Summer 2013: Villa Transfers, Speculation, Suggestions and Rumours

[Percy McCarthy]

The Bomb Squad - conservative estimates:

Bent - 70k a week 2 years left 11m.
Given - 50k, 3 years, 7.5m
Ireland - 60k, 1 year, 3m
Hutton - 30k, 2 years, 3m.
N'Zog - 60k, 2 years, 6m
Bannan - 20k, 2 years(?) 2m
Fonz - 20k, 1 year(?) 1m.

33.5m for people who ain't gonna play. Good luck with getting rid of that lot Villa, we're gonna need it.

Agree with you entirely.

Although some iffy maths there - 70k a week for 2 years is more like (when you add on NI and all that shit) more like 8m, surely?

It's annoying we have to resort to loaning players out when we can't shift them - ok, we get their wages paid, but we wind up at contract end with a player with no capital value to us.

Of course you're right on the maths. For some reason I did it over three years in my head, while (I think correctly) writing two years in my post.

[pauliewalnuts]

Further to my Bomb Squad list above, I've just remembered they cost us over 40m in transfer fees as well. Poor Randy.

I imagine there aren't many clubs who have watched so much value pissed away over the last few years in players leaving for nothing.

[Yossarian]

Further to my Bomb Squad list above, I've just remembered they cost us over 40m in transfer fees as well. Poor Randy.

I imagine there aren't many clubs who have watched so much value pissed away over the last few years in players leaving for nothing.

QPR might have run us close last season but they did get there money back on Samba. Sunderland perhaps?

[RussellC]

Villa Transfer News (@TransferVillan) tweeted at 10:54 AM on Thu, Jul 25, 2013:
As I tweeted earlier, #avfc officials are meeting with Marco Capuano. Radio Sei just announced the transfer is to be confirmed tomorrow.

odd one to make up if not genuine.....?

Just Googled him and he looks cross-eyed. Should fit in perfectly with our current back-line.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Sky sports news reporting villa and almeria fail to agree terms for Hutton's loan deal

I thought he was going to Mallorca?

[UK Redsox]

Sky sports news reporting villa and almeria fail to agree terms for Hutton's loan deal

I thought he was going to Mallorca?

Apparently the taste of the H2O did not meet the required standards

[curiousorange]

Further to my Bomb Squad list above, I've just remembered they cost us over 40m in transfer fees as well. Poor Randy.

I imagine there aren't many clubs who have watched so much value pissed away over the last few years in players leaving for nothing.

It's been a long time since anybody sympathised with our owner. Shows how much credit acting like professionals in transfers and contracts gets you.

[Concrete John]

Sky sports news reporting villa and almeria fail to agree terms for Hutton's loan deal

I thought he was going to Mallorca?

I think it's like a low cost last minute package holiday deal.  The where isn't important, just as long as he gets on the plane.

[FranzBiberkopf]

I imagine there aren't many clubs who have watched so much value pissed away over the last few years in players leaving for nothing.

Different world to the one we operate in, but Man City surely?

Savic
Roque Santa Cruz
Kolo Toure
Maicon
Wayne Bridge
Craig Bellamy

Plus countless others such as the likes of Pizarro etc.

And I'm not even going into the massive hits they took for transfer losses around Balotelli, Tevez, Robinho, Adebayor and so on and so on.

Who said football was fcuked eh?!

[rob_bridge]

Further to my Bomb Squad list above, I've just remembered they cost us over 40m in transfer fees as well. Poor Randy.

I imagine there aren't many clubs who have watched so much value pissed away over the last few years in players leaving for nothing.

QPR might have run us close last season but they did get there money back on Samba. Sunderland perhaps?

We can always lob in total cost of Heskey, Beye, Shorey, Sidwell and Cuellar which was £55m+ in transfer fees and wages combined.

[Percy McCarthy]

NRC, MFH....

[mattjpa]

Before people get too sypatheic with Randolph, remember that the majority of those wasters were either signed as a result of giving MON carte blanche or signed by ged/mcleish, both of whom were appointed by him.
Remember, Randy came into this business with alot of money and very little knowledge/experience. The first thing he should have done was appoint someone with either a wealth of knowledge of the premier league or the inside track on the recent history of AVFC (People often band around Sir Graham which is hard to argue with)
A good CEO or a voice of caution on the board and I guarentee we would be in a better position than we are now.

[Dante Lavelli]

Before people get too sypatheic with Randolph, remember that the majority of those wasters were either signed as a result of giving MON carte blanche or signed by ged/mcleish, both of whom were appointed by him.
Remember, Randy came into this business with alot of money and very little knowledge/experience. The first thing he should have done was appoint someone with either a wealth of knowledge of the premier league or the inside track on the recent history of AVFC (People often band around Sir Graham which is hard to argue with)
A good CEO or a voice of caution on the board and I guarentee we would be in a better position than we are now.

True dat.

[Miguelito]

Before people get too sypatheic with Randolph, remember that the majority of those wasters were either signed as a result of giving MON carte blanche or signed by ged/mcleish, both of whom were appointed by him.
Remember, Randy came into this business with alot of money and very little knowledge/experience. The first thing he should have done was appoint someone with either a wealth of knowledge of the premier league or the inside track on the recent history of AVFC (People often band around Sir Graham which is hard to argue with)
A good CEO or a voice of caution on the board and I guarentee we would be in a better position than we are now.

True dat.

#believedat - as our loyal superstar striker would say

[mr woo]

Those Capuano stories were just a nose on the wind up by looks of it. Very amusing.