Summer 2013: Villa Transfers, Speculation, Suggestions and Rumours

[Grande Pablo]

From the SkySports transfer ticker thingy:

Aston Villa winger Andras Stieber is training with Bundesliga 2 team Greuther Furth until Friday, according to reports in Hungarian newspaper Nemzeti Sport. The 21-year-old - who is contracted to Aston Villa - played a friendly game on Tuesday versus Genclerbirligi. Andras joined his brother Zoltan Stieber at Furth, where he moved from Aston Villa in 2009.
by Peter Fraser 9:58 AM

[Monty]

Greuther Furth is Henry Kissinger's team.

[rob_bridge]

Thought they signed him for 18M and Downing for 20M.

Great business. For Sunderland and Villa.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Thought they signed him for 18M and Downing for 20M.

Great business. For Sunderland and Villa.

Not to mention Newcastle getting 35M for Carroll....

[Villafirst]

The world's gone mad.......apparently Chelsea have slapped a £60M price tag on David Luiz's head! He's shite!....On that basis Benteke is worth at least £100M!

[supertom]

I see Mallorca are saying Hutton is increasing his personal demands which are preventing the move. Great.

So there's no money in Spain, and they've just been relegated, but he wants more money? For fucks sake. Is he not happy enough sunning himself in sunny Mallorca on well over a million a year as is?
His only other options are to see out his contract here or take a pay cut to play in the Championship. He can have rainy England on less money or enjoy a couple of years in Spain. Up to him. I think he'd be blowing an extremely good opportunity personally.

[Miguelito]

Thought they signed him for 18M and Downing for 20M.

Great business. For Sunderland and Villa.

Actually had a Liverpool fan at work try and justify these price tags with the argument that they got £50m for Torres and he wasn't worth that. The mind boggles.

[paul_e]

Add the 7m for Adam and that's £80m for 4 players.  2 are already sold for £15.5m and £4m, Downing would get them ~£5m at the moment, given his age and performances in the last couple of years.  So £25m for those, even if they got lucky and got £15m for Henderson (which is well over his value but he's young enough to get a decent fee) they'd have halved their money in a little over 2 seasons.  However you try to justify it by mentioning Torres that's is an appalling transfer record.

[Percy McCarthy]

Their problem with Downing is like ours with the Bomb Squad - who the fuck is gonna give him a hundred grand a week apart from Liverpool?

[spk]

Hearing rumours about Rodwell coming to AV,sounds to good to be true,anyone else heard anything ?

[Percy McCarthy]

I see Mallorca are saying Hutton is increasing his personal demands which are preventing the move. Great.

So there's no money in Spain, and they've just been relegated, but he wants more money? For fucks sake. Is he not happy enough sunning himself in sunny Mallorca on well over a million a year as is?
His only other options are to see out his contract here or take a pay cut to play in the Championship. He can have rainy England on less money or enjoy a couple of years in Spain. Up to him. I think he'd be blowing an extremely good opportunity personally.

I very much doubt Mallorca are offering him even close to a million a year. Probably about 250k.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Hearing rumours about Rodwell coming to AV,sounds to good to be true,anyone else heard anything ?

Hope not, he's always injured, was cack at Villa Park this year and probably on a fortune in wages.

[Miguelito]

Add the 7m for Adam and that's £80m for 4 players.  2 are already sold for £15.5m and £4m, Downing would get them ~£5m at the moment, given his age and performances in the last couple of years.  So £25m for those, even if they got lucky and got £15m for Henderson (which is well over his value but he's young enough to get a decent fee) they'd have halved their money in a little over 2 seasons.  However you try to justify it by mentioning Torres that's is an appalling transfer record.

It wasn't me that tried to justify it by mentioning Torres by the way - it was a Liverpool supporting mate that did. Just thought i'd clear that up

[Fasth56]

Add the 7m for Adam and that's £80m for 4 players.  2 are already sold for £15.5m and £4m, Downing would get them ~£5m at the moment, given his age and performances in the last couple of years.  So £25m for those, even if they got lucky and got £15m for Henderson (which is well over his value but he's young enough to get a decent fee) they'd have halved their money in a little over 2 seasons.  However you try to justify it by mentioning Torres that's is an appalling transfer record.

Add on the £20 m for Aquilani the season before, joined Fiorentina for an undisclosed fee, lost more cash.

[OCD]

Seeing how Liverpool have wasted money makes me feel a little better about our activities.