Deano’s wishlist - the Jan transfer speculation/guaranteed nonsense thread

[Smithy]

Regardless of his scoring record, or what the fee would be - if there's one person who would know if he's worth what they're asking, it's Dean Smith. If he really wants him, I hope the club go all out to get him.

[tomd2103]

Regardless of his scoring record, or what the fee would be - if there's one person who would know if he's worth what they're asking, it's Dean Smith. If he really wants him, I hope the club go all out to get him.

I'm coming round to that train of thought to be honest.  Smith and O'Kelly know him and if they rate him highly and the opportunity to buy him is there then we should probably look at it.  I can't see some of the figures being quoted for him as being accurate and players always tend to end up going for less than the rumoured amount anyway. 

I can't see Abraham being here beyond the end of the season, so we will need a replacement then anyway.  Decent strikers are a real commodity in football and he might not be available if he has a strong end to the season with Brentford

[tomd2103]

Assuming Jack is going be fit soon then we need a LB as priority. If we get someone in there and the rest of the team stay fit we’ll get top 6 IMO

If we sign a left back and a defensive midfielder who are a decent age and are going to first team regulars going forward, and we can keep Abraham for the rest of the season, then it will have been a decent enough window. 

[sid1964]

So according to Sky, Brentford want £20m + for their striker, yet Chelsea only want £18m for Abraham - the football world is totally mad!

Surely a Championship club, no matter how wealthy the owners, should not be allowed to spend that kind of money on a player.

For me at the end of this season we need to have a major clear out of players

[Drummond]

So according to Sky, Brentford want £20m + for their striker, yet Chelsea only want £18m for Abraham - the football world is totally mad!

Surely a Championship club, no matter how wealthy the owners, should not be allowed to spend that kind of money on a player.

For me at the end of this season we need to have a major clear out of players

I thought Chelsea wanted £50m now?

I think the trick here is that if Smith wants him, and our DoF want him, then we should go for it. We've been bitten too many times by ex managers signing their players who've then turned out to be shit.

The DoF role surely has to rubber stamp purchases as well as seeking players out for the Head Coach to look at.

[Gareth]

Regardless of his scoring record, or what the fee would be - if there's one person who would know if he's worth what they're asking, it's Dean Smith. If he really wants him, I hope the club go all out to get him.

I'm coming round to that train of thought to be honest.  Smith and O'Kelly know him and if they rate him highly and the opportunity to buy him is there then we should probably look at it.  I can't see some of the figures being quoted for him as being accurate and players always tend to end up going for less than the rumoured amount anyway. 

I can't see Abraham being here beyond the end of the season, so we will need a replacement then anyway.  Decent strikers are a real commodity in football and he might not be available if he has a strong end to the season with Brentford

Equally he might not score for the next 10 games and Brentford get relegated & his price tag goes down.

I really can’t see our owners throwing around more serious money in this window, if I remember right from when we were selling/keeping Jack the FFP time was March so I’d guess the unexpected 6m to rectify the keeper situation plus whatever it cost to pay off the Bruce & his band of ineptness will have put a big hole in coffers.

[TonyD]

Any sign of a defender deal?   

[Ads]

We signed one two days ago.

[old man villa fan]

Why would we consider spending £15m or more on one player now when we need to improve half of the team.

[mr underhill]

because this is Aston Villa where, as we have proved time and time again, anything is possible .

[sid1964]

Why are we not giving our young lads a chance on a regular basis -  rather than continually having to buy these over priced players from other clubs, who in 6 months time most on here will be saying "waste of money" and we can't give them away!

Surely we have must have lads in the reserve team who can step up into the 1st team.

[Drummond]

Why are we not giving our young lads a chance on a regular basis -  rather than continually having to buy these over priced players from other clubs, who in 6 months time most on here will be saying "waste of money" and we can't give them away!

Surely we have must have lads in the reserve team who can step up into the 1st team.

That's the point. We clearly don't, either that or the players they ae expected to play with aren't good enough to support them.

[Fred Crump]

Why are we not giving our young lads a chance on a regular basis -  rather than continually having to buy these over priced players from other clubs, who in 6 months time most on here will be saying "waste of money" and we can't give them away!

Surely we have must have lads in the reserve team who can step up into the 1st team.

That's the point. We clearly don't, either that or the players they ae expected to play with aren't good enough to support them.

I think that’s the issue with O’Hare. Some of the players he was playing with were miles behind him in terms of speed of thought and movement yet strangely some on here ( but not on the Holte) thought he was poor.

[Ads]

O'Hare gave the ball away and was physically bullied. He was poor. It's ludicrous to blame others for what's he's responsible for.

[Mister E]

O'Hare gave the ball away and was physically bullied. He was poor. It's ludicrous to blame others for what's he's responsible for.

I thought O'Hare was okay against Swansea. Yes, he was bullied but he also put in some great first-time passes and his movement was excellent.