Summer 2015 - Transfer Rumours, Speculation & Suggestions

[Comrade Blitz]

We really need a Venn diagram here.

[Hookeysmith]

Do not know anything about Afobe (scurried away to look on You tube)
I worry that Austin is a London Billy Big Bollocks

I think TS has done wonderfully redesigning the squad so I really hope he has a rabbit up his sleeve with a CF - I still hope there is something in Adebeyor

[E I Adio]

Wolves are a natural enemy but i always feel more comfortable there than Norwich which is the shortest Premiership trip for us.   There is an air of phoniness about Norwich and the vaguely patronizing claim that they are a "family club" as opposed to illegitimate bastards like Villa and Wolves.  Much is personal dating back to being thrown out of their ground years ago for going to the defence of a young lad who refused to pay for a burger which was essentially raw and frozen and then the time a couple of years ago when I got a parking ticket outside their ground and had a slanging match with Gobby Cabbage on 606 when I raised the point of fans being ripped off by councils on match day parking. Lots of better memories of Molyneux.

I have similar feelings based on my one and only trip to Carrow Road. Some time in the '70's I was visiting a lady friend who lived in Norwich and it "just so happened" to coincide with Villa's fixture. We sat in the posh seats near the halfway line and although I was keeping a low profile and not wearing colours, I couldn't resist a fairly muted but short "YEAAA!" when we scored. You'd have thought the yokels had spotted a dangerous terrorist such was the reaction. I was happy enough when they equalised, which seemed to calm them down a bit.

On the other hand, I worked in Wolverhampton for some years and regularly went to The Mol with my Wolves supporting mates and never had any similar problems.

[PeterWithe]

My Wolves fan mates tell me that Norwich have a big problem with them dating back to a play off game and a Kevin Muscat horror tackle.

[OzVilla]

Arn't they all a bit inbred in Norwich?

[VILLA MOLE]

Arn't they all a bit inbred in Norwich?

Oi You will have their sisterwife after you !!

[OzVilla]

My Wolves fan mates tell me that Norwich have a big problem with them dating back to a play off game and a Kevin Muscat horror tackle.

A Kevin Muscat horror tackle. You don't say.

[Malandro]

Arn't they all a bit inbred in Norwich?

Common question at maternity ward - are you related to the father

[Mister E]

I'd be more inclined to pay it for Afobe, I think. from what I've seen of him, he has more of an all-round game. Granted, he isn't tried or tested in the Premiership yet, but at his age I can only see him getting better.

£15m is probably what it'd take to get him now, which does seem a lot, but so did £6m for Robbie Keane all of those years ago and I can see his being a similar situation.

Based on the value we have managed to extract from the Window so far, £15m on a player untried in the Premier League is both ludicrous and unlikely to happen.

I hope that TS is focussing on RB and CB right now.

[glasses]

My Wolves fan mates tell me that Norwich have a big problem with them dating back to a play off game and a Kevin Muscat horror tackle.

A Kevin Muscat horror tackle. You don't say.

Supposedly, one season in the game at carrow road between the two clubs, Muscat was injured/tackled/looked at funny by Craig Belamy (then of Norwich City). In the reverse fixture, Muscat got revenge. I've heard a story of Muscat supposedly whispering to Bellamy all game that he was going to break his legs. Reminders every couple of minutes 'it's coming...' etc

Then late on *BANG* and Bellamy is out for months. May not have played for Norwich again.

You'd think it was awful, but then you hear it's on Craig Bellamy and suddenly it's not too bad*

*It is still pretty grim.

[aj2k77]

I'd be more inclined to pay it for Afobe, I think. from what I've seen of him, he has more of an all-round game. Granted, he isn't tried or tested in the Premiership yet, but at his age I can only see him getting better.

£15m is probably what it'd take to get him now, which does seem a lot, but so did £6m for Robbie Keane all of those years ago and I can see his being a similar situation.

Based on the value we have managed to extract from the Window so far, £15m on a player untried in the Premier League is both ludicrous and unlikely to happen.

I hope that TS is focussing on RB and CB right now.

Exactly. For a bit more than that we got in Gueye, Veretout and Gestede. A 22 yr old in the Championship with only 20 goals at that level, it's a massive leap to make for a massive amount of money, and not the sort financially we could afford right now I don't think. For £15m I'd want an Embolo.

[Hillbilly]

Arn't they all a bit inbred in Norwich?

I cycled through Kings Lynn once and got dogs abuse for riding a bike. I think they thought it was some sort of witchcraft, a horse with round legs or the like.

[DB]

Do not know anything about Afobe (scurried away to look on You tube)
I worry that Austin is a London Billy Big Bollocks

I think TS has done wonderfully redesigning the squad so I really hope he has a rabbit up his sleeve with a CF - I still hope there is something in Adebeyor

Austin is from around Berkshire near where I live, his uncle used to own the pub where I drink. He is locally known as 'Big time Charlie'....as you say he is a bit of a big bollocks.

[PaulWinch again]

We definitely need a goal scorer, whether that's Austin I'm not sure.

[paul_e]

We definitely need a goal scorer, whether that's Austin I'm not sure.

I'll decide after the cup game when we're likely to have seen at least a couple of Gil, Grealish or Traore, I do wonder if the biggest problem right now is that none of our creative attacking players have kicked a ball for us yet.