Summer transfer madness thread

[Hookeysmith]

Would keep Tom at a push. Anything over a fiver for Ross and it's a deal

[Tony Erdington]

Small Heath in for Wilshere now.

Just being dropped off at The Sty now

LOL 👏👏


Surely that's a Villa inside job , look at the first two letters of the Ambulance

[Matt C]

Elpnick as fourth choice centre half isn't the end of the world. Surprised we've not moved McCormack on though.

[jwarry]

Sunderland taking the piss on deals for McCormack and Elphick so looks like we ain't doing business.  Means we are stuck with them but at least for once we are not rolling over

What are they offering?

£1m for Tommy apparently (and they probably asked us to pay them for thanking fatmac off our hands)

[QuintonVilla]

Jota is Small Heath's club record signing for £6m. Hahaha. We paid that for super Bosko Balaban 16 years ago.

[b23]

I wonder if his nickname is Laverda ?

[Dave]

Jota is Small Heath's club record signing for £6m. Hahaha. We paid that for super Bosko Balaban 16 years ago.

How much did they pay for Dunn, Heskey or Zigic? I'm sure at least one of them hit the £6m mark.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Jota is Small Heath's club record signing for £6m. Hahaha. We paid that for super Bosko Balaban 16 years ago.

How much did they pay for Dunn, Heskey or Zigic? I'm sure at least one of them hit the £6m mark.

No Zigic was just 6m a week in wages

[Rudy65]

Left-backs should not be right-footed.

Zambrotta, Maldini, Breitner, Fachetti, Krol, Brehme, Lahm, Zanetti, Azpilicueta...

....and Gordon Smith, John Robson

[cdbearsfan]

Left-backs should not be right-footed.

Zambrotta, Maldini, Breitner, Fachetti, Krol, Brehme, Lahm, Zanetti, Azpilicueta...

They were all both-footed. Brehme even took penalties with his left foot.

We are lacking at left back. Thinking we can just bung a right back in there on the basis that he might "do a job" is the same logic that has since a succession of players played out of position for us in one of the full-back positions and look abysmal in the process.

Had MON not had a pathological hatred of playing full-backs at full-back we would probably have qualified for the Champions League and the torrid last seven years might have been entirely different.

[Damo70]

Two of our former managers have been speaking to the media today about how tough they found it to work the transfer market whilst at Villa. To protect their identity I will just called them TSM1 and TSM2. One of them spent ten million on one player who was useless for us and the other spent a similar amount on handful of players who were useless for us.

[Dave]

We are lacking at left back. Thinking we can just bung a right back in there on the basis that he might "do a job" is the same logic that has since a succession of players played out of position for us in one of the full-back positions and look abysmal in the process.

I don't disagree at all.

I just disagree that right-footed players can't be left-backs. Some of them demonstrably can.

[taylorsworkrate]

Sky are getting the damp squib of a deadline day they truly deserve

[olaftab]

Left-backs should not be right-footed.

Zambrotta, Maldini, Breitner, Fachetti, Krol, Brehme, Lahm, Zanetti, Azpilicueta...

I can't believe you left out the great Phil Neville who excelled at left back under Keegan in 2000.

[cdbearsfan]

We are lacking at left back. Thinking we can just bung a right back in there on the basis that he might "do a job" is the same logic that has since a succession of players played out of position for us in one of the full-back positions and look abysmal in the process.

I don't disagree at all.

I just disagree that right-footed players can't be left-backs. Some of them demonstrably can.

I didn't see them all play, but from what I've seen all the players you listed are both-footed.

In any case, they are all at somewhat of a higher level than we could hope to attain. In the market we can be competing in, it's less likely that we will find a player with the ability to overcome playing in the "wrong" position for his footedness. Bjarnason has already shown that he struggles at left back and I wouldn't want to ruin the confidence and development of Bree or Clarke by playing them out of position.