Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[pauliewalnuts]

Paul Lambert is going down the Brian Clough road of rounding up unwanted has beens and nobodies ready to mould them into a team that will conquer Europe. Senderos could be our Larry Lloyd, Richardson our Frank Clark, Cole our Ian Bowyer and we will actually pay a transfer fee of something like £30,000 to bring the new Garry Birtles from non league.

Or it might not quite work out that well.

Its going to be like a football version of The Dirty Dozen.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Paul Lambert is going down the Brian Clough road of rounding up unwanted has beens and nobodies ready to mould them into a team that will conquer Europe. Senderos could be our Larry Lloyd, Richardson our Frank Clark, Cole our Ian Bowyer and we will actually pay a transfer fee of something like £30,000 to bring the new Garry Birtles from non league.

Or it might not quite work out that well.

Its going to be like a football version of The Dirty Dozen.

Train them! Excite them! Arm them!

Then turn them loose on the Premier League.

[hilts_coolerking]

I'd go:

------------Savalas-------------

Brown--Walker--Kennedy--Jaeckel

--------------Marvin-------------

-----Bronson-------Meeker-------

Lopez---------------------Cassavetes

--------------Benteke-------------

Subs:
Ryan, R
Sutherland, D

[SoccerHQ]

I like Richardson. He will do a good job for us at very little cost. Keane obviously rates him.

Apparently he was one of the players Keane slagged off in that infamous squad review that never got played on MUTV after Man. United were hammered in one of the games.

Didn't stop Keane signing him for Sunderland although he does have a weird thing of signing as many old teammates as possible when he was manager.

TBH I see this as a similar sort of signing as Stoke getting Bardsley and there's no chance of Stoke going down.

[caster troy]

Richardson?! Well we 'jumped the shark' with Cole and Senderos so I suppose nothing should surprise me now.

My friends think I am joking when I say I'm not going to watch us at all next season, not even on TV, but I am dead serious.

[steamer]

load of crap, glad Keane has his contacts.

[pauliewalnuts]

It's going to be absolutely amazing when we actually start buying some players for actual money.

I see Arsenal have signed Alexis Sanchez.

Foreign show pony.

[adrenachrome]

It's going to be absolutely amazing when we actually start buying some players for actual money.

I see Arsenal have signed Alexis Sanchez.

Foreign show pony.

Darren Lewis ‏@MirrorDarren 4h

Fascinating day in the transfer market: Aston Villa shopping at football's equivalent of Poundstretcher. Arsenal shopping at Harrods.

[pauliewalnuts]

It's going to be absolutely amazing when we actually start buying some players for actual money.

I see Arsenal have signed Alexis Sanchez.

Foreign show pony.

Darren Lewis ‏@MirrorDarren 4h

Fascinating day in the transfer market: Aston Villa shopping at football's equivalent of Poundstretcher. Arsenal shopping at Harrods.

Ah, that warms the heart and no mistake.

[dave.woodhall]

It's going to be absolutely amazing when we actually start buying some players for actual money.

I see Arsenal have signed Alexis Sanchez.

Foreign show pony.

Darren Lewis ‏@MirrorDarren 4h

Fascinating day in the transfer market: Aston Villa shopping at football's equivalent of Poundstretcher. Arsenal shopping at Harrods.

Arsenal have got a lot more money than all but about three clubs in the league. Where's the story in that?

[London Villan]

Have we put a load of players on the transfer list then? Or have I been fed duff info?

[adrenachrome]

It's going to be absolutely amazing when we actually start buying some players for actual money.

I see Arsenal have signed Alexis Sanchez.

Foreign show pony.

Darren Lewis ‏@MirrorDarren 4h

Fascinating day in the transfer market: Aston Villa shopping at football's equivalent of Poundstretcher. Arsenal shopping at Harrods.

Arsenal have got a lot more money than all but about three clubs in the league. Where's the story in that?

Well, Daz finds it fascinating anyway.

[pauliewalnuts]

It's going to be absolutely amazing when we actually start buying some players for actual money.

I see Arsenal have signed Alexis Sanchez.

Foreign show pony.

Darren Lewis ‏@MirrorDarren 4h

Fascinating day in the transfer market: Aston Villa shopping at football's equivalent of Poundstretcher. Arsenal shopping at Harrods.

Arsenal have got a lot more money than all but about three clubs in the league. Where's the story in that?

Well, if you ignore the Arsenal part, the bit about us mooking around the bargain bins in Poundstretcher is still worth comment.

Yet more proof the disengagement of our owner is now total.

Who'd have thought it, that he'd go from how he used to be to what he is now.

[dave shelley]

In the mid-sixties to early seventies, Tony Waddington, the Stoke manager put together an eclectic mix of players, so-called has-beens such as George Eastham and Roy Vernon.  To this he added a blend of promising youngsters.  IIRC, Stoke rarely struggled, won the League Cup and one year ran very close to winning the league.  In that mix, he also had ex-Villa man Harry Burrows and signed Gordon Banks.

My point is that I think I'm beginning to see similarities.  The quality of our 'has beens' is moot, as to our youngsters, I suppose you could say the same.  I think we should stop all this wringing of hands and tearing our hair out and take a pragmatic approach to the coming season. 

[PaulWinch again]

Yeah I agree the Arsenal thing is kind of irrelevant, we look like completely devoid of any ambition. I know he wants to leave, but the current level of investment this summer is negligent. It may change, but I doubt it.