Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

[Clampy]

So in one post you say the signings are underwhelming and then the next your happy with them.

Make your bloody mind up.

The AMOUNT of business.  Not the business.

What would have been the point of him signing 5 or 6 players straight away without looking at the players he's already got first?

[brian green]

Only a fool would plunge into the transfer market without having deep cleaned the dressing room.  Having poor players was not the main reason we finished bottom with less than half the points of the team above us.  The open warfare spilling out of the dressing room made us beyond bad.  RDM, Clarke and Bond don't just need shirt fillers they need committed players of sound character and they don't grow on trees.

[Villafirst]

RDM dragging his feet over a new striker. 2 weeks to go smacks of poor preparation. Are the promised funds really there??

[Clampy]

RDM dragging his feet over a new striker. 2 weeks to go smacks of poor preparation. Are the promised funds really there??

You making out as if we haven't spent any money at all and you're being ridiculous.

[Steve67]

RDM dragging his feet over a new striker. 2 weeks to go smacks of poor preparation. Are the promised funds really there??

Maybe he is sizing up the market? Perhaps waiting for business to be done elsewhere so we can pick the bones of another club who may have surplus stock. We are promised a striker, or two. I am the world's most impatient Villa fan and want things to happen every day in the ins and outs column, but this is all rather exciting. I trust this manager, he has a point to prove, takes no shit and will get us up. At the moment we have probably three quarters of a team, he will build the rest over the next five weeks.

[Mister E]

The window closes at the end of August, so do not expect all our transfer activity to be done before the season starts.

[Dante Lavelli]

To be fair, some of the remaining pieces of the puzzle could also be bought in January, once we've seen what Gardner/Traore and players of that ilk can do.  I'd prefer to build in a way, i.e. planned and sustainable, that doesn't prevent us from buying in the future both financially and because the squad is too bloated.

[Ads]

I'd like to see a striker in before the Wednesday game and a few more leave. I think we're a dynamic central player light too.

Plenty of time between  now and the windows end. I think RDM has done a good job of ideas identifying what we need in a short space of time.

[Ads]

RDM dragging his feet over a new striker. 2 weeks to go smacks of poor preparation. Are the promised funds really there??

As of last week we'd spent more gross than anybody else in the league. That may not have changed either.

[Dante Lavelli]

Plenty of time between  now and the windows end. I think RDM has done a good job of ideas identifying what we need in a short space of time.

He's also identified players that practically no one had a clue about 3 months ago.  This suggests that they're all known to him (and Clarke) and were lined up ready for the right club (or he has a very very random approach).

[Ads]

He's added leadership to the dressing room and an organising presence to the back line which on paper, looks fine to me; Amavi, Elphick, Okore, Hutton.

Guzan has lost the number 1 spot and he's brought in size and legs into the central midfield. The kid can obviously play a bit too.

Crespo (who?) has gone, the ineffectual Gil too (Ravel Morrison coming in?!) and it seems a genuine possibility that Richards may follow and for an actual fee too! We are going to turn a profit on the crisp packet wafting around the pitch known as Scott Sinclair. Another none contributor Veretout is off.

Not bad in 8 weeks and clearly there is more to come in and more to go.

[avfcpg]

We can't fix the mess we got into over the last 6 years over a few months, its' too deep.
New owner, new board, new manager, new coaches, some players gone, some players in...i'd say it's been more than good so far. 

[peter w]

I agree. It may be that we need to stabilise this season - how many seasons have we said that now? - before pushing on the season after. lokk for a solid platform to spring from. That could take a couple of seasons at best.

[Dave]

RDM dragging his feet over a new striker. 2 weeks to go smacks of poor preparation. Are the promised funds really there??

As of last week we'd spent more gross than anybody else in the league. That may not have changed either.

Net. Newcastle are comfortably on more than us gross.

[peter w]

Its easy to forget because we're Villa fans that the type of forward that we can attract is not what we previously envisaged. The likes of Morrison (who is more suited to that lot at the Vomitorium), McCormack, the Bristol City kid is where we are. Other than that it'd be a Premier League forward on his way down. All those will have more than one team vying for his signature so that slows down the process. Plus selling clubs are likely to be wanting to organise replacements before selling key assets. At this time of the season selling players is like buying a house in that you can be involved in a chain.