Fans Worried Over Villa Future

[DBTW]

Spot on, thats exactly what we all saying here at work. Every deal seems to be hanging on another deal. Its early days yet for everyone but us. If we get through Saturday, we then have a bit of time to re shape the squad.

And if we didn't?

[Lammy]

Spot on, thats exactly what we all saying here at work. Every deal seems to be hanging on another deal. Its early days yet for everyone but us. If we get through Saturday, we then have a bit of time to re shape the squad.

And if we didn't?

Do you really think we'll attract the calibre of player we want and need to progress if we don't qualify?

I'm as patient as they come but this summer I'm touching cloth!  :smt102

[DBTW]

All im saying is going into an important game like this, so underprepared in squad size, is taking a massive gamble on MON's part.

[magic monks]

It's certainly a calculated risk on MON's part, he certainly doesnt strike me as being in any way cavalier about the situation.

UEFA qualification is integral to his buying plans, why would a player sign now and run the risk of no European football after only a handful of days? Wait, let the club finish the job, and then sign. I know I would...

[OCD]

I'm not worried. MON's lack of spending just means his replacement will get oodles more to spend on 'World Class' players. Dunno whether to put a winky man, or a confused man next.

I would have gone with a man banging his head against the wall.

[ROBBO]

That's a worry in itself every time i try to put a winky thing up it just comes out as an asterix slash thingy type,  O:) Just like that.
I feel today is the day that there will be movement, at home suffering diabolical flu like symptoms i have had no energy other than to think of the Villa and it's in my water that an anbnouncement will be made.

[OCD]

So do I, I meant because they're being criticised when I haven't seen them withold support to MON.

[ROBBO]

I give free councilling to the afflicted.

[ColombianVillain]

Is this thread really that relevant anymore. It was originally made when our fears of relegation we very real.

[peter w]

Please leave.

[ROBBO]

The mans an idiot we are always in fear of relegation, those that have been there before and suffered the humiliation heaped on us by our near neighbours and having to play Walsall twice in one season know that it's always lurking.

[peter w]

Even more so that we're in a good patch. Sort of. This is where we usually balls it up and try and go down come January when we're out of the Cups and 11th.

[ROBBO]

Well i'm not sure who MON has targeted but the arrows seem to be taking an awful long time getting there.
It seems that SWP is on his way to Pompey, Newcastle won't be selling or buying so thats Milner out of the picture, the Spurs players all seem to have found new homes, Bentley is a lay down for Spurs, have i missed anyone.
Oh i think we'll sign Friedel but knowing we need six or seven new players we may see yet again MONs version of a revivalist meeting where he takes players seemingly doomed to obscurity and tries to turn them into superstars.
Where is the planning? surely we have had enough time to 1. know who we want 2. They want to come 3. Their club is willing to sell. Seems fairly simple to me and yet here we are three weeks away from our first home game with barely enough players to fill the spots.
I have given up on players of real proven talent joining us, right now i just want players capable of looking like premiership footballers.
And yes i am now officially very worried.

[peter w]

I agree it gets more unsettling the further into the window that we go. But with agents hawking their players they will wait for the best price before they sell. Clubs selling those players usually want to have a replacement lined up also. Its a bit like buying a house.

[ROBBO]

I think and always have done that we will not attract top players because other clubs i.e Portsmouth will pay them a lot more.
Any player worth his salt would rather come to Villa than to them but if they pay more then we lose out.
I am also worried that MON has not found a replacement for Barry and is saying a silent prayer that he stays.
Pete the problem i have in all this is that another year has gone by and MON is still trotting out the old cliches, a club of Villa's size should not be three weeks away from competition with gaping holes in the squad it's ridiculous.
Even if he does manage to get a couple in it will be weeks before they settle, it just sems so unproffessional to me, if i hired my staff using the MON policy it would be a disaster.
Apart from Friedel and Guzan is there one player you can think of that we are strongly linked with?