Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

[Rudy65]

Not bothered by him leaving at all. I just can't justify keeping a central defender that hasn't improved in years and consistently makes costly mistakes at the most inopportune times. I feel like the standard picture for an Aston Villa article is either he or baker with their face in their hands, slumped over.

He was one of the few constants in these last five years of misery. I think he might do okay at Newcastle, but I know he will never get any better here. He's a hollow leader.

Hopefully we can get rid of a few other duds.

Agree. But we need to replace him with something better. He is a marginally better Liam Ridgewell

[ozzjim]

Clark is gash but we need to start focusing on the incomings pretty fucking quick.

Exactly. And there need to be a few!

Keep saying it but looking at the players that do really well in this league, you need pace, and we are slower than half dead fucking donkey. Short of Grealsh there is no creativity and there are no goals in the midfield.

[sickbeggar]

Clark is gash but we need to start focusing on the incomings pretty fucking quick.

Exactly. And there need to be a few!

Keep saying it but looking at the players that do really well in this league, you need pace, and we are slower than half dead fucking donkey. Short of Grealsh there is no creativity and there are no goals in the midfield.

yep. really can't see see us being higher than 10th-6th with the current squad

[UK Redsox]

Drop the dead donkey

[adrenachrome]

Elphick and Okore are very right footed, so Baker will be our first choice at the left birth. I think I was in a distinct minority when I argued that I would keep Baker, so I am a little suprised at the reaction to Clark's possible departure unless Kevin Toner is ready to step up.

[ozzjim]

Drop the dead donkey

The old boy in that moved faster for a bit of action than most of the villa team for the ball.

[Tony Erdington]

Sorry where's this being reported?

A couple of different NE based journos on Twitter. Looks reasonably kosher.

Good, I'm genuinely getting excited about the prospect of moving the imbecile on. And for £5m. And to Newcastle. I haven't felt this good about a departure since we infested the Albion squad with Ridgewell.

We sold Ridgewell to SHA, where he played for 4 years before being sold to the Stripeyfilth.

you know that's whats missing in our team , we need more players with serious fuck off hair cuts, ridgewell had a right jelly mould on his head.

[London Villan]

I couldn't care less about a single one of them leaving, but we need to sign players and sharpish. We are likely to start with 8 of the jokers that got us relegated.

[ozzjim]

There is of course the possibility that Lescott and Elphick might end up being a solid pair at the back.

[Tony Erdington]

I wouldn't employ lescott as a ball boy

[pauliewalnuts]

I couldn't care less about a single one of them leaving, but we need to sign players and sharpish. We are likely to start with 8 of the jokers that got us relegated.

This is it.

Here we are, a few days from the start of the season, and we're looking at starting with dross of the type of Westwood, Bacuna, Cissokho, and our goalscoring options are Ayew, Gestede, Kozak and Fat Gabby.

I don't think there were many of us at the end of last season who'd have wanted to see that happen.

[PaulWinch again]

We do need four or five quality players in. Hopefully the likes of Gana, Clark and Guzan going will help facilitate that.

[sickbeggar]

I couldn't care less about a single one of them leaving, but we need to sign players and sharpish. We are likely to start with 8 of the jokers that got us relegated.

aye, but SGT had the same and we got back up.  The key is the right players being bought and intigrating into the existing players and i'm not sure we've had much of that yet

[manic-road]

So a possible £5m for Clark, that would be good business for us as I don't think he has progressed at all in the past few seasons and looked garbage at times in the Euro's as well as for the Villa. I just hope the players we bring in are big upgrades on what we have at the moment.

[footyskillz]

Mo mo Diame would be ace at 4.5 should offer as he will add drive and goals to midfield.  My understanding of release clauses means that a club can speak to player and his representatives if a bid matches at the price of releases clauses. I categorically can say that it doesn't not mean a player moves to the bidding club it just means a club can't reject the bid. Instance of 4.5 million release clause then villa should offer. Similarly I think Clark won't be intetrested on Newcastle as Robbie recently said he's a villa boy maybe pre empting Newcastle bid- partly done to unsettle us. Villa will be up there end of season and I see Newcastle the ones imploding personally and I'll start with they lose to Fulham on Friday !