interest, although they face competition from the likes of Fulham as well as negotiations over Bent’s current £70,000-a-week wages.

Bent is said to be keen on a switch to St James’ Park and a fresh start after spending much of last season on the bench or sidelined by first-year Villa boss Paul Lambert.

He would also increase the English contingent in a squad some feel is overstocked with Frenchmen.

i don't buy this . Cisse would have to be sold - possible- as bent and him would nt work together. Also there is nt sell on value for newcastle not policy to sign him. Demba ba is more likely to rejoin if they were signing someone to replace cisse and not high earner bent. Stoke Fulham or west ham most likely i think 

[tjmill]

Think Vila should go for Everton  winger Drenthe if he is poss leaving for Reading. Always looked god last year and would fit in wel to our style. Available for around £4m

[Ron Manager]

I like the understatement of the nature of our signings and the lack of press interest.  I read a fair amount of football related material and have not heard of any of our signings to date.

Takes you back to the old days before the internet and wall to wall football coverage on TV and in the press when we bought players no-one had heard of.  For the teenagers, Barry Stobart, Tommy Mitchinson, Dave Poutney....I could go on.   

Teenagers? I am 50+ and been supporting Villa since I could walk out of the house on me own and I have not heard of these names!

Mid sixties Aftab. Barry Stobart played in the 1960 Cup Final for Wolves. Mitchinson had a bit of skill and Dave Pountney was a limited midfielder who got stuck in.

[dave shelley]

Aftab, not only have I heard of them; I suffered watching them.  But all in all it's what being a Villa fan is all about.  When I look back over my time following the Villa, I wouldn't have missed a second of it, good or bad.

Mitchinson we got from Mansfield, Pountney from Shrewsbury but, not sure if Stobart came directly from Wolves or elsewhere.

[MoetVillan]

If Drenthe was that good, he wouldnt be going to Reading.  That seems a lot of money to me

[walsall villain]

If (and it's a big if) Newcastle have offered us £6m for Bent then i'd tell them to go away add a few more million onto it.

Hardly in a good bargaining position are we as we are clearly not going to play him. Best we can hope for is more than one club want him

[olaftab]

Think Vila should go for Everton  winger Drenthe if he is poss leaving for Reading. Always looked god last year and would fit in wel to our style. Available for around £4m

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

[walsall villain]

Think Vila should go for Everton  winger Drenthe if he is poss leaving for Reading. Always looked god last year and would fit in wel to our style. Available for around £4m

Are you his bloody agent?

[Meanwood Villa]

Aftab, not only have I heard of them; I suffered watching them.  But all in all it's what being a Villa fan is all about.  When I look back over my time following the Villa, I wouldn't have missed a second of it, good or bad.

Mitchinson we got from Mansfield, Pountney from Shrewsbury but, not sure if Stobart came directly from Wolves or elsewhere.

Pountney ran sports shop in Shrewsbury after retiring. Always happy to chat about Villa if you told him you were a fan although no discounts provided!

[Concrete John]

Drenthe was one of the hot young things of European football not too long ago and is still only 26.  Playing wise, he could be the other option at LB we probably need.  And £4m isn't a bad price.  However, I've got a feeling his attitude sucks, which would be a big no for Lambert, and he'll probably want a bigger wage than we're paying at the moment.

[Clampy]

Drenthe was one of the hot younf things of European football not too long ago and is still only 26.  Playing wise, he could be the other option at LB we probably need. 

I always thought he was a right back?