Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread

[tomd2103]

 

Clearly bowled over by Bruce's 'vision'

First question was probably "I know you play centre half son, but have you ever played right back before?". 

[SoccerHQ]

What time is the deadline tomorrow?

[Steve67]

5pm.

[cdbearsfan]

Personally I think it's odd to loan out an England U20 centre back who is pretty inexperienced and replace him with a French U20 centre back who's pretty inexperienced, having already got an inexperienced England U21 player in and refused to play him in position.  This kid might be great but he's a big risk if the plan is to throw him straight in.

If Suleiman was anywhere near good enough, he'd have played by now. He clearly isn't, so relying on him would be far more of a gamble than signing someone who has played 44 games at the equivalent of our division.

[eamonn]

So, how confident should we be of getting anyone in?

[Steve67]

Is Twitter going wild?

[sickbeggar]

Personally I think it's odd to loan out an England U20 centre back who is pretty inexperienced and replace him with a French U20 centre back who's pretty inexperienced, having already got an inexperienced England U21 player in and refused to play him in position.  This kid might be great but he's a big risk if the plan is to throw him straight in.

If Suleiman was anywhere near good enough, he'd have played by now. He clearly isn't, so relying on him would be far more of a gamble than signing someone who has played 44 games at the equivalent of our division.

and whose opinion is that? Suleiman may very well be not good enough but the guy with the decision collects right-backs like my old dear collects miniature clocks and thinks a 34 year old midfielder has a long term career as a centre-half

[OCD]

Personally I think it's odd to loan out an England U20 centre back who is pretty inexperienced and replace him with a French U20 centre back who's pretty inexperienced, having already got an inexperienced England U21 player in and refused to play him in position.  This kid might be great but he's a big risk if the plan is to throw him straight in.

I assumed he meant Mitch Clark.

If Suleiman was anywhere near good enough, he'd have played by now. He clearly isn't, so relying on him would be far more of a gamble than signing someone who has played 44 games at the equivalent of our division.

[Axl Rose]

I see some bitter bluenose or baggies fan has been on Wiki and put on Moukoudis bio his playing position is "Villa scum".
Obsessed? No mate not me.
I just like to follow what's going on at the Villa more than my own club.
In fact they're probably reading this thread as well.
UTV

They'd first have to master the concept of a sentence.

[Villafirst]

Sun reporting Tammy Abraham set to join Aston Villa in last gasp transfer coup.....great if true!

[brian green]

I have a good friend who is a Grimsby ST holder.  He tells me that Suleiman was their most consistent player last season.  Mostly at right back.  Perhaps it was a condition of his loan to keep the Villa right back conveyor belt moving.  I only saw his England games on TV and he was a damn sight less shaky than Elphick and Jedinak.

[Villafirst]

Sky Sources saying Elphick having medical at Hull....Surely a new defender arriving  then??

[Three Spires Villa]

Sky Sources saying Elphick having medical at Hull....Surely a new defender arriving  then??

Blooming hope so

[PeterWithe]

Seems a strange one, one centre half in, one out?

I’d have thought we needed an extra option there, not an alternative one.

[john e]

Personally I think it's odd to loan out an England U20 centre back who is pretty inexperienced and replace him with a French U20 centre back who's pretty inexperienced, having already got an inexperienced England U21 player in and refused to play him in position.  This kid might be great but he's a big risk if the plan is to throw him straight in.

If Suleiman was anywhere near good enough, he'd have played by now. He clearly isn't, so relying on him would be far more of a gamble than signing someone who has played 44 games at the equivalent of our division.

if we only played those who were good enough we would have a squad of about 5

I accept that the younger players might not be good enough to make the grade, who knows they aren't given a decent run in the side for us to find out

but the players who are playing semi consistently Taylor, Barney, Connor, Whelan, Lansbury, Elpphick, Elmo, Hogan are in and out of the side because not one of them can play much more than a couple of games without going missing or having a shocker then being dropped until his replacement does exactly the same thing

People love to call out the youngsters for a one off performance, send them out on loan the cry goes up as if the experienced guys are performing any better
I'd prefer to call out the ones on the list above overpayed overrated overaged