Summer 2015 - Transfer Rumours, Speculation & Suggestions

[Richard E]

We seem to be going down the Newcastle route of signing French based players. Then again I suppose we  are the Midlands version of Newcastle.

This is right - Villa supporters spend all their time talking, worrying and tweeting about Villa. Newcastle supporters spend all their time talking, worrying and tweeting about Villa.

[Ryu]

Adebayor up top on loan then

Have you heard something?

Him on loan and one of the young prospects we've been linked with, plus one of the wingers and I wouldnt be too unhappy with out attacking options. No idea what to do about central midfielde though.

Lots of work to Do Tim!

I reckon we'll be desperately praying that one of Sanchez/Gardner/Westwood/maybe even Calder steps up as a competent partner for Gueye in a midfield two. Even if Sherwood settles on a 4-3-3 we might have to witness the possibility of Richardson and Bacuna spending time as that third midfielder who's crap in possession but offers some headless-chicken energy. Not great, but the optimist in me says we'll scrape by on that providing two or three good attacking players come in.

That still leaves us without good senior cover for all the positions. I can't see us not signing a first team midfielder after losing our 2 starters. We wouldn't, would we?

[Hookeysmith]

Who is Rolan?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Rolán

Oblig youtube thingy with techno

Always worry when I see several clips of the same goal plus the standard of defending was atrocious

[Joshua Fineman]

http://www.football365.com/f365-says/9921036/F365-Says

This is all rather hard to argue with....

[Toronto Villa]

http://www.football365.com/f365-says/9921036/F365-Says

This is all rather hard to argue with....

If the summer was over and the season had started I might agree. But it isn't so surely we should be judging this once the window closes. And any time our season isn't starting with neither TSM1 and TSM2 at the club it's a massive forward step.

[LTA]

http://www.football365.com/f365-says/9921036/F365-Says

This is all rather hard to argue with....

Can't really argue with any of that.  Just over 2 weeks before the season starts and we are totally unprepared. 

[andyh]

I quite like Bolasie.

I'm not sure I like him enough to be in our team though.

[aj2k77]

We could have done with getting the players in sooner though, 2 weeks before the season starts is not in any way ideal. I don't want to see us panic buying after the season kicks off with us bent over a barrel.

[Toronto Villa]

http://www.football365.com/f365-says/9921036/F365-Says

This is all rather hard to argue with....

Can't really argue with any of that.  Just over 2 weeks before the season starts and we are totally unprepared. 

How are we totally unprepared? What a load a nonsense. Have we not started training? Have we not played any friendlies? Do we not have our coaches in place? Does Villa Park not have any grass? We lost two key players and sold some that nobody cares about. We will sell a few and still have to buy some like just about every other club out there. What is so unprepared about that?

[Matt Collins]

My gut instinct at the moment is that we're heading for a bit of a car crash at the start of the season.

[Des Little]

I'm taking my boots with me to Bournemouth.  I'm shit but I'll give it a go.

[aj2k77]

http://www.football365.com/f365-says/9921036/F365-Says

This is all rather hard to argue with....

Can't really argue with any of that.  Just over 2 weeks before the season starts and we are totally unprepared. 

How are we totally unprepared? What a load a nonsense. Have we not started training? Have we not played any friendlies? Do we not have our coaches in place? Does Villa Park not have any grass? We lost two key players and sold some that nobody cares about. We will sell a few and still have to buy some like just about every other club out there. What is so unprepared about that?

We have Gabby and a man who's been out for god knows how long as our strikers. We have a midfield that looks Championship quality. We have no leaders in the team. We are short on decent numbers and we still have Charles Nzogbia. We may sell and we may buy, but we've left it until the week before the season starts, you can't kid yourself it's anywhere near ideal. We also have a very inexperienced manager.

I felt it before last season and I feel it before this one too, we are not going to have a good season again. It's going to be a relegation battle from week 1 to 38.

[tomd2103]

We seem to be going down the Newcastle route of signing French based players. Then again I suppose we  are the Midlands version of Newcastle.

To be honest, it seems like a good market.  I think the mistake Newcastle made was not balancing it with a number of domestic players.  When times have got tough up there a number of their players have gine missing.  Despite the departures, we still have a fairly decent number of domestic players to balance it out.

[Matt Collins]

The headline statistic is this: Aston Villa's current squad scored a total of 12 Premier League goals last season. Gabby Agbonlahor accounts for half of those. The Premier League reconvenes in 16 days - Villa are emphatically ill-prepared.

[Mister E]

http://www.football365.com/f365-says/9921036/F365-Says

This is all rather hard to argue with....

Well, it's also pretty lazy journalism - the idea that Cleverley and Weimann were significant goal contributors is stretching it a little; even if it is true that we scored appallingly few times for most of last season.
But, we all have an opinion: let's see by the end of September where we are.