Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[dave shelley]

Is Reina the goalkeeper that can't tell the difference between a football and a beach ball?  TBF, neither could the referee that day.

[AsTallAsLions]

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

Sensible move loaning a stop-gap with experience.

The same can be said for every position on the pitch. The club can't afford to have 6 right backs on the books when it doesn't have a single capable striker. Same applies to the GK position for me.

[cdbearsfan]

We are zero freak injuries away from having no forwards against the actual fucking treble winners and in three vital games against relegation rivals.

GET THE FUCK ON WITH IT VILLA.

[Clampy]

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

Sensible move loaning a stop-gap with experience.

The same can be said for every position on the pitch. The club can't afford to have 6 right backs on the books when it doesn't have a single capable striker. Same applies to the GK position for me.

6 right backs?

[dave.woodhall]

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

Sensible move loaning a stop-gap with experience.

The same can be said for every position on the pitch. The club can't afford to have 6 right backs on the books when it doesn't have a single capable striker. Same applies to the GK position for me.

There's no law that says we can't sign a striker as well. At the moment Nyland is the only reliable keeper we've got, and as we've seen often enough, promising players can go through a bad patch.

[PaulWinch again]

We are zero freak injuries away from having no forwards against the actual fucking treble winners and in three vital games against relegation rivals.

GET THE FUCK ON WITH IT VILLA.

Quite.

[dave.woodhall]

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

Two in two weeks. There won't be a third will there?

[JJ-AV]

Roofe and Benteke maybe? Would leave us with something like this, with McGinn to come in too

Nyland
Konsa - Mings - Hause
Guilbert - Luiz - Drinkwater - Targett
El Ghazi - Benteke - Jack

Reina, Engels, Elmo, Nakamba, Hourihane, Trezeguet, Roofe

[KevinGage]

If Forest were interested in Kodjia, I wonder if they'd look at a swap plus £ for Grabban.

Not the forward to market the club around, but more likely to come off the bench and grab a goal than Hogan and Davis.

[AsTallAsLions]

We are zero freak injuries away from having no forwards against the actual fucking treble winners and in three vital games against relegation rivals.

GET THE FUCK ON WITH IT VILLA.

Indeed.

[Fred Crump]

Roofe is a decent player but not sure if he or to a lesser extent Grabban would fit into our style of play. Benteke mk1 would have , obviously, but like others here, not sure if he has it anymore, and the injury risk would be massive.
But beggars can’t be choosers and all that..

[cdbearsfan]

Roofe or Grabban as a second choice to come on against tired legs would be decent. I expect better for our main acquisition. Not convinced we will get it, though. Can see us ending up with someone like Ryan Babbel as we attempt to copy the Fulham template all the way to relegation.

[ChicagoLion]

Has anybody suggested Jermaine Beckford Yet?

[aj2k77]

Roofe and/or Grabban are definitely not good enough for the Premier League.

[avfcpg]

Benteke is injured anyway isn't he? Out for a few weeks so unlikely we would sign him...if we were even thinking about it anyway, which is doubtful.