Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

[JUAN PABLO]

im not getting excited until he stretchs that claret and blue shirt and not ours

if we keep players like Westwood , we will never get out of this league , thats why we are in it .

if true the lieks of Jedinek and Ledley might be coming and Chester with pointy going Burnley I will be over the moon as it looks like Hutton can do one too with De Laet coming maybe.

a striker and maybe i can start to enjoy Saturday afternoons again but its seems the managers and board know what and who are the problems .

[Dave]

Imagine hearing you are breaking your transfer record, the excitement and anticipation and then finding out you'd bought Ashley Westwood.

Gray cost them around £9m, so I'd be surprised if we're holding out for that much.

£6m according to wiki

£6.25m rising to £9.75m according to Brentford - and I reckon it's a pretty safe bet that those extras are going to be linked to things like promotion and scoring lots of goals.

[JUAN PABLO]

[john e]

He's not the worse villa player ever, massively ott.

It's just an opinion, mate.

I think midfield is the most important area of a football team. For years it's been our weak point, and for years we've struggled as a team. And sadly, for years, Westwood has been a mainstay in it.

He offers nothing of note. He isn't strong or quick, doesn't tackle properly, doesn't beat a man. He can barely pass a ball decisively. He has no personality on the pitch, shows no passion, either. I groan every time I see him named in the team. If he's sold, it'll be something to celebrate.

I stand by my point. But that's all it is.

fair enough it's your opinion and I don't know your age,
 but I'm old and could probably name 50-100 players before I got anywhere near to Westwood

[ADVILLAFAN]

Westwood the worst EVER player you've seen at villa???!

Leonhardsen, bakke, gudjonsson, djemba djemba

Gary Gardner is worse as well

Mark Kinsella

Although Kinsella like Westwood, was a good pointer

[ClaretAndBlueBlood]

He's not the worse villa player ever, massively ott.

It's just an opinion, mate.

I think midfield is the most important area of a football team. For years it's been our weak point, and for years we've struggled as a team. And sadly, for years, Westwood has been a mainstay in it.

He offers nothing of note. He isn't strong or quick, doesn't tackle properly, doesn't beat a man. He can barely pass a ball decisively. He has no personality on the pitch, shows no passion, either. I groan every time I see him named in the team. If he's sold, it'll be something to celebrate.

I stand by my point. But that's all it is.

fair enough it's your opinion and I don't know your age,
 but I'm old and could probably name 50-100 players before I got anywhere near to Westwood

he's not even the worst player last season

[SoccerHQ]

He's just mediocre though.

I really can't see us going on a 5-6 match winning spree with Ashley Westwood as a midfield lynchpin.

Too lightweight without pace alongside him, D*lph leaving and he started getting found out again.

I said before I was amazed earlier this summer when Burnley were rumoured we were rejecting decent bids for him.

It's a good way of balancing the books, selling squad players for decent money. Spurs have been experts at it for years.

[PeterWithe]

He's the type of player that managers rate more than fans, he keeps the ball moving, is always available for a pass and holds his position. The biggest downfall is his tendency to switch off and not pick up runners behind him or to pick them up but lack the physical strength to impede or slow their run.

I thought he was one of the better players against Weds but I take the point that a lot of them are just infected with the losing mentality.

[Malandro]

He's just mediocre though.

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Mediocre? I fail to see why people rate him so highly.

[Percy McCarthy]

He's the type of player that managers rate more than fans, he keeps the ball moving, is always available for a pass and holds his position. The biggest downfall is his tendency to switch off and not pick up runners behind him or to pick them up but lack the physical strength to impede or slow their run.

I thought he was one of the better players against Weds but I take the point that a lot of them are just infected with the losing mentality.

That first sentence is why he plays. We're so bad, he gets in because he's just about functional. Some of our players aren't even that.

[oldtimernow]

I will be very sad to see CB turn up at the Bitters.

At the end of a traumatic week wouldn't it be nice to enter, may I suggest, a bidding war just to up their price for him?

[Virgil Caine]

The problem with Westwood is that his confidence to play the quick, decisive pass has been completely shot. I know that we tend to criticise our forwards for a lack of movement but I had noticed that on numerous occasions a forward (Ayew for eg) would make a run into the channel but Westwood would play the safe, percentage (sideways or backwards) ball instead. In addition he was never going to be the midfielder who who bust a gut to make a run into the penalty box and I hope that we can find someone who can score 10-15 goals from midfield as that is what we are lacking, as much as a decent right full back, dominant centre half, creative midfielder, defensive midfielder and a centre forward who can hold the ball up. Plenty of shopping to be done but it looks as though the activity has started.

[JUAN PABLO]

if we let pointy go , do you think we will hold onto Veretout?

[SoccerHQ]

if we let pointy go , do you think we will hold onto Veretout?

Veretout dosen't want to be here.

[Percy McCarthy]

RDM has actually said we're interested in Jedinak now. Hope we get him.