Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

[peter w]

He's good enough to keep for the Championship. If we can get better then fair enough but we can't go into the new season with 11 new starters so certain positions and players, need to be maintained for continuity. We're likely to still see Hutton, Clark, maybe Lescott, Westwood, Grealish, possibly even Gabby next season its who we put around them. For example, If we had:

Hart

Hutton
Clark/Lescott
Cahill
Rose

Dier
Westwood
Mahrez
Grealish

Gabby
Kane

last season we'd be unlikely to go down. Its who you fit around players that will important next season not necessarily those that will be left.

[Steve67]

Westwood is one of the reasons we are a championship side. Replace him please. Let him go to a Blackburn or a Rotherham. If we want to get back up in one season, he will not get us there. Even if he did, he won't keep us there!

Can we take the Vardy shit to other football please. Arrogant spiky nosed little runt of a man.

[SoccerHQ]

I agree, Westwood is part of our losing culture here and needs to be moved on sooner rather than later. I'm not holding my breath he's going to be a midfield star in the championship.

Think he's been massively found out without D*lph's energy and athleticism alongside him.

[Dante Lavelli]

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

I hope we soon have a striker that struggles to 24 goals.  I rate Giroud but appear to be in a minority as both arsenal and french fans give him shit.  I see your point though, as teams defend so deep it is hard for the strikers to shine in Arsenal's system, conversely the attacking midfielders making runs from slightly deeper should have a field day.

On a slight tangent, but I think it is poor form of Arsenal to make this bid - and it become public - just before the Euros.

It happened to us, it happened to Everton when they looked like breaking through - the so called big clubs raid when they feel threatened - Vardy will just be the first, Kante & Mahrez will def be targets, wouldn't be surprised if Schmeichel ends up at Old Trafford if De Gea finally goes to Real.

My point on Vardy is that his work rate and chasing of lost causes earnt so many goals, Arse only want to score the perfect goal so he'll be running on a road to nowhere most of the time.

It happened to Southampton as well.

I'm not surprised by the fact that bigger clubs are bidding, it's the timing of it.  Vardy will now be focus of unnecessary media speculation throughout the Euros.

Regardless, I've thought a bit more about it and come to the conclusion that it is not in the interest of either Arsenal or Leicester to leak the bid so the news can only have come from Vardy - in which case he is a dick.

[AGRIPPA]

What can Westwood do in he Championship that he couldn't do in the Premiership?

He is a poor footballer, better than me ...but that's not hard.

[tomd2103]

Westwood is not the all around midfielder as he is too lightweight but thst doesn't mean he can't be an asset. He is definitely not a defensive player so should be played a bit further forward to make better use if his passing ability which is something successive managers have failed to do.

Not quick enough in the head to play further forward.

He'd be fine on the right side of a middle two in a 4-4-2 or on the right side of the diamond with over-lapping full-backs.

Have to disagree with that.  Nowhere near mobile or physical enough to play in a two at a decent standard.  Always second to the breaking ball and easily beaten in challenges.  He can only really play abs the holding player in a three, but as someone else said, we need better.

[passitsideways]

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

I hope we soon have a striker that struggles to 24 goals.  I rate Giroud but appear to be in a minority as both arsenal and french fans give him shit.  I see your point though, as teams defend so deep it is hard for the strikers to shine in Arsenal's system, conversely the attacking midfielders making runs from slightly deeper should have a field day.

On a slight tangent, but I think it is poor form of Arsenal to make this bid - and it become public - just before the Euros.

It happened to us, it happened to Everton when they looked like breaking through - the so called big clubs raid when they feel threatened - Vardy will just be the first, Kante & Mahrez will def be targets, wouldn't be surprised if Schmeichel ends up at Old Trafford if De Gea finally goes to Real.

My point on Vardy is that his work rate and chasing of lost causes earnt so many goals, Arse only want to score the perfect goal so he'll be running on a road to nowhere most of the time.

That same work rate and movement will help open up space for their other players though, and Ozil's not the sort of player who'll hold back if there's a decisive pass to be made. Plus, Arsenal actually play a fair bit on the counter away from home, so it's not like Vardy will be facing packed defenses week after week. 20 million for a club like Arsenal is a bucket of piss anyway, and he'll give them a dimension they don't currently have.

[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.

How many games does he need to get confident? Im sure he is a great bloke but he is a average footballer. Oh and he does point a lot and delivers terrible corners

Agree 100% with you.  Westwood plays in a position where he has to be involved in the game all of the time but he goes missing.  He is too weak for this position and does not have the pace to play further forward or wide.  His energy levels are very low.

I've very much been a critic of Westwood, and I'm truly sick of his wafty floaty corners after this season, but I still have a sneaking feeling that there could still be a half decent player there somewhere.

With some proper coaching, and a decent leader on the pitch alongside him (someone like Petrov) and I think he could still be of use. I may be clutching at straws, and my opinions have softened two weeks into the close season, but there are players more deserving of a shove through exit doors than Ashley.

its always jam tomorrow

westwood has had four seasons and if anything he's regressed

we make excuses, blame coaches, whatever the fact is we have too many players who are not up to the job and the longer we keep them at the club the longer we are going to be in decline

[Clampy]

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.

Mickey Quinn on Talksport has just asked a journalist if other clubs could outbid arsenal now they've matched the clause.

[Nastylee]

Start a bidding war.

[Steve67]

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.

Mickey Quinn on Talksport has just asked a journalist if other clubs could outbid arsenal now they've matched the clause.

Not the brightest is he? Can't stand him, illiterate bloke. If Talk Sport got rid of him and Brazil it would be worth listening too, although Cundy is a cock as well.

[VILLA MOLE]

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.

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.

Mickey Quinn on Talksport has just asked a journalist if other clubs could outbid arsenal now they've matched the clause.

Not the brightest is he? Can't stand him, illiterate bloke. If Talk Sport got rid of him and Brazil it would be worth listening too, although Cundy is a cock as well.

Mickey Quinn on Talksport has just asked a journalist if other clubs could outbid arsenal now they've matched the clause.

Not the brightest is he? Can't stand him, illiterate bloke. If Talk Sport got rid of him and Brazil it would be worth listening too, although Cundy is a cock as well.

Other than that ......  I really dont know how they get the work ? !!

[Clampy]

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.

Mickey Quinn on Talksport has just asked a journalist if other clubs could outbid arsenal now they've matched the clause.

Not the brightest is he? Can't stand him, illiterate bloke. If Talk Sport got rid of him and Brazil it would be worth listening too, although Cundy is a cock as well.

I don't mind Jason Cundy that much. I can't listen to Alan Brazil though, he's bloody awful.

[Dave P]

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.

Mickey Quinn on Talksport has just asked a journalist if other clubs could outbid arsenal now they've matched the clause.

Not the brightest is he? Can't stand him, illiterate bloke. If Talk Sport got rid of him and Brazil it would be worth listening too, although Cundy is a cock as well.

Fully agree. And as for the fucking Moose!!

[OCD]

Not liked Quinn ever since he scored a hat-trick against us and revelled in it because it was us. Even back then I thought there was no place in the game for a fat fuck who didn't have the professionalism to look after himself.