The January 2015 Transfer Rumour Thread

[edgysatsuma89]

Anyone that breeds up Helen Flanagan isn't right in the head.

Really??

To have sex with = ofcourse
To live with = I'd rather animate a coconut. The conversation would be much improved.

No to Sinclair for me. I've played more football than him.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Scott Sinclair?
Wondered where he'd been since he invented that weird car/bike/vehicle thing.

[olaftab]

Can Man Utd just bid for Calf Injury Ron, I'm bored of reading about it now.

I like that name.  From now on he is CI Ron. Let's just hope LVG goes mental and pays us a few million and has an empty sick bed in their medical room.

[aev]

Calf injury Ron might be like van Persie - he was always injured at Arsenal and went to Yanited and played loads.

[tomd2103]

Calf injury Ron might be like van Persie - he was always injured at Arsenal and went to Yanited and played loads.

You know that's what is going to happen with Vlaar wherever he goes.  Saying that, we had a certain player who spent a lot of time at injured at Manchester United only to come to us and hardly miss a game!!

[ozzjim]

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I'm still disappointed in Delph's stance in this.

Which is what?

He's previously stated that he owes Villa / Lerner for standing by him when he was; to use his owns words; 'missing for 2-3 seasons'. But now it appears this counts for nothing & he's going to look after number one. Personally I find that disappointing, but not surprising. Ultimately he may stay with us, but like most of us I'm resigned to him leaving for nothing.

I agree actually.. He did state he wants to stay to repay the club blah blah but clearly that was hot air. Don't say it at all if you don't mean it.  I don't blame him wanting to go but don't bleat 12 months prior about wanting to repay faith when it's bollocks.

[pauliewalnuts]

Given that the general theme amongst us, as fans, is that we can't believe how unambitious the club is, how we just aim to stay up and no more, or how we're in "deep freeze" till someone buys us, and given that we have lots of posts saying how people just don't want to go to watch us play any more, can anyone be surprised that Delph or whichever player it is at the time seems not to want to stay?

I mean, it is bad enough for us as fans to have to witness the true shitness of it all, but if we increasingly don't want to hitch our Saturday afternoons to the club, why would we expect players to hitch their careers to it?

[Dave]

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I'm still disappointed in Delph's stance in this.

Which is what?

He's previously stated that he owes Villa / Lerner for standing by him when he was; to use his owns words; 'missing for 2-3 seasons'. But now it appears this counts for nothing & he's going to look after number one. Personally I find that disappointing, but not surprising. Ultimately he may stay with us, but like most of us I'm resigned to him leaving for nothing.

I agree actually.. He did state he wants to stay to repay the club blah blah but clearly that was hot air. Don't say it at all if you don't mean it.  I don't blame him wanting to go but don't bleat 12 months prior about wanting to repay faith when it's bollocks.

He did, and then (from Lambert's comments) we didn't offer him any new terms until he was into the final year of his contract.

I'm pretty sure that if we'd started contract negotiations at the time Delph said that he wanted to commit to us then he would have done. As we left it until this Autumn I'm not at all surprised that he might have had a change of heart.

Edit - we also have no idea what he has now been offered. If he were on an old O'Neill/Houllier contract of £40,000 per week and he's now been offered £25,000 to bring him more in line with most of the squad then it wouldn't be a surprise if he wasn't keen.

[bobdylan]

The MEN are saying that it could be a £3 million deal for Sinclair.

I like how they got him for nothing, hardly played him, sent him out on loan but think he's worth a transfer fee.

I seem to remember they paid about £8m for him.

They also got £10mill for Rodwell from Sunderland in the summer and £13mill for Javi Garcia from Zenit, so like Spurs have a history of getting good fees in for fringe players deemed surplus to requirements.

[pbavfckuwait]

Paulie spot on, any player worth his salt and career wants one thing from the Villa at the moment and thats the key to the exit door.

[aev]

Maybe there is a clause in his new contract offer stating he has to take a wage cut if relegated, for example.

Who honestly can blame him for looking around and looking after his best interests?

[Dave]

Maybe there is a clause in his new contract offer stating he has to take a wage cut if relegated, for example.

I'd hope that we've been putting that clause in every player's contracts since before the O'Neill days to be honest.

[aev]

Maybe there is a clause in his new contract offer stating he has to take a wage cut if relegated, for example.

I'd hope that we've been putting that clause in every player's contracts since before the O'Neill days to be honest.

Well for a side that seems to hang around the lower reaches of the league it would make sense.

As a player though, it obviously wouldn't be quite so attractive.

[Dave]

I remember reading that Arsenal put that clause in any contract they offer to a player.

It just seems hugely irresponsible to not include it.

[paul_e]

Maybe there is a clause in his new contract offer stating he has to take a wage cut if relegated, for example.

I'd hope that we've been putting that clause in every player's contracts since before the O'Neill days to be honest.

Well for a side that seems to hang around the lower reaches of the league it would make sense.

As a player though, it obviously wouldn't be quite so attractive.

Harsh as it may sound I wouldn't want us to be signing any player who has a problem with it, I can kinda see an existing player having a problem with it but a new signing should never be joining us and thinking about protecting themselves if we're relegated.