Summer 2013: Villa Transfers, Speculation, Suggestions and Rumours

[VILLA MOLE]

Madrid to Luton, knowing Daniel.
"Yeah, 'e's a 'triffic lad, Sole-da-do. Daniel's flown 'im in to Loo'in. I'm just drivin' up vere now to collect 'im."
Er, Harry?

poor harry

[eamonn]

I'll honestyl be quite sad the day he dies.

[Mazrim]

How Spurs fly in their record signing...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BQm9wctCQAA-wI6.jpg

With one of the guys from Tron?

[Ads]

Its a lot of money for a 28 year old.

[villa kicks]

80 mil Ronaldo for a 28 year old is cheap if bale is  going for more. Great move by man united

[villa kicks]

Charlie Austin signs for qpr

[curiousorange]

Okay, i'm getting confused again between the Villa transfer thread and the other clubs transfer thread.

[Dave]

Charlie Austin signs for qpr

These have nothing at all to do with Villa.

[Mister E]

Caulker looks a very good prospect to me. £8 mill though, Jesus H.

precisely. Prospect Jores Okore at £4m or Caulker at twice the price? I'm glad we looked abroad

Well, actually if you brought both together in one team you might have a really good CB partnership for £12m. Albeit a little expensively.

You have to grudgingly admire Spurrrrrrrrs' ability to sell players high - Hutton, JJ (loan) and Caulker have all brought in top dollar for them. And looks like Bale may do the same.

the transfer market geniuses paid a combined £16m for Hutton and Jenas

Edit: and they have now agreed to pay £26m for Soldado who isn't a regular in the Spanish national side, is 28 and has never played in the PL instead of pulling the trigger (thankfully) on Benteke. Much younger, has a solid PL record in his first season and the starting CF for Belgium. Now we might have been asking for £35m but it's not like they are getting Soldado on the cheap.

Agreed, their purchasing is as hit n'miss as any other team (Liverpool, Villa under MON, etc) but their disposals do seem to attract good fees.

[Mister E]

80 mil Ronaldo for a 28 year old is cheap if bale is  going for more. Great move by man united

Is it?

[Mark H]

The ex president of Real was on Talkshite the other day say that Ronaldo had asked them for €20m per year NET !!! Now he is a very good player and sells shirts and tickets and all that but my god if that's the new wage level football really is going to hell in a hand cart

[UK Redsox]

Okay, i'm getting confused again between the Villa transfer thread and the other clubs transfer thread.

The problem is that the "Other Clubs Transfers" thread was moved out of the main section.

IMO it should have stayed in here until the end of the Window.

[Ron Manager]

I'm amazed that Stoke aren't in for Bentley, considering it was under Hughes that he looked like such a great player.

him and Ireland. With both you have to think that quite prematurely the fire has gone completely. Both players are minted, neither seem bothered whether they actually play again at a high level. Because if they were, they would be plying their trade somewhere better than our U21 squad or looking for a gig in Bulgaria.

Players that have a little bit of skill can make a lot of money without bothering to achieve anything in their career. Those TV has mentioned plus people like Jay Bothroyd. A bloke who I know supports Wolves. He told me this story about the time he met Bothroyd briefly when he played for them. He said 'your style of play sometimes looks as if you are not trying for the ninety minutes'. Bothroyd just pointed at his huge car shrugged his shoulders and walked off without saying a thing.

That bloke played for England!

[damon loves JT]

If every club did what Villa are doing, ie look properly for reasonably priced young talent abroad, Jay Bothroyd would have to work a bit harder to have a big shiny car. And we'd all be better off.

[richard moore]

Okay, i'm getting confused again between the Villa transfer thread and the other clubs transfer thread.

The problem is that the "Other Clubs Transfers" thread was moved out of the main section.

IMO it should have stayed in here until the end of the Window.

I made exactly the same point to Dave the other day and agree