Jordan Ayew - sold to Swansea

[Archie]

I take that there are two brothers Ayew that play fotball.
One is good and he has been signed by Swansea, the other is Jordan.
These are the rumours in Italy, but I have never seen him playing, so I am not in the position to have a solid opinion.
My strong impression, however, is that we ar going to commit the same mistake of Spurs when spent the money received for Bale for a bunch of crap, overpaid,  players.

[Stirchley Villain]

Has someone hacked your account Archie? I've never known you to be so negative.

[Archie]

You are right mate, I am sorry to say that I have never been so depressed.
In few months we have terminated the umptheeth disapointing League, lost the FA Cup final as an amateur side (against the same opponents Hull, last season looked brilliant and went to the extratime), lost our captain few days after he had declared that he would stay, lost our best player, the only of  international level, and bought a bunch of unknown players with the only exception of Gueye'.
Meantime, I see that clubs much smaller than Villa, clubs like Soton or Swansea,  build solid entertaining teams without necessarily spending a lot of money.

[gervilla]

Have Southampton been purchasing world renowned replacements when they loose their best players, which seems to happen  on a regular basis. Give our manager and new signings a chance.

[ozzjim]

It might turn out that way Archie, but he scored more, and made more goals and chances than his brother last season, and seems to have a much more polarising opinion, from the ability to be sublime to the ability to be completely useless. I think he will become a bit of a cult hero that plays in patches, but we will see. If he bangs in 15 goals next season then I don't much care what he gets up to as he will have been pretty successful.

Amavi and Gueye seem to be pretty decent buys. Sinclair was a snip for a squad player at the money, and Adebayor is probably Sherwood gambling on his job next season.

[Percy McCarthy]

I thought I'd catch the news about Ayew on BBC Midlands Today.....you know, a fairly big deal at £9-10M. And.....not a single mention; obviously this is positive news for the club. Are they a clone of Radio WM?

On the plus side, there was a feature on new Northern Soul club The Night Owl, filmed on Friday night. I arrived too fashionably late to be filmed, which is a relief as I would have Britain's Got Talent hounding me by now if they'd seen me dancing.

What's it like? Worth a visit?

It's not up to much but at his age you don't expect Travolta.

His costume got him some attention, though.

More modern than that. I sort of merge Flashdance with MC Hammer shit:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=06GoD-_NOWY

[KevinGage]

Someone compared our business earlier to Big Ron's dealing in 1991.

I'm sorry,  I don't see that at all.

Despite struggling under Dr Jo the year before, we went out and bought Staunton, Richardson and Dalian who were all big name players at the time. Regis was an established top flight player and even Mad Les had just won the Cup Winners Cup with Yanited.

There were a few punts in there, with Ehiogu, Teale and Paul Mortimer, but there was obvious quality too.

Aside from Gueye and Amavi (and they'll be adapting to a new league and could take a while to settle)  I am non plussed about most of our business so far this summer.

We signed eight players under DOL in during the 2005/06 summer window, nine under Paul Lambert (including two Acadamy youths from Soton) as recently as 2013. So it isn't always about the volume of new faces coming in.

[ozzjim]

In fairness though, Ayew is a regular international with a side who I thought looked pretty decent at the world cup last year, Gueye is a well thought of Senegal international and Amavi is on the fringes of the national set up too. Bunn is a simple reserve keeper, Crespo if he signs is a reserve utility player, Richards is clearly a good player and will provide leadership too on the pitch which could be the making of him and Sinclair was 2.5m and always gets into goalscoring positions, with confidence could be a real snip. We still need a forward and a midfielder, but I think we are trying to rebuild a side that was dreadfully short on quality with a small budget in real terms still. I am quite excited by next season. I actually think the Wilkins appointment was pretty spot on too.

[SoccerHQ]

The good news to me is yes we've lost Benteke but we have now signed four first team players before August 1st with Adebayor seemingly imminent.

