The Transfer Window - The Verdict.

[OzVilla]

It funny that if you'd have said that this would be the squad after spending a transfer budget of 7m you'd say it's been a pretty good window.

But the fact that the total spend was only 7m though makes it a predictably poor one overall.

I think Lamberts done about as well as could be expected given the budgetary constraints.  Lerner must be delighted.

[silhillvilla]

Lambert is not a spender as such. I honestly think you could give him £20m and he'd spend about £7m . In that way I respect him and I can start to see why he got the job.
Rumour was a year or 2 back when Bent rocked up at BH in his new gleaming Ferrari he wasn't flavour of the month. He's a good old fashioned jock .

[saunders_heroes]

Lambert is not a spender as such. I honestly think you could give him £20m and he'd spend about £7m . In that way I respect him and I can start to see why he got the job.
Rumour was a year or 2 back when Bent rocked up at BH in his new gleaming Ferrari he wasn't flavour of the month. He's a good old fashioned jock .

Of course he's a spender. He just hasn't been given the budget that all.

[Percy McCarthy]

It does prove that the story that broke mid summer about a transfer budget including wages if 10m wasn't fhat far off the mark.

So you don't believe we tried to spend another £8m plus wages on TC23 then?

[Matt C]

Overall we're stronger as the window closes than we were when it opened which should be the objective every summer one would hope.

However, deadline hysteria aside, even given financial constraint, it's hard to shake the sense that we've fallen short.

[Toronto Villa]

There's way too much stock placed on the last day in judging the overall success or failure of a window. For me the question is always did we address our needs? For the most part I think we did. Like everyone the most glaring omission remains the attacking or creative midfielder which continues to allude us.

The hope now is that along with players returning, and importantly a much stronger defence will always keeps us in games until our proven superstar CF returns to make and score goals.

[The Left Side]

Shame we left it so late with Cleverley but glad we didn't flinch, we should have had someone else lined up but we can't do much about it now.

[olaftab]

We started too late in the window to try and get Canales. That was an error however I am pleased with what we have done.
7/10.

[pbavfckuwait]

The starting 11 is stronger than the team that managed to accumulate 38 points last season, after that we are still woefully weak, 2 weeks into the season we have the worrying sight of Vlarr limping down the tunnel, Okore not sure where we are with him, but again made of glass appears his constitution. Benteke and Kojak, not sure what state they will come back in and how long it will take to hit the ground running.
Senderos and Hutton bonus, but what back up.
Richardson again upgrade on what we had last year.
Bent and Cole waste of a squad number.
Every Villa fan needs to cross everything they have, because if we get a run of injuries, something we seem to have gotten every season for god know how long, then again so do most clubs, we could be struggling big time.
Overall poor window, especially starting from the position we did.

[mr underhill]

yes no matter how you try and colour this, it's very poor, a predictable re run of Hooligan-gate in January with no alternative strategies. Hull and a few others  and  did some great business imo, we did the absolute bare minimum.

[Villafirst]

Ben Arfa to Hull? And on-loan. Surely, he would've been a great addition? Hurry up and sell-up Lerner.

[Matt Collins]

Well if we were worried about denying jack grealish a chance, we're clearly going to see a fair bit of him

Let's hope we don't repeat our luck with injuries over the last three years

[Legion]

Thank McGrath that is over. For the time being, anyway.

[Fin Feds Dad]

@TheBig_Sam: Karren Brady keeps sending me video of fella waving dildo at Sky reporter. "I've ground that model to a dusty nub," she claims. Terrifying.

[Mister E]

Injuries and the ability of players to avoid or recover from them will be the biggest determinant of our season; certainly to January at least.
I'm glad we didn't pay crazy money for mediocrity: it gives us a better platform to spend wisely in the future.