Summer transfer madness thread

[cdbearsfan]

I dunno if he's crap, but he plays in a position we don't need to strengthen.

Bruce has no idea what he's doing.

[ChicagoLion]

I dunno if he's crap, but he plays in a position we don't need to strengthen.

Bruce has no idea what he's doing.

This is the problem.

[N'ZMAV]

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/aston-villa-transfers-elmohamady-closing-13292789

Really don't understand this one. How many right backs do we have?

I know the guy can play wing back or whatever but he's never struck me as anything more than a bog standard wide player at either level for Hull.

What was the point of signing Bree?

He's a right winger in previous years, which, is strange, as Adomah is decent

[Matt Collins]

Wing back is a pretty specialist position and perhaps Bruce feels he needs a tried and trusted specialist to play that way

[aj2k77]

If we play wing backs we won't get promoted.

[ChicagoLion]

He will sign his son next to play alongside Terry with Almondcrappy wing back.

[SteveN]

Elmohamady if not true is hopefully lazy journalism.  If true then for me it is yet another reason to think that Bruce is clueless and this is lazy managment.  Whatever role he sees this fellow playing he is not significantly better, if at all, than what we have now.

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[jwarry]

Whelan I understand, Hart I understand, but I don't understand Elmohamady so hopefully last journalism as you say

[darren woolley]

I would like it if we sign Hart and Whelan would be good signings for us it would make us stronger for a promotion push that's for sure.

[saunders_heroes]

Scott Carson was only ever overrated, briefly, by Liverpool. Everyone else agreed fairly quickly that he was shite.

He's nowhere near the class of Joe Hart.

Spot on. Carson was a fuckin car crash of a player and I think the whole of the Villa fan base was a nervous wreck everytime the ball went anywhere near him.

[cdbearsfan]

In fairness, he wasn't too bad before he played for England. Nowhere near the laughable valuation of £9 million that Liverpool put on him, though..

He was utter gash after that England game and I was delighted we weren't stupid enough to pursue our interest in him.

[ktvillan]

Carson was poor before and after the England debacle.  Hart reminds me of Carson every time he faces a free kick.

[cdbearsfan]

I thought he was reasonable before the England game... hence why he got called up.

[ChicagoLion]

Carson was fine, then something happens and some Goalkeepers don't  seem to recover see Guzan B.

[paul_e]

Carson was fine, then something happens and some Goalkeepers don't  seem to recover see Guzan B.

Exactly right, if you lose confidence in yourself as a keeper it's really obvious and some of them never really recover.