Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[oldham_villa]

Express and Star are reporting Lazio are in for Vlaar

[N'ZMAV]

Scott Sinclair, Cissoko, and a defensive midfielder wouldn't be all that bad.

[brontebilly]

That's a shame, would have been a very decent signing for us.

I was delighted when we were linked, he was excellent at VP last season.  If we get a similar type of player with a similar level of ability we would be a much stronger team IMO. Could Gary Gardner do that job or is he too naturally attacking?  Probably requires a more experienced head. I've used him with mixed results there in Football manager...

Gary Gardner before his knee injuries looked very short on physical presence and mobility at this level. Strength can be improved but his lack of mobility won't be. He couldn't get a kick for us last season and bombed out at Sheff Wed on loan. It's looking like both Herd and himself will get chances in our midfield this season and that alone is a sign of how poor our midfield options are. Best of luck to both of them but they would both struggle to get in a reasonable championship side at present

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

Scott Sinclair, Cissoko, and a defensive midfielder wouldn't be all that bad.

Are you actually being serious? That would be crap, total crap.

Unless the defensive midfielder is William Carvalho, then yeah, that wouldn't be too bad...

[Duncan Shaw]

Express and Star are reporting Lazio are in for Vlaar

And what on earth might possibly attract him to Rome?

[N'ZMAV]

Scott Sinclair, Cissoko, and a defensive midfielder wouldn't be all that bad.

Are you actually being serious? That would be crap, total crap.

Unless the defensive midfielder is William Carvalho, then yeah, that wouldn't be too bad...

I'm being realistic about our current situation. You're obviously not.

[Chris Jameson]

You can never have too many left backs. Apparently.

It worked for the bloke who won the Telegraph Fantasy League last season, he had a few left backs so maybe Lambert took note.

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

Scott Sinclair, Cissoko, and a defensive midfielder wouldn't be all that bad.

Are you actually being serious? That would be crap, total crap.

Unless the defensive midfielder is William Carvalho, then yeah, that wouldn't be too bad...

I'm being realistic about our current situation. You're obviously not.

I'm saying only a world class defensive midfielder would make up for watching those pair in a Villa shirt.

People might not know too much about Cissokho, fair enough, but why on earth would anyone want us to sign Scott Sinclair? This is a guy who went to Man City knowing he was never gonna play. Hardly the type of person we want in a relegation battle.

[N'ZMAV]

Because we was linked with him. That's why I mentioned it. Simples.

[john2710]

Perhaps the £10m Lerner is supposedly freeing up for transfers is the price from Vlar?

[Des Little]

Sell your better players and buy shit ones. Guaranteed recipe for success.

[ktvillan]

Express and Star are reporting Lazio are in for Vlaar

And what on earth might possibly attract him to Rome?

He has a vewy good fwend there called Biggus Dickus?

[SoccerHQ]

Didn't Cissokho fail his medical at Meelan because of his teeth or some weird reason?

I actually saw him play for Valencia at the Emirates cup on Saturday, remembered him as the bloke who was kept out of the Liverpool team by Flanagan but he was alright there.

So Peter W was right all along about Richardson not playing left back!

[RussellC]

Some guy on Twitter's linking us to this guy;

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_S%C3%A1nchez_Moreno

[ozzjim]

I reckon left wing back still as Cissokho will play left side of a back 3 a lot. But gives flexibility, and means Bennett may be allowed to go on loan to Boro who appear interested.

The Carlos Sanchez link is a really interesting one, he had a decent world cup with Columbia and looked a decent holding midfielder, but can't see us actually buying a good midfielder that would make us stronger so it won't happen!