Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[olaftab]

Why the obsession with amount of money? We effectively have 7 new players in. Senderos, Sanchez, Cissokho, Richardson, Cole and return of N'Zogbia and emergence of Grealish.  Yes one more midfielder would be nice but let's rebuild with consideration. Less haste more speed.

[Malandro]

There is some 'stickiness' with Jermaine Defoe apparently, the mind boggles.

are we talking chocolate again?

[Walmley_Villa]

@AVFCOfficial: Lights still on at Bodymoor Heath. One more deal still to be done? Stay tuned. #AVFC

I just see some guff about hospitality packages.

And me, this is not the time for wind ups

That tweet is 537 days old....

[taylorsworkrate]

Surely when they sounded out Cleverley's agent, there might have been an inclination that his wage demands were going to be way too high?

It's not so much going for an unrealistic target, but spending a ridiculous amount of time on an unrealistic target.

The way it stands, we are going to have to be extremely fortunate with injuries this season

[Percy McCarthy]

Viv "Spend Spend Spend" Nicholson only had £250,000 to start with and her husband blued most of that.

She won again didn't she?

[walsall villain]

Surely when they sounded out Cleverley's agent, there might have been an inclination that his wage demands were going to be way too high?

It's not so much going for an unrealistic target, but spending a ridiculous amount of time on an unrealistic target.

The way it stands, we are going to have to be extremely fortunate with injuries this season

Well at least until the January window

[pauliewalnuts]

Why the obsession with amount of money? We effectively have 7 new players in. Senderos, Sanchez, Cissokho, Richardson, Cole and return of N'Zogbia and emergence of Grealish.  Yes one more midfielder would be nice but let's rebuild with consideration. Less haste more speed.

Love the packaging of Grealish and N'Zogbia as "new players in".

Put it this way. Rewind to the last day of last season. Imagine we'd been told "By end of window, total spend about £6m, players signed Joe Cole, Senderos, Richardson, Cissokho. Is that enough?"

How many of us would have said "yes"?

It is good that we've gone three games unbeaten and look better at the back, but it is three games, that is nothing. What's more, we also got beaten at home by a league one club in the cup yet again, and over the three league games have struggled to create goal scoring chances.

Have we done enough to address that problem (which we have had for ages)?

I don't think we have.

The start to the season is encouraging, but it lasts a long time. This time last year we were full of confidence after winning at Arsenal and getting robbed of three points at Chelsea.

It looks to me like our ambition doesn't really go much beyond staying up. I am sure we'd *like* to do better, if that's how you define ambition, but it really looks like we are not prepared to spend much money at all to achieve that ambition.

Given the amount of money in the game these days, that is a pathetically low spend.

[brian green]

Her biggest windfall was the West End show royalties.   

[Louzie0]

I would rather be in our situation than the out-of-control money hose of chaos that is Manchester United FC, who are spewing out tens of millions on mercenaries and with no plan nor structure nor Champions League revenue.

There are clubs which stoke the fires of Transfer Window in the worst way, and MUFC are legendary in this respect for the final night. Like 'Arry.

[lovejoy]

Jim White strikes me as a real arse hole too, the type to walk round the building giving it the billy big bollocks.

I am guessing here but he wreaks of arrogant Rangers fan.

[Malandro]

Surely when they sounded out Cleverley's agent, there might have been an inclination that his wage demands were going to be way too high?

It's not so much going for an unrealistic target, but spending a ridiculous amount of time on an unrealistic target.

The way it stands, we are going to have to be extremely fortunate with injuries this season

Well at least until the January window

I don't think its anything to do with wage, it does seem this 1 year loan and then signing as a free is the way he wants it. I don't blame him. Pot of gold for him.
Not any evidence its done yet anyway is there? Or am I behind?

[Percy McCarthy]

Why the obsession with amount of money? We effectively have 7 new players in. Senderos, Sanchez, Cissokho, Richardson, Cole and return of N'Zogbia and emergence of Grealish.  Yes one more midfielder would be nice but let's rebuild with consideration. Less haste more speed.

Don't forget Hutton, Given, Bent and Okore if he ever gets fit.

I've actually been quite impressed by Bent getting on the end of a few passes. Granted I wasn't a fan and thought even this was beyond him nowadays. But, y'know, decent sub.

[maidstonevillain]

We've basically got rid of all the players PL has bought over the last two seasons....

Steer
Luna
Bennett
Lowton
El Ahmadi
Helenius
Tonev
Bowery

I doubt a turnover like that has happened so quickly under the same manager...

The counter argument is that most of them did the job required of them for very little outlay.

Hardly, that little crew almost got us relegated two seasons on the bounce...

All that little crew was required to do was keep us up two seasons on the bounce.

[cdbearsfan]

I've been drinking heavily. Can somebody summarise for me briefly whether we are likely to buy/sell/loan anybody?

[taylorsworkrate]

Why the obsession with amount of money? We effectively have 7 new players in. Senderos, Sanchez, Cissokho, Richardson, Cole and return of N'Zogbia and emergence of Grealish.  Yes one more midfielder would be nice but let's rebuild with consideration. Less haste more speed.

Love the packaging of Grealish and N'Zogbia as "new players in".

Put it this way. Rewind to the last day of last season. Imagine we'd been told "By end of window, total spend about £6m, players signed Joe Cole, Senderos, Richardson, Cissokho. Is that enough?"

How many of us would have said "yes"?

It is good that we've gone three games unbeaten and look better at the back, but it is three games, that is nothing. What's more, we also got beaten at home by a league one club in the cup yet again, and over the three league games have struggled to create goal scoring chances.

Have we done enough to address that problem (which we have had for ages)?

I don't think we have.

The start to the season is encouraging, but it lasts a long time. This time last year we were full of confidence after winning at Arsenal and getting robbed of three points at Chelsea.

It looks to me like our ambition doesn't really go much beyond staying up. I am sure we'd *like* to do better, if that's how you define ambition, but it really looks like we are not prepared to spend much money at all to achieve that ambition.

Given the amount of money in the game these days, that is a pathetically low spend.

As things currently stand, that's an excellent post.