The Transfer Window - The Verdict.

[pbavfckuwait]

12 players have gone out this window, either through being bought, loans or ran out their contract, we have bought in 5, I refuse to count the bomb squad as new players, AVFC were paying their cheques each month, so they are existing players, if the manager, owner did not want to use them fine, but they were AVFC assets (all be it depreciating assets) and at anytime they could have been brought back in and used, the fact we did not, yet can see now what a better player Hutton is than what we had in that position tells it's own story. Being stubborn is fine as long as you are getting results to back it up.
We cannot expect improvement if investment is not forthcoming and the Cleverly deal, I think bullet missed, but does have the slight smell of one of Uncle Dougs.

[Percy McCarthy]

I think it's pertinent to take into account the rehabilitation of injured players, the bomb squad and the emergence of Grealish. Although not new players, they affected the signings we had to make.

So, in addition to the squad that didn't really struggle until after the Chelsea game we have:

Given
Hutton
Senderos
Cissokho
Okore
Richardson
N'Zogbia
Cole
Grealish
Sanchez

That's ten who are newly available to pick from, quite a turnover in a 25-man squad. A rose-tinted (perhaps) 7/10 from me, with one point included for not selling Vlaar and Delph.

[aj2k77]

6/10

All the sounds from the club are we will be very defensive this year so the purchases have been with that in mind.

However some time soon we are going to have to sit at the bigger boys table and start targeting and buying better players because another summer of us spending £6m and the rest of the league going bonkers will catch up with us.

[Walmley_Villa]

Tweets from James Pearce...

James Pearce @Pearcesport  ·  11m
Cleverley maybe going to Villa after all. Villa came back VERY late when Everton collapsed. Season loan if Premier League accept paperwork

James Pearce @Pearcesport  ·  6m
Cleverley was still at Carrington at 2am trying to get the deal across line. Timings very tight though. Ball now in Premier League court

[aj2k77]

If the Cleverly deal comes through on loan well done to the Villa for playing hardball and not bowing to his demands.

On loan for a season, no silly transfer fee, can't be bad can it?

[pauliewalnuts]

I can't help feeling we'd be better off telling him to do one if we really were unhappy with the way he handled it.

[RussellC]

John Percy reckons it'll be a loan until January. Hmmmm. Not sure how I feel about this.

[UK Redsox]

I think it's pertinent to take into account the rehabilitation of injured players, the bomb squad and the emergence of Grealish. Although not new players, they affected the signings we had to make.

So, in addition to the squad that didn't really struggle until after the Chelsea game we have:

Given
Hutton
Senderos
Cissokho
Okore
Richardson
N'Zogbia
Cole
Grealish
Sanchez

That's ten who are newly available to pick from, quite a turnover in a 25-man squad. A rose-tinted (perhaps) 7/10 from me, with one point included for not selling Vlaar and Delph.

Is Okore 'available to pick from' ?

I thought that he was injured again.

[pauliewalnuts]

John Percy reckons it'll be a loan until January. Hmmmm. Not sure how I feel about this.

I feel significantly better about it being a loan rather than us spunking £8m on him.

Especially now it looks like he may be a bit of a knob end.

[not3bad]

Overall I think we've done enough to fulfill Mr Lerner's aim - to stay in the Premier League while he looks for a new owner. We've also got the return of Benteke and the continued progress of Jack Grealish to look forward to so hopefully we won't be completely without a bit of entertainment while we hang around in limboland.

6/10

[eamonn]

Would have loved for us to get Canales. I was living in Spain at the time he burst onto the scene with Racing Santender over the winter of 2009/10 and as is their wont, Real Madrid swooped on a young kid as soon as he turns heads with a smaller club, stockpile him before loaning him out to get games and eventually selling him a couple of years later. See Chelsea for English equivalent.

I think Lambert may have taken a glance across to Stoke this summer and seen Hughes signing Bojan and thought a similar potentially bargain move for a still-young but slightly faded tricky attacker was worth going for. The type of thing that makes me have some faith in him and glad that he didn't pick-up all his teacher, MON's, bad habits (i.e. avoiding those type of players and those playing outside of the UK like the plague)

[olaftab]

My verdict - when 913,138 people in the UK had to use food banks last year, for over £800 million to be spent on footballers, it shows how fucking ludicrous this game has become. It's not easy to fall out of love with what's been a lifelong passion, but Jesus, modern football is making it a whole lot pissing easier. It's all bollocks.

Well said. The gap between haves and have nots is getting greater and footballers are an extreme and very bad  example of money going in one direction only.

[Percy McCarthy]

I think it's pertinent to take into account the rehabilitation of injured players, the bomb squad and the emergence of Grealish. Although not new players, they affected the signings we had to make.

So, in addition to the squad that didn't really struggle until after the Chelsea game we have:

Given
Hutton
Senderos
Cissokho
Okore
Richardson
N'Zogbia
Cole
Grealish
Sanchez

That's ten who are newly available to pick from, quite a turnover in a 25-man squad. A rose-tinted (perhaps) 7/10 from me, with one point included for not selling Vlaar and Delph.

Is Okore 'available to pick from' ?

I thought that he was injured again.

Well, in the absence of any really bad news, I'm assuming it's short-term.

[pauliewalnuts]

I think it's pertinent to take into account the rehabilitation of injured players, the bomb squad and the emergence of Grealish. Although not new players, they affected the signings we had to make.

So, in addition to the squad that didn't really struggle until after the Chelsea game we have:

Given
Hutton
Senderos
Cissokho
Okore
Richardson
N'Zogbia
Cole
Grealish
Sanchez

That's ten who are newly available to pick from, quite a turnover in a 25-man squad. A rose-tinted (perhaps) 7/10 from me, with one point included for not selling Vlaar and Delph.

Is Okore 'available to pick from' ?

I thought that he was injured again.

Also, what about the players who aren't available through injury - Kozak and Benteke, for whom we don't even have return dates?

[Percy McCarthy]

I think it's pertinent to take into account the rehabilitation of injured players, the bomb squad and the emergence of Grealish. Although not new players, they affected the signings we had to make.

So, in addition to the squad that didn't really struggle until after the Chelsea game we have:

Given
Hutton
Senderos
Cissokho
Okore
Richardson
N'Zogbia
Cole
Grealish
Sanchez

That's ten who are newly available to pick from, quite a turnover in a 25-man squad. A rose-tinted (perhaps) 7/10 from me, with one point included for not selling Vlaar and Delph.

Is Okore 'available to pick from' ?

I thought that he was injured again.

Also, what about the players who aren't available through injury - Kozak and Benteke, for whom we don't even have return dates?

I specified newly-available players. Kozak and CB were not available at the start or the end of the window.

October 4th for Benteke isn't it?