Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[ozzjim]

Not a chance in hell that Delph will go for 5 million! Just Nursey bollocks. He has had the hump for about 12 months regarding Villa after a period of a lot of spot on stories, so not sure what happened but seems he wants to stick his boot in wherever he can.


Anyone else see the Young plus a couple of million for Vlaar deal coming up on the horizon?

[PeterWithesShin]

Letting Delph, and to a lesser extent Vlaar, go to one year left is a big risk, and not one I see the logic in. The reason I class Ron as less is that lets be honest, not many of us were clamouring for him to get a new contract after his first season.

[supertom]

I'm guessing we've offered Delph and vlaar deals over the past 12 months and the players / agents have rejected them? Either that or we've offered nothing which would be just gross incompetence of the highest order (Paul F).

Everything points to the latter. Delphy is a humble lad and appreciates the fact we've stuck by him through all his injuries. I think if we genuinely offered him a new deal, as long as it wasn't a total piss-take, he'd have signed.

I just wonder whether Randy expected to be shot of the club by now and ideally let someone else deal with it. I'm hoping come August, we'll put decent offers on the table for both players. Randy probably realises that he's stuck with us for a little while yet, he'll have to just get on with it. Lambert needs to be firm too.

[supertom]

Letting Delph, and to a lesser extent Vlaar, go to one year left is a big risk, and not one I see the logic in. The reason I class Ron as less is that lets be honest, not many of us were clamouring for him to get a new contract after his first season.

In terms of Ron, one thing that might be in our consideration is his injury record. We may decide that it's only worth offering him a 2 year extension, so if a club like QPR come in and wave a 4 years deal in front of him for example (and on more money) he may well decide he wants to move on. A World Cup like he's just had won't hurt him in terms of what gets waved in front of him. It has to be on our terms though. We have to hold out for a good fee. There's no time for Randy to be a daft sod about this and half assedly accept something below Ron's worth. We can milk a good transfer fee out of this if we play our cards right.

If Ron sees out his last year, then so be it. I'd rather see that than accept a crap transfer fee now.

[PeterWithesShin]

I can see why we only offered him a 2 year deal when we signed because of his previous, can you imagine this place if we'd stuck him on a 4 year deal and he was always injured?

And then after the first season, one in which he missed nearly a third of our league games through injury, and his performances weren't always impressive when he did play, again, imagine if we'd given him a new contract last summer?

Which actually takes us to this summer. So I can understand the club waiting.

Not giving Delph a deal is bonkers though.

[PeterWithesShin]

I will add that the way our luck is, we'll give him a 3 or 4 year deal and you just know he will do himself a serious injury.

[supertom]

I will add that the way our luck is, we'll give him a 3 or 4 year deal and you just know he will do himself a serious injury.

The same could well go with Delphy. To have gotten 18 solid months out of him has actually been surprising.

That Delph facebook account, whether legit or not, I don't know, but anytime he mentions good news coming, within a couple of days there is some news out the club. Whether these pieces of news were good is open for debate, but hopefully his suggestion that Faulkners exit might facilitate a contract offer, comes true.

[silhillvilla]

I will add that the way our luck is, we'll give him a 3 or 4 year deal and you just know he will do himself a serious injury.

Sod's law . Vlaar is a tricky one. I cannot see him recapturing his WC form in a team like ours . If he goes to a top 4 side with quality all around maybe .

[KevinGage]

Normally, any link concerning one of our better players moving to a two bob yoyo outfit like West Ham should be laughed out of the place. 

But the way we've carried ourselves in recent years, it's quite possible that players might see a move from Villa to West Ham as a step up.  Weird times.

[silhillvilla]

Normally, any link concerning one of our better players moving to a two bob yoyo outfit like West Ham should be laughed out of the place. 

But the way we've carried ourselves in recent years, it's quite possible that players might see a move from Villa to West Ham as a step up.  Weird times.

I'd say 98% of players look only at one thing. £££££.

[Toronto Villa]

Name one player in the Randy Lerner era of any value to the club that we have sold on the cheap. We've done the exact opposite in fact and got in almost all cases fair value or way above. I have no idea what has happened to Nursey as he wasn't always like this but he hasn't half written some negative bollocks about us of late.

As for the article it is by someone called David Kidd pulling £5m out of his arse.

[Matt C]

Cambiasso?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/west-ham-united-aston-villa-3848075

[silhillvilla]

Name one player in the Randy Lerner era of any value to the club that we have sold on the cheap. We've done the exact opposite in fact and got in almost all cases fair value or way above. I have no idea what has happened to Nursey as he wasn't always like this but he hasn't half written some negative bollocks about us of late.

As for the article it is by someone called David Kidd pulling £5m out of his arse.

Wow, there's loads , where shall I start?
Curtis Davies signed £9m sold £250k .

[N'Zimidy]

I'd love that to be true if it was about 2008. @Cambiasso

[ozzjim]

He would still be a decent signing.