Ryan Bertrand

[Duncan Shaw]

A Chelsea season-ticket-holding colleague has just described him as "good, but not very adventurous" to me. "Likes to pass sideways" apparently. My response was that if he likes to pass to a player in the same shirt he'll do, regardless.

Excellent, he can pass it inside to Clark and then.....hooooof!

[Boz]

Can he hoof it?

Required skill for B6 

[Ads]

If he can square the ball inside to Benteke/Gabby/Holt from say 20 yards to 5 yards from the by-line, then that would be just super.

[Dave Clark Five]

Don't like this passing sideways business.  Already have enough of that going on.

Sideways is an improvement on backwards. (Someone else has probably said this).

[eastie]

Good signing although would have preferred an option to buy at the end of loan.
Will improve defence without doubt.

How do you know we haven't got a clause to buy? In any case, there's always an option to buy. All you have to do is offer Chelsea an acceptable amount and agree personal terms.

There is not always an option to buy - do you think Everton have an option on lukaku?
Lets hope he has a good spell here as did kyle walker , I'm sure he will be very decent for us.

If they want to buy him, they will need to offer Chelsea an acceptable sum of money. That figure may be astronomical considering how good he has been. All I'm saying is all clubs have the option, as in a choice to try and buy a player they have on Loan. Everton have the option to pay the asking price. As do Villa, with Bertrand.

Again, how do you know there isn't a clause in this confidential contract between the clubs?

Just because a club loan out a player it doesn't mean he is necessarily for sale - clubs like Chelsea and arsenal can loan out players to give them premiership games as has been the case with others - if we do have an opportunity to do a permanent deal then all well and good - if not then he will improve our side while he is here as did kyle  walker .

[dekko]

Cross like Lowton and don't defend like Tony and you'll be a great signing Ryan

[Dave Clark Five]

If it keeps us in the Division (not by the skin of our teeth) and sets the tone for summer acquisitions then it will be a result for me. With the midfield still to be strengthened, this window, we must hope to see a happier and vibrant Villa Park from now on. That must be our immediate aim.

[Dave]

Don't like this passing sideways business.  Already have enough of that going on.

Sideways is an improvement on backwards. (Someone else has probably said this).

And a massive improvement on 'to the opposition'

[Concrete John]

If it keeps us in the Division (not by the skin of our teeth) and sets the tone for summer acquisitions then it will be a result for me. With the midfield still to be strengthened, this window, we must hope to see a happier and vibrant Villa Park from now on. That must be our immediate aim.

We're level on points with Hull - do you think they've signed Long and Jelavic to keep them in the division?

[Olneythelonely]

If it keeps us in the Division (not by the skin of our teeth) and sets the tone for summer acquisitions then it will be a result for me. With the midfield still to be strengthened, this window, we must hope to see a happier and vibrant Villa Park from now on. That must be our immediate aim.

We're level on points with Hull - do you think they've signed Long and Jelavic to keep them in the division?

I would have thought so yeah. Everyone up to 10th will be aiming to stay in the division, first and foremost.

[pauliewalnuts]

If it keeps us in the Division (not by the skin of our teeth) and sets the tone for summer acquisitions then it will be a result for me. With the midfield still to be strengthened, this window, we must hope to see a happier and vibrant Villa Park from now on. That must be our immediate aim.

We're level on points with Hull - do you think they've signed Long and Jelavic to keep them in the division?

I would have thought so yeah. Everyone up to 10th will be aiming to stay in the division, first and foremost.

We're not in a relegation fight at the moment, but the gaps between the bottom 10 clubs are miniscule, so I wouldn't be getting too complacent about our safety or not.

And that's not saying "we're going down" before anyone thinks that's what I mean.

[glasses]

Good signing although would have preferred an option to buy at the end of loan.
Will improve defence without doubt.

How do you know we haven't got a clause to buy? In any case, there's always an option to buy. All you have to do is offer Chelsea an acceptable amount and agree personal terms.

There is not always an option to buy - do you think Everton have an option on lukaku?
Lets hope he has a good spell here as did kyle walker , I'm sure he will be very decent for us.

If they want to buy him, they will need to offer Chelsea an acceptable sum of money. That figure may be astronomical considering how good he has been. All I'm saying is all clubs have the option, as in a choice to try and buy a player they have on Loan. Everton have the option to pay the asking price. As do Villa, with Bertrand.

Again, how do you know there isn't a clause in this confidential contract between the clubs?

Just because a club loan out a player it doesn't mean he is necessarily for sale - clubs like Chelsea and arsenal can loan out players to give them premiership games as has been the case with others - if we do have an opportunity to do a permanent deal then all well and good - if not then he will improve our side while he is here as did kyle  walker .

All I'm saying is that we can offer Chelsea some money to permanently sign Bertrand in the summer after his loan. You can do that whether there is an agreement in place or not.

[glasses]

If it keeps us in the Division (not by the skin of our teeth) and sets the tone for summer acquisitions then it will be a result for me. With the midfield still to be strengthened, this window, we must hope to see a happier and vibrant Villa Park from now on. That must be our immediate aim.

We're level on points with Hull - do you think they've signed Long and Jelavic to keep them in the division?

Yes, exactly that.

[damon loves JT]

Ça plane pour moi.

[pauliewalnuts]

Ça plane pour moi.

He'll miss all those plastics at Chelsea.