Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[dave.woodhall]

Can I shoehorn the Gary Shaw quote in here plese?

Please do.

"The year we won the league I had more women than I scored goals. I scored 23 goals."

Excellent. Childhood hero of mine.

A real legend!

A proper villa man.

Would have signed for ManU but for an injury if I remember correctly.

You don't. Ellis tried to sell him to Barcelona but that was it.

Any proof of that??

Tony Barton told me. When we won the Super Cup Ellis asked their president how much he'd pay.

[LeeB]

It doesn't even need to be true, it's most Ellis thing you could think of.

[rob_bridge]

Was the Bergkamp ever likely? At the time?

[dave.woodhall]

Was the Bergkamp ever likely? At the time?

He probably asked. Doug was the master of enquiring about players who would never join us, or bidding a few quid less, a few hours after, a deal was agreed.

[Steve67]

Was the Bergkamp ever likely? At the time?

He probably asked. Doug was the master of enquiring about players who would never join us, or bidding a few quid less, a few hours after, a deal was agreed.

Didn't he do this with Frank Lampard when he had already agreed to join Chelsea for around £11 mill?

[rob_bridge]

Was the Bergkamp ever likely? At the time?

He probably asked. Doug was the master of enquiring about players who would never join us, or bidding a few quid less, a few hours after, a deal was agreed.

Sounds about right. Probably why I get the feeling we have had this conversation before when you told me something similar about August 1995 outside VP.

[Footy-Vill]

Was the Bergkamp ever likely? At the time?

He probably asked. Doug was the master of enquiring about players who would never join us, or bidding a few quid less, a few hours after, a deal was agreed.

Didn't he do this with Frank Lampard when he had already agreed to join Chelsea for around £11 mill?

We were going to sign Bergkamp and Lampard??? That's outrageous.

[paul_e]

Was the Bergkamp ever likely? At the time?

He probably asked. Doug was the master of enquiring about players who would never join us, or bidding a few quid less, a few hours after, a deal was agreed.

Didn't he do this with Frank Lampard when he had already agreed to join Chelsea for around £11 mill?

We were going to sign Bergkamp and Lampard??? That's outrageous.

No we weren't but Doug liked to bid for players like that as a show of ambition before something going wrong, there are loads more names to add to that list.

[Footy-Vill]

Was the Bergkamp ever likely? At the time?

He probably asked. Doug was the master of enquiring about players who would never join us, or bidding a few quid less, a few hours after, a deal was agreed.

Didn't he do this with Frank Lampard when he had already agreed to join Chelsea for around £11 mill?

We were going to sign Bergkamp and Lampard??? That's outrageous.

No we weren't but Doug liked to bid for players like that as a show of ambition before something going wrong, there are loads more names to add to that list.

Name Names
I know we've had Robbie Keane and Joe Cole but not at their peak!

[paul_e]

Was the Bergkamp ever likely? At the time?

He probably asked. Doug was the master of enquiring about players who would never join us, or bidding a few quid less, a few hours after, a deal was agreed.

Didn't he do this with Frank Lampard when he had already agreed to join Chelsea for around £11 mill?

We were going to sign Bergkamp and Lampard??? That's outrageous.

No we weren't but Doug liked to bid for players like that as a show of ambition before something going wrong, there are loads more names to add to that list.

Name Names
I know we've had Robbie Keane and Joe Cole but not at their peak!

Robbie Keane a decade earlier, Juninho, Christian Vieri off the top of my head but almost every summer for a while we'd be linked with a couple of top players, nothing would come of it and then there's be news come out (one way or another) that we bid well below the asking price or bid when they'd already accepted a higher one from somewhere else.

[dave.woodhall]

Van Nistelrooy was another. Manchester United had a £16 million bid accepted, we then bid £15 million.

[Footy-Vill]

Wow. Good names.

....I see Inter Milan are in a financial mess now but back in the day Gianluca Pagliuca said he nearly came to Villa

Well he claimed that in 2014 When left Inter there was a possibility might have joined Villa?
"In 1999 I was in contact with some important European clubs, like Villa, Lazio, Deportivo La Coruna and Real Mallorca.
I eventually chose Bologna because it is my home, otherwise I'd have chosen Villa without doubt."

[LeonW]

Wow. Good names.

....I see Inter Milan are in a financial mess now but back in the day Gianluca Pagliuca said he nearly came to Villa

Well he claimed that in 2014 When left Inter there was a possibility might have joined Villa?
"In 1999 I was in contact with some important European clubs, like Villa, Lazio, Deportivo La Coruna and Real Mallorca.
I eventually chose Bologna because it is my home, otherwise I'd have chosen Villa without doubt."

Wow. I never knew that about Gianluca Pagluica. Would make sense as we were looking for a new keeper at the time when Bosnich slopped off. We aimed for Pagluica and ended up with David James in the end. How very Villa under Ellis.

[dave.woodhall]

Wow. Good names.

....I see Inter Milan are in a financial mess now but back in the day Gianluca Pagliuca said he nearly came to Villa

Well he claimed that in 2014 When left Inter there was a possibility might have joined Villa?
"In 1999 I was in contact with some important European clubs, like Villa, Lazio, Deportivo La Coruna and Real Mallorca.
I eventually chose Bologna because it is my home, otherwise I'd have chosen Villa without doubt."

Wow. I never knew that about Gianluca Pagluica. Would make sense as we were looking for a new keeper at the time when Bosnich slopped off. We aimed for Pagluica and ended up with David James in the end. How very Villa under Ellis.

And he's a Villa fan.

[LeonW]

Wow. Good names.

....I see Inter Milan are in a financial mess now but back in the day Gianluca Pagliuca said he nearly came to Villa

Well he claimed that in 2014 When left Inter there was a possibility might have joined Villa?
"In 1999 I was in contact with some important European clubs, like Villa, Lazio, Deportivo La Coruna and Real Mallorca.
I eventually chose Bologna because it is my home, otherwise I'd have chosen Villa without doubt."

Wow. I never knew that about Gianluca Pagluica. Would make sense as we were looking for a new keeper at the time when Bosnich slopped off. We aimed for Pagluica and ended up with David James in the end. How very Villa under Ellis.

And he's a Villa fan.

Pagluica, Bosnich, James or Doug?