New chairman and Lerner ramblings

[Clampy]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/new-aston-villa-chairman-steve-10761761

Thats nice and everything Steve. But where are the new signings? Thats the only thing that matters right now.

Probably still biding their time to see if they have any offers more attractive than joining the side at the bottom of the league.

Possibly, but other clubs who were bottom have made signings early in the window in the past. Also the signings should have been all ready to join first week in January. It is now the 21st without a sniff. To me it smacks off surrender. Which upsets me when our players do it on the pitch and upsets me when our board does it off the pitch.

You can't have players ready to join on the 1st January if they're not willing to come.

[ciggiesnbeer]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/new-aston-villa-chairman-steve-10761761

Thats nice and everything Steve. But where are the new signings? Thats the only thing that matters right now.

Probably still biding their time to see if they have any offers more attractive than joining the side at the bottom of the league.

Possibly, but other clubs who were bottom have made signings early in the window in the past. Also the signings should have been all ready to join first week in January. It is now the 21st without a sniff. To me it smacks off surrender. Which upsets me when our players do it on the pitch and upsets me when our board does it off the pitch.

You can't have players ready to join on the 1st January if they're not willing to come.

Correct. You also can't have them ready to join if you haven't tried to sign any.

[Clampy]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/new-aston-villa-chairman-steve-10761761

Thats nice and everything Steve. But where are the new signings? Thats the only thing that matters right now.

Probably still biding their time to see if they have any offers more attractive than joining the side at the bottom of the league.

Possibly, but other clubs who were bottom have made signings early in the window in the past. Also the signings should have been all ready to join first week in January. It is now the 21st without a sniff. To me it smacks off surrender. Which upsets me when our players do it on the pitch and upsets me when our board does it off the pitch.

You can't have players ready to join on the 1st January if they're not willing to come.

Correct. You also can't have them ready to join if you haven't tried to sign any.

Do you have any proof that we haven't approached any clubs for players?  Because we have.

[ciggiesnbeer]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/new-aston-villa-chairman-steve-10761761

Thats nice and everything Steve. But where are the new signings? Thats the only thing that matters right now.

Probably still biding their time to see if they have any offers more attractive than joining the side at the bottom of the league.

Possibly, but other clubs who were bottom have made signings early in the window in the past. Also the signings should have been all ready to join first week in January. It is now the 21st without a sniff. To me it smacks off surrender. Which upsets me when our players do it on the pitch and upsets me when our board does it off the pitch.

You can't have players ready to join on the 1st January if they're not willing to come.

Correct. You also can't have them ready to join if you haven't tried to sign any.

Do you have any proof that we haven't approached any clubs for players?  Because we have.

Please educate me. Seriously I am not being snide. I have not heard a sniff that we have been seriously looking to try and spend our way out of relegation this window.

[Chris Harte]

Do you have any proof that we haven't approached any clubs for players?  Because we have.

Have we? Prove it then. Who have we tried to sign?

[Clampy]

Just because you haven't heard a sniff doesn't mean we haven't approached clubs. No-one knew Charlie Austin was going to Southampton until it happened. Gestede wasn't even linked until the day it broke either.

Debuchy has already said he's spoken to Garde. That's the only concrete one but like I said, it doesn't mean we haven't  tried.

[aj2k77]

Do you have any proof that we haven't approached any clubs for players?  Because we have.

Have we? Prove it then. Who have we tried to sign?

Debuchy. He's biding his time to see if there's a better off. This is another shit window for us, no doubt about it, but it's just us reaping what we've sown all season, the turn around has come too late and no one want's a piece of this sideshow and relegation.

The summer is when the business should have been done, not going over old ground again, we all know we fucked up.

[Chris Harte]

Garde saying to Debuchy "fancy playing for me" doesn't necessarily constitute us trying to sign him. Also, the fact we've not heard anything doesn't mean we've tried.

[aj2k77]

Chris, I don't think Remi has phoned Debuchy just with the intention of asking him if he fancies a game.

[Clampy]

Garde saying to Debuchy "fancy playing for me" doesn't necessarily constitute us trying to sign him. Also, the fact we've not heard anything doesn't mean we've tried.

Considering we have to approach the club concerned before talking to a player suggests that it wasn't quite how you suggested it.

Also, the fact that we haven't heard anything doesn't mean we haven't tried either.

[Chris Harte]

My point being it works both ways.

And as for approaching a club first, we all know that always happens all the time, don't we?

[Dave]

Garde saying to Debuchy "fancy playing for me" doesn't necessarily constitute us trying to sign him.

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It's true, they (Villa) are among the teams seeking me,' Debuchy told L'Equipe

Why do you think he would say such a thing if we hadn't tried?

[Clampy]

My point being it works both ways.

And as for approaching a club first, we all know that always happens all the time, don't we?

So we haven't approached Arsenal, Garde just rang up Debuchy one night after tea. I'm not sure about that you know.

[Chris Harte]

Garde saying to Debuchy "fancy playing for me" doesn't necessarily constitute us trying to sign him.

'

It's true, they (Villa) are among the teams seeking me,' Debuchy told L'Equipe

Why do you think he would say such a thing if we hadn't tried?

I wasn't aware that he had said that. But even that doesn't imply we've made any firm attempt to sign him.

[Clampy]

Garde saying to Debuchy "fancy playing for me" doesn't necessarily constitute us trying to sign him.

'

It's true, they (Villa) are among the teams seeking me,' Debuchy told L'Equipe

Why do you think he would say such a thing if we hadn't tried?

I wasn't aware that he had said that. But even that doesn't imply we've made any firm attempt to sign him.

So just because he's not here, it means we haven't tried to sign him? Ok, clear as mud.