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

[Richard E]

From Alan Nixon 15 mins ago:

VILLA. Moving for a striker. If they pull it off it will be a big SHOCK. Bit in paper tomorrow. #AVFC

Then added

French. Currently playing in UK. #AVFC

So presume it’s the lad from Celtic

It’s a fake account. Only 86 tweets.

[Risso]

Yep, copied the real Twitter account word for word, but replaced the 'i' in nicko with a '1'.

[Toronto Villa]

From Alan Nixon 15 mins ago:

VILLA. Moving for a striker. If they pull it off it will be a big SHOCK. Bit in paper tomorrow. #AVFC

Then added

French. Currently playing in UK. #AVFC

So presume it’s the lad from Celtic

L’harry kané?

[Toronto Villa]

Yep, copied the real Twitter account word for word, but replaced the 'i' in nicko with a '1'.

If I’m going rip someone off for ITK it wouldn’t be Nixon

[Dave P]

Twitter talk that we’re rivalling Sheff Utd for Ramsdale from Bournemouth. Hadn’t a £16m bid been accepted?

[Dave]

We are pretty short in that area with just our fifteen goalkeepers.

[LeeB]

Twitter talk that we’re rivalling Sheff Utd for Ramsdale from Bournemouth. Hadn’t a £16m bid been accepted?

If that were true, I'd start to wonder of the existance of some kind of sub-culture at the club with a fetish for men in gloves

[chrisw1]

You'd think he'd prefer to be No1 at Sheffield rather than have to compete with Heaton for us?

Either way I'm not convinced it would be the best use of our budget.

[PeterWithesShin]

Makes sense, literally the first thing I think when I look at our squad is "we're a bit short on goalkeepers."

[frank black]

You'd think he'd prefer to be No1 at Sheffield rather than have to compete with Heaton for us?

Either way I'm not convinced it would be the best use of our budget.

Unless Heaton’s injury is worse than thought?

[SoccerHQ]

Must be the only one who thinks Ramsdale isn't that good. Fat bloke who goes down in instalments for shots placed in the corner and judging from his performance in the away game pretty bad at crosses aswell given he tried to knock Engels out for one.

If we have to go for a short term keeper I'd look at Etheridge from Cardiff. Lost his place but he did o.k for them in their promotion season and also kept a decent number of clean sheets in the prem. There were rumours we bid 8m last summer but Cardiff wanted more and we got Heaton for that amount. Would cost far less this summer.

[SoccerHQ]

You'd think he'd prefer to be No1 at Sheffield rather than have to compete with Heaton for us?

Either way I'm not convinced it would be the best use of our budget.

Unless Heaton’s injury is worse than thought?

Could well be the case. I remember he was on MOTD2 months back and said his recovery wasn't going as quickly as he wanted it to. I know it's slightly different for a keeper but Wes is miles off a return and Heaton had a similar injury.

No idea what's happened to Steer. When he got injured at Wolves I'm sure people were saying he was only going to be out for 2-3 months. That was in November so very odd.

[Gareth]

I think Steer is fit again, he was pulled onto the bench last minute against Palace when Hause got injured in the warm up & Elmo had to start instead of him

[ASHTONVILLA]

No to Ramsdale. We have a lot of keepers and need to shift Kalinic and Nyland on already. Heaton is a good keeper, Steer could be a good deputy if he recovers. If one of them isn't fit for the start of the season I would rather have Reina back and keep £18m available for more pressing needs like replacing Wesley and Samatta, and finding some pace.

[AsTallAsLions]

Ramsdale is 22.

Our own young keeper that we just let go join Wolves for the sum total of £0, Matija Sarkic, is 23.

I'd be incensed at our overall transfer policy if we went and spent upwards of £18m on the former.