The January 2015 Transfer Rumour Thread

[Monty]

New manager, new owner, new players, new kit makers, new badge, new advertising hordings, new pie recipe...

[saunders_heroes]

I know fans are disappointed with thus window but there is no point in panicking for players what we need is a new manager first. That's the best change we can make to address the current problem.

11 goals all season suggests that if there's anytime to panic it's now.

[OzVilla]

The badge, I'd forgotten about that one. Looks like something a 10 year old would come up with. I've never liked it.

[silhillvilla]

Bottom line is we have let our 2 back up strikers leave during the window . That suggests someone is taking the piss out of the club intentionally .

[pauliewalnuts]

I know fans are disappointed with thus window but there is no point in panicking for players what we need is a new manager first. That's the best change we can make to address the current problem.

True. It isn't going to happen, though, that's the problem.

[not3bad]

I know fans are disappointed with thus window but there is no point in panicking for players what we need is a new manager first. That's the best change we can make to address the current problem.

11 goals all season suggests that if there's anytime to panic it's now.

The reason to panic though is because of the manager.

[saunders_heroes]

I know fans are disappointed with thus window but there is no point in panicking for players what we need is a new manager first. That's the best change we can make to address the current problem.

11 goals all season suggests that if there's anytime to panic it's now.

The reason to panic though is because of the manager.

True, but Lambert is just a symptom of the real problem at Aston Villa, and that's its incompetent buffoon of a chairman.

[silhillvilla]

Surely it's Doug's fault for selling to the wrong person.

[saunders_heroes]

The badge, I'd forgotten about that one. Looks like something a 10 year old would come up with. I've never liked it.

The badge is amateurish.

[Monty]

Surely it's Doug's fault for selling to the wrong person.

By and large, he sold to someone who could well have been the right person. The trouble was, the manager he'd hired for him was going to set about wasting our big chance with remarkable sedulousness.

[not3bad]

Difficult to blame Doug when for 4 years it appeared he'd resoundingly made the right choice.

[Malandro]

Surely it's Doug's fault for selling to the wrong person.

Don't worry Randy will only sell to the right one

[Damo70]

I might be being a bit thick here but didn't Lambert identify sometime ago that we wanted a "number 10" player.  He then spent an entire transfer window chasing Hoolihan (sp) only for Norwich to laugh at him.  Then he signs Joe Cole, with an injury record as long as your arm (or longer), who maintains his form and is in the sick bay for 99% of the time.  So we come to this window, and it would appear that he had some money if the rumour re Lambert is correct, yet makes no attempt whatsoever (as far as we are aware and snippets usually slip out) to even try and sign someone for the one position on the field where we are crying out for new blood.

At the time, I didn't understand why anyone thought we'd had a good summer window.

Signings like Senderos, Richardson and Cole, especially, showed the almost total lack of ambition at the club. They are the sort of signings we'd traditionally laugh at Albion for.

The fact we were getting excited over spending £4m on a player in that window just says it all, really.

We have absolutely zero ambition beyond not getting relegated, none at all. Lerner has demonstrated this quite clearly, a four year contract for a man with a record over two years which is absolutely execrable, given on the basis of rewarding an opening set of four games which delivered 10 points.

Fox said last week that Randy is currently "a bad seller".

Well, I hope he gets a lot better at it, and quickly, because we're going nowhere until there is a total change of attitude at the top of the club.

If he is a "Bad seller" that is very unfortunate. Because he is also a bad 'keeper'.

[pauliewalnuts]

I know fans are disappointed with thus window but there is no point in panicking for players what we need is a new manager first. That's the best change we can make to address the current problem.

11 goals all season suggests that if there's anytime to panic it's now.

The reason to panic though is because of the manager.

True, but Lambert is just a symptom of the real problem at Aston Villa, and that's its incompetent buffoon of a chairman.

The fact Lambert is still here is down to Lerner, yes, but you sound like you are totally absolving Lambert of blame.

He is nothing like "just" a symptom of the problem, he's a big part of it. Unless you think he's getting something like the best out of the squad. Do you? I certainly don't. Absolutely nowhere near.

To describe him as just a symptom of the problem is being massively forgiving, IMO.

[saunders_heroes]

I know fans are disappointed with thus window but there is no point in panicking for players what we need is a new manager first. That's the best change we can make to address the current problem.

11 goals all season suggests that if there's anytime to panic it's now.

The reason to panic though is because of the manager.

True, but Lambert is just a symptom of the real problem at Aston Villa, and that's its incompetent buffoon of a chairman.

The fact Lambert is still here is down to Lerner, yes, but you sound like you are totally absolving Lambert of blame.

He is nothing like "just" a symptom of the problem, he's a big part of it. Unless you think he's getting something like the best out of the squad. Do you? I certainly don't. Absolutely nowhere near.

To describe him as just a symptom of the problem is being massively forgiving, IMO.

You make a valid point, but our decline did not start with Paul Lambert's employment at the club, it started 5 years ago. This is our 5th relegation battle on the trot. That can only be down to Lerner and his ongoing lack of ambition.
I want rid of Lambert as much as the next fan, but our decline will not stop with his sacking.