January Transfer Window

[footyskillz]

Or an attention seeking little turd with nowt to say.

Villa -and any connection to the club with any cop on at all- haven't bothered with the Mail for years.

Still, this will grow his twitter following.

So kudos, Smegg.

He’s been useless covering the Villa for ages. I’ll go with your assessment Mr Gage. Like anyone called him with anything substantial at all is highly unlikely.

Noted. Who is good  to follow apart from H and V for news? Any thoughts on John Perry Pat Murphy or Jim White.

[Toronto Villa]

Or an attention seeking little turd with nowt to say.

Villa -and any connection to the club with any cop on at all- haven't bothered with the Mail for years.

Still, this will grow his twitter following.

So kudos, Smegg.

He’s been useless covering the Villa for ages. I’ll go with your assessment Mr Gage. Like anyone called him with anything substantial at all is highly unlikely.

Noted. Who is good  to follow apart from H and V for news? Any thoughts on John Perry Pat Murphy or Jim White.

Not really sure anymore to be honest. I think you meant Percy who’s decent. And I’ve found Pat Murphy reliable in confirming stuff further down the line. But the club is pretty tight on information for the most part and the owner is often now the one revealing things or dismissing stuff. If anything is really happening I suspect Mr Xia will have a formula to decipher at some point.

[Lsvilla]

Interesting phone call this morning about a target #avfc are considering. Surely not! Day off, more tomorrow.

Tweet from Evans.

Troy Deeney ??

[LeeB]

Interesting phone call this morning about a target #avfc are considering. Surely not! Day off, more tomorrow.

Tweet from Evans.

Troy Deeney ??

I'd like to think we'd be targeting Troy Deeney with a large house brick from about six feet away.

[footyskillz]

Or an attention seeking little turd with nowt to say.

Villa -and any connection to the club with any cop on at all- haven't bothered with the Mail for years.

Still, this will grow his twitter following.

So kudos, Smegg.

He’s been useless covering the Villa for ages. I’ll go with your assessment Mr Gage. Like anyone called him with anything substantial at all is highly unlikely.

Noted. Who is good  to follow apart from H and V for news? Any thoughts on John Perry Pat Murphy or Jim White.

Not really sure anymore to be honest. I think you meant Percy who’s decent. And I’ve found Pat Murphy reliable in confirming stuff further down the line. But the club is pretty tight on information for the most part and the owner is often now the one revealing things or dismissing stuff. If anything is really happening I suspect Mr Xia will have a formula to decipher at some point.

Of course the owner how silly of me !! Sometimes answer right there thanks I would say he's the one in the know for sure!! I guess villa lucky then to have owner who is reasonably active and not running the West ham mob. Cheers!!

[KevinGage]

Aye, Percy seems to usually be pretty spot on with that sort of thing. Stuart James at the Guardian had a decent track record until about 15/16. 

Not so much recently.

[themossman]

Not getting a striker in this Jan will bite us on the arse. We have known since October pretty much that Kodjia is out for the season. We should have found someone that we could either afford to spend a couple of million on from abroad, or that we could loan. We seem to have put all our eggs in the Ulloa basket and he has gone elsewhere. Round and his super scouting team across the world we hear about so often have thus far unearthed literally fuck all.

Yeah we needed to do one thing this January. Any other additions were nice to haves. We should have a had a plan B, C, D, E for a decent loan striker to come in for Kodjia.

[saunders_heroes]

Or an attention seeking little turd with nowt to say.

Villa -and any connection to the club with any cop on at all- haven't bothered with the Mail for years.

Still, this will grow his twitter following.

So kudos, Smegg.

What’s the odds on him announcing with glee we were in for Sturridge only for Albion to step in and brush us aside.

[olaftab]

TV that was just a comment about Klopp in general. IMO he talks rubbish at times and hasn’t realised that he is the worst Liverpool manager in recent history.

I don't agree with that given some of the manager's they've had since Houllier. Yes I think he's overrated, and I have no idea what he was doing spending what they did on Van Dijk. But the worst in recent history I think is a bit of a stretch.

