Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[chrisw1]

I just think that Nyland looks so focussed and determined that risking upsetting that by bringing in Reina is not worth it.  I appreciate with Steer not back yet there's simited cover, but in hopefully unlikley event Nyland gets injured we do have Sarkic to fall back on.  At some point you have to draw a line.  For me we have enough keeprs and Nyland has earned his chance.  Lets spend the wages elsewhere.

[AsTallAsLions]

Fuck Rodriguez. He's an absolute twat.

This. Can’t stand him.

Amen

[Jon Crofts]

Fuck Rodriguez. He's an absolute twat.

With bells on.

[Richard E]

People do realise that the more we slag Rodriguez off on here, the more inevitable his signing becomes?

[cdbearsfan]

Fucking love Rodriguez, his sense of balance and lovely hair.

Get him in, Villa.

[Clark W Griswold]

Reina has played 5 times for Milan in the last two seasons. Another signing of a player in semi retirement.

Not comparable to Drinkwater though. For one, he's a GK so the lack of game time is less of an issue. For two, he's a top experienced pro and doesn't have apparent recent baggage like Drinkwater and for three it's more of a belt and braces signing. As others have pointed out, we can stick with Nyland anyway for now, he's been excellent. I hope we sign him but i wouldn't be massively upset if we didn't purely from the number of GK's we have and that Nylands form is terrific.

[cdbearsfan]

I'd be surprised if he's leaving AC Milan's bench to sit on ours. I expect he'll be straight in, if fit, regardless of Nyland's form.

[Des Little]

Get J-Rod in.  He'd lend us a hand.

[Villan For Life]

I think they will stick with Nyland and use Reina as cover/senior pro for our young keepers.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Don’t think this has been mentioned.
Just listened to BBC’s Football daily podcast from last night and there was an interesting section on Louie Barry.
He was at West Brom from the age of 6, didn’t sign pro forms with them but instead moved to Barca’s academy. A tribunal set a fee of €130k for the transfer which apparently Barca have yet to pay.
Former Albion academy boss has since taken up a similar post at villa and told us about Barry. BBC suggested a price of around £700k with various performance related add ons could see it rise to several million. Albion pissed off as they’ve developed him, as yet not received the relatively low compensation fee and now we’ve picked up ‘thier’ hot prospect. The delay appears to be because of the fee still owed from Barca to Albion.

[Fred Crump]

Fucking love Rodriguez, his sense of balance and lovely hair.

Get him in, Villa.

Not to mention his lovely hands.....

[cdbearsfan]

And his inherent sense of fair play.

[LeeB]

Don’t think this has been mentioned.
Just listened to BBC’s Football daily podcast from last night and there was an interesting section on Louie Barry.
He was at West Brom from the age of 6, didn’t sign pro forms with them but instead moved to Barca’s academy. A tribunal set a fee of €130k for the transfer which apparently Barca have yet to pay.
Former Albion academy boss has since taken up a similar post at villa and told us about Barry. BBC suggested a price of around £700k with various performance related add ons could see it rise to several million. Albion pissed off as they’ve developed him, as yet not received the relatively low compensation fee and now we’ve picked up ‘thier’ hot prospect. The delay appears to be because of the fee still owed from Barca to Albion.

'tay fayre.

[Mossie Hennebry]

Don’t think this has been mentioned.
Just listened to BBC’s Football daily podcast from last night and there was an interesting section on Louie Barry.
He was at West Brom from the age of 6, didn’t sign pro forms with them but instead moved to Barca’s academy. A tribunal set a fee of €130k for the transfer which apparently Barca have yet to pay.
Former Albion academy boss has since taken up a similar post at villa and told us about Barry. BBC suggested a price of around £700k with various performance related add ons could see it rise to several million. Albion pissed off as they’ve developed him, as yet not received the relatively low compensation fee and now we’ve picked up ‘thier’ hot prospect. The delay appears to be because of the fee still owed from Barca to Albion.

Barcelona can act more than a bit shady at times "Més que un club".

[cdbearsfan]

I do think Albion have a point, to be fair. No reason why Barcelona can't be paying what they owe, the twats.