Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

[old man villa fan]

I do think Westwood is made the scapegoat for our woes. He played alright in the second half the other day. He's not brilliant, but he's nowhere near as poor as he's made out to be.

In the position he plays, he goes missing too much.  Further up the field he can get away with it.  I do think people say he is ok because they are thinking about when he has the ball but study him when he does not have the ball.

[sid1964]

In the Championship you need  battlers, players who are prepared to get stuck in, a bit like Barton did for Burnley last season

Jedinak - to be honest never really noticed him, but it would appear as though he is the fans choice to do the battling role in midfield, so I bow to other people's knowledge of him

[Clark W Griswold]

In the Championship you need  battlers, players who are prepared to get stuck in, a bit like Barton did for Burnley last season

Jedinak - to be honest never really noticed him, but it would appear as though he is the fans choice to do the battling role in midfield, so I bow to other people's knowledge of him

You've never really noticed that beard?

[Dazvillain]

Press reporting Sunderland signing McNair from manure, quite fancied him coming to villa

[Clark W Griswold]

This rumour of a new midfielder coming in that will "excite" fans is very intriguing...will it be a young battling Championship level midfielder, or an experienced Premier League player...may be a current or former international player. Hopefully we'll get a couple of decent and experienced new players that can hit the ground running in midfield soon.

Joey Barton and Carlton Palmer

[PaulWinch again]

I do think Westwood is made the scapegoat for our woes. He played alright in the second half the other day. He's not brilliant, but he's nowhere near as poor as he's made out to be.

In the position he plays, he goes missing too much.  Further up the field he can get away with it.  I do think people say he is ok because they are thinking about when he has the ball but study him when he does not have the ball.

Then maybe he's not being played in the right position. His use of the ball on Sunday was decent.

[Tayls_7]

I do think Westwood is made the scapegoat for our woes. He played alright in the second half the other day. He's not brilliant, but he's nowhere near as poor as he's made out to be.

In the position he plays, he goes missing too much.  Further up the field he can get away with it.  I do think people say he is ok because they are thinking about when he has the ball but study him when he does not have the ball.

I know what Westwood's best position is.

Then maybe he's not being played in the right position. His use of the ball on Sunday was decent.

[ADVILLAFAN]

My impressions of Ledley when he played against us for Palace, is that he's a cheat (diving, moaning to try and get others booked, etc). We could do with more cheats in the side.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Joe Ledley? Any good? Underwhelming or a good potential signing? I don't know a great deal about him.

Certainly good enough for where we find ourselves.  Left footed as well, so would give the midfield a better balance.

As the Welsh sing:

AIN'T NOBODY
LIKE JOE LEDLEY
MAKES ME HAPPY
MAKES ME FEEL THIS WAY

Chaka Khan!

Alternatively, this could be adapted.. or not.

[passitsideways]

I do think Westwood is made the scapegoat for our woes. He played alright in the second half the other day. He's not brilliant, but he's nowhere near as poor as he's made out to be.

In the position he plays, he goes missing too much.  Further up the field he can get away with it.  I do think people say he is ok because they are thinking about when he has the ball but study him when he does not have the ball.

Then maybe he's not being played in the right position. His use of the ball on Sunday was decent.

I don't think it's necessarily an issue of physical position on the pitch, but rather his level of importance to the side. People wouldn't criticise him if his role in the side was to play second or third fiddle to a more influential midfielder. Instead, he's been required basically forever to be our midfield playmaker, and to get forward and score some goals as well, and he's simply not up to those tasks.

I mean, on Sunday, he turned in a decent enough performance: won the ball quite a few times, tidy as usual with his passing, and got into some good positions (and could have scored a belter). If that had only been the third-best performance by one of our midfielders, we would be very happy with it; but instead, there wasn't much else happening for us in the middle of the park.

[in exile]

Given the choice I'd take Ledley

[Phil from the upper holte]

Given the choice I'd take Ledley

Given the chance i'd take both

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Shame about Hernandez. There's still 3 weeks left so possibly things could get sorted out at Hull.

[Ads]

I'd prefer somebody more mobile. Hernandez looks good in the box, but I think we'd benefit between somebody with pace who is capable of pulling defenders wide too.

[in exile]

How about Forestieri?
Derby have put a bid of £7m in for him (according to SKY sources)