Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

[Morten]

3-4 players out ? I would not be surprised if any of these 10 players left:
Guzan, Richards, Lescott, Bacuna, Gana, Sanchez, Veretout, Sinclair, Kozak or even Agbonlahor.

In fact I would be surprised if 6-7 of these 10 are staying.

[Villafirst]

Not good to have so many changes so close to the start of the season. Look at the numerous changes last summer and what happened then.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Anyone seen the rumour Norwich willing to pay £15m for McCormick to put us off...whatever

[Villa in Denmark]

Anyone seen the rumour Norwich willing to pay £15m for McCormick to put us off...whatever

I'd hope we were never in for him, but at that price.....

Christ that's like bidding £30,000 for a Mondeo to stop the bloke next door getting it instead of a Mercedes C Class

[TB]

Not good to have so many changes so close to the start of the season. Look at the numerous changes last summer and what happened then.

It depends on the changes, surely? Unwanted/unuseable players being shifted out in any number required shouldn't be a problem, as long as the right players are brought in. And as RDM has said that he thinks the squad is too big, there should be less players incoming.

And as for last summer: IMO, 'what happened then' wasn't merely down to the number of changes in the squad, but also the utter failure of the 'manager' in charge at the time (and the rest of his coaching team) to integrate both old and new players into an actual squad as opposed to a number of seemingly haphazardly assembled bits from an undefined number of entirely different jigsaw puzzle sets.

[Mister E]

Not good to have so many changes so close to the start of the season. Look at the numerous changes last summer and what happened then.

We cannot necessarily dictate the timing of player-purchases; it's also down to the selling club and the timing vis-a-vis the transfer window.

[Steve67]

Anyone seen the rumour Norwich willing to pay £15m for McCormick to put us off...whatever

If bringing in that one player stops them from all round strengthening, go for it.

[paul_e]

Not good to have so many changes so close to the start of the season. Look at the numerous changes last summer and what happened then.

It depends on the changes, surely? Unwanted/unuseable players being shifted out in any number required shouldn't be a problem, as long as the right players are brought in. And as RDM has said that he thinks the squad is too big, there should be less players incoming.

And as for last summer: IMO, 'what happened then' wasn't merely down to the number of changes in the squad, but also the utter failure of the 'manager' in charge at the time (and the rest of his coaching team) to integrate both old and new players into an actual squad as opposed to a number of seemingly haphazardly assembled bits from an undefined number of entirely different jigsaw puzzle sets.

Last summer was down to Sherwood not knowing how to do the job.  He wanted to be pals with the squad so didn't force the hard yards and we looked short of fitness for most of the season.  For the same reason he let the players do their own thing and form their own cliques in the squad, so when things weren't going well they blamed the other groups and we had big divisions in the squad.  He didn't know how to provide structure for the club so we had a style and formation ready as our 'go to' whilst the players gelled so not only were they unfamiliar with each other but they were playing in unfamiliar formations and in an ever changing team.

Our squad wasn't great and we would've been down near the bottom regardless but Sherwood's ineptitude is what seperated us from the likes of Norwich, Newcastle and Sunderland.

[PaulWinch again]

Anyone seen the rumour Norwich willing to pay £15m for McCormick to put us off...whatever

Well I bloody hope that would put us off.

[TB]

It depends on the changes, surely? Unwanted/unuseable players being shifted out in any number required shouldn't be a problem, as long as the right players are brought in. And as RDM has said that he thinks the squad is too big, there should be less players incoming.

And as for last summer: IMO, 'what happened then' wasn't merely down to the number of changes in the squad, but also the utter failure of the 'manager' in charge at the time (and the rest of his coaching team) to integrate both old and new players into an actual squad as opposed to a number of seemingly haphazardly assembled bits from an undefined number of entirely different jigsaw puzzle sets.

Last summer was down to Sherwood not knowing how to do the job.  He wanted to be pals with the squad so didn't force the hard yards and we looked short of fitness for most of the season.  For the same reason he let the players do their own thing and form their own cliques in the squad, so when things weren't going well they blamed the other groups and we had big divisions in the squad.  He didn't know how to provide structure for the club so we had a style and formation ready as our 'go to' whilst the players gelled so not only were they unfamiliar with each other but they were playing in unfamiliar formations and in an ever changing team.

Our squad wasn't great and we would've been down near the bottom regardless but Sherwood's ineptitude is what seperated us from the likes of Norwich, Newcastle and Sunderland.

Yes. A club with a defined playing style, developed over years, may change a large portion of the squad, provided that the management team knows what they're doing - thus being able not only to identify and get the right players, but also communicate to them what their role in the team should be.

We had neither.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Indeed. Look at Watford last summer. Changed their manager despite being promoted, shipped in and out a massive number of players but still managed to get the job done and reach the cup semi final.

[TB]

And that's almost the antithesis of Villa over the past decade.
The series of 180 degrees changes has been almost Pythonesque: Ooops. That didn't work, did it? So, now for something completely different...

[Richard E]

Our favourite local radio station reckons Guzan is off to Boro before the end of the week.

[pauliewalnuts]

I can't believe we turned down actual money for Sinclair.

[Pat McMahon]

Our favourite local radio station reckons Guzan is off to Boro before the end of the week.

Scarborough?