Summer 2013: Villa Transfers, Speculation, Suggestions and Rumours

[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!

What about Charlie Aitken then, Alan Baker , Mike Tindall and Colin Withers?

Charlie yes not the other two. My "life" started with Cumbes, Wright, Curtis, Tyler, Atkin, Godfrey, McMahon, Hamilton,  Lochhead Vowden, Anderson.

[not3bad]

Seems newcastle are keen on bent but they are not prepared to pay £6m and want villa to lower the price according to Ssn.

f**k em .we should be asking for more. He scores goals .

Fulham and now Cardiff are also interested so we might be able to get a little bidding war going.

[ROBBO]

Went on the tour when i was over last year got quite emotional when i saw what they've done to the Witton end,
bring back the mud slide i say.

[dave shelley]

The way us old uns are reminiscing I can see the mods consigning us to a corner of the site where they occasionally bring us tea in a beaker and check our incontinence pads only letting us post when they are sure there is more than one marble floating around.

[Mister E]

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!

What about Charlie Aitken then, Alan Baker , Mike Tindall and Colin Withers?

Charlie yes not the other two. My "life" started with Cumbes, Wright, Curtis, Tyler, Atkin, Godfrey, McMahon, Hamilton,  Lochhead Vowden, Anderson.

I first went to VP in early 1967 at the age of 8 so caught the back end of the team that got relegated - Phillips, Aitken, Wright, Hole, Chatterley, Tiler et al.

[danlanza]

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!

What about Charlie Aitken then, Alan Baker , Mike Tindall and Colin Withers?

Charlie yes not the other two. My "life" started with Cumbes, Wright, Curtis, Tyler, Atkin, Godfrey, McMahon, Hamilton,  Lochhead Vowden, Anderson.

Can we have " I am really old, with a great memory and all you youngsters should take note" type thread ?

[SteveN]

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!

What about Charlie Aitken then, Alan Baker , Mike Tindall and Colin Withers?

Charlie yes not the other two. My "life" started with Cumbes, Wright, Curtis, Tyler, Atkin, Godfrey, McMahon, Hamilton,  Lochhead Vowden, Anderson.

I first went to VP in early 1967 at the age of 8 so caught the back end of the team that got relegated - Phillips, Aitken, Wright, Hole, Chatterley, Tiler et al.

Tch - you youngsters, 1959 against Ipswich and although I can't remember my own telephone number, without searching I think the team would have been Sims- Lynn - Aldis - Saward - Dugdale - right half Crowther? - Smith?- Dixon- Hitchins - Wylie - McParland.

Roger S and Brian Green of this parish go back way further I think.

[BenEeles]

I wonder what fans of other clubs are making of us buying these players? At least those around us who have done little or nothing this summer.

A lot of fans from other Clubs especially Chelski think we have got a bargain with Okore. I've been reading different sites and comments from other fans are very praising of the players we are signing.

When he has the ball
the villa fans roar its Okore !!

You wont get the ball
he wont let you score
its okore

When the ball's in the air
And big Ron isn't there
It's Okore

When you can't get a kick
And you think "Fuck - he's quick!"
It's Okore.

When the ball hits the net, it's not Charlie or Brett, it's Okore.

[ROBBO]

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!

What about Charlie Aitken then, Alan Baker , Mike Tindall and Colin Withers?

Charlie yes not the other two. My "life" started with Cumbes, Wright, Curtis, Tyler, Atkin, Godfrey, McMahon, Hamilton,  Lochhead Vowden, Anderson.

I first went to VP in early 1967 at the age of 8 so caught the back end of the team that got relegated - Phillips, Aitken, Wright, Hole, Chatterley, Tiler et al.

Tch - you youngsters, 1959 against Ipswich and although I can't remember my own telephone number, without searching I think the team would have been Sims- Lynn - Aldis - Saward - Dugdale - right half Crowther? - Smith?- Dixon- Hitchins - Wylie - McParland.

Roger S and Brian Green of this parish go back way further I think.

So do I, a lot further, and i'm not happy about it.

[tomd2103]

If rumours are true that Fulham are also interested in Bent then I think that would be his prefered destination.
Lives in Cambridge, commutable to london.

Plus, sod the barcodes. Would love them to go south again next season.

Yeah I think Fulham would be a good move for him and a partnership with Berbatov looks good on paper.  Not sure it would be great for us though if he goes to a club we are looking to overtake next season and starts banging goals in, so from a purely selfish point of view, I'd like to see him sold to a foreign club. 

[andrew08]

If Bent wants to go to Brazil then he needs to play regular footy, score in excess of at least 10 league goals and play at a high profile club or at least one down south. It's a pity QPR went down that would have been ideal.

So assuming West Ham aren't going to give a proven goalscorer £100k a week for 6 years when they want Carroll ( he must have a bloody good agent) I would agree Fulham is his best bet.

[DrGonzo]

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!

What about Charlie Aitken then, Alan Baker , Mike Tindall and Colin Withers?

Charlie yes not the other two. My "life" started with Cumbes, Wright, Curtis, Tyler, Atkin, Godfrey, McMahon, Hamilton,  Lochhead Vowden, Anderson.

Can we have " I am really old, with a great memory and all you youngsters should take note" type thread ?

If it means you'll not be getting under our feet and grumbling about the weather/state of the country/modern media you most certainly can old chap.

[Ads]

Who taught the geriatrics how to use the internet?

[Toronto Villa]

I wonder what fans of other clubs are making of us buying these players? At least those around us who have done little or nothing this summer.

A lot of fans from other Clubs especially Chelski think we have got a bargain with Okore. I've been reading different sites and comments from other fans are very praising of the players we are signing.   

the real reason I posed that question is I was really asking how would we feel if another club had gone down this path to signing exciting stars from other countries? Look back to say 2007-2009 when all we seemed to do was sign expensive domestic talent while for a fraction of the price other clubs were signing players good or better from all across the world, let alone just Europe. We were crying out for a scouting network that extended beyond these shores and it now appears we have one, and a good one at that.

[SteveN]

Who taught the geriatrics how to use the internet?

Oy - I went through rationing for the likes of you.