Summer 2015 - Transfer Rumours, Speculation & Suggestions

[Ian.]

Today was the first time I thought of Sinclair as a Aston Villa player. He didn't stop working down the flank. Good to have competition is it not and

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To be continued

[Ads]

I don't think there is anything wrong at all with Ayew's touch or movement. Fitness is big problem, along with Veretout and a few others, but you can see that the ability is there.

[Dante Lavelli]

I watched one of those scouting youtube things of Grealish yesterday and it is better than anything we have signed.
If we were buying him we would be very excited.  I think he and Gil should fight out the mercurial 'number 10' role and Sinclair/Ayew fight out the other pacy position.

Admittedly unproven but potentially very exciting.

[Villatillidie25]

I'd be tempted to start gil, grealish and ayew/sinclair in the odd home game with a midfield two of Sanchez and gueye. Veretout being an option instead of gil or grealish.
We need an out and out winger, although I would give gil that berth for the interim, as we don't really have a get to the by-line type of winger at the moment.
A right back would also be good as teams will target us there at the moment. Up front, we will be ok with what we have but if an up and coming superstar (Benteke mark ii) becomes available we are in a position to bring them in and break them in slowly.

[garyshawsknee]

Talking of out and out wingers, Albrighton looked like he had a good game yesterday. For the amount of money a new contract would have cost us, it's shocking we let him go.

[ozzjim]

I do keep forgetting we have Grealish and Gil to come back in, who are essentially the 2 most skilful and potentially exciting players at the club.

[supertom]

Talking of out and out wingers, Albrighton looked like he had a good game yesterday. For the amount of money a new contract would have cost us, it's shocking we let him go.

I like him. He works hard every game. Not the best player but he'll keep on looking to find half a yard and deliver. I think someone like Gestede could have a field day with him. I'd certainly have Alby in my squad over Cole, N'zogbia and Richardson.

[dave.woodhall]

Talking of out and out wingers, Albrighton looked like he had a good game yesterday. For the amount of money a new contract would have cost us, it's shocking we let him go.

Another who gets better with every game he doesn't play.

[Dante Lavelli]

Talking of out and out wingers, Albrighton looked like he had a good game yesterday. For the amount of money a new contract would have cost us, it's shocking we let him go.

I like him. He works hard every game. Not the best player but he'll keep on looking to find half a yard and deliver. I think someone like Gestede could have a field day with him. I'd certainly have Alby in my squad over Cole, N'zogbia and Richardson.

Its another where we let their contracts run down and when it came to renegotiation they wanted crazy money.

[cdbearsfan]

I like Albrighton but you offer a player like him £40,000 a week and every other member of the squad will be demanding a payrise. Not the best of financial models for us trying to escape the effects of Black MONday.

EDIT: agree with the point re: we shouldn't be letting players' contracts run down to the position where they hold all the advantages. We do seem to be learning from that a bit though.

[dekko]

Talking of out and out wingers, Albrighton looked like he had a good game yesterday. For the amount of money a new contract would have cost us, it's shocking we let him go.

Another who gets better with every game he doesn't play.

Well he was excellent yesterday, and by all accounts was one of the key players that kept Leicester up last season when they went on that run, so I'd say its a case of being a good player when he's fit and been given a run of games.  He was the only one of our players to emerge from the 13/14 run in with any credit too.

[passitsideways]

Talking of out and out wingers, Albrighton looked like he had a good game yesterday. For the amount of money a new contract would have cost us, it's shocking we let him go.

Another who gets better with every game he doesn't play.

Well he was excellent yesterday, and by all accounts was one of the key players that kept Leicester up last season when they went on that run, so I'd say its a case of being a good player when he's fit and been given a run of games.  He was the only one of our players to emerge from the 13/14 run in with any credit too.

I think he was made to look better during that stretch, like Gil's first few games with us, from our complete lack of other ideas, so much so that just passing the ball to him and have him hit cross after cross into the box (which to be fair, he did a reasonably good job at) was a substantial improvement.

I'm pleased for him and no doubt he could've played a squad role as someone to stretch the defence and provide a good delivery for Benteke previously and now Gestede, but I don't think we're missed a trick with letting him move on.

[richard moore]

Talking of out and out wingers, Albrighton looked like he had a good game yesterday. For the amount of money a new contract would have cost us, it's shocking we let him go.

Another who gets better with every game he doesn't play.

I agree, he's average at best. Great, he had a good game yesterday and a few at the end of last season but he's no great shakes in my view.

[dave.woodhall]

I don't think it was so much letting his contract run down as he'd never really shown enough to offer him the sort of money he seems to have been looking for.

[ktvillan]

I watched one of those scouting youtube things of Grealish yesterday and it is better than anything we have signed.
If we were buying him we would be very excited.  I think he and Gil should fight out the mercurial 'number 10' role and Sinclair/Ayew fight out the other pacy position.

Admittedly unproven but potentially very exciting.

Might not be the same one but the one I watched of Grealish hailed him as the new Cristiano Ronaldo.   There followed about 5 minutes of clips of him doing a lot of fancy turns, dribbles and feints, which looked great in themselves but there was little or no end product save for him being fouled a few times.  He usually ended up turning round and passing it sideways or backwards.   Very light on crosses, incisive passes and attempts on goal.  Undoubted potential but on this evidence and from what I've seen myself, the phrase "all fart and no shit" sprang to mind.