Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread

[PeterWithesShin]

Tommy Docs famous line about Villa fans might become a reality

I'm not watching shirts dry unless they have blue sleeves.

[Steve67]

Which player will be first to leave?

[Ads]

So Bruce and Xia feel it important to be open and  honest with the fans. Funny they didn't feel the need to be so when they were flogging off twenty thousand odd season tickets.

Had we even played the play off final when most of them were purchased?

And what difference should it make how good or bad we are?

Who cares given the point being made was that there was no suggestion that we were fucked and would be selling our best players if we weren't promoted.

What does any of it have precisely to do with whether you'd renew or not?

[paul_e]

So Bruce and Xia feel it important to be open and  honest with the fans. Funny they didn't feel the need to be so when they were flogging off twenty thousand odd season tickets.

Had we even played the play off final when most of them were purchased?

And what difference should it make how good or bad we are?

Who cares given the point being made was that there was no suggestion that we were fucked and would be selling our best players if we weren't promoted.

What does any of it have precisely to do with whether you'd renew or not?

Personally nothing, i can't comment for other people though. However a manager seemingly waiting for the sack and our best players sold or moved on may well be enough for some people to decide not to bother.

[UK Redsox]

Might be worth pushing Hourihane further forward next season, where Grealish played. Can score and create goals.

Means finding a genuine #8 from the youths or a lucky dip. How far off is Doyle-Hayes? I dread to think Lansbury will be a regular starter for us next term, breathing out his arse after 60 mins...Tshibola will hardly turn around his Villa career at this stage

Thor will be a big player for us this season.

Can De Laet play CB?

Bit short surely? Did he play much on loan last season?

RDL is taller than Chester

Chester is about the same height as me, albeit not as wide

[wolfman999]

So Bruce and Xia feel it important to be open and  honest with the fans. Funny they didn't feel the need to be so when they were flogging off twenty thousand odd season tickets.

Had we even played the play off final when most of them were purchased?

And what difference should it make how good or bad we are?

Who cares given the point being made was that there was no suggestion that we were fucked and would be selling our best players if we weren't promoted.

Exactly my point and, by the way, I have renewed the season ticket I have held for more years than I can remember.

[in exile]

Might be worth pushing Hourihane further forward next season, where Grealish played. Can score and create goals.

Means finding a genuine #8 from the youths or a lucky dip. How far off is Doyle-Hayes? I dread to think Lansbury will be a regular starter for us next term, breathing out his arse after 60 mins...Tshibola will hardly turn around his Villa career at this stage

Thor will be a big player for us this season.

Can De Laet play CB?

Bit short surely? Did he play much on loan last season?

RDL is taller than Chester

Chester is about the same height as me, albeit not as wide

Don't forget, we are supposed to be having Axel back on loan

[ASHTONVILLA]

Don't forget, we are supposed to be having Axel back on loan

Hope not, he was shite. Would rather see Mitch Clark, Suliman or Bedeau given a chance tbh.

[in exile]

Don't forget, we are supposed to be having Axel back on loan

Hope not, he was shite. Would rather see Mitch Clark, Suliman or Bedeau given a chance tbh.

We never saw him at Centre Half, he might be ok

[ASHTONVILLA]

Don't forget, we are supposed to be having Axel back on loan

Hope not, he was shite. Would rather see Mitch Clark, Suliman or Bedeau given a chance tbh.

We never saw him at Centre Half, he might be ok

Don't care. We have lots of decent potential young players, I object to giving those at other clubs experience whilst we neglect to do the same for our own. Onomah was another stupid loan that I do not want to see back. Not better than Lyden who should have been given game time.

[SoccerHQ]

So Bruce and Xia feel it important to be open and  honest with the fans. Funny they didn't feel the need to be so when they were flogging off twenty thousand odd season tickets.

Had we even played the play off final when most of them were purchased?

And what difference should it make how good or bad we are?

It was more I meant many of the 20k took up the early bird/cheap offer because if we'd won that game you guys would all be watching premier league football at pretty decent prices.

Or maybe just fans enjoyed the novelty of us winning most weeks again for first time in 8 years and fancied a bit of that again whatever division we were in.

I would be surprised  if most who renewed weren't under the impression things would get pretty difficult financially if we didn't make it.

Regardless we will still win games next season, just not the number we did last year due to our team being nowhere near as good.

[Ads]

So Bruce and Xia feel it important to be open and  honest with the fans. Funny they didn't feel the need to be so when they were flogging off twenty thousand odd season tickets.

Had we even played the play off final when most of them were purchased?

And what difference should it make how good or bad we are?

Who cares given the point being made was that there was no suggestion that we were fucked and would be selling our best players if we weren't promoted.

What does any of it have precisely to do with whether you'd renew or not?

Personally nothing, i can't comment for other people though. However a manager seemingly waiting for the sack and our best players sold or moved on may well be enough for some people to decide not to bother.

Not bother when the club needs them most? Poor.

[brian green]

Team nowhere near as good as last season?  Given a managerial shake up in the form of a new manager or the old one forced to acknowledge and act upon his shortcomings, Aston Villa could surprise a few next season.  Every sport is full of teams with limited money using intelligence, commitment, self belief and team spirit to dominate money built outfits.

[LeeB]

Team nowhere near as good as last season?  Given a managerial shake up in the form of a new manager or the old one forced to acknowledge and act upon his shortcomings, Aston Villa could surprise a few next season.  Every sport is full of teams with limited money using intelligence, commitment, self belief and team spirit to dominate money built outfits.

I said a couple of years back that I didn't think we'd really sort ourselves out until the money had run out, well we're there now so let's see.

[BoVillan esq]

Team nowhere near as good as last season?  Given a managerial shake up in the form of a new manager or the old one forced to acknowledge and act upon his shortcomings, Aston Villa could surprise a few next season.  Every sport is full of teams with limited money using intelligence, commitment, self belief and team spirit to dominate money built outfits.

I said a couple of years back that I didn't think we'd really sort ourselves out until the money had run out, well we're there now so let's see.

I would agree with the notion of rock bottom and from here on in the only way is up, however, there is no way we should have got here, how can all this have happened, I can imagine a lot of clubs out there hitting the buffers, never Villa, I wouldn't mind betting many many football officnadios are as mystified as many Villa fans as to how this tragedy has developed, Bruce should have gone, the club should have been sold, a solid plan to get us back in the race should have already been implemented, none of that as happened, so we will come down to the bare bones of a club and moral fibre to see if we can survive, I have never seen a Villa team under Bruce have self belief or spirit so I just can't imagine were that's going to be conjured up from.