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

[Steve67]

Hmm, wait and see about this one, its not the kind of signing I'd have expected from the new recruitment fella. I dont remember him being any better than what we have.

It's pretty clear DS is doing the signings this summer with all the serious links and Matty Cash. Think we'll see more of Lange's influence in January and next summer. I reckon currently he's doing a review of our whole football set up for the owners so that's the focus.

Hmm, wait and see about this one, its not the kind of signing I'd have expected from the new recruitment fella. I dont remember him being any better than what we have.

It's pretty clear DS is doing the signings this summer with all the serious links and Matty Cash. Think we'll see more of Lange's influence in January and next summer. I reckon currently he's doing a review of our whole football set up for the owners so that's the focus.

Review of the whole club set up

just tell him to read H&V     Sorted

All apart from your posts!! (joke).

[andyh]

If Josh King is the answer, why did we bid for Callum Wilson?
Looks like we are shooting fish in the Bournemouth barrel.

[Monty]

It feels like we're just going alphabetically through the Championship and are stuck on 'b'.

[Des Little]

That’s a worrying thought given the next one in that little sequence share our great city

[enigma]

Josh King.  Is he a winger who can play down the middle a bit or a winger, winger?  Is he any good?

More of a striker that can play wide.

[Dave P]

It feels like we're just going alphabetically through the Championship and are stuck on 'b'.

It’s a good job we call them Small Heath then isn’t it!?

[sickbeggar]

That’s a worrying thought given the next one in that little sequence share our great city

ah but it works both ways. Hogan/Jota mega 2m deal

[Steve67]

Josh King.  Is he a winger who can play down the middle a bit or a winger, winger?  Is he any good?

More of a striker that can play wide.

Underwhelming?

[Shrek]

We are coming across quite embarrassing.

We seem very naive and unprepared right now. Bidding on Wilson, to then withdraw and bid on his teammate??? Very poor planning.

Bournemouth will just say 21m for King, or whatever it was we bid for Wilson.

[Shrek]

Josh King.  Is he a winger who can play down the middle a bit or a winger, winger?  Is he any good?

More of a striker that can play wide.

Underwhelming?

Very.

[brontebilly]

im glad we're better than buying a 4 times spanish and german league winner and 2 times champions league winner and concentrating on the real quality at brentford

Yeah, given the choice of someone who regularly puts them away against Rotherham and Barnsley or someone just off 14 in 32 starts at Bayern Munich and 29 in 64 at Real Madrid, and who has scored in World Cups, I know which I would plump for.

Wouldn't it be nice for us to do something exciting in the transfer market rather than the usual over priced Championship stuff we buy.

We'll probably pay more for Benhrahma than Everton did for James Rodriguez FFS.

Can't we do something that smells of ambition rather than hoping it is good enough to keep us up for a change?

10 years of this rubbish.

We do desperately a John Carew type signing, someone known around europe and proven in top leagues and also states to other players we actually mean business and are on the up so they might actually want to join us rather than have a think about it for weeks on end.

When we signed him and Ashley Young that January in the end days of Lerner and MON that convinced me we were on the right path and for the next two years we were.

Still waiting for that to happen under this manager and ownership.

If I recall correctly Carew fell into MONs lap a bit as Houllier? at Lyon really wanted him out and wanted Baros in. Was Carew really proven ? Bit of a nomadic career pre Villa. MON certainly went down the British is best route after that.

Young was a real statement of intent for sure (not sure how we got him out of Watford mid season), both in the same window too. Baros aside, I can't recall who we had up top around then. Likes of Luke Moore and Gabby I guess.

[Rory]

Maybe I'm in a bad mood but I'm a bit non-plussed that after staying up by the width of a fanny hair we are looking at players from teams who were actually worse than us. Its very Villa shopping at the relegated clubs.

Nothing wrong with buying the best players from lower-placed clubs, it's what the whole market is about, but we do seem to pick 'easy' targets. When was the last time we bought a player from a PL club that they actually wanted to keep? Bent?

[Villan82]

It is a bit strange that the owners haven't seemingly been pushing for a signing to signal intent.

Maybe there isn't the intent we imagined?

It's been a disappointing window, the second one in a row.

[sickbeggar]

I'm just waiting for Smith to bid something other than 20m. Has he got a voucher he's trying to get rid off?

[Ads]

Josh King appears to be the Norwegian (I know right?!) Wilson. 1 in 3ish (3.25). Better than Samatta and Davis, more proven than Wesley.