Summer 2015 - Transfer Rumours, Speculation & Suggestions

[walsall villain]

we are now being linked in the French media with Alassane Plea from Nice. Another Benteke lookalike

Are Nice any good? If so let's get the lot of them over here.

[Dave]

I honestly think that persevering with Guzan would have seen us go down

Well, we'll have to agree to disagree then.

As Guzan is a far superior (while not flawless) keeper and I'm completely certain that had he stayed in goal we'd likely have had a much more comfortable end to the season.

[JUAN PABLO]

we are now being linked in the French media with Alassane Plea from Nice. Another Benteke lookalike

We would be definitely going down the Wenger route.

[N'Zimidy]

Or more disturbingly a Newcastle route.

[mr underhill]

metro reporting we have bid 15m for Austin

[john e]

I honestly think that persevering with Guzan would have seen us go down

Well, we'll have to agree to disagree then.

As Guzan is a far superior (while not flawless) keeper and I'm completely certain that had he stayed in goal we'd likely have had a much more comfortable end to the season.

we would probably be down already if it wasn't for having Guzan in nets for the last few years

it does make me wonder how two people can watch the same team for 3 years and not just disagree but actually look like they have been watching totally different players all this time

[ozzjim]

Sherwood will be hopping mad if we can't get the lad from Nice. Could really make us tick.

[onje_villa]

I honestly think that persevering with Guzan would have seen us go down

Well, we'll have to agree to disagree then.

As Guzan is a far superior (while not flawless) keeper and I'm completely certain that had he stayed in goal we'd likely have had a much more comfortable end to the season.

Agreed. While Guzan's form has certainly tailed off the last season or two and perhaps he warranted dropping, unfortunately Given was just the "other guy", his form if anything was worse. His performances at the end of the season were the stuff of nightmares. Flapping around, kicking the ball to the opposition. To suggest he somehow saved us from the drop is highly fanciful.

[Clampy]

I can't build any enthusiasm over Austin. Like curiousorange said earlier, for someone with such a decent goal scoring record, you wonder why a top 8 or mid-table side haven't taken a punt on him. Hull came in for him when he was at Burnley and he ended up going to qpr and he's still there although they may be overpricing him.

[not3bad]

Daily Telegraph reporting that Adebayor may be coming to Villa on a season long loan with Villa part funding his wages.

[KRS]

If we sign Austin then he'll get obviously get our full support but I'd rather we be in for a forward with more to his game...an eye for goal, pace, skills, can drop off deep and link up play, create his own chances, shoot from all ranges...basically a more modern player who can drift and be interchangeable with attacking midfielders; where as I see Austin as being in the mould of an old fashioned centre forward goal poacher. Admittedly I haven't watched his highlights but thats my general opinion without doing much research so apologies to the man if I'm wrong.

[Monty]

I can't build any enthusiasm over Austin. Like curiousorange said earlier, for someone with such a decent goal scoring record, you wonder why a top 8 or mid-table side haven't taken a punt on him. Hull came in for him when he was at Burnley and he ended up going to qpr and he's still there although they may be overpricing him.

They're definitely overpricing him for us, but you could imagine that Austin is worth about £15m to them, given how well he fits into their style and what his goals do to their chances of promotion. Very unconvinced about him for us, though.

[Clampy]

If we sign Austin then he'll get obviously get our full support but I'd rather we be in for a forward with more to his game...an eye for goal, pace, skills, can drop off deep and link up play, create his own chances, shoot from all ranges...basically a more modern player who can drift and be interchangeable with attacking midfielders; where as I see Austin as being in the mould of an old fashioned centre forward goal poacher. Admittedly I haven't watched his highlights but thats my general opinion without doing much research so apologies to the man if I'm wrong.

I think a few of us have enjoyed watching Benteke so much over the past few season's, we want to unearth another one. Maybe Austin would do really well, but I don't know, there's something that puts me off.

[mr underhill]

apparently, Oulare is available for £7m

[Villa in Denmark]

I can't build any enthusiasm over Austin. Like curiousorange said earlier, for someone with such a decent goal scoring record, you wonder why a top 8 or mid-table side haven't taken a punt on him. Hull came in for him when he was at Burnley and he ended up going to qpr and he's still there although they may be overpricing him.

They're definitely overpricing him for us, but you could imagine that Austin is worth about £15m to them, given how well he fits into their style and what his goals do to their chances of promotion. Very unconvinced about him for us, though.

Another consideration for them, is that they're likely to get truly fucked by The Football League for the mess that is their finances.
They could well be "aiming high" with his price, to absolutely maximise what they get for him.
I can't think of any other "saleable assets" that they've got?