Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[john e]

He scored against us home and away when we played them in Division Two.

I'd still be massively underwhelmed.

I don’t recall that

[Malandro]

I’d like to see the loan of a youngster.  They’d be hungry to prove themselves and we might be able to punch above our weight that way. 

Don't be so ageist. Grant Holt, despite his age, was still hungry when we signed him.

[mr underhill]

Grant was always hungry - just not for playing

[mr underhill]

just read that we are interested in Piatek from Inter.

[chrisw1]

Italian journalist Nicoloa Schira linking us with  Krzysztof Piątek (Milan Polish striker)

Probably bullshit, but the journalist has 51k followers, so at least it's not a teenager in his bedroom making stuff up.

https://twitter.com/NicoSchira/status/1214370383945752576

https://twitter.com/Total_Villa/status/1214463316656963584

[cdbearsfan]

That sounds more like it.

[chrisw1]

I've decided it's bullshit.  Newcastle, Palace & Tottenham also interested.

[WarszaVillan]

Piątek would be fantastic, seems out of our league at the moment though.

[PaulWinch again]

We don't have time to be too patient. The Brighton, Watford and Bournemouth games could make or break our season. I'd much rather we had a striker, at least, ready to go. Was hoping for someone in for Man City but failure to get a forward in before Brighton, at the very latest, would he negligent.

If clubs won't sell, move on to those that will. Half of Europe is on a midseason break and will happily discuss shifting players for the right fee. It's not like we can only sign players from West London.

In other words: get on with it. We are already five months late signing a striker.

Fully agree. We don’t have the luxury of time because we didn’t do enough in the summer. It’s critical to have someone in place quickly.

[chrisw1]

Gregg Evans - Villa close to signing Drinkwater.

[aev]

Drinkwater having medical.

Non plussed face.

[ChicagoLion]

Gregg Evans - Villa close to signing Drinkwater.

I’ll drink to that.

[maidstonevillain]

Gregg Evans - Villa close to signing Drinkwater.

I’ll drink to that.

A gamble given his recent history. But could work out well.

[Sexual Ealing]

I hope we insert a comma after his first name.

[frank black]

In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king.