When was the last transfer window we did that, certainly never under MON when we always started seasons undercooked in terms of first 11 and last two seasons when we signed rubbish from lower leagues and Polish league dosen't count as those are easy signings as no one else wants them.

Yes Benteke will be a massive figure to replace so we'll have to see how that pans out but having seen Gueye on Saturday I'm quietly confident our friend from the Man. City bench will be quickly forgotten.

We are starting at a very low base, 17th. Let's hope it dosen't get worse as we are done for but equally it dosen't take that much for us to improve either.

[Percy McCarthy]

I thought I'd catch the news about Ayew on BBC Midlands Today.....you know, a fairly big deal at £9-10M. And.....not a single mention; obviously this is positive news for the club. Are they a clone of Radio WM?

On the plus side, there was a feature on new Northern Soul club The Night Owl, filmed on Friday night. I arrived too fashionably late to be filmed, which is a relief as I would have Britain's Got Talent hounding me by now if they'd seen me dancing.

What's it like? Worth a visit?

Yeah, it's cool. Take no notice of these divs on here. Eddie Norton was there on Friday. No idea if you know him, well-known bloke down the Villa.

http://livebrum.co.uk/venues/the-night-owl

[passport1]

If someone had told me 12 months ago that by now our management duo would be Sherwood and 'Butch', we would have sold Benteke and Delph and gone on a spending spree purchasing unknowns and Richards with the possibility of Adebayor I think I would have asked whether they were winding me up?


I will wake up soon won't I?

[Archie]

You know the Premier League better than me and obviously I hope that you are right mates.
On my side, I  can not share your optimism at the moment, I am afraid.
When you see the ex mighty Villa to sign a player that was a reserve in your Serie B local team and that got relegated in Spain last season. . . well, that speaks volumes about our ambition and current position in English football.

And no, I am not excited for the new season. In my last twelve trips to England  to see the Villa I have spent a lot of money and watched some really crap football with the only exceptions of Norwich away 2013 and Pool semi last season.

Compared to it, I can not but notice that my Italian team, Lazio, with a poor budget  produces an entertaining, attacking football, won two Italian FA Cup in the last six season, lost one in final with Juventus,  qualified for the Champions League play off and launched some skilfull players like Felipe Anderson, Candreva, Biglia, Cataldi and Parolo.
The Villa, viceversa, do not have a sole player that I could say  is worth the price of the ticket by himself.
And please note that is not all question of money but of competence.
Lazio, infact, operate on sell-to-buy basis and with an average attendance at its old and decadent stadium  lower than  Villa's one.
This makes me think that Villa have an extraordinary fan-base but do not have, at the moment and since many years, a reliable director of football.  And  the worst is that nobody seems to understand and to be worried for that.

[Sunny Villa]

How is Eddie .    I was with loads of them at the Final . never made it to the Holiday inn though .   good Lad Eddie

I thought I'd catch the news about Ayew on BBC Midlands Today.....you know, a fairly big deal at £9-10M. And.....not a single mention; obviously this is positive news for the club. Are they a clone of Radio WM?

On the plus side, there was a feature on new Northern Soul club The Night Owl, filmed on Friday night. I arrived too fashionably late to be filmed, which is a relief as I would have Britain's Got Talent hounding me by now if they'd seen me dancing.

What's it like? Worth a visit?

Yeah, it's cool. Take no notice of these divs on here. Eddie Norton was there on Friday. No idea if you know him, well-known bloke down the Villa.

http://livebrum.co.uk/venues/the-night-owl

[pauliewalnuts]

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The Villa, viceversa, do not have a sole player that I could say  is worth the price of the ticket by himself.
And please note that is not all question of money but of competence.

And that, Archie, is one of the things that makes you a Villa fan.

We should change our motto from "Prepared" to something more realistic and reflective of the truth.

I suggest "Oh, FFS" or simply "Jesus Fucking Christ!"

[Toronto Villa]

Or Jordan Fucking Christ.