Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[Dante Lavelli]

Moses has looked good at times in my opinion but you do wonder whether he's lost the hunger.
I think a loan move is the correct way to hedge our bets, maybe/hopefully with an agreed fee at the end if he cuts the mustard.

[LeeB]

Moses has done the square root of fuck all since he left Palace. I'd take Young and N'Zogbia over him.

Not sure our groundsman would agree. There were corners of our pitch last season he never had to touch.

Yeah, on a positive note the lawnmowers are unlikely to overrun the mileage on the lease. Maybe playing without wingers was actually a cost cutting measure in itself.

[adrenachrome]

Moses has done the square root of fuck all since he left Palace. I'd take Young and N'Zogbia over him.

Kop-Ice ‏@kopice86 6h

Aston Villa have already signed P.Sanderos[SIC] & Joe"hand on hips"Cole and are now in for Victor Moses.. What's Paul Lambert smoking? #drugtest

[brontebilly]

Wary of Victor Moses because of a wasted year at Liverpool (he had a decent first season under Benitez at Chelsea) but willing to give Nzogbia another go after at least two years of nothing at a bottom six club 

What would you have expected of N'Zogbia last year?

zero, Lambert had selected him part of the first team bomb disposal unit before injury intervened

[ozzjim]

Did he though. Zog got injured training while on holiday before they even came back for pre season.

Moses is a good player, and would be welcome IMO.

[Toronto Villa]

Wary of Victor Moses because of a wasted year at Liverpool (he had a decent first season under Benitez at Chelsea) but willing to give Nzogbia another go after at least two years of nothing at a bottom six club 

What would you have expected of N'Zogbia last year?

zero, Lambert had selected him part of the first team bomb disposal unit before injury intervened

there is no evidence at all to suggest that he was part of that group.

[Dante Lavelli]

Wary of Victor Moses because of a wasted year at Liverpool (he had a decent first season under Benitez at Chelsea) but willing to give Nzogbia another go after at least two years of nothing at a bottom six club 

What would you have expected of N'Zogbia last year?

zero, Lambert had selected him part of the first team bomb disposal unit before injury intervened

there is no evidence at all to suggest that he was part of that group.

Didn't the injury occur after the squad numbers had been announced, i.e. the squad numbers where Nzog was not allocated a number?  That's how I remember it, although that doesn't seem right/logical if this season is typical as I'm pretty sure Nzog was injured before pre-season.

[eric woolban woolban]

This Moses story, is it Gospel?

[Clampy]

This Moses story, is it Gospel?

Well, I'm not putting much faith in it.

[LeeB]

This Moses story, is it Gospel?

Written in stone mate.

[Big Dick Edwards]

Moses has done the square root of fuck all since he left Palace. I'd take Young and N'Zogbia over him.

His outstanding performances for Wigan were a bit more than the square root of fuck all. Chelsea bought him on the back of them.

[Toronto Villa]

Wary of Victor Moses because of a wasted year at Liverpool (he had a decent first season under Benitez at Chelsea) but willing to give Nzogbia another go after at least two years of nothing at a bottom six club 

What would you have expected of N'Zogbia last year?

zero, Lambert had selected him part of the first team bomb disposal unit before injury intervened

there is no evidence at all to suggest that he was part of that group.

Didn't the injury occur after the squad numbers had been announced, i.e. the squad numbers where Nzog was not allocated a number?  That's how I remember it, although that doesn't seem right/logical if this season is typical as I'm pretty sure Nzog was injured before pre-season.

no, it happened in the summer before pre-season training as he was working out in Florida. If you look at the OS even now even the new players don't have squad numbers so it wasn't as if he got his number and then it happened. I think it was a bit of myth that just grew because he was one of the higher wage players that hadn't really done it, and part of the McLeish era.

[pauliewalnuts]

I think it was a bit of myth that just grew because he was one of the higher wage players that hadn't really done it, and part of the McLeish era.

Yes, but at the same time, that was what got the other members of the bomb squad in there, and that was mostly about wages - Lambert even said as much with regard to Hutton.

[Matt Collins]

But why relegate him to number 40 or whatever it was along with all the others? Bit of a hard punishment for getting an injury isn't it?

[supertom]

Zogbia got dropped at the tail end of the previous season. I don't think he featured for the last couple of months. I think Lambo, at that point figured that the shape of the side was better without Zogbia in. That's why I think he'd have undoubtedly been bombed last season had it not been for his injury.

He can still be a good player for us though. I also wouldn't be adverse to having Moses in to push N'Zog.