Summer transfer madness thread

[Taylor]

Seems like a poor bit of business to me. Even worse it shows how out of touch Bruce is if this is his idea of an exciting signing to Villa fans.

But as Taylor said. A few good performances and I will happily be singing his praises. Help us actually win something and I will buy his shirt.

A crumb of comfort is I thought Robbie Keane was too old when he came on loan to us but I was well wrong. Hopefully the same here.

Whooooah there fella, I never said I would buy his shirt!!! Maybe if he let me have a go on his yacht.

[PeterWithesShin]

I personally think he has a lot to offer and he'd be the best centre half in the league, along with Chester. He's not going to play every week, but with Baker to supplement, who equally cannot play every week.

He's a winner and a leader who would add to the dressing room. I cannot imagine Terry tolerating a first half like Cardiff, Norwich, Wolves, Brentford and suffering a limp, half arse display.

I don't like him as a human being, but I'll never meet him. He's to add to the squad.

Yes there's a risk, his age is the concern naturally. But take a look at last summer and the flops we picked up. Look at Taylor and the fact he was an apparently an awful player, yet turned out to be bloody excellent.

If it is a mistake then it's one we won't suffer for any length of time.

Alternatively he's a self absorbed wanker that will split the dressing room, is past it even at this level and costs us at least £4m we can't afford to waste.
A one club player at the very end of his career, especially from a (sadly) very successful club, has potential disaster written all over it.

[Ads]

Why would he split the dressing room?

[brian green]

Absolutely right PWS.  Every word.

[boozey182]

Any damn fool can do old time mid Championship football management.

And any damn fool can write off a signing a few weeks before the season starts.

And any damn fool can change their mind about a fundamental belland because of a few clean sheets and a couple of nodded goals from corners.

Ha, ha. You're probably right.

The truth is when I heard that JT was coming to villa, my initial reaction was please no, but seeing as it now looks likely, I'm tying to convince myself that i'ts a risk that may just pay off.

Fair enough, and thanks for taking it in the spirit intended.

I'm normally the same; I try and see the positive side of things. For example when we hired Remi Garde I wrote an impassioned post about how he was going to save us and how our board finally were working through an actual plan...

But this is a deal breaker for me. To make this dickhead one of our highest paid players of all time means that the club is no longer the club I grew up supporting. We're not the good guys any more. I don't like most of the players, the manager and now it seems the board who's values are clearly polar opposite to mine. If this goes through, I'm basically just supporting a colour scheme. The best colour scheme in the world, but I can't justify investing so much energy to get behind it. It turns out, we might just be like every other club; whatever it takes to win. How depressing.

My positivity is solely invested in the fact that there might be enough supporters who detest this guy to try and block the move. Tweet Dr Xia and Wyness. Send an email to the ticket office. It might not change anything, but doing something is better than just waiting to see that monumental shit wearing the shirt.

[Pete3206]

Even at 36, he's better than any defender we have. He's a vile, nasty bugger, but he knows how to lead, knows how to organise and how to win. Split the dressing room? I don't think so.

Thumbs up

[Clampy]

Another thing to consider is if his heart will really be in it. He's played for the same club all his career, has a few medals to show for it and was the main bloke there, well 'Mr Chelsea' as he was fondly known. It'll be a comedown for him wherever he goes. That said, he doesn't need to carry on so why is he? If he's got the hunger for more success, then fair play to him.

[LeeB]

Even at 36, he's better than any defender we have. He's a vile, nasty bugger, but he knows how to lead, knows how to organise and how to win. Split the dressing room? I don't think so.

Thumbs up

Absolutely.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Seems like a poor bit of business to me. Even worse it shows how out of touch Bruce is if this is his idea of an exciting signing to Villa fans.

But as Taylor said. A few good performances and I will happily be singing his praises. Help us actually win something and I will buy his shirt.

A crumb of comfort is I thought Robbie Keane was too old when he came on loan to us but I was well wrong. Hopefully the same here.

Whooooah there fella, I never said I would buy his shirt!!! Maybe if he let me have a go on his yacht.

Well this is awkward. I had you down as holding up the other side of the "John Terry, Aston Villa, Leader, Legend" banner I was having printed up.


I keed I keed
 

[andyh]

Terry is everything that is wrong with modern footballers.
Self serving, bigoted, greedy, disrespectful and obnoxious.
A role model for tossers.

[PeterWithesShin]

Why would he split the dressing room?

Because he's a scumbag. You spent years slagging him off like most of us on here, you think some of our players may not think the same of him?

[PeterWithesShin]

Even at 36, he's better than any defender we have.

We don't really know that though do we, the Terry of a few years ago was, we don't know how the 37 year old version will perform.

[Ads]

Why would he split the dressing room?

Because he's a scumbag. You spent years slagging him off like most of us on here, you think some of our players may not think the same of him?

I slagged him off as he's a massive whopper. I still think he's  a good player and I'd have had the horrible wanker here to supplement the other less horrible, but over indulged wankers already at the club.

I think players will look up to him and he will have a positive influence.

[PeterWithesShin]

He hardly played last season, how do you know he's still a good player? And you don't think some players think he's scumbag, the same as we do?

[ExclDawg]

Why would he split the dressing room?

Because he's a scumbag. You spent years slagging him off like most of us on here, you think some of our players may not think the same of him?

To be fair, most the players already on the team get slagged off, so he'll probably fit right in.