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Author Topic: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread  (Read 554391 times)

Offline cdbearsfan

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1440 on: January 07, 2020, 10:59:15 AM »
Seems a gamble to use up one of our loans up on him when we've no idea if he will be able to find his previous form.  But it's last chance saloon for him and IF he does step up he could be very useful.

You can guarantee that at least one of Batshuyahi or Giroud goes to one of our relegation rivals, too, and we spend the rest of the season wondering why we wasted a loan, and £100k per week, to watch Danny Drinkwater chatting to Henri Lansbury on the bench while they score loads of goals.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1441 on: January 07, 2020, 11:00:00 AM »
Seems a gamble to use up one of our loans up on him when we've no idea if he will be able to find his previous form.  But it's last chance saloon for him and IF he does step up he could be very useful.

You can guarantee that at least one of Batshuyahi or Giroud goes to one of our relegation rivals, too, and we spend the rest of the season wondering why we wasted a loan, and £100k per week, to watch Danny Drinkwater chatting to Henri Lansbury on the bench while they score loads of goals.
Ha, that does seem worryingly likely.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1442 on: January 07, 2020, 11:02:21 AM »
So we must be getting other strikers in Krzysztof Piątek linked.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1443 on: January 07, 2020, 11:06:26 AM »
So we must be getting other strikers in Krzysztof Piątek linked.
He's also linked with Newcastle. That would free up Gayle however.......runs for cover.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1444 on: January 07, 2020, 11:07:47 AM »
So we must be getting other strikers in Krzysztof Piątek linked.
He's also linked with Newcastle. That would free up Gayle however.......runs for cover.

Fair enough John Gayle fits with our January plans.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1445 on: January 07, 2020, 11:11:28 AM »
So we must be getting other strikers in Krzysztof Piątek linked.
He's also linked with Newcastle. That would free up Gayle however.......runs for cover.
Also means Mike Ashley is involved - balls in our court! He'd be a good signing.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1446 on: January 07, 2020, 11:15:10 AM »
Drinkwater god almighty, back to the bad old days.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1447 on: January 07, 2020, 11:17:51 AM »
So we must be getting other strikers in Krzysztof Piątek linked.
He's also linked with Newcastle. That would free up Gayle however.......runs for cover.
Also means Mike Ashley is involved - balls in our court! He'd be a good signing.

I wouldn't be signing Mike Ashley as well as Drinkwater. Gonna be bad enough spending a fortune on booze without our food bills going through the roof, too ☹

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1448 on: January 07, 2020, 11:21:10 AM »
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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1449 on: January 07, 2020, 12:04:56 PM »
According to various sources Chelsea will make us pay his full £110,000 a week wages.

Great work, Villa. Jermaine Jenas with a drink problem.

Hopefully those times are well behind us?  ::)

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1450 on: January 07, 2020, 12:20:35 PM »
Seems a gamble to use up one of our loans up on him when we've no idea if he will be able to find his previous form.  But it's last chance saloon for him and IF he does step up he could be very useful.

You can guarantee that at least one of Batshuyahi or Giroud goes to one of our relegation rivals, too, and we spend the rest of the season wondering why we wasted a loan, and £100k per week, to watch Danny Drinkwater chatting to Henri Lansbury on the bench while they score loads of goals.

I literally know this is going to happen.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1451 on: January 07, 2020, 12:22:53 PM »
The problem with bats and giroud if they dont want to sign f**k them! Even if they do go to a rival and score shed loads the point is moot if they dont want to play for us. Also worth noting we only need to be better than 3 teams this season and even with injuries I think we can do that! Win the next 3 6 pointers and we can forget relegation all together I think.

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1452 on: January 07, 2020, 12:37:52 PM »
The problem with bats and giroud if they dont want to sign f**k them! Even if they do go to a rival and score shed loads the point is moot if they dont want to play for us. Also worth noting we only need to be better than 3 teams this season and even with injuries I think we can do that! Win the next 3 6 pointers and we can forget relegation all together I think.

we said that ahead of the last set of 6 pointers :).

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1453 on: January 07, 2020, 12:41:09 PM »
Drinkwater god almighty, back to the bad old days.

Aye. It appears that Villa might have decided to get a longer barge-pole & are prepared to throw pots of money at another wastrel. Who'd have thunk it?  ::)

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Re: Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #1454 on: January 07, 2020, 12:42:04 PM »
The problem with bats and giroud if they dont want to sign f**k them! Even if they do go to a rival and score shed loads the point is moot if they dont want to play for us. Also worth noting we only need to be better than 3 teams this season and even with injuries I think we can do that! Win the next 3 6 pointers and we can forget relegation all together I think.

we said that ahead of the last set of 6 pointers :).

Not disputing how god awful we were over christmas! But Watford at villa park is not Watford away! Villa are notoriously shit in London and we all know this. I expect to win this game at home.
Brighton will be a tough game but if dean sticks to 541 /353 we can beat them.
Bournemouth are in real trouble with injuries and are looking in free fall at the moment. I would be very surprised if we cant at least get a point out of this.

I hope this ages well so remind me at the end of the month lol

 


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