Summer 2013: Villa Transfers, Speculation, Suggestions and Rumours

[UK Redsox]

looks like Belhanda has pulled out of the move to Kiev. Not that I think he will be joining us but could surface in the PL somewhere

Chicken !?!

[Michel Sibble]

Wow, he really does behave like his moniker...

[danlanza]

Strange. I thought it was a silly decision for him to go there in the first place, not exactly the most exciting league in the footballing world and very bloody cold in the winter.
So, anybody got any bets on where he will go next ?

[damon loves JT]

Any player who plays silly buggers like that is best avoided. However talented he may be.

[pauliewalnuts]

He has said he definitely is going to Kiev, so nothing happening there.

Bit strange, though. I tend to agree, if he did change his mind last night, then back again, that suggests he's not the sort of player we should be after.

[Concrete John]

I get the impression there were offers from places he didn't want to go and then our interest, if there ever was any in the first place, was used to try and draw out other PL clubs or clubs in Spain, etc.  So he or his agent playing games, which means he was probably best avoided, as others have said. 

[sirlordbaltimore]

 
I've not seen this confirmed officially anywhere. Has anyone else ?

Sounds like a load of made up cobblers to me

[cdbearsfan]

Not sure what is going on re: Belhanda but what's your favourite dinosaur?

I like pterodactyls.

[IFWaters]

I would still feel happier if we had another experienced Centre Back - Lescott for me has prob 3 to 4 years and gets goals.

After that a playmaker, someone like Van dear Vaart - now at Hamburg - I think his wife is German and was very Ill but he could connect up all our young talent very well. On transfermarkt his value is 11.5 million quid.
Both players just turned 30.

[Nastylee]

Given the teams in for Belhanda then I can only assume he is being over rated by some fans? I mean you don't have a team from Dubai and Kiev chasing you if you're any good.

[Yossarian]

 

Not sure what is going on re: Belhanda but what's your favourite dinosaur?

I like pterodactyls.

[mr underhill]

I think my favourite is Erectopus, the cretaceous porno star. Eight boners always at the ready

[cdbearsfan]

I would still feel happier if we had another experienced Centre Back - Lescott for me has prob 3 to 4 years and gets goals.

Only against us.

[eastie]

Villa's newboys Aleksandar Tonev and Antonio Luna have been told to learn the Villa football language.

They have been urged to do their talking on the pitch before they worry too much about speaking English.

Tonev and Luna will inevitably have to learn the language - something Lambert believes strongly in.

But the boss insists their priority is to steep themselves in the football philosophies of his young, emerging squad in training as they gear up for the 2013-14 season.

He said: "Learning English is important for them. Some have better English than others but I think it is important, first and foremost, that they learn the language on the football side.

"By that, I mean the terminology on a football pitch. I think they've got to learn that.

"If they do that and they start to converse with people, it will bring their game on quicker.

"It is a strange environment for all of the new guys. But they will hit the ground running and once they start to know each other's names and integrate with each other then they will not have a problem."

Lambert certainly believes the newboys, also including Jores Okore, Niklas Helenius and Leandro Bacuna, will play a big role in the coming campaign.

And he insists they come to B6 with the very best of intentions.

He added: "Every one of them has got the same objective - they want to do well here.

"They are certainly young enough lads to kick on with their careers too. I think that is the beauty of it all.

"They are a young group coming in, allied to the ones that are already here. Those lads will be better for what happened last year.

"If they do that all together then hopefully they will be strong."

[RussellC]

Some Twit on Twatter is saying we've agreed a fee for Henri Saivet of Bordeaux. Meh.