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

[Nii Lamptey]

Brian Little's best signing was part-exing Guy Whittingham for Ian Taylor. I remember thinking 'who?!' at the time. 

[Clampy]

Buying Gareth Southgate Badger as a midfielder and playing him centre half was a good move as well.

[Sexual Ealing]

Fair play, Sasa Curcic went on to have a stellar career as a magician in Las Vegas.   Sir Brian never got any of the credit for that.

In fact, I seem to remember that a biography of the city that I read (a sort of twisted cousin of Peter Ackroyd's Biography of London, but in neon, with its tits out) gave most of the credit to Jim Walker.

[LeeB]

Buying Gareth Southgate Badger as a midfielder and playing him centre half was a good move as well.

Yes, because on the evidence of the odd occasion he did play in midfield he was shite!

[maidstonevillain]

I did wonder if we could get Milner. It's not as if he plays a lot for Liverpool.

Probably be too much money in transfers and wages.

Knocking on a bit, but apparently still the fittest player in their squad.

I would expect, if he moves on anywhere, it will be full circle back to Leeds.

[chrisw1]

So i hope Watkins is a success just to wind up the likes of twitter and the Meaning  Evil currently taking the piss.

Are they? Genuine question, as I'm not on Twitter and don't read that rag.


Given the current market, I think the reported fee for Watkins is perfectly reasonable.

yeah mail have got some article claiming brentford fans are all celebrating. Shouldn't rise to the bait, but y'know.

That's the thing. I know it's a cliche that football fans claim certain media outlets are against them, but with the Mail it is pretty blatant. If we signed Messi and Ronaldo on free transfers the Mail would be calling us an old folks' home. It's not possible to get an objective view of our business from that paper.

I can't stand the mail clikbait articles and agree they can be negative at times, but I don't think this is particulalty true.  Matt Kendrick, Ashley Preece, James Rushton and Dan Rollinson are all huge Villa fans and do try a positive spin where they can. It doesn't help that the paper is Mirror Group syndicated and some of the clickbait stuff come from offer Mirror Group local rags.

[danno]

Buying Gareth Southgate Badger as a midfielder and playing him centre half was a good move as well.

Yes, because on the evidence of the odd occasion he did play in midfield he was shite!

Haha four years later Keegan tried putting him back in midfield against Germany...
And he was shite!

[KevinGage]

Buying Gareth Southgate Badger as a midfielder and playing him centre half was a good move as well.

In hindsight, I wish he'd never bothered.

[brian green]

If it was Jim Walker who got Sasa Curcic the gig on the undercard to Siegfried and Roy at Circus Circus he played a blinder.

[Mister E]

Cahill could have been the experience we needed last season, but inflated Prem salaries and the 'lure of London' apparently put paid to that.
Albrighton might be worth a shout,for a combination of the experience and the commitment.

[Sexual Ealing]

If it was Jim Walker who got Sasa Curcic the gig on the undercard to Siegfried and Roy at Circus Circus he played a blinder.

I believe it was Billy McNeill.

[Risso]

Point of Order: Big Ron signed Townsend, not Sir Brian. He was sent off in the first-half of the 4-3 defeat at Wimbledon, in which we were also 1-3 up at one point, which ended up being Atkinson's last game in charge.

And it was Brian that came in and straight away decided many of our squad were way too old, had bad habits and lacked motivation (he detailed is thinking extensively in his 'Return of the Little Villain' book), so went out and signed young players from a mixture of the lower division (Charles and Johnson), relegated sides (Draper and Southgate) and a big unknown in Savo, for a side that had narrowly avoided relegation.

The 'experienced top flight players' he signed for big money, Curcic and Collymore, pretty much finished him off.

In an alternative universe, they were the two players that inspired us to a title win and helped lay the foundations for us being cemented as Champions League regulars.  I used to go to a lot of Bolton's games back then with work, and Curcic was brilliant for them.  It was like the ball was stuck to his feet, and he had that Grealish type ability to just go past defenders like they weren't there.  When it turned out we were signing him I was stupidly excited, and even more so after his debut which is still one of the best from a Villa player I've ever seen.  It being Villa though, of course it couldn't last and I don't think I've seen a player go down hill quite so quickly.  Other than Collymore of course.  FFS.

[Drummond]

Sanchez went downhill stupid fast. He played a wonderful cross field pass on his debut and never did anything similar again.

[sid1964]

Read Watkins was the best player in the championship last season and for £33 million he better be

Minimum of 15 goals this season and no excuses Unless he gets injured

[chrisw1]

Point of Order: Big Ron signed Townsend, not Sir Brian. He was sent off in the first-half of the 4-3 defeat at Wimbledon, in which we were also 1-3 up at one point, which ended up being Atkinson's last game in charge.

And it was Brian that came in and straight away decided many of our squad were way too old, had bad habits and lacked motivation (he detailed is thinking extensively in his 'Return of the Little Villain' book), so went out and signed young players from a mixture of the lower division (Charles and Johnson), relegated sides (Draper and Southgate) and a big unknown in Savo, for a side that had narrowly avoided relegation.

The 'experienced top flight players' he signed for big money, Curcic and Collymore, pretty much finished him off.

In an alternative universe, they were the two players that inspired us to a title win and helped lay the foundations for us being cemented as Champions League regulars.  I used to go to a lot of Bolton's games back then with work, and Curcic was brilliant for them.  It was like the ball was stuck to his feet, and he had that Grealish type ability to just go past defenders like they weren't there.  When it turned out we were signing him I was stupidly excited, and even more so after his debut which is still one of the best from a Villa player I've ever seen.  It being Villa though, of course it couldn't last and I don't think I've seen a player go down hill quite so quickly.  Other than Collymore of course.  FFS.

This is all so true. I was so chuffed when we signed them both.  What could have been eh?  The useless fuckers.