Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[olaftab]

Certainly some of them, but a new deal for Bent?

I'm not sure that should be high up the list of priorities.

Yes you are right. It was a general yes.

[Lizz]

We've just succumbed and are watching SSN. It's like some kind of Partridge type parody I'm told, I understand etc etc.

[oldtimernow]

If Utd want the fecker off their books, they needed to reduce the price or Cleverley needed to reduce his demands to get a deal done. As things stand they'll get nothing & Cleverley will be scratching his arse for 9 months.

Agree

be nice to see Delph take his England place too

[olaftab]

So Cleverley stays put as Everton pull out.

[kippaxvilla2]

It is typical though of some footballers who are just utter arses.  Consider this.

He is less than a year away from being a free agent so wants a loan so he gets a huge signing on fee at the end of it.
He has a massive chance to impress and get back into the England reckoning by playing every week for us.
He holds out and instead wants to sit on Everton's bench for a year on loan.

Massive prick in my view.

But it doesn't offer any excuse for our spending this summer.

[JUAN PABLO]

Love it if falco doesn't happen and they are left with cleverly

[JUAN PABLO]

After all those manure fans took the piss out of us signing  him

[silhillvilla]

Yanited stuck with Cleverley . No pay rise and no football for you Tom you greedy cock end.

[Holte Sweet]

Says a lot about Cleverly I think if he is trying to screw clubs for money rather than jumping at the chance to get his career back on track.

Having said that I don't buy into the hype of  deadline day or that our season hinges on who we do or do not sign on the last day of the window.

By my calculation adding returning bomb squadraneers, transfers already done and the returning injured wehave nine players to integrate a big upgrade on what we were stuck with last season.

[JUAN PABLO]

Three great tits on sky sport news

[Toronto Villa]

Love it if falco doesn't happen and they are left with cleverly

now that would be hilarious

[damon loves JT]

We've just succumbed and are watching SSN. It's like some kind of Partridge type parody I'm told, I understand etc etc.

I actually stood outside Old Trafford and talked shit on the news about football transfers. It was a dream come true

[silhillvilla]

Benteke , Kozak and Okore will all be like new signings anyway as they are phased back into action come October (Okore earlier ?).

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

"Agent Edward  ‏@Agent_Edward  · 1m 
Aston Villa are upset with Tom Cleverley. The club feel he has mislead them & now miss out on other targets."

As much as you can criticise Cleverley, this is a very, very silly strategy from Villa. Maybe we shouldn't have gone for him with about two days of the window to go?

Should imagine we were in for him long before two days ago...

Well, possibly. I don't want to be someone who thinks we do things at the last minute, but I truly don't believe we've been after him all summer only to fail at the last moment. I think Lambert's probably been holding back what's left of his budget, had a target in mind that he'd go for should nothing arise, then Cleverley became an option, and ultimately missed out on both. Not necessarily Lambert's fault, but very risky.

Would've thought we've had several irons in the fire and this is the one that  glowed brightest and looked to be popular with all concerned. Wouldn't be surprised if his agent has been doing a bit of shopping around and trying to get several decent clubs to outbid each other at the last minute.
Hope he ends up in the stiffs at ManU.
Perhaps LVG will relaunch him as their saviour in February?

F**k him!
What's Lee Hendrie doing these days?

[old man villa fan]

"Agent Edward  ‏@Agent_Edward  · 1m 
Aston Villa are upset with Tom Cleverley. The club feel he has mislead them & now miss out on other targets."

As much as you can criticise Cleverley, this is a very, very silly strategy from Villa. Maybe we shouldn't have gone for him with about two days of the window to go?

Should imagine we were in for him long before two days ago...

Well, possibly. I don't want to be someone who thinks we do things at the last minute, but I truly don't believe we've been after him all summer only to fail at the last moment. I think Lambert's probably been holding back what's left of his budget, had a target in mind that he'd go for should nothing arise, then Cleverley became an option, and ultimately missed out on both. Not necessarily Lambert's fault, but very risky.

If managers have players in mind that they want to bring in, it is usually prior to the season starting.  Transfers that happen in the last week of the transfer window are generally players that only become available at that time (the better players) or left overs from earlier in the transfer window that are the 'better than nothing' buys.  There is still some of the chain reaction transfers but with more money from TV, this is less so than a couple of years ago.  This season has been slightly different due to the world cup.