Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[SoccerHQ]

Atsu and Ki would both be excellent signings. In fact got them and did not lose anyone, I would be fairly please with the summer. Maybe a strong holding mid in there too.

Ki would be that holding player I think. He really impressed me at VP and looked good for Sunderland in other games aswell. Him and Westwood holding with Delph pushed a bit further forward I'd be happy with.

It could happen, Swansea are well stocked in central midfield and Garry Monk doesn't really have a clue what he's doing.

[pauliewalnuts]

Atsu and Ki would both be excellent signings. In fact got them and did not lose anyone, I would be fairly please with the summer. Maybe a strong holding mid in there too.

Ki would be that holding player I think. He really impressed me at VP and looked good for Sunderland in other games aswell. Him and Westwood holding with Delph pushed a bit further forward I'd be happy with.

It could happen, Swansea are well stocked in central midfield and Garry Monk doesn't really have a clue what he's doing.

Ha!

That just made me do a massive snort/laugh.

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

I see Grant Holt's just done a q&a session on twitter. A few villa questions answered.

Must have a look at that.

[tomd2103]

Atsu and Ki would both be excellent signings. In fact got them and did not lose anyone, I would be fairly please with the summer. Maybe a strong holding mid in there too.

Ki would be that holding player I think. He really impressed me at VP and looked good for Sunderland in other games aswell. Him and Westwood holding with Delph pushed a bit further forward I'd be happy with.

It could happen, Swansea are well stocked in central midfield and Garry Monk doesn't really have a clue what he's doing.

Ki is more of a attacking midfielder isn't he?  Him or Cole in front of Delph and Westwood is how I'd imagine we would set up.  We do still need that strong, athletic holding midfielder as well though and if there is any money to spend, that is the type of player we should invest it in.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Got bored reading the q&a but this made me laugh..“@hag_wally: @Grantholt31 do you prefer jelly and ice cream or chocolate cake and fresh cream? #AskHolty”. Cake with  cream

[Matt C]

For breakfast.

[mr underhill]

lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner

[Matt Collins]

There's already a website for that - http://www.transferleague.co.uk/premiership-transfers/aston-villa-transfers.html

As for your previous response, what your saying is that he/we should forget about how much of his money he's put in so far and just ask for more.  I don't really care how rich he is it's up to him what of his personal wealth he is willing (and able, remember a lot of his money is tied up in a trust where he isn't the only beneficiary) to put into the club, if he looks at the full accounts for the last 8 years and thinks "fuck this I'm done" then that's fair enough.  We're fans, we'd all love him to keep throwing money at us but it's just not going to happen.

Not wanting to speak for another poster, but I think what's he's pointing to is a decline in spending, year-on-year, with the suggestion being that this does point to there being even further reductions in the outlay this summer.

The numbers don't back that up.

The only year we spent significantly more than £20m was 08/09 and the only seasons where we've spent significantly less were under Houllier (who only had 1 January window, during which he broke our transfer record) and Mcleish and both were underpinned by big sales, we actually spent similar amounts to other windows.

You have to take wages into account. That's been the real problem as we all know

[Matt Collins]

Or just read the publicly available accounts! (Not aimed at you Paul e, you obviously have)

On transfers,  ki and atsu would be great. I'd be very pleasantly surprised with both though. If I were Swansea I'd definitely hold onto ki. He's played deep for Sunderland - very similar to Westwood's role

I think we could do with some more muscle in there either way. I haven't really got a better suggestion than sidwell though.

If we're interested in younger players too we could look to give some of the Chelsea youngsters who've been out on loan some premier league experience: chalobah, ake

[Matt Collins]

I've just seen sidwell has gone to stoke

Ummm- James MacArthur?

[Summers]

Ki and Atsu would be quality.. doubt we'll get either. I really like Ki, very good player. Would improve ourmidfield massively. Atsu is good, too. Fast, direct, lots of potential.

[Matt Collins]

As far as I can tell the ki rumours are founded on the basis of a tweet from a bloke called harj on twitter. No paper links I can find

Sounds credible

[Mister E]

Ki is more of a attacking midfielder isn't he?  Him or Cole in front of Delph and Westwood is how I'd imagine we would set up.  We do still need that strong, athletic holding midfielder as well though and if there is any money to spend, that is the type of player we should invest it in.

After cutting a lot of slack for Westwood in his first 2 seasons - and I really wanted him to succeed - I think he is not currently good enough, and furthermore he lacks the dynamism we require. I would hope that we have one or two players lined up for his position and that he is forced to fight for his place in the matchday squad.
Currently we have Delph, Bacuna, Cole, Carruthers, N'Zog, Gardner, Grealish; as well as Westwood. It all depends how Lambert & Keane want to do it but I'd be ranking these midfielders as I list them above (with the proviso that perhaps I'd be seeing N'Zog as part of my attack-squad rather than in MF ... or, a candidate for offloading, for some cash).
Which means that with a new holding MF, Westwood becomes a bit-player (and hardly someone to come onto the pitch as a subb to make a real difference).

[silhillvilla]

Just done some quick maths and basically if Lerner sells for £150m, it's only cost him about £100k per day for the privilege of owning avfc for the last 5 years.

[ozzjim]

As far as I can tell the ki rumours are founded on the basis of a tweet from a bloke called harj on twitter. No paper links I can find

Sounds credible

Brilliant