Summer 2015 - Transfer Rumours, Speculation & Suggestions

[Mister E]

...Sherwood agrees with the decision of the player he knows through working with him at Spurs, he said: "It’s not the right time for us to do the deal, I think it is a good move for him and it will give them the opportunity to play regularly."

You could interpret this as: "I don't have the owner's commitment to spend the dosh required, at this time"

[OCD]

To be fair to Luongo he went to Swindon when Spurs wanted to keep him on, so if its going to teams where he'll play every week hes been pretty consistent.

That's far too sensible a post. We're all supposed to be giving him abuse for being an idiot.

[Flamingo Lane]

Anybody remember Stanley Unwin?

Deep folly! Oh yes.

This is a very good question and topicold. I would say that if the forward line have a symmetrical teamworkers and that they can from the first passit of the ball... take in mind the measured beat of a one, two, throo or fido... so that the ball can falollop out to the wingers and a very fine trittly how in a run and drop-kick and carry one and shooting in the goal if they can get by without an offsiger which is known on the ref and don't throw the bottload because he's only doing his best.

But, er, it'll be hard on their halfbackers because I don't think they'll get a chance to do a falolloper shooty on account of the front line with their deep joy of, shall we say, an express in their enthusiasm to the first who to clop falollop in the goalmouth. Oh yes. Anyway it's a very good question, sir. It's not much about music excepting that half-time in the band falolloped huffalo-dowd.

Just got home from work, and this has fair made my day!

[go on the dog]

Ive heard that were trying to sign Jeff Hendrick from Derby in a swap deal for either Lowton or Weimann

[olaftab]

From BBC:
Aston Villa striker Darren Bent, 31, has sent a farewell message to the club's fans on Instagram  after joining Derby County permanently. "Thank you to the fans who have stuck by me through hard times. It has been a pleasure to play for you," it reads.

[old man villa fan]

From BBC:
Aston Villa striker Darren Bent, 31, has sent a farewell message to the club's fans on Instagram  after joining Derby County permanently. "Thank you to the fans who have stuck by me through hard times. It has been a pleasure to play for you," it reads.

If only it had been Bent instead of Heskey.  The slide started with the purchase of Heskey and managers thinking teamwork/effort made up for lack of goals.

[aj2k77]

Huge amounts of money at his disposal and we had players like Harewood, Heskey, Shorey, Reo Coker, Sidwell. The mind boggles.

[passport1]

I think in the main they were squad players. Given the massive underinvestment under Ellis it was a case of trying to build a squad  from a very low base.

[The Left Side]

More tweets regarding Jeff Hendrick from Derby, is he any good?

[brontebilly]

From BBC:
Aston Villa striker Darren Bent, 31, has sent a farewell message to the club's fans on Instagram  after joining Derby County permanently. "Thank you to the fans who have stuck by me through hard times. It has been a pleasure to play for you," it reads.

If only it had been Bent instead of Heskey.  The slide started with the purchase of Heskey and managers thinking teamwork/effort made up for lack of goals.

Don't think Bent would have improved matters too much as it would have forced the same tactical change that Heskey brought about i.e. dropping a midfielder and exposing Barry and Petrov's lack of mobility. That was the time for a classy number ten to come in as a different option.

Re the signings mentioned by the OP, Reo Coker and Sidwell were widely welcomed. Reo Coker I'd argue did a good job for us and Houllier was keen to keep him on, he has very badly advised. Sidwell was awful and like many of that Reading side he never amounted to much elsewhere.

Shorey, Harewood, Heskey were woeful lazy signings that no-one wanted. Beye, Cuellar, Warnock - three completely unnecessary signings too especially for the wages/ transfer fees they commanded.

[ozzjim]

More tweets regarding Jeff Hendrick from Derby, is he any good?

Scored a few from midfield for Derby and quite highly rated. Looks half decent and we need midfield players that can add depth but need some quality too.

[KRS]

Its always hard to judge if a young player can make the step up to Premier League, but looks like he's got potential and seems popular with fans...he's only 23 years old and looks a bit Lampard-esque (in how he shoots) from watching a few clips.

[Neil Hawkes]

From BBC:
Aston Villa striker Darren Bent, 31, has sent a farewell message to the club's fans on Instagram  after joining Derby County permanently. "Thank you to the fans who have stuck by me through hard times. It has been a pleasure to play for you," it reads.

I have a lot of respect for this gentleman, not often you see this kind of attitude in the corrupt and greedy world of professional football. I wish him every success at Derby.

[Matt Collins]

I think in the main they were squad players. Given the massive underinvestment under Ellis it was a case of trying to build a squad  from a very low base.

There's no excuse in my view. They pretty much all started in the first team, before playing irregularly, before not playing at all. You can add cuellar, Davies and Luke Young to that list too. Shocking.

[IAmTheOneIanOlney]

One of the more reliable transfer rumour accounts on Twitter says McCarthy has asked to leave Everton. If true, would hope we at least try and get him.