Lucas Digne - Signed

[Scovilla]

I haven't seen him play recently but each time he played for "les bleus" he has always been up to the task. He needs to play (and well) for his club to go to Qatar. That is another good point for us.
UTV.

[VILLA MOLE]

We seem to be very gung ho on giving them their own thread before signing ?  it scares me but I like it !

[LeonW]

If this signing goes through I think it’s one that makes a lot of sense. As we saw at Brentford, without our fullbacks offering much in the way of offensive quality, we can dominate for a period but not be productive. Digne will provide quality with his delivery for Watkins and Ings. Not only that, but with Coutinho likely to play off the left and cut inside to shoot, a more dynamic left back (which unfortunately Targett isn’t) opens up more possibilities against both teams that we’ll dominate against and those that we’ll need to counterattack against.

I am slightly concerned however, about the increasing age profile of our signings. I wouldn’t want us to go down the MON route.

[Villafirst]

I just thought I'd check the Newcastle fans forum on us signing Digne:
A sample of their dissatisfaction: "Absolutely f**king hate Villa. C**ts"
Very articulate these Geordies, don't you think?

[Clark W Griswold]

Good player but there is talk of a bust up which is not ideal. We’ll see, but I’d be happy to see him sign.

[PaulWinch again]

He would add a much needed attacking dimension to our full backs.

[Dave P]

Good player but there is talk of a bust up which is not ideal. We’ll see, but I’d be happy to see him sign.

Think this seems wide of the mark. Reading Everton’s forum, he’s been an ultimate professional and then Benetez takes against him and throws him under the bus. But then they don’t really have much time for Benetez up there!

[dave.woodhall]

Good player but there is talk of a bust up which is not ideal. We’ll see, but I’d be happy to see him sign.

Think this seems wide of the mark. Reading Everton’s forum, he’s been an ultimate professional and then Benetez takes against him and throws him under the bus. But then they don’t really have much time for Benetez up there!

Paellardyce, as I've seen him described.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Think he's good going forward, but not so hot defensively.

Do worry slightly about us signing 2 players approaching 30 though and both on large wages.

Suppose a bit more experience won't hurt.

[Ian.]

Not sure this is what we need. Someone stronger defensively is the order of the day for me. We have attacking talent, we need to sure up a bit. If we were sticking with the 5-3-2 fair enough but not in a 4 which us clearly Gerrards favoured formation.

Have you not watched our games since he’s taken over? Our full backs are so high up the field so their roles are very different to when Smith was here.

Season Ticket holder. Sorry my opinion on a potential signing differs to yours.

I’m not on about opinions, just the way we play. So far I haven’t seen any evidence our manager wants our fullbacks to do a lot of defending. We’re not playing the traditional 532 with wingbacks but 4 across the back but with very, very advanced full backs with the midfield tucking in. If it was about defence Targett is actually a very good defender.

[Shrek]

I was initially excited about this, but the Everton fans seem buzzing he is leaving for such a big fee, they are saying he can’t defend and has been poor for 18 months now with an attitude problem.

He is defo an improvement on Targett attacking wise, let’s hope he can defend as well.

[London Villan]

To be fair, targetts best games were when there was loads of space in front of him created by the rat.

[pauliewalnuts]

Think he's good going forward, but not so hot defensively.

We're not going to need to defend with the attacking talent we are amassing.

[manic-road]

Hope we sign Digne, an upgrade on Targett for sure. Can see him and Coutinho linking up well on the left.

[eamonn]

Isn't he a self-entitled, gobby fcuk? Then again, most of them are...oh well, crack on then, it in't our money...