January Transfer Window

[Toronto Villa]

STOKE & WATFORD JOIN CHAMPIONSHIP RIVALS IN RACE FOR MIDFIELDER

Watford, Reading, Bristol City and Stoke City are all looking to sign Henri Lansbury from Aston Villa before the transfer window shuts.

I'll start the car

[PhilVill]

Better had as it'll take him two days to reach it..

[curiousorange]

I’m not sure Davis fits in the “journeyman” bracket now - although he may be that by the end of his career. I do think it is a flaw to have him as our second choice striker, he definitely isn’t good enough now and may never be. I could accept a  journeyman as a short term solution for the next 6 months.

I just don't see how Davis can be described as a striker, given he never scores. He's, at most, a forward. People want him to work there but he hasn't shown anybody that he can fill in as a supplementary goalscorer, let alone a main one. He had half a season in the top flight as the focal point and isn't up to it.

In reference to journeymen, you have to be a bit careful. Sometimes you get a Dugarry, most times it's Grant Holt.

[N'ZMAV]

STOKE & WATFORD JOIN CHAMPIONSHIP RIVALS IN RACE FOR MIDFIELDER

Watford, Reading, Bristol City and Stoke City are all looking to sign Henri Lansbury from Aston Villa before the transfer window shuts.

I'll start the car

I'll bung you a fiver for fuel.

[Clampy]

It is the sum we could have/should have bought Watkins for from Exeter City.

Maybe Brian but nobody else other than Brentford took a chance on him either. Besides, those couple of years in the championship will have developed him as a player.

[Toronto Villa]

STOKE & WATFORD JOIN CHAMPIONSHIP RIVALS IN RACE FOR MIDFIELDER

Watford, Reading, Bristol City and Stoke City are all looking to sign Henri Lansbury from Aston Villa before the transfer window shuts.

I'll start the car

I'll bung you a fiver for fuel.

Apparently joining on a permanent deal so we will only need one way. We'll get hammered once we get to Bristol celebrating and hitch hike back.

[brian green]

The thing that pisses me off Clampy is that I took the trouble to write to Villa Park about Ollie Watkins when he was at Exeter and I did not get an answer.  There I have said it.

[Dave]

Harry Kane could be described as a journeyman, I wouldn't mind having the option of him up front.

Not really. It's nothing to do with the number of clubs you have.

It's an old term from medieval guilds for someone qualified in a trade but not skilled enough to be permanently employed, so they were paid by the day.

You can be a journeyman and stay at the same club your whole career. It just so happens that the type of player described might end up with shorter contracts and therefore go from club to club.

[brian green]

Thank you Dave, I could not have expressed it better.

[OCD]

Rightly or wrongly, the term is still applied to a player who's got through a lot of clubs.

[Dave]

Rightly or wrongly, the term is still applied to a player who's got through a lot of clubs.

Sure. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't be told what the word they are using actually means.

Edit - I only know it because I pompously used it incorrectly on here about a decade ago and (I think) gregnash pulled me up on it. The world gets better by learning things...

[john e]

Harry Kane could be described as a journeyman, I wouldn't mind having the option of him up front.

Not really. It's nothing to do with the number of clubs you have.

It's an old term from medieval guilds for someone qualified in a trade but not skilled enough to be permanently employed, so they were paid by the day.

You can be a journeyman and stay at the same club your whole career. It just so happens that the type of player described might end up with shorter contracts and therefore go from club to club.

I did not know that

[brian green]

The only thing I would add is that the Guild into which the journeyman sought to be admitted allowed the journeyman to stay, on non craftsmen's pay, where he chose. The 'journey' in the title referred to freedom to move on. The bearer of journeyman rank was not tied to an employer.

[dave shelley]

I still have the card issued to me when I was an apprentice that describes me as a 'apprentice journeyman electrician'.  Just sayin'.

[Londonvilla]

Aston Villa transfer 'agreed' ahead of medical

Aston Villa midfielder Henri Lansbury has reportedly agreed to move to Bristol City.

The Athletic report that Lansbury is exiting Villa Park on a permanent deal and that a medical examination is booked in for Friday night.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/aston-villa-transfer-agreed-medical-19732025

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