Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[Toronto Villa]

I'm getting really tired with stories like this.  Are we still the only club to this day who have ever been done for tapping up?!  Just fcuk off and stop talking about a player you have no chance of signing.

http://www.football365.com/aston-villa/9387705/Aston-Villa-defender-Rob-Vlaar-an-option-for-Southampton

Kippaxvilla2!

See the last half dozen pages of the Vlaar thread.

Is this an indication of how lowly we rate now with the media? Our best players being linked with Southampton, QPR....Who next. Palace? Baggies?

If you wish to believe it off course. When was the last time one of our best players left for club like any one of those?

[eric woolban woolban]

Southgate and Ehiogu to the mighty 'boro.

[saunders_heroes]

Southgate and Ehiogu to the mighty 'boro.

Yeah that was a hard one to take.

[clash city rocker]

Apart from us fans do others now put us in the same bracket as QPR and Southampton ?

[N'ZMAV]

Apart from us fans do others now put us in the same bracket as QPR and Southampton ?

the likes of Hull, Palace and Leicester probably.

[kippaxvilla2]

I'm getting really tired with stories like this.  Are we still the only club to this day who have ever been done for tapping up?!  Just fcuk off and stop talking about a player you have no chance of signing.

http://www.football365.com/aston-villa/9387705/Aston-Villa-defender-Rob-Vlaar-an-option-for-Southampton

Kippaxvilla2!

See the last half dozen pages of the Vlaar thread.

Is this an indication of how lowly we rate now with the media? Our best players being linked with Southampton, QPR....Who next. Palace? Baggies?

If you wish to believe it off course. When was the last time one of our best players left for club like any one of those?

Downing to Liverpool :-)

[kippaxvilla2]

I'm getting really tired with stories like this.  Are we still the only club to this day who have ever been done for tapping up?!  Just fcuk off and stop talking about a player you have no chance of signing.

http://www.football365.com/aston-villa/9387705/Aston-Villa-defender-Rob-Vlaar-an-option-for-Southampton

Kippaxvilla2!

See the last half dozen pages of the Vlaar thread.

Is this an indication of how lowly we rate now with the media? Our best players being linked with Southampton, QPR....Who next. Palace? Baggies?

If you wish to believe it off course. When was the last time one of our best players left for club like any one of those?

James Collins to Wet Spam.
Albrighton to Leicester
Darius to the old Citeh

[john e]

ffs he said one of our best players ?

[kippaxvilla2]

Calm down.  At the time Darius was.  At the time Collins was our best Centre Half.  Albrighton is probably dodgy.

[brontebilly]

If true I'd pull out. Likely that he'd have a deadline. IF true, mind you.

I'm with you on this Peter.  We need to show players that we've made an offer and that we'd appreciate a relatively speedy response.  Despite many saying we're no longer a big club, we're Aston Villa and the privilege for any player is to play for us.  If he procrastinates then fuck him,I would hope there are back- up choices, move on.

Yes fuck him  as soon as a player thinks twice about signing for us he isn't the player for Aston Villa.

Roy Keane called off the Sunderland transfer bid for David Nugent when he said he wanted to talk to Portsmouth as well.

That doesn't mean it's the sensible way to react.

I think that there's ample evidence to suggest that the opposite of whatever Roy Keane thinks might be the best way to do things when it comes to transfers.

agreed - Anton Ferdinand 8m, enough said

[Toronto Villa]

Calm down.  At the time Darius was.  At the time Collins was our best Centre Half.  Albrighton is probably dodgy.

you're making my point quite nicely for me. Thank you

[boboonthecorner]

Calm down.  At the time Darius was.  At the time Collins was our best Centre Half.  Albrighton is probably dodgy.

Vassell was definately on the way down when he went to City.

[Matt Collins]

We can't spend all summer complaining about the direction of travel at the club and worrying we're doomed, and then criticise a good player from surveying his options before signing for us

[pauliewalnuts]

We can't spend all summer complaining about the direction of travel at the club and worrying we're doomed, and then criticise a good player from surveying his options before signing for us

That's the thing.

I don't like the idea of Ki umming and aahing and checking out his options, and I don't like the idea of Vlaar deciding he's better off at Southampton or QPR (the issue not being that I think he'd go there, more that we're so feeble these days that it sounds even remotely feasible) but I entirely understand why they might take those options.

Let's be honest, we've finished 15th twice and 16th in the last three years. We might not be one of the worst three sides in the league this season (I certainly hope not) but if you look at our past, our traditions and our usual expectations, we look desperately unambitious - we're going nowhere, we can't even match up to the likes of Everton these days.

We're a mess, and I wouldn't blame any player for opting out of that.

[Toronto Villa]

Southampton are in the process of selling their best players, having lost their manager and QPR got relegated the year before last. I hardly think either are that much better off than us.