Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[pauliewalnuts]

Sky sports news Villa sign Bertrand on season long loan. Am I missing something or what?

Is it this you are looking at:

https://twitter.com/SlowSportsNews

[LeeB]

Sky sports news Villa sign Bertrand on season long loan. Am I missing something or what?

You're just confusing the team you've supported all of your life with Southampton. It's easily done.

[MONCABA]

Sky sports news Villa sign Bertrand on season long loan. Am I missing something or what?

You're just confusing the team you've supported all of your life with Southampton. It's easily done.

No the blond haired bird just reported it bout 10mins ago.

[RussellC]

Sky sports news Villa sign Bertrand on season long loan. Am I missing something or what?

You're just confusing the team you've supported all of your life with Southampton. It's easily done.

No the blond haired bird just reported it bout 10mins ago.

She's confused I think;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28576393

[andyaston]

He is at Southampton, there are photos of him proudly holding a Saints shirt if you google his name.

[edgysatsuma89]

Sky sports news Villa sign Bertrand on season long loan. Am I missing something or what?

You're just confusing the team you've supported all of your life with Southampton. It's easily done.

No the blond haired bird just reported it bout 10mins ago.

I'm really pissed off! We seem to be selling all our best players.

I also haven't seen anything akin to the bomb squad anywhere else.

[silhillvilla]

Hangeeland joins palace on 1 year deal.

[Simon Ward]

I see Jed Steer has gone on loan to Doncaster for 3 months, must mean Shay Given has a role to play!

[LeeB]

I see Jed Steer has gone on loan to Doncaster for 3 months, must mean Shay Given has a role to play!

There's an echo in here

[paul_e]

I've given my opinion on the bomb squad before but to reiterate every club has players who clearly aren't going to get a game and who don't have much training with the main squad, the main difference is most clubs don't have people in the media wanting to paint them as a club in crisis and don't get given such an easy to use soundbite by one of those players.

I'm sorry, but I can't think of one other club who have a situation comparable to the bomb-squad. Yes, other clubs have players who are made to train away from the first-team squad for various reasons, but not in the numbers that we did, and purely because we want them removing from the wage-bill.

How much would you care though?  That's largely my point with the last line, we don't pay anything like as much attention to other clubs as we do to Villa.  The reality is we had some players we didn't want and all of them ended up out on loan or sold for a big chunk of the season, how is that any different to any other club? If no one had used the term bomb squad would it be such a big deal to have players who were clearly available for loans/transfers?  I find the criticism of it is massively out of proportion with what actually happened.  As for the reason what does it matter why we wanted them out, no club wants to be paying the wages of players they don't want so every player who is made available for loan or sale and is above about 24 is a case of wanting them off the wage bill. Villa fans have become so obsessed with the concept that players like Luna are referred to as this seasons bomb squad, do fans of anyone else use shit from the press to beat their own club so eagerly?

[PeterWithesShin]

I see Jed Steer has gone on loan to Doncaster for 3 months, must mean Shay Given has a role to play!

Makes sense as Steer has only featured in cup games for us. May as well send him on loan to play and keep Shay as back up.

[MONCABA]

He is at Southampton, there are photos of him proudly holding a Saints shirt if you google his name.

Thank God for that on 2 counts. Firstly, he never set the world on fire whilst here last season and secondly,  I'm not going barmy.

[Toronto Villa]

I'd be willing to bet we didn't spend £7m on Kozak. Just like it has been proven we didn't spend the initial reported fees on the likes of Westwood or Lowton etc.

Where has it been proven?

Lambert himself has said that both fees were not what was reported and I believe he even went as far as saying they were under a million in each case.

[LeeB]

I'd be willing to bet we didn't spend £7m on Kozak. Just like it has been proven we didn't spend the initial reported fees on the likes of Westwood or Lowton etc.

Where has it been proven?

Lambert himself has said that both fees were not what was reported and I believe he even went as far as saying they were under a million in each case.

Yeah, but he's all part of the evil conspiracy to make it look like we've signed cheap players when we haven't.

And what about the way he mumbles? It's a disgrace.

[andyaston]

He is at Southampton, there are photos of him proudly holding a Saints shirt if you google his name.

Thank God for that on 2 counts. Firstly, he never set the world on fire whilst here last season and secondly,  I'm not going barmy.

I totally agree with you