Summer transfer madness thread

[cdbearsfan]

Wednesday fan on another forum I post on reckons that Hot Lips hasn't settled in West Mids and might end up at Hillsborough.

No idea how true it is.

[Dave]

Wednesday fan on another forum I post on reckons that Hot Lips hasn't settled in West Mids and might end up at Hillsborough.

No idea how true it is.

Not saying that it's not true, but it's not like he's Yorkshire born-and-bred and is pining for his family home and his school friends.

He spent three seemingly contented years in Plymouth, having grown up in Ireland surely six months away from Barnsley isn't going to have him crying into his lamb chops (couldn't think of anything else with Barnsley in the name).

[cdbearsfan]

No idea. Maybe his partner is from there?

[KevinGage]

I'm concerned by how badly this FFP issue might impact us. If nothing else needing to sell to buy delays us against our competition.

How definite is the points deduction aspect to it?  Is it entirely arbitrary or set in stone?

I have only heard Dr Xia mention it, which -with my cynical nature- suggests it is a convenient excuse for someone who has already got bored of his new toy and wants to make films in America or rest up for a bit after his recent health scare.

I full expected some belt tightening if we hadn't made it back after two years, but one year in exceeded even my gloomy  forecast.

That's not to say we shouldn't be moving players on. I'll be quite happy if we see 10-12 go out and only 3-4 come in. But delaying our business until players are off the books is folly.  If the desire was really there to make Aston Villa one of the top 3 teams in world football (his words) a minor obstacle like FFP can be navigated.

Didn't Citeh cut some ludicrous sponsorship deal to get around it a few years back? Their mistake was it was essentially one arm of Sheikh Mansour's business enterprise paying the other, so it was pretty obvious (and might have even been blocked?).

But Xia being the mover and shaker he is could shirley find 3/4 businesses in China that he has regular dealings with (yet doesn't own) to help out with some inflated stand sponsorship deal or similar nonsense. £8-10 million a pop for the Witton, Trinity and Herbert stands and a similar figure for the shirt sponsorship. Piece of piss.

[eamonn]

Christ, Sunderland have received more "prize"/TV money for the season just gone than Leicester did for winning the league last season. We got £40m in parachute payments.

[kippaxvilla2]

Interesting set of tweets here....


joseph tyler @josephtyler22
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11h

Henry Cowans and Ricardo Calder are the next young players to leave Villa with mass youth development over the summer to take place. #avfc


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joseph tyler @josephtyler22
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11h

Agbonlahor, Richards and Mark Bunn seem to be the names circling around at the moment. Unclear how board will act. Stay tuned #avfc


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joseph tyler @josephtyler22
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23h

Unsure. Quite possibly he's involved won't know until morning. Stay tuned peeps #avfc

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joseph tyler @josephtyler22
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31 May

I'll find out details of who excatly caused these disruptions - major action could take place. Not what Villa need going into next season.

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joseph tyler @josephtyler22
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31 May

Long discussions have been taking place of futures regarding many players at Villa. Disagreements appear to have upset board big time. #AVFC

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joseph tyler @josephtyler22
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31 May

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joseph tyler @josephtyler22
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31 May

Been a dispute over at Aston Villa today. I'll update on the story later tonight. Controversial movement. #AVFC

[kippaxvilla2]

This guy is an agent.

[pauliewalnuts]

This guy is an agent.

"Part time model and football league agent based in Leicestershire" with 48 followers?

Let's be honest, his cred is somewhat questionable, isn't it?

[kippaxvilla2]

Never looked at that much detail to be fair.  Not saying its fact.  Just interesting.

[PaulWinch again]

Got to say that seems a stream of messages saying very little.

[atomicjam]

This guy is an agent.

"Part time model and football league agent based in Leicestershire" with 48 followers?

Let's be honest, his cred is somewhat questionable, isn't it?

A quick google of that name comes up with Tyler Joseph of a band called 21 Pilots- the picture on the twitter account is of this musician also. So its football agent, part time model and musician.

[adrenachrome]

This guy is an agent.

"Part time model and football league agent based in Leicestershire" with 48 followers?

Let's be honest, his cred is somewhat questionable, isn't it?

A quick google of that name comes up with Tyler Joseph of a band called 21 Pilots- the picture on the twitter account is of this musician also. So its football agent, part time model and musician.

Is there no beginning to his talents?

To be fair, he spans the genres, like Harvey Moon.

[passitsideways]

Wednesday fan on another forum I post on reckons that Hot Lips hasn't settled in West Mids and might end up at Hillsborough.

No idea how true it is.

They were in for him in January, Wednesday fans were proper mad on Twitter that he chose us over them (money, I'm guessing), so I'm happy to assume it's a talking complete shit thing at this point.

[eamonn]

Wednesday are stuck in this league at least for another year and we both start on zero points in August, so run along and be happy you nipped in to get your new hero Jordan Rhodes ahead of us.

[Gareth]

Wednesday fan on another forum I post on reckons that Hot Lips hasn't settled in West Mids and might end up at Hillsborough.

No idea how true it is.

They were in for him in January, Wednesday fans were proper mad on Twitter that he chose us over them (money, I'm guessing), so I'm happy to assume it's a talking complete shit thing at this point.

Straight swap for Tom Lees & id consider it but in the real world hope Hourihane grows into the club as there is obv ability there but he looked a bit overawed so far