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

[eamonn]

Kevin Volland ? I love Dexys as much as the next bloke but unfortunately I think Kev was/is a Wolves fan.

[Sexual Ealing]

Too-rye-ay.

[ROBBO]

Tammy is not first pick at Chelsea but they would still want fifty million for him.

[Stu]

Keep checking this thread every hour or so for any updates on signings. I'm a 40 year old man for God's sake.

[Hookeysmith]

I bet it really pisses the media off that they really do not have a proper clue as to who we actually want and are going after.
I would imagine the delay is down to a multitude of issues ranging from

late season ending , players returning , new recruitment and DOF set up at the club, piss takers asking for way over the top prices.

As long as the club have the following plan then all will be ok

Goal scorer - Edouard / Tammy or that ilk

Striker  who can work the front line - Watkins - or similar

Winger - fast and tricky

CM - tough tackling box to box who Nakamba can be understudy to

Left back - a first teamer who Targett can be understudy to (our most successful periods have been when we have had quality attacking LB's)

GK - possibly a loan for an older , experienced pro

[Sexual Ealing]

Same. Except I'm 42.

[Hookeysmith]

Keep checking this thread every hour or so for any updates on signings. I'm a 40 year old man for God's sake.

And me

Sad isn't it

i'm 57

[chrisw1]

If only I could keep it down to just every hour or so,

[Clampy]

If only I could keep it down to just every hour or so,

That's still a lot of masturbating to be honest.

[Holy Trinity]

I pop to the loo to check at work so often  that they think I have a bladder condition!

[brontebilly]

Might be some merit in what he's saying in terms of 'getting it going' as I suspect Villa want to open with a marquee signing to get other players thinking we mean business.  Perhaps the Trippier thing might have something in it after all?

I should hope if we are looking at bringing in a 'marquee' player it is someone better than a 30-year-old right back who is probably England's 4th choice right-back behind Trent Alexander-Arnold, Wan-Bissaka and Kyle Walker.

If he is anything like the player he was, he would be ahead of 2 of those and a long way behind one of them.

He had a dreadful last season or so at Spurs. Very average defender but with a tidy right foot. One to avoid I reckon.

Matty Cash being linked with us too. Think we should be putting more faith in Guilbert to be honest and focusing on other positions.

[in exile]

Like a left back for example.

[rob_bridge]

Like a left back for example.

First choice left back is a must. Keep Targett as back up and move Taylor on

[ozzjim]

Keep checking this thread every hour or so for any updates on signings. I'm a 40 year old man for God's sake.

And me

Sad isn't it

i'm 57

I'm only 38 you old gits.

Although I remember being on here (or incarnations of here) 20 ish years ago, which makes me very, very fcking old.

The blackouts days, the server switch when Matt G and I had about 40,000 posts wiped out. Ah the memories.

And we still haven't signed anyone.

[SoccerHQ]

Like a left back for example.

First choice left back is a must. Keep Targett as back up and move Taylor on

Don't really think a left back is going to push us 5 places up the league until we get the forward positions right.

It's a bit like signing Bouma in 2005 and he only really started playing consistantly well from 2007 onwards, pretty much when we signed Young and played him down the left.

Targett is average but it can wait until January.