Summer transfer, gossip and speculation thread

[Toronto Villa]

John Terry could just save Bruce’s Villa career. It would save our season too. Desperate times I suppose.

[Monty]

[2 pages ago]: Bruce was only any good because Terry was there to help him.

[Bruce tries to re-sign Terry]: desperate, stupid signing of ageing prehistoric has-been.

I don't really think it can be both...

[Steve67]

All over Newsnow atm.  Must have legs.

[Toronto Villa]

[2 pages ago]: Bruce was only any good because Terry was there to help him.

[Bruce tries to re-sign Terry]: desperate, stupid signing of ageing prehistoric has-been.

I don't really think it can be both...

For me desperate because it should never have come to this. That as good as Terry probably will be that Bruce is turning to a retired player to save his arse is desperate. But Terry provides organization and leadership which we need badly.

[ozzjim]

Lets hope he has!

[tomd2103]

John Terry could just save Bruce’s Villa career. It would save our season too. Desperate times I suppose.

Could also end Bruce's career by replacing him as manager.  I would think Bruce would be wary of that if he were to consider bringing him back. 

[Ads]

[2 pages ago]: Bruce was only any good because Terry was there to help him.

[Bruce tries to re-sign Terry]: desperate, stupid signing of ageing prehistoric has-been.

I don't really think it can be both...

I must have also missed the games where his legs were gone and he struggled? Sure he had a bad one here and there, but "his legs went" business? He never had pace.

[eamonn]

Yeah, where did he flag exactly at the end of last season? 

[KevinGage]

[2 pages ago]: Bruce was only any good because Terry was there to help him.

[Bruce tries to re-sign Terry]: desperate, stupid signing of ageing prehistoric has-been.

I don't really think it can be both...

I must have also missed the games where his legs were gone and he struggled? Sure he had a bad one here and there, but "his legs went" business? He never had pace.

Steve Staunton, Dion Dublin, Joe Cole and a whole lot more never had pace either.

But the things they could do even at slow>medium pace became a strain for them.

That three in particular seemed to age before our very eyes.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

According to his Instagram, Terry's flying back from the Algarve today.

[brian green]

Like the old joke about the lost city gent in his car asking a local yokel for directions. "Well,  zur, if I was you I wouldn't be starting from here".

If there is a bright side to this masterclass of managerial incompetence if Terry does come back we will be getting the refs back under control.

[JJ-AV]

Can we play Terry now if we sign him? I thought you couldn’t register frees after the window shuts

[RussellC]

I’m really torn on this one. I’d love to see JT back just because it looks form the outside that we’re really missing his leadership, in the dressing room as much as on the pitch. However, as others have said, he was starting to look his age at the back-end of the season, and I’m not sure that a summer in Portugal will have changed that. It would make some sense if Bruce was thinking of using him in a back 3 – alongside the pace of Chester and Tuanzebe – but then his signings of El Ghazi and Bolasie suggest to me that he has no plans to revert to a back 3 a t all…

I hope this is a player-coach role, as that would seem to be the only way that this makes sense to all parties.

[frank black]

I’m really torn on this one. I’d love to see JT back just because it looks form the outside that we’re really missing his leadership, in the dressing room as much as on the pitch. However, as others have said, he was starting to look his age at the back-end of the season, and I’m not sure that a summer in Portugal will have changed that. It would make some sense if Bruce was thinking of using him in a back 3 – alongside the pace of Chester and Tuanzebe – but then his signings of El Ghazi and Bolasie suggest to me that he has no plans to revert to a back 3 a t all…

I hope this is a player-coach role, as that would seem to be the only way that this makes sense to all parties.

It makes perfect sense and I’m sure he’d make a big difference to get us through until January.

[Ads]

When was he looking his age? He wasn't brilliant in the Play Off final, but I must have missed these performances where he was falling apart.