The January 2015 Transfer Rumour Thread

[PeterWithesShin]

I'd have preferred to sign someone, but find it very amusing that SSN will no doubt have devoted the whole day to it and have had virtually nothing interesting happen by the sounds of it.

[saunders_heroes]

So we spent just £9m or so on the squad that narrowly avoided relegation last season. Now we find ourselves in the same mess all over again.
Good luck, Villa. We're gonna need it.

[bertlambshank]

Problem with Albion's Carlton Cole deal.

The lucky bastards.

Because he is probably coming to us.

[PeterWithe]

Problem with Albion's Carlton Cole deal.

The lucky bastards.

'We've got exclusive footage of Carlton Cole arriving at West Broms training ground'

Yeah, cause no one else could be arsed to send a film crew.

[silhillvilla]

So we spent just £9m or so on the squad that narrowly avoided relegation last season. Now we find ourselves in the same mess all over again.
Good luck, Villa. We're gonna need it.

Lerner is a disgrace.

[brontebilly]

Encouraging that we are bidding 5m for players, the fact it was left until the last day suggests the Arsenal defeat make have woken up the Villa board.

I like Rickie Lambert and he could have done a job for us linking midfield with Benteke.

But its probably a couple of years too late plus he wouldnt have done much to address the epic lack of pace in the side.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Thank f**k for that!

I can at last go to bed knowing that it has been impossible to improve our playing personnel.

Cheers Lambo - I was getting a bit excited but you managed to calm me down.

Can I have 3 points as a reward on Saturday?

Some possession?

A goal?

OK. A shot on target? That would be nice!

Sweet dreams!

[saunders_heroes]

Encouraging that we are bidding 5m for players, the fact it was left until the last day suggests the Arsenal defeat make have woken up the Villa board.

I like Rickie Lambert and he could have done a job for us linking midfield with Benteke.

But its probably a couple of years too late plus he wouldnt have done much to address the epic lack of pace in the side.

Encouraging for when? Next season? It could be too late by then. It's certainly too late for this season.
The incompetence of Lerner and Lambert knows no boundaries.

[Clampy]

So we spent just £9m or so on the squad that narrowly avoided relegation last season. Now we find ourselves in the same mess all over again.
Good luck, Villa. We're gonna need it.

I understand the frustration and i'd love us to go out and spend more, but it's got to the point for me now where we'd be just giving money to the wrong manager. Ricky Lambert for example wouldn't have made that much difference under Lambert. It needs a managerial change more than anything.

[ozzjim]

Encouraging that we are bidding 5m for players, the fact it was left until the last day suggests the Arsenal defeat make have woken up the Villa board.

I like Rickie Lambert and he could have done a job for us linking midfield with Benteke.

But its probably a couple of years too late plus he wouldnt have done much to address the epic lack of pace in the side.

Hopefully Sinclair starting one side and Gil the other, with Weimann and Benteke down the middle at Villa Park will help the pace issue.

[brontebilly]

Encouraging that we are bidding 5m for players, the fact it was left until the last day suggests the Arsenal defeat make have woken up the Villa board.

I like Rickie Lambert and he could have done a job for us linking midfield with Benteke.

But its probably a couple of years too late plus he wouldnt have done much to address the epic lack of pace in the side.

Hopefully Sinclair starting one side and Gil the other, with Weimann and Benteke down the middle at Villa Park will help the pace issue.

Reckon Sinclair is the only one of that four with genuine pace to be fair

[Malandro]

Gil, Sinclair, delph & vlaar. Pretty good window for me.
Sacking Lambert would have been perfect.

[cdbearsfan]

Just about to leave the pub. Can someone update me on all our deadline day signings please? Assume we must've at least got a forward seeing as we haven't scored a goal in colour.

[Meanwood Villa]

Just about to leave the pub. Can someone update me on all our deadline day signings please? Assume we must've at least got a forward seeing as we haven't scored a goal in colour.

Re-signed Harry Hampton. Not as mobile as he used to be but you can't argue with his record.

[saunders_heroes]

So we spent just £9m or so on the squad that narrowly avoided relegation last season. Now we find ourselves in the same mess all over again.
Good luck, Villa. We're gonna need it.

I understand the frustration and i'd love us to go out and spend more, but it's got to the point for me now where we'd be just giving money to the wrong manager. Ricky Lambert for example wouldn't have made that much difference under Lambert. It needs a managerial change more than anything.

We need to stay in this league and signing a striker when we've scored just 11 league goals would have given us a big lift going into the league run in. It's amazing to me that we left it to the very last minute to try and do something about our goal scoring problem and it just sums up what a disgrace Randy Lerner has been over the last 5 seasons. This man in single handedly responsible for the decline of Aston Villa. Paul Lambert is nothing but a symptom of Lerner's incompetence. The sooner people realise this the better.