Yes I accept may be not worst in recent history but by gum he doesn't half get very favourable press.

[Damo70]

Why do people think we are signing a megastar when Bruce has hinted that we are signing noone?

I think it's part what Gregg Evans is hinting at which could be utter BS, and part what Wyness came out and said in that Radio WM phone in about scouring the planet for talent and turning down RVP. It sets the mind racing in a number of different and probably unrealistic directions. As for Bruce, he's probably not going to give much away but he always ends with "you never know..." to keep mystery and intrigue in play.

The Birmingham Mail is suggesting that we, along with Wolves, are interested in Afobe from Bournemouth.

Im not sure that we are, more chance of it being Sturridge, since he is Villa and was released by us when young. Depending on what his agent and Liverpool want, he would walk over broken glass to help us go up! The other possibility is Benteke. Hodgson admitting that some of his players are going out on loan. Bruce is downplaying everything at the moment, which suggests to me a major suprise is on the cards

Sturridge is a good player but has a shocking injury record and Klopp has suggested he is unwilling to play through the pain barrier when  other players would. I am not aware Sturridge 'is Villa'. I used to work with his uncle Dave, who once told me Daniel didn't really support a club as a kid as he was always more interested in just playing. Given that his uncle Simon played for Small Heath and I was told by his uncle Dave that Daniel's dad was a youngster at the sty and then went on to do some coaching at the club in some capacity I would guess that Daniel's leanings were more towards them than us. Having said that, he would be worth a gamble on loan till the end of the season. If we could get him on the pitch in even half of the games left I'm sure he would score a few vital goals. But I just can't see him dropping a division, even on loan.

[footyskillz]

Fernando Torres could it be?? Slightly younger than RVP. Or do we take him when contract expires in summer?

[brontebilly]

Why do people think we are signing a megastar when Bruce has hinted that we are signing noone?

I think it's part what Gregg Evans is hinting at which could be utter BS, and part what Wyness came out and said in that Radio WM phone in about scouring the planet for talent and turning down RVP. It sets the mind racing in a number of different and probably unrealistic directions. As for Bruce, he's probably not going to give much away but he always ends with "you never know..." to keep mystery and intrigue in play.

The Birmingham Mail is suggesting that we, along with Wolves, are interested in Afobe from Bournemouth.

Im not sure that we are, more chance of it being Sturridge, since he is Villa and was released by us when young. Depending on what his agent and Liverpool want, he would walk over broken glass to help us go up! The other possibility is Benteke. Hodgson admitting that some of his players are going out on loan. Bruce is downplaying everything at the moment, which suggests to me a major suprise is on the cards

Sturridge is a good player but has a shocking injury record and Klopp has suggested he is unwilling to play through the pain barrier when  other players would. I am not aware Sturridge 'is Villa'. I used to work with his uncle Dave, who once told me Daniel didn't really support a club as a kid as he was always more interested in just playing. Given that his uncle Simon played for Small Heath and I was told by his uncle Dave that Daniel's dad was a youngster at the sty and then went on to do some coaching at the club in some capacity I would guess that Daniel's leanings were more towards them than us. Having said that, he would be worth a gamble on loan till the end of the season. If we could get him on the pitch in even half of the games left I'm sure he would score a few vital goals. But I just can't see him dropping a division, even on loan.

With Sturridge I'm not sure it's just injuries that are the problem. Turns down playing for a top coach Benitez and 50k at St James Park every second week to sign for Pards and the Baggies for "footballing reasons". Not buying that

[saunders_heroes]

Well he’s from Birmingham so maybe he fancied moving back home. I don’t go with all this “how can you turn down a huge club like Newcastle” shite. The hype around that club is unreal.

[PeterWithesShin]

Either way he'd be playing in front of deluded stripey twats, bonus of going to the Bitters is there's a lot less of them to deal with.

[tomd2103]

Well he’s from Birmingham so maybe he fancied moving back home. I don’t go with all this “how can you turn down a huge club like Newcastle” shite. The hype around that club is unreal.

Franks said on WM earlier tonight that Albion have pledged to pay his his full wage.