Summer 2015 - Transfer Rumours, Speculation & Suggestions

[eamonn]

14th? Come on, let's get giddy and go for 11th.

[Risso]

14th? Come on, let's get giddy and go for 11th.

Phew, steady now.  No need for that unbridled optimism, we'll all get nose bleeds.

[pauliewalnuts]

We've twice replaced our best player  (Platt, Yorke) with a bunch of other players and improved significantly as a result. We're much further away from competing at the top of the league now but finishing fourteenth would be the best we've managed in years and that should definitely be achievable.

Your examples are valid, but are now 17 and 24 years ago. I don't know if I'd attach too much relevance to those

We should be able to improve to 14th as is, really.

[Dave]

We've twice replaced our best player  (Platt, Yorke) with a bunch of other players and improved significantly as a result. We're much further away from competing at the top of the league now but finishing fourteenth would be the best we've managed in years and that should definitely be achievable.

Your examples are valid, but are now 17 and 24 years ago. I don't know if I'd attach too much relevance to those

We should be able to improve to 14th as is, really.

I'd also argue whether we 'improved significantly' following Yorke's sale.

I wouldn't have said that we got worse, but going from 5th to 7th to 6th to 8th isn't really what I'd call a significant improvement.

[Villa in Denmark]

We've twice replaced our best player  (Platt, Yorke) with a bunch of other players and improved significantly as a result. We're much further away from competing at the top of the league now but finishing fourteenth would be the best we've managed in years and that should definitely be achievable.

Your examples are valid, but are now 17 and 24 years ago. I don't know if I'd attach too much relevance to those

We should be able to improve to 14th as is, really.

I know it's a smallish sample size, but didn't our points return under Sherwood work out to 49 points over the course of a full season, which would have put us 10th or 11th?

[Ger Regan]

By my reckoning sherwood's results if stretched out over an entire season would have us on 43. I think that calculation was done before the end of the season, so the last two results would obviously have had a negative impact on the average.

[exigo]

From Stoke at home, in the Premier League: LLWWLLDWLWWLL

16 points from 13 games equals 1.23 points per game.
Over a 38 game season, this would pro up to 46.77.

47 points last season would have put us level with Everton and West Ham in 11th and 12th.

[Ger Regan]

Ah, I was basing it on 14 games played, not 13. Probably because I'm an idiot.

[edgysatsuma89]

Ah, I was basing it on 14 games played, not 13. Probably because I'm an idiot.

Although it's all a load of bollocks really. Doesn't stop you being an idiot though ;-).

[Toronto Villa]

Which while not brilliant would be a welcome advancement on our regular flirts with disaster

[OCD]

All I've wanted for a few years now has been a season where we've never been in trouble of going down. Solid mid-table position and then push on from there.

[olaftab]

Thank god for copy and paste.

Aston Villa have launched a surprise bid for Kayseri Erciyesspor’s Oğulcan Çağlayan according to turkish-football.com sources

Pronounced Ulujan Chaulian ...simple really!

[paulcomben]

Every single player Lambert signed on his way out and only 2 question marks in, so far. A ludicrously huge amount has to be done in just 5 weeks.

I've not heard a single rumour about Kozak, Guzan, Okore, Senderos, Sanchez, Westwood, Cissokho, Bennett or Steer leaving us.

I have. But you are the expert. Which if any of those squad players would be missed, really?

[pauliewalnuts]

Every single player Lambert signed on his way out and only 2 question marks in, so far. A ludicrously huge amount has to be done in just 5 weeks.

I've not heard a single rumour about Kozak, Guzan, Okore, Senderos, Sanchez, Westwood, Cissokho, Bennett or Steer leaving us.

I have. But you are the expert. Which if any of those squad players would be missed, really?

You've heard rumours about Westwood, Sanchez, Senderos, Kozak, Okore and Steer leaving?

Really?

[paulcomben]

Edit.