Summer transfer madness thread

[brian green]

After all the dressing room upheaval and in fighting of the last few years, introducing a deeply  provocative player like Terry would be a very big risk.  I can't see an articulate black French speaking player like Kodjia welcoming John Terry with open arms.

[PeterWithe]

After all the dressing room upheaval and in fighting of the last few years, introducing a deeply  provocative player like Terry would be a very big risk.  I can't see an articulate black French speaking player like Kodjia welcoming John Terry with open arms.

Few of the Chelsea players seemed to care he was in the same dressing room?

I'm not bothered either way, on a pay as you play deal I'm sure he'd do ok for us but if he's after a mega bucks deal I'd prefer he went down the road and helped bankrupt them.

[Gregorys Boy]

Don't want Terry anywhere near our club, besides he only has two good seasons left in him at the most.  Don't think we need to touch the defence anyway. 

[peter w]

We definitely do need to touch the defence and to be fair I'd expect bruce and Calderwood to be able to observe a centre defender and assess his suitability to the season ahead.

[Malandro]

Don't want Terry anywhere near our club, besides he only has two good seasons left in him at the most.  Don't think we need to touch the defence anyway. 

If he's got two years left he'll be a great signing. He's still a twat.

[brian green]

A racist bigoted twat.

[mr underhill]

and that's on a good day

[Gregorys Boy]

Don't want Terry anywhere near our club, besides he only has two good seasons left in him at the most.  Don't think we need to touch the defence anyway. 

If he's got two years left he'll be a great signing. He's still a twat.

Well that's the thing.  I just think we need to take a moral stand on this one.  And I stand by what I said I think the defence is our strongest area right now.  Chester was a great signging and towards the end of last season the defence started to gel and I think the keeper is looking good on the whole too.  I think we need another striker to take the heat off Kodja, and a bit more meat in midfield. 

[ChicagoLion]

I think we need to get rid of the twats that are still on the payroll and not sign another one.

[RussellC]

On a non-John Terry related subject, there are growing links with Joe Ledley. I think he'd be an ideal signing. Younger than Glenn Whelan (and free), plays with Taylor and Chester in the Wales set-up and has played alongside Jedinak for Palace. Can play in the holding role or further forward, and would generally represent an upgrade on most of our midfield.

[peter w]

Kodjia's a difficult one because as much as we'd like to keep him he doesn't help the team shape. So we need to find a way of getting him and Hogan working better together. If kodjia is to play up top by himself, then we need a 4-5-1/4-3-3 with either the wide players or the number 10 as Paul lambert liked to call them, getting into the box as soon as he receives the ball in a wide area. Then one of the midfielders makes the decoy run into the channels on his side of the pitch to drag defenders away opening up space for the shot or the pass/cross into the box. We need runners to do that and last season we didn't have them. Possibly Green is one of them, but we need better than Albert on the right.

If we aren't going into the season with that as the planned system then we have to go 4.4.2 with Hogan up top and Kodjia in a free Henry floating role. Then we need deeper wide players who can go up and get back. But that needs pace or the ability to hit a pass to feet to the centre forward allowing runners to get involved.. Again, I don't think that's Albert. I think we have the personal minus just 1 or 2. What we didn't seem to have last season was much of a system.

[Gareth]

If Terry signs then I'm fine with that as he will short term improve that defence which needs another pickable centre half as an option as Elphick & Richards are not up to the task. 

Equally if Terry doesn't sign I won't be gutted as I think there are other options for that position that would also improve the side.

It shows it wouldn't be the marquee signing the club obviously think it would be, it would be if anything a bit dull, kind of supporting the theory that Bruce would want to buy a finished team rather than try and find the Aaron Mooy / Ryan Woods of this league.

Personally my choice for centre back once we have generated a few quid in sales would be Tom Lees from Sheff Wed - would be very happy with Chester / Lees / Baker as first three with Jedinak & Toner or Suliman as back up options.

[Gareth]

Another rumour that would build on the theory that Bruce only wants what he knows not trying to find the next generation.

Aston Villa are close to landing Hull right back Ahmed Elmohamady in a £3m switch.

[Matt Collins]

We definitely need to improve at centre back it's only good enough against lower half teams

I just don't like Terry and don't want to see him in a villa shirt

[Dave]

Another rumour that would build on the theory that Bruce only wants what he knows not trying to find the next generation.

Aston Villa are close to landing Hull right back Ahmed Elmohamady in a £3m switch.

 I guess that with only Hutton, Bree, De Laet and Bacuna we are looking a bit light there.