Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread

[Steve67]

RDL's two match ban didn't help his claim for a palce , but I think Bruce would be mad to get rid.

Especially to them!

[SamTheMouse]

Apparently we've bid 9M euros for a centre back from Le Havre, Harold Moukoudi.

[VinnieChase84]

Apparently we've bid 9M euros for a centre back from Le Havre, Harold Moukoudi.

El Ghazi now this guy. Bruce really really doesn’t have much of a say now does he

[tomd2103]

RDL's two match ban didn't help his claim for a palce , but I think Bruce would be mad to get rid.

Not if he's not going to play him.  He must be on a pretty decent wage, so if he is deemed surplus to requirements, then I suppose it would make sense.  I would like to see him given a run in the side, but it seems as though he is way down the pecking order.

[footyskillz]

Won't be only one . Having called out several players who been knocking on his door only Bree and Axel came away with a notable credit by Bruce

This list of least favoured Bruce is at risk of alienate these sqaud members

RDL
Lansbury
Taylor
Elphick
Hourihane

[mr underhill]

I think Mendes is having a shadowy influence on recent signings. If so. Bruce is fucked

[OCD]

Apparently we've bid 9M euros for a centre back from Le Havre, Harold Moukoudi.

Loan move until January to be completed in January for £7m. Highly rated French 20 year-old apparently.

[eamonn]

FFP?

[achilles]

Apparently we've bid 9M euros for a centre back from Le Havre, Harold Moukoudi.

Loan move until January to be completed in January for £7m. Highly rated French 20 year-old apparently.

Plays on the right side, haven't we got enough right footed CH, although he could always play right back!

[ktvillan]

Apparently we've bid 9M euros for a centre back from Le Havre, Harold Moukoudi.

El Ghazi now this guy. Bruce really really doesn’t have much of a say now does he

Just gives Bruce a Sherwood style excuse if they don't perform though.

[sirlordbaltimore]

Won't be only one . Having called out several players who been knocking on his door only Bree and Axel came away with a notable credit by Bruce

This list of least favoured Bruce is at risk of alienate these sqaud members

RDL
Lansbury
Taylor
Elphick
Hourihane

All five of those should be easily good enough at this level. Hourihane has shown he can be in glimpses but the rest ... well i just don't know what's happened to them. Don't know if it's half arsedness due to earning big money for having to do fuck all or what. But whenever any of them have had the chance to show they mean business all have failed.

It'd be easy to say 'Bruce' is to blame but what professional footballer can't motivate themselves to show they're good enough themselves ?

Fuck em all off bar Conor.

[aj2k77]

Lansbury was purchased because he'd scored a few goals in the months beforehand.
Hourihane was purchased for the same reason.
Taylor was a lazy way of getting Ayew and his wage shot and filling a position.

I doubt any of them were trailed/scouted/identified by Bruce and his team before hand with any master plan involved, they were just lazy transfer by numbers deals, like that fat waster McCormack.

[mr underhill]

you can't possibly fuck off a guy who scores regularly from midfield. As for the rest on that list, put them into the hands of a decent coach and they'd do an adequate job in the Chumps.

[sirlordbaltimore]

Lansbury was purchased because he'd scored a few goals in the months beforehand.
Hourihane was purchased for the same reason.
Taylor was a lazy way of getting Ayew and his wage shot and filling a position.

I doubt any of them were trailed/scouted/identified by Bruce and his team before hand with any master plan involved, they were just lazy transfer by numbers deals, like that fat waster McCormack.

I'll be honest, I thought Taylor was perfectly fine at first. Did what a left back is supposed to do adequately. He soon went down the pan though.

Being a full back at Villa is a weird task. You get someone like Hutton who is adored and treated like a footballing God when in reality he's so average in every possible way it's untrue. Nothing about his game other than 'he has a go' is admirable really. Yet he gets treated one way and another player gets treated the exact opposite. It's all very odd to me.

[Clark W Griswold]

Apart from the fact that Hutton gives 100% every game which isn't exactly a given these days in football and that he's played well for us for the vast majority of the time of the past 2 and a bit seasons in the championship as well as signing a new 1 year deal even when we appeared to be a sinking ship (despite reported interest from elsewhere in the championship), I'm not sure what the attraction is either.