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

[mr underhill]

we won't be signing anyone today according to a few Villa watchers.

[Yeltzer]

Benrahma has failed his medical at Wet Spam, apparently

[Mister E]

Buendia would be excellent but I suspect no incomings will happen today.

[Jon Crofts]

Benrahma has failed his medical at Wet Spam, apparently

I saw that, staggered if true.

[rougegorge]

I think we have done well with transfers so far, but I would have concerns about the disparity between first team and the B string, especially in the event of injuries. As we are in a much better place than last season, I was hoping we would get someone like Josh King, but that seems highly unlikely.

[Drummond]

Benrahma has failed his medical at Wet Spam, apparently

I saw that, staggered if true.

You can imagine the porn dwarfs setting osme new criteria....

Was he born on Krypton? No? NO? Well the deal is off.

[villadelph]

Benrahma has failed his medical at Wet Spam, apparently

I saw that, staggered if true.

Apparently, it was the blood test?

[exigo]

Probably some ruse to try and negotiate the price down.

[OCD]

Or they're having second thoughts and are trying to back out of the deal. The lad that failed his medical at Leeds moved somewhere else and passed his medical there so it does happen.

[exigo]

Lot of West Ham sites saying they're trying to turn it into a loan for the season, paying next season. Sounds likely with that lot.

[OCD]

And they supposedly had a limited budget and then as soon as the first window closed, seemed to be in for several players.

[paul_e]

I think we have done well with transfers so far, but I would have concerns about the disparity between first team and the B string, especially in the event of injuries. As we are in a much better place than last season, I was hoping we would get someone like Josh King, but that seems highly unlikely.

The gap between the first 11 and second 11 is too big but it's also not a meaningful measure in many ways. A direct comparison of the stoke and liverpool games looks stark but how often will we ever be looking at more than 2-3 players out at the same time? If we can make the understudies capable of filling in like-for-like for a couple of games then generally we'll be fine.

[Lastfootstamper]

What's created such disparity is down to one thing, and that's the huge improvement in our first choice eleven. Here's hoping that chasm widens with each passing window!

[algy]

I think we have done well with transfers so far, but I would have concerns about the disparity between first team and the B string, especially in the event of injuries. As we are in a much better place than last season, I was hoping we would get someone like Josh King, but that seems highly unlikely.

The gap between the first 11 and second 11 is too big but it's also not a meaningful measure in many ways. A direct comparison of the stoke and liverpool games looks stark but how often will we ever be looking at more than 2-3 players out at the same time? If we can make the understudies capable of filling in like-for-like for a couple of games then generally we'll be fine.

Yeah, agree totally. We're not in Europe, and are out of the league cup. I think we've got enough cover for where we're at. Realistically if we wanted a strong (er) second eleven it'd mean buying more gambles from Belgium* and doing without Martinez & Cash..

* Other countries beginning with 'B' are also available

[Percy McCarthy]

Danny Murphy reckons King is on his way but I have no idea how the fuck he woukd know.