Summer 2013: Villa Transfers, Speculation, Suggestions and Rumours

[rob_bridge]

£6-8 Mil i would say for Bent.

Replace him with a young up coimng striker like Leigh Griffiths of wolves

Exactly - no room for Alf Garnet's here, Thanks. Leave those who prejudice people based on the origins of their parents to other clubs

Er, no thanks.

[tomd2103]

£6-8 Mil i would say for Bent.

Replace him with a young up coimng striker like Leigh Griffiths of wolves

I think Lambert would be more inclined to give one of our up-and-coming young strikers (Burke, Robinson, Drennan, etc) a go, before paying money for one.

Yep.  I think our forward options are sorted for this season and should anyone come in if Bent goes, I think it is more likely to be an attacking midfielder.

[gervilla]

I'm glad to see things have worked out so well For Clint Dempsey after turning down a move to Villa Park last summer.
He is now linked with a move to Seattle in the MLS.

[Dr Butler]

I'm glad to see things have worked out so well For Clint Dempsey after turning down a move to Villa Park last summer.
He is now linked with a move to Seattle in the MLS.

how much did the mighty, mighty Spurs pay for him ?  £10 million ??

bullet dodged.

[mattjpa]

The worst thing is, its not a bullet dodged. I genuinely think he would have done well here, He has let himself down by making a bad choice. Hes not the first person in history to aim higher than he should have and to be fair, spurs are ahead of us at the moment so he cant be blamed.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, I imagine he would not have rejected us had he known then what he knows now

[Toronto Villa]

I'm glad to see things have worked out so well For Clint Dempsey after turning down a move to Villa Park last summer.
He is now linked with a move to Seattle in the MLS.

how much did the mighty, mighty Spurs pay for him ?  £10 million ??

bullet dodged.

lesss than that - I think we agreed a fee of around £7m for him

[Concrete John]

The worst thing is, its not a bullet dodged. I genuinely think he would have done well here, He has let himself down by making a bad choice. Hes not the first person in history to aim higher than he should have and to be fair, spurs are ahead of us at the moment so he cant be blamed.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, I imagine he would not have rejected us had he known then what he knows now

Quite right.

Similarly to Darren Bent, his stock has fallen due to not playing.

[warleyboy]

Yeah, I'm surprised no-one else is in for him, must be the wages. As play the right way, he will score goals - his record speaks for itself, loads of clubs would benefit having him e.g. Cardiff.

Yes DB, I thought there would be more interest myself.
He is a guaranteed double figures man, in fact I believe he would do really well alongside RVP, he would bag a hatful for em.

[Toronto Villa]

The worst thing is, its not a bullet dodged. I genuinely think he would have done well here, He has let himself down by making a bad choice. Hes not the first person in history to aim higher than he should have and to be fair, spurs are ahead of us at the moment so he cant be blamed.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, I imagine he would not have rejected us had he known then what he knows now

Quite right.

Similarly to Darren Bent, his stock has fallen due to not playing.

he's a really good player. He'd probably still quite well with us if we were interested but that ship has long gone. He works hard and scores goals in that just behind the striker position.

Speaking about players I wish we'd signed, or in this case kept, is Michael Bradley. Another reason why I wanted to see how the Houllier plan would have panned out. He has gone to do superbly for Roma. Very Ashley Westwood in a lot that he does, calm, collected and loves to pass and move without complication.

[Eckybloke]

£6-8 Mil i would say for Bent.

Replace him with a young up coimng striker like Leigh Griffiths of wolves

We're getting rid of one bampot in the shape of Bannan.  It's not as if we have a mandated dickhead quota to fill.

[Monty]

Leigh is insane. Had a pretty spectacular season with Hibs, but I'd like to see how he performs at Championship level before taking him to the Premier League (so he'll have to wait a year or leave the Wovvles as soon as he can). He's also insane.

[VinnieChase84]

Bannan being linked with Blackpool on twitter. Ireland's move to Boro has gone very quiet! Hope to god were not stuck with that clown come September

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Bannan being linked with Blackpool on twitter.

Just what Blackpool need, another pissed up Glaswegian puking on their streets.

[pauliewalnuts]

Speaking about players I wish we'd signed, or in this case kept, is Michael Bradley. Another reason why I wanted to see how the Houllier plan would have panned out.

Looking back, that Houllier year was one of the weirdest we've ever had.

Starting badly with that "can't come till Wolves" thing, then a series of embarassing foot in mouth episodes, some abysmal results, shattering our spending record on a striker few thought would have come to us, Houllier getting ill, things starting to get better under McAllister, and then it all ended.

Things looked sufficiently improved towards the end that even a half decent managerial appointment might have caused us to continue to improve, and to pass the ball more, and put behind us the bad things which had happened that season.

Instead, we did the one thing, more than any other, that we could have done to throw away all the positives we could have taken from a mostly wretched season, and appointed McLeish, who, even if you could get over the other objections, made zero sense in terms of football style.

That approaching Martinez one week then turning to McLeish the next was just such a lurch from one style to the diametric opposite, it made no sense at all.

I have no idea what is said within the inner sanctum at Villa Park about this, so it's all just my suspicion, but I would not be at all surprised if Houllier was the one manager they've appointed who frustrated them the most, and who gets discussed least often.

In fact, it reminds me of the Venglos season in a way.

[Steve67]

I reckon Arsenal could do worse than take Darren Bent.  He scores goals, they make chances but have a problem sometimes sticking the ball away.  Bent is a lazy arse who will stand on the six yard box and poke the ball home.  Fulham for 5mill is a snip for a goalscorer, absolute snip.