Summer transfer madness thread

[London Villan]

Well he has only been here 6 months... the penny will drop eventually...

[tomd2103]

If we played with an intelligent, strong centre forward, being physical and holding up the ball or knocking it down to Hogan or mccormack then long ball would be fine with me. Launching 50 yard passes to a 5'9" striker is nonsense.

I cannot for the life of me fathom why Bruce uses this as his main tactic. It's baffling.

To be fair to him, he has modified it a bit this season.  The 50 yard balls are now launched in the direction of Elmohamady. It usually works the first couple of times, until the opposition realise every ball is going there and just put someone in front of him to win every ball.  Doesn't stop us doing it though.

[ozzjim]

So we are faced with a decision. Give Bruce 10 million now to address the centre forward, left back and left wing deficiency, or pot him and give it to someone else in the last week.

[aj2k77]

He's already spent £14m ish on a left back and centre forward. Outlandish amount for a Championship club, the pot is empty.

He shouldn't be given any more money. He should be sacked.

[Des Little]

Bruce won't be given a penny more, I think that is a certainty. And rightly so.

[godzvilla]

Possibly Bruce thought they could muddle through without Kodjia, assuming he would be almost ready by now, well , we all know about assuming too much.
In fairness, we lost Jack.G. and despite the pre season hype ( BS!) McCormack's much vaunted ' re-birth' has'nt happened, now it looks like Elmohamedy will be out for a few games having just had surgery on his mouth. What's up with Ritchie De Laet, is anybody's guess.
On the plus side , Andre Green has only a short term injury, &  Jedi should be back in a couple of weeks. Gardner could be on his way and Bacuna is almost gone. With all those players gone or  going , there must be some money in the pot, FFP Rules, notwithstanding.
In praising Alan Shearer last week  , Bruce said "hopefully by the end of the transfer window we’ll have something like that up-front for ourselves,” hopefully he means a loan move for  Sam Gallager from Southampton.....hopefully not a move for Jordan Rhodes!, as always, we live in hope !................Godzvilla!

[mr underhill]

pointless Bruce bringing in anyone else, he's proved beyond doubt he can't get a tune out of the players he's already bought.

[Matt C]

If we played with an intelligent, strong centre forward, being physical and holding up the ball or knocking it down to Hogan or mccormack then long ball would be fine with me. Launching 50 yard passes to a 5'9" striker is nonsense.

Exactly this! I sound like a broken record on this but we signed Hogan on the back of him banging in goals for Brentford via good midfield build up play, we fucking wack the ball upto him and wonder why he looks shit.

We even signed better midfielder players to create such play and yet still hoof.

[footyskillz]

Tom Lawerenson leaving Leicester to Derby 7million now villa should go for this guy . Looks dynamic at this level and can provide some energy and goals . Good move for derby but hoped villa would be interested in him

[RussellC]

For all of the tinkering that's gone on this summer, the squad still looks horribly unbalanced to me. 3 right-backs and one left-back. Absolutely no cover for James Chester. No striker who can play with his back to goal.

I know we've got key players to come back from injury, but we're still 1 or 2 injuries away from a crisis. I honestly don't know what we'd do if Taylor or Chester got injured.

There was some talk on Twitter this morning of Shane Long being available from Southampton. I'd be going all out to get him if I was Bruce. Has absolutely everything that we need up front.

[aj2k77]

Shane Long will be going for £10m+ I reckon in these days of crazy, crazy prices. Way out of our price range. Bruce, if he survives this week will be looking for loans I think.

Xia has spent £30m+ on Strikers.

[tomd2103]

Shane Long will be going for £10m+ I reckon in these days of crazy, crazy prices. Way out of our price range. Bruce, if he survives this week will be looking for loans I think.

Xia has spent £30m+ on Strikers.

Exactly the player we need, but I think he would have takers in the top flight. 

[garyshawsknee]

Tom Lawerenson leaving Leicester to Derby 7million now villa should go for this guy . Looks dynamic at this level and can provide some energy and goals . Good move for derby but hoped villa would be interested in him

Was he the lad on loan at Ipswich last season ?

[Richard]

Yes he was

[eamonn]

Have Xia and Wyness turned off the tap on Bruce? Would be our luck not to sign anyone else while they deliberate over Bruce and he does just enough in the next week or two (say a win and two draws) to make them persevere but leave us just waiting for a ''horrible one''  too many away from home.