Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[ChicagoLion]

11th January, no forwards in as yet. Massive games coming up, Brighton, Watford, Bournemouth.


Worrying.

In fact it’s so long that Footy broke his sabbatical,

[PaulWinch again]

Reina is an experienced Premier League keeper.

He's a far better option than Sarkic (who can now go back to Livingston), Kalinic (who can go wherever he likes), and with Steer out for a few more weeks and Heaton out for the rest of the season at least Reina and Nyland are a solid pair.

He has hardly played football in two years at Milan. He could well be pub league standard now.

A world class goal keeper doesn't need to be playing every week to lose his ability and actually at that age it's good he's rested.
I wouldn't think Suso signed someone who isn't capable

I’m sorry but irrespective of how good he used to be if he were “world class” now he would be playing every week and he wouldn’t be coming to a club in a relegation battle.

[Mister E]

Not sure people not understanding to get by in Premier league need a premier level GK. We're not messing around trialling keepers who are steadily improving like nervous Nyland.
Reina is oven ready and has oven gloves for GK hands.
Proven and adds the experience to the squad.

Reina was Premier League standard for a while till Liverpool decided he wasn't good enough 6 years' ago - and even then, he was making howlers.

The other point is Suso is head of recruiting.
Dean Smith suggest need an experienced goal keeper and Suso goes get one . A top one at that.

We simply don't know what the real working relationship is between Smith and Pitarch ... unless you're goin to tell us you work at AVFC and have observed them day-to-day.

Its admirable the love in for Nyland but there are short memories and far to easily swayed .
Nyland no top keeper and to bank on him being the man to keep us up clearly won't be the case by the coaches .

Nyland did indeed look like a car crash last season. However, in front of a new, balanced defence and - presumably - thanks to Cutler's input, he has begun to look like a top class keeper; not just in one game but in several. Your lack of appreciation for that growth in form is disrespectable, frankly (it mirrors your obsessive dislike of Wesley, some of your previous comments about whom were also highly disrespectful).
We're all entitled to our opinions but you often present yours as irrefutable facts; and this is neither easy to read nor fair to other posters.In my opinion.

[KevinGage]

I'm somewhat traumatised by the phrase "oven ready".

And oven gloves for goalkeeper hands???!

Provides a natural advantage.  Particularly if his hands can fill them.

[Holy Trinity]

Any chance we can put a stop to his constant double/treble/quadruple posting?

Reminds me of footy skills in how they think they are god gift to heroes and villains!

Point 1. Anyone can edit a wiki! It is not a reliable soice of information, for example about a week ago it said bats played for us.

Point 2. What he did in the premier league is irrelivant when his last appearance in it was about 6 years ago!

Point 3. Stop multi posting, I people want to come on here and read thoughts opinions and gossip! I'm sure noone wants to read an entire page of waffle by the same person! It's bad form to do it over and over as you currently do.

[john e]

Don't be so patronising.

ha ha I’m laughing by bollocks of reading that

Drumond calling someone else out for being patronising lots of kettles and pots come to mind
I do love you Drum bit that’s got to be a contender for ironic post of the year so far

[AsTallAsLions]

Not sure people not understanding to get by in Premier league need a premier level GK. We're not messing around trialling keepers who are steadily improving like nervous Nyland.
Reina is oven ready and has oven gloves for GK hands.
Proven and adds the experience to the squad.

Reina was Premier League standard for a while till Liverpool decided he wasn't good enough 6 years' ago - and even then, he was making howlers.

The other point is Suso is head of recruiting.
Dean Smith suggest need an experienced goal keeper and Suso goes get one . A top one at that.

We simply don't know what the real working relationship is between Smith and Pitarch ... unless you're goin to tell us you work at AVFC and have observed them day-to-day.

Its admirable the love in for Nyland but there are short memories and far to easily swayed .
Nyland no top keeper and to bank on him being the man to keep us up clearly won't be the case by the coaches .

Nyland did indeed look like a car crash last season. However, in front of a new, balanced defence and - presumably - thanks to Cutler's input, he has begun to look like a top class keeper; not just in one game but in several. Your lack of appreciation for that growth in form is disrespectable, frankly (it mirrors your obsessive dislike of Wesley, some of your previous comments about whom were also highly disrespectful).
We're all entitled to our opinions but you often present yours as irrefutable facts; and this is neither easy to read nor fair to other posters.In my opinion.

Agree with everything you've said here, E.

[Clampy]

I can see why Reina has been brought in. Nyland has been good of late but you know what it's like with fans, a player has a few good games, then a few dodgy ones and all of a sudden he's crap (see the Nakamba, Luiz threads). Steer is not back for a while anyway so we did need someone else in. Makes sense to me.

[Villan82]

Vill I An, this isn't a blog you know.

[Mossie Hennebry]

Oven-ready is a bad analogy - Oven-ready meals are awful! Unless he's a reconstituted ballboy.

[Small Rodent]

We’re a freak injury away from just having Kalinic and Sarkic.

Sensible move loaning a stop-gap with experience.

[KevinGage]

With the money saved we can buy Nakamba a football brain.

[JJ-AV]

Have we had any clarity on if that's it for loans? I must say the Premeir League website is vague when it comes to limits on loan players from abroad

[The Edge]

I can see why Reina has been brought in. Nyland has been good of late but you know what it's like with fans, a player has a few good games, then a few dodgy ones and all of a sudden he's crap (see the Nakamba, Luiz threads). Steer is not back for a while anyway so we did need someone else in. Makes sense to me.

I agree with your point about Nakamba & Luiz. It would seem players can't have a dip in form without someone on here deciding they're crap or the worst player we've ever had at Villa Park. Then the heels get dug in and conversations become quite nauseating. It's about opinions. None of us knows any more than orhers unless your telling us some actual itk. My opinion on Reina is that he's been a top keeper and played for top clubs and played for the world cup winners. He's not the same player who left these shores 6 years ago but he could be an invaluable asset to have around in the coming months.

[Malandro]

We’re a freak injury away from just having Kalinic and Sarkic.

Watch those salad cream bottles.