Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

[oldham_villa]

Any teams containing Gestede surely have to have 2 attackers. As we have seen this season, you can have him on his own up front.

Gotta be 4-4-2 or 3-5-2

[The Laughing Policeman]

I see Carrick is out of contract at Old Trafford in the summer. He's 34 so no spring chicken but I reckon he's the type to get in on a decent wage and rebuild the team round him.
A lot of you will say he's not going to come to a newly relegated club, but if you don't ask you don't get.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

I see Carrick is out of contract at Old Trafford in the summer. He's 34 so no spring chicken but I reckon he's the type to get in on a decent wage and rebuild the team round him.
A lot of you will say he's not going to come to a newly relegated club, but if you don't ask you don't get.

nothing against carrick but the last thing we need is more short termism and players coming to the end of their careers

please see cole, lescott, senderos and richardson

[tomd2103]

Gayle has signed a long term deal at place so we won't get him.

Anyone tempted of we could give Defoe on last pay day alongside Gestede?

Gayle hardly plays though so must be looking at a move sooner or later.  Anyway I meant more a player like him - quick and decent movement.  Someone mentioned Wells at Huddersfield who wouldn't be a bad shout. 

[OCD]

I see Carrick is out of contract at Old Trafford in the summer. He's 34 so no spring chicken but I reckon he's the type to get in on a decent wage and rebuild the team round him.
A lot of you will say he's not going to come to a newly relegated club, but if you don't ask you don't get.

I wouldn't hesitate in getting Carrick if it were a possibility.

[Steve67]

Carrick, Charlie Adam. Two good shouts.

[supertom]

I see Carrick is out of contract at Old Trafford in the summer. He's 34 so no spring chicken but I reckon he's the type to get in on a decent wage and rebuild the team round him.
A lot of you will say he's not going to come to a newly relegated club, but if you don't ask you don't get.

nothing against carrick but the last thing we need is more short termism and players coming to the end of their careers

please see cole, lescott, senderos and richardson

In the right circumstances we need 1-2 this summer. The above were all injury prone and/or well past it. Carrick I think has a couple of good years in him. Gareth Barry would be a great signing if he became surplus at Everton and could be tempted to come back to us. We do need experience but it has to be from players who can still perform too. In the Nolan mould as Newcastle and West Ham did when coming up.

[supertom]

Carrick, Charlie Adam. Two good shouts.

I'm not sure on Adam. He's never struck me as a model pro in terms of fitness (and perhaps workrate) and seems to get injured a lot. He can't run at all.

[old man villa fan]

I see Carrick is out of contract at Old Trafford in the summer. He's 34 so no spring chicken but I reckon he's the type to get in on a decent wage and rebuild the team round him.
A lot of you will say he's not going to come to a newly relegated club, but if you don't ask you don't get.

nothing against carrick but the last thing we need is more short termism and players coming to the end of their careers

please see cole, lescott, senderos and richardson

It all depends on attitude.

[OCD]

I see Carrick is out of contract at Old Trafford in the summer. He's 34 so no spring chicken but I reckon he's the type to get in on a decent wage and rebuild the team round him.
A lot of you will say he's not going to come to a newly relegated club, but if you don't ask you don't get.

nothing against carrick but the last thing we need is more short termism and players coming to the end of their careers

please see cole, lescott, senderos and richardson

In the right circumstances we need 1-2 this summer. The above were all injury prone and/or well past it. Carrick I think has a couple of good years in him. Gareth Barry would be a great signing if he became surplus at Everton and could be tempted to come back to us. We do need experience but it has to be from players who can still perform too. In the Nolan mould as Newcastle and West Ham did when coming up.

There's enough experience in the squad. What we're lacking is leadership, professionalism and desire. Those things should all come under the same umbrella but sadly, as we've seen, they don't.

[supertom]

I see Carrick is out of contract at Old Trafford in the summer. He's 34 so no spring chicken but I reckon he's the type to get in on a decent wage and rebuild the team round him.
A lot of you will say he's not going to come to a newly relegated club, but if you don't ask you don't get.

nothing against carrick but the last thing we need is more short termism and players coming to the end of their careers

please see cole, lescott, senderos and richardson

In the right circumstances we need 1-2 this summer. The above were all injury prone and/or well past it. Carrick I think has a couple of good years in him. Gareth Barry would be a great signing if he became surplus at Everton and could be tempted to come back to us. We do need experience but it has to be from players who can still perform too. In the Nolan mould as Newcastle and West Ham did when coming up.

There's enough experience in the squad. What we're lacking is leadership, professionalism and desire. Those things should all come under the same umbrella but sadly, as we've seen, they don't.

This is what I mean. All our older heads need to go, so we'd still need to sign a couple of decent pros to help what is likely to be a very young squad next season. I think all our 30+ players need to go as indeed do Richards, Sinclair and Gabby.

[OCD]

I thought that's what you meant supertom but thought it was worth clarifying. Getting rid of the dross is going to be the hard bit. If we had the ability to start with a clean slate, I would like the majority of next season's squad to have those character traits with just a few promising kids sprinkled in around them who can learn from the older players.

[luke95]

I see Carrick is out of contract at Old Trafford in the summer. He's 34 so no spring chicken but I reckon he's the type to get in on a decent wage and rebuild the team round him.
A lot of you will say he's not going to come to a newly relegated club, but if you don't ask you don't get.

Not a chance we'd pay his wage demands .

[Walmley_Villa]

I'd like a Darren Fletcher type figure to come in as captain and to be a leader unlike the wankers that are Micah Richards and Jabba the Hut. 

[Des Little]

if Martinez gets the boot at Everton, there may be a chance of going in for Barry and who knows he may want to finish his career getting us back up. We certainly need someone like him pulling the strings.