Winter transfer, gossip, speculation and usual butter ollocks thread

[john2710]

What we wouldn't give for a player like John Carew.

[villa `cross the mersey]

If this legitimate, It begs the question..... how much are we paying this Pitarch to come up with such crap? 
How many fingers are there in the "Villa Pie" when when it comes to such deals? the player, his agent, Pitarch, selling club
I really thought we had "wised up" as a club in our financial dealings ....if Smith has little or no say in these matters its hardly surprising his performance as manager/coach is not what we would have hoped for

[eamonn]

32 is not old.

Face it. You are young.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

I think we need to have a little patience and faith in the board that they are working on deals. The likes of Nakmaba, Konza and Wesley (and even Mcginn, I think) came in totally under the radar. There's no reason to think that won't happen again although it is harder in January.

I agree but with the upcoming fixtures we cannot afford to wait till the last week/days of the window. The only saving grace may be Brighton’s and Bournemouth’s fixtures as their next 3/4 games are against teams around them so perhaps no opportunity for more than one team to pull away if it does go tits up for us.

Edit.

[TonyD]

What we wouldn't give for a player like John Carew.

Nah. Dean Saunders type would do us wonders now.

[villa `cross the mersey]

Even a Savo right now

[Steve67]

Even a Savo right now

The sad thing is, even Bosco Balaban would be a best forward as it currently stands!

[TonyD]

Anybody really. 

[Small Rodent]

Savo was great. Not someone to be joked about.

[tony scott]

Hard hat on ,we’ve loaned a striker to Stoke who can’t get into their squad he cost shed loads and had previously been coached at Brentford, whys he not been recalled ?desperate times desperate measures.

[fredm]

The fact is we need someone who can come in and make a difference straight away.  The selling club knows we are desperate and the players agent knows we are desperate.  That combined means if we are to get that player signed we are going to have to pay well over the "normal" price and "normal" wages.

[cdbearsfan]

Hard hat on ,we’ve loaned a striker to Stoke who can’t get into their squad he cost shed loads and had previously been coached at Brentford, whys he not been recalled ?desperate times desperate measures.

Because he's shit, mate.

[paul_e]

Llorente and callejon both being linked suggests a scout was spotted at the Napoli game over the weekend and someone has thrown out a couple of possible names, deciding on the 2 spanish fellas because our DoF is also Spanish. I doubt there's much to either link but Reina coming in does show that we're clearly looking in Italy and Napoli really does make sense as they have problems and are trying to move a fair few players on, I reckon Mertens is probably available as well but I think he's out injured.

However, I reckon we should just ignore FFP and throw a fortune at Milik, who looks perfect for the premier league. Ok he's going to cost £50-60m and has been linked to a bunch of champions league teams but I can dream.

[villa `cross the mersey]

Hard hat on ,we’ve loaned a striker to Stoke who can’t get into their squad he cost shed loads and had previously been coached at Brentford, whys he not been recalled ?desperate times desperate measures.

Because he's shit, mate.

He's not  even that good Cdwbf

[TonyD]

Need to pay the big bucks like when signed Bent.