Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

[Des Little]

I'm sure Burnley were interested in Westwood

Start the car

[Bottom Right 89]

Im fed up of all the Westwood critics, he's a decent lad just struggles for confidence hopefully a drop down a division and potentially playing in a winning team will see him grow as a player. One of the only ones who looked like he gave a toss last season so for that alone he should keep his place in the new Villa side.

[aj2k77]

And I'm fed up of Westwood being shit.

[pauliewalnuts]

Im fed up of all the Westwood critics, he's a decent lad just struggles for confidence hopefully a drop down a division and potentially playing in a winning team will see him grow as a player. One of the only ones who looked like he gave a toss last season so for that alone he should keep his place in the new Villa side.

I think there are plenty more deserving of stick for the way they behaved than him but "giving a toss" has to stop being enough to get you into our side 

[PeterWithesShin]

I'd just like to say that I think £20m for a 29 year old after one very good top flight season is a bit mental. Not a Villa related transfer I know but just makes me think how crazy things are now, imo.

[Toronto Villa]

It's nuts and now Arsenal have to find a way suit Vardy's strengths. Hodgson is already doing a superb job of proving that picking Vardy isn't enough of you don't play a style that suits him. Good or Leicester for cashing in though but desperate by Arsenal in my opinion.

[Ian.]

20M is not much money for the likes of Arsenal though. I actually think he'll score goals there too.

[cdbearsfan]

£20 million is decent for him. He was one of the top goalscorers overall and one of the star players of a team that has just won the league.

29 is the new 26 anyway, players look after themselves better these days.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Im fed up of all the Westwood critics, he's a decent lad just struggles for confidence hopefully a drop down a division and potentially playing in a winning team will see him grow as a player. One of the only ones who looked like he gave a toss last season so for that alone he should keep his place in the new Villa side.

id give a toss if i was lucky enough to play for our great club

westwood is probably a lovely bloke but he has critics because he is rubbish

[mr underhill]

and to think that this time last year we were being linked to Vardy

[CJ]

Don't think Vardy will fit in at Arsenal at all. He thrived on Leicester playing quick, direct, counter-attacking football where Vardy could find lots of space quickly. Arsenal's propensity is for million pass build ups through the eye of a needle. Should have stayed as big fish in a smaller pond - Leicester have got Chumps League football after all

[chrisw1]

He'll score shitloads.  What's 20m to a club like Arsenal if he helps win them a trophy or two?

I think it's a great buy and I wish him well.  With that said, it's a sad indictment of the modern game that the champions can't keep their team together for one season to have another go and a punt at the Champs league.

[Toronto Villa]

Don't think Vardy will fit in at Arsenal at all. He thrived on Leicester playing quick, direct, counter-attacking football where Vardy could find lots of space quickly. Arsenal's propensity is for million pass build ups through the eye of a needle. Should have stayed as big fish in a smaller pond - Leicester have got Chumps League football after all

I agree. When you look at Walcott or Oxlade Chamberlain, they are only really effective on the break. During Arsenal's regular play the pitch gets squeezed into the final third and they will often try to out pass opponents in order to score. Vardy is good player but for me he was better off staying at Leicester because they will always play to his strengths. And now Vardy has gone Mahrez can't be far behind. Even Kante

[PeterWithesShin]

The posts by Ian and CD are what I mean about how mental it is now, I don't mean that in a bad way about you 2 btw!  But £20m isn't much for Arsenal, and it's a decent price. Both are pretty much true but I think it's a sign of 'modern football' that the 4th highest fee Arsenal have ever paid is now considered not much to them. And it's a decent price for a bloke that in his first season in the top flight scored the same number of goals (despite playing more games) as the crap Rudy Gestede did for us this season. And at 29 has had only one good, admittedly very good!, top flight season in his career.

Admittedly it might just be me that is thinking it's a bit mental.

[Gareth]

Vardy will struggle to get as many goals in that Arsenal side as Giroud has this year, he'll get a few being slipped in behind by Ozil & Wilshire but he won't have the kick and rush that he has thrived upon this yr at Leicester

As for Westwood, not a problem with him staying, big problem if he remains our set piece taker as he is without doubt the worst I can remember