Summer 2013: Villa Transfers, Speculation, Suggestions and Rumours

[TheSandman]

Phil Bardsley never scored a goal in his career before he crashed a thunderbolt in against us a few years back.

[cheltenhamlion]

Cole scored one when Arsenal were 3 up in ten minutes at Villa Park.

[paul_e]

Robin Van Persie was alright  I suppose.  That Ruud Van Nistelroy had his moments. Ruud Gullitt too. Though to be fair I always preferred Dennis Bergkamp - who was of course - not a patch on Patrick Kluivert or indeed Marco Van Basten - and none of them ever matched Johann Cryuff - but I take your point.

Not had chance to read this before now...

Van Persie and Bergkamp - neither can be called a goal poacher so not relevent.
Ruud Gullit wasn't even a striker
Cryuff wasn't a striker and never played in England
Van Basten never played in england
Van Nistelrooy accounts for the inclusion of the 'generally' at the end and...
Kluivert scored 6 in a season and kinda sums up my point.

You can add Kezman and Alves as big failures.

Suarez I'll give you as another vote in favour of me stating 'generally' but despite his quality he's such a nasty little shitbag that I tend to forget he can actually play a bit.

[DrGonzo]

Robin Van Persie was alright  I suppose.  That Ruud Van Nistelroy had his moments. Ruud Gullitt too. Though to be fair I always preferred Dennis Bergkamp - who was of course - not a patch on Patrick Kluivert or indeed Marco Van Basten - and none of them ever matched Johann Cryuff - but I take your point.

I'm not sure calling van Basten and Bergkamp poachers really does justice to their abilities.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Young defender Josh Webb will jet out to join the Villa squad in Germany as the claret and blues continue to monitor new signing Jores Okore’s injury.

Okore limped off in the closing stages of last night’s 1-1 draw against SV Rodinghausen after appearing to pull up with a hamstring problem.

First impressions were that the injury was not too serious and that the Danish international defender was withdrawn as a precautionary measure.

Webb will link up with Paul Lambert’s first team squad today at their training base near Marienfeld after confirming his call-up on Twitter.

The Stourbridge-born defender, who can play at full-back and centre-half, tweeted: “On my way to the Airport to meet up with the first team in Germany!”

I've never heard of him? Is that how thin our defensive cover is?

[Summers]

Dempsey has been made available by Spurs.

If rumours are to be believed, Lambo was interested in him before.

[danlanza]

"eastie starts own web site. Drummond and Toronto barred after first post." The Sun.

[supertom]

Robin Van Persie was alright  I suppose.  That Ruud Van Nistelroy had his moments. Ruud Gullitt too. Though to be fair I always preferred Dennis Bergkamp - who was of course - not a patch on Patrick Kluivert or indeed Marco Van Basten - and none of them ever matched Johann Cryuff - but I take your point.

I'm not sure calling van Basten and Bergkamp poachers really does justice to their abilities.

I'm also not quite sure how Dennis Bergkamp wasn't a patch on Patrick Kluivert?

[Toronto Villa]

"eastie starts own web site. Drummond and Toronto barred after first post." The Sun.

I'll be demanding that I get banned long before I ever approach the site let alone post on it.

Hey, you need people to believe that your are a legit ITK, so eastie's a good mate to have.

[Drummond]

"eastie starts own web site. Drummond and Toronto barred after first post." The Sun. ;)

Just as well I wouldn't read that disgraceful rag then.

As for eastie posts, I suggest you take it to PM rather than getting one of us banned....

[tomd2103]

Dempsey has been made available by Spurs.

If rumours are to be believed, Lambo was interested in him before.

A coincidence maybe?  Here's a scenario - Spurs want Benteke but can't afford the asking price.  Spurs try to fob us off with their unwanted players as part of the deal, but we're not interested.  Spurs start to get desperate and try to offer us a player they don't really want rid of, but know that we have been interested in before.

He is an attacking midfielder who is capable of scoring 10 goals and more a season, but he turned us down pretty flatly before so I'm not sure it is a goer really. 

[Toronto Villa]

Dempsey turned us down after we had agreed a price with Fulham because his heart was set on a move to Liverpool. I'm quite sure Mr Lambert will remember how hungry Dempsey was to join pur project 12 months ago.

[olaftab]

Dempsey is 31,next birthday, so I suggest we don't value him anymore than £2m.

[Singapore Villa]

No to Dempsey.  Not interested.  Spurs need to give us straight cash for CB and we don't want any of their castoffs....

[villa kicks]

No to Dempsey.  Not interested.  Spurs need to give us straight cash for CB and we don't want any of their castoffs....

i trust villa to get situation right and any team that want to buy big Ben have to offer the big bucks and none of this make weight deals.