Summer 2016: Transfer rumours and suggestions

[oldtimernow]

boro fan about Albert

For me it is a no brainer to get rid of AA. Well in some games he has a bit of magic, but more odten he loses the ball way to much and if we didn't have great defenders, he would have cost us a lot of goals. He is arguably an ok championship player at best.
If he ever plays for us again, try to look at the amount of easy balls he fumbles away to the oposition to make a counter....


sounds a bit like Ayew        and they are saying £8 million

or N"Zog ?

[PaulWinch again]

If we've got this money that's being talked about for a forward we should get Rhodes. £15m or so would get him, I reckon. He's barely getting a look in.

It's because he's not very good. He does score goals, but he contributes nothing else. That's why he's not getting a look in.

[sirlordbaltimore]

If we've got this money that's being talked about for a forward we should get Rhodes. £15m or so would get him, I reckon. He's barely getting a look in.

Good grief no

[brontebilly]

With Okore gone and every effort being made to get rid of the Micleon twins, we desperately need another solid CB option. Baker isn't exactly that plus he is made of glass. Doesn't have to be a world beater just a solid experienced option. Newcastle have Clark and Hanley on their bench currently in comparison.

Chambers, Yoshida, James Collins, Geoff Cameron all likely to be available

Guediora at Watford is another one who has done well in the second tier previously, wouldn't be expensive but a decent option in midfield. Mcmanaman has been solid at this level before, Nathan Dyer on loan, definitely need to pad out the squad a bit.

[ozzjim]

Cameron and Dyer of that list would do us good.

[ChicagoLion]

Isn't DM just another in a long line of Villa managers who does not believe in wingers?

[spangley1812]

Isn't DM just another in a long line of Villa managers who does not believe in wingers?

You look through all the leagues and there are only a handful of teams that play with out and out wingers now

[JJ-AV]

If we've got this money that's being talked about for a forward we should get Rhodes. £15m or so would get him, I reckon. He's barely getting a look in.

It's because he's not very good. He does score goals, but he contributes nothing else. That's why he's not getting a look in.

Seems to me he'd be the right fit for us at the minute. We're dominating games for periods but not scoring.

[Monty]

The same players who are missing the chances are the ones instrumental in making those chances. We need someone who can contribute and finish - just get a finisher and all of a sudden you've got a specialist on the pitch for a job you can no longer provide.

[Toronto Villa]

A manager will always point to the fact that we are actually creating chances as being the big positive. It wasn't that long ago we weren't creating any chances at all so that's a step forward. We just need either luck or simply someone who is clinical to complete the moves. I still stand by the notion that if we get a 2-0 lead in games, something that we have more than deserved on a few occasions this season we would kill teams off in those games. We've beaten ourselves his season before the opponent does their bit.

[Villafirst]

Announcement today like Tony mentioned? Hopefully 2 signings?

[Dazvillain]

Announcement today like Tony mentioned? Hopefully 2 signings?

Well I wish he would bloody hurry up I'm sneaking on here every 10 mins as well as news threads and other half getting pissy now as jobs not getting done 😜

[paul_e]

Monty and TV are both on the right track, we need someone who will be involved and can play a bit but who is also going to put chances away.  We're making chances and could easily be near the top of the league with 10-12 more goals to our name with just a little more composure and understanding in the box.

However we can't let scoring become the sole responsibility of the new guy, we need to working on it in training.  For far too long we've wasted chances by not hitting the target, this season, for example, we've averaged 13 shots per game but only 4 on target.  That needs to improve and that is the collective responsibility of the whole team to work on.  I think we should be aiming for half our shots to be on target as a minimum and I'd be making shooting a core part of training until that is the case.

[Toronto Villa]

Shooting can be taught. It's the composure bit that concerns me. If nothing else we need to find ways to get McCormack into key positions because he has a solid record of finding the net.

[Matt Collins]

If it really is c £14m for kodjia I'd much rather we look elsewhere

There must be better deals out there.