Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

[olaftab]

Reports saying Veretout may be off to AC Mila

There's plenty of things that I'd like to do with Mila Kunis but fixing her air-conditioning isn't one of them

Is it not conceivable that by doing a great job fixing her AC could in fact lead to doing to her the things you want to do to her?

Well if it stops her blowing ......

No one wants that!

[Clampy]

Ayew is Ok, shown nothing more nothing less but stands out like a shining light in a sea of crap. Amavi has played about 10 games? Traore hasn't started a single league game and Gana is part of the worst Villa midfield I think I've ever seen, going back to 1987 and doesn't stand out. If you think that was a good summers business we will have to agree to disagree.

Even though you thought it was fine at the time.

Having not seen a single french first division game in my life and trusting/hoping the club couldn't sign an entire bunch of players for £50m that make us worse than last season yes.

I was wrong, they look out of their depth. They're bit part players, ones you'd add to a solid, strong spine with leadership.

I wouldn't say they look out of their depth at all. They're probably the kind of players who needed a season to settle in though which didn't help.

[PeterWithe]

Troy Deeley was on £40k a week in the Championship, and the goalie.

Deeney and Gomes? Where do people get these figures from?

From the player when asked why he hadn't moved to the PL.

He didn't want to move to the Premier League because two Watford players were supposedly on £40,000 a week in the Championship?

No, that was Deeleys reply when asked why he hadn't made a move to the PL, none of the interested PL clubs would match his Watford wages at the time. Him and, strangely, the goalie, were the top,paid players there.

The point being that £20k a week for Ayew isn't out of the ordinary for the Championship.

[brian green]

In support of the French players I would go further and say that all of them have done well in horrendous circumstances.  Like Garde they have been very convenient scapegoats for all the years of turf wars, back biting, plotting, conspiracy, disloyalty, pay back, job politics, blame laying, cheese paring, skinflinting, back stabbing, name calling, column dodging, buck passing, (alleged) bullying, media conniving and downright hiding that has gone on at Villa Park since O'Neill walked out.

Do me 500 words on Aston Villa.  OK, boss coming up.  What's in the pigeon hole?  All the Frogs' Fault. That'll do.

[olaftab]

12 pages already...I predict this time another 1000 page  thread before 31 August.

I hope so. It's about time one of my threads hit the big time.

Come on that's easy just start one titled "Steve Hodge -Villa Legend I love". 1000 pages in 7 days with every post no longer than 3 words!

[Ron Manager]

Ayew is Ok, shown nothing more nothing less but stands out like a shining light in a sea of crap. Amavi has played about 10 games? Traore hasn't started a single league game and Gana is part of the worst Villa midfield I think I've ever seen, going back to 1987 and doesn't stand out. If you think that was a good summers business we will have to agree to disagree.

Even though you thought it was fine at the time.

Having not seen a single french first division game in my life and trusting/hoping the club couldn't sign an entire bunch of players for £50m that make us worse than last season yes.

I was wrong, they look out of their depth. They're bit part players, ones you'd add to a solid, strong spine with leadership.

I wouldn't say they look out of their depth at all. They're probably the kind of players who needed a season to settle in though which didn't help.

Certainly not out of their depth. The memory of a football fan is often very short. Dennis Mortimer had a very slow start to his career here .If social media had been about then he would have got a royal slagging on the forums....and look what happened to him!

[brian green]

As would Peter Withe.

[Pat McMahon]

40 years ago but IIRC Dennis Mortimer made his debut in a 4-1 Boxing Day win over W Ham and was very good. And Peter Withe scored a brace in a 2-2 draw at Man City in what I think was his 3rd game.

Ken McNaught now was a different story.....

[rougegorge]

Yes Withe hit the ground running.

I disagree about the French players all having done well.
Discounting N'Zog, technically we only have three French players. Cissokho was deemed not good enough but has done OK in parts since returning , Amavi was very error prone and Veretout has contributed very little.

Of the two other Ligue 1 players, Gana is average, does well at interceptions, but looks better than others in a very poor team, and Ayew looks reasonably good, but again it is all relative when the team is so abject.

[dave shelley]

40 years ago but IIRC Dennis Mortimer made his debut in a 4-1 Boxing Day win over W Ham and was very good. And Peter Withe scored a brace in a 2-2 draw at Man City in what I think was his 3rd game.

Ken McNaught now was a different story.....

Correct Pat.  I was at both of those games.  I think we were two up in that Citeh game.

[brian green]

Respect your contrary opinion rougegorge but there is no way the French players brought in last summer, ie Amavi, Gueye, Ayew and Veretout have not played generally better than the body of the squad into which they went.  When I say those players have played well, I should have added compared with Richards, Agbonlahor, Guzan, Lescott, Clark, Bacuna, Richardson, Sinclair, Westwood and Gestede and they have played as well as the least bad established players like Hutton, Cissoko, Okore and Gil.

I have never suggested that our French imports have played as well as Leicester's or those of any secure Premiership club. Clearly they have not but to scapegoat them and not the real culprits of our demise is disingenuous and unfair. In my opinion.

[brian green]

And Peter Withe got pelters from many quartets until he settled in (quickly thankfully) for his earlier club connections. Twitter would have burst into flames if it had existed when he signed for us.

[Chris Jameson]

If we're sticking with Gestede then Elmohamady and Robertson at Hull are both great crossers of the ball. That's all I've got.

[mr underhill]

is Mr Umpa Lumpa coming too ?

[brian green]

Now you are being silly.  He is the African Car Reverser.