Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread

[Sexual Ealing]

Who?

Plays for Rennes. Central midfielder.

I'd never heard of him. Rennes, according to Wiki.

I'm definitely KFA, but it was on the Villa Report on Twitter.

[Ger Regan]

29 year old (30 in january) doesn't strike me as the sort of age profile we'd be aiming for in that sort of position. That said, i know nothing about him so may be worth it.

[sickbeggar]

heh. couldn't work out how he'd played so few games at 29

 "At the end of his recovery, he revealed that he was not far from losing the use of his legs"

Perfect!

[London Villan]

This is more like it, exoctic foreign footballers no-one has ever heard of or knows if they are any good or not.

[Dave]

Apparently they're in discussions with us, Porto, Galatasaray and Valladolid.

[paul_e]

I remember seeing him linked before and looked him up. He was rated as one of the best youngsters in France in about 13/14 but had a bit of a horror run of injuries and lost his place with Lyon.

I'd say he comes with the same risks as as Wilson so it'd need to be a smallish fee and reasonable wages to be worth it.

[Ads]

Perfect tee up for the Goodfellas line...

Isn't that Pacino's line in Heat?

Who, who , who! What are you a fucking owl?

[sickbeggar]

Aye. A very smallish fee. There's people with Munchausen syndrome who've spent less time in hospital.

[luke:lamf]

heh. couldn't work out how he'd played so few games at 29

 "At the end of his recovery, he revealed that he was not far from losing the use of his legs"

Perfect!

It's awful for him to have gone through, but with the Perfect! that is one of the funniest things I have read recently.

[Percy McCarthy]

It should do. Can you try again please and let me know the result so I can pass it on to Martin?

I just added you and Ads to the ignore list, and I can still see your posts.  Purely for scientific purposes you understand!

Pretty sure Mods are exempt.

Can’t ignore Percy then?

He’s ignored me plenty, probably very wisely for both our sakes 😉

[ozzjim]

Being linked with Clement Grenier who is a number 8 essentially. Don't know enough about him to know if he's any good, he was highly rated a few seasons back on football manager though lol

[Sexual Ealing]

Who?

[sickbeggar]

heh. couldn't work out how he'd played so few games at 29

 "At the end of his recovery, he revealed that he was not far from losing the use of his legs"

Perfect!

It's awful for him to have gone through, but with the Perfect! that is one of the funniest things I have read recently.

aye shouldn't larf really. shows you can come back after something like that.. Mind you, Bob Pires managed to play 9 games for us after losing the use of his legs

[KevinGage]

Clément Grenier now.

Who?

Who?

Is there an owl in here etc.

[SheffieldVillain]

Being linked with Clement Grenier who is a number 8 essentially. Don't know enough about him to know if he's any good, he was highly rated a few seasons back on football manager though lol

According to Wiki, spent most if not all of his career in the French or Italian top divisions, capped 5 times for France. Played 17 times for the team that finished 3rd in the French top division last season. Horrendous injury problems for years but has played 60+ times in the last two seasons so clearly has made a comeback. Squarely in the age 28+ experience in top divisions some people have been mentioning a lot on here in the last few days.