January 2023 Transfer Rumours, Discussions and Done Deals Thread

[Dave]

Bet that is a slow team, can any of them run bar Pepe?

They've got quite a lot of young French types too. Marcus Thuram's younger brother is there and runs around a lot.

[pauliewalnuts]

If a villa side were to win the double there would still be people moaning about the tactics, the manager, the subs made/not made, some signing that hadn't contributed enough or one of the longer-serving players not being good enough for where we want to go etc etc. The older you get the more you realise this.

Easily the most boring thing is fans moaning about other fans.

Does this count at your good self moaning at Footy? 😉

Morning at one person and the nonsense he talks on a forum is not the same as moaning about how other people support their club.

[chrisw1]

So, Newcastle's last major domestic trophy (FA Cup) was 1955! That's 68 years ago....

I'd not get too smug about that.  There's a very strong chance their next one will be in 2023 and they'll be laughing at us with our 27 years.

[Risso]

If a villa side were to win the double there would still be people moaning about the tactics, the manager, the subs made/not made, some signing that hadn't contributed enough or one of the longer-serving players not being good enough for where we want to go etc etc. The older you get the more you realise this.

Easily the most boring thing is fans moaning about other fans.

Does this count at your good self moaning at Footy? 😉

Morning at one person and the nonsense he talks on a forum is not the same as moaning about how other people support their club.

In any case, the post you're replying to nearly made me choke on my cornflakes. If I was actually eating any, which I'm not.

[Dave]

Apparently McKennie who didn't want to join us is joining Leeds Soccer Club

[Dr Butler]

come on Villa....get a striker and a wide man in please...

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[VinnieChase84]

Apparently McKennie who didn't want to join us is joining Leeds Soccer Club

Never in for Mckennie this time around

[Risso]

Apparently McKennie who didn't want to join us is joining Leeds Soccer Club

Never in for Mckennie this time around

Given there's less than a week left now Vinnie, have you heard how things are shaping up? We seem to be getting a bit close to the wire.

[tomd2103]

Newcastle had the Keegan/Dalglish/Gullit (to a point) and Shearer years where they had full houses, competed in Europe and nearly won the league. From a media standpoint they were a superb story against the evil Man U empire and threatened to become something in the battle for trophies for years to come. They operate in one club market too and get talked about with disproportionate reverence. They also play the victim role to perfection as a sleeping giant despite not having won much ever. But they disappeared up their own arses quickly, had a series of shit managers and went down hilariously. But they present a much more appetizing story of redemption than we do because our recent moments of relevance were not as exciting as theirs.

I think you're absolutely right to refer to things as 'appetizing'. Where I disagree is somewhere within that vague PR landscape that has designated London & the North West as the heartlands of English football - with the North-North (Leeds & Newcastle) as the outliers.

Newcastle were decent in the mid-90s and Keegan had his meltdown, then Shearer signed for the club he supports, which is a modern fucking miracle. That's media exposure 25 years ago.

If we market ourselves correctly, we are the club of both the establishment & the modern disenfranchised. We're the guys with the unique name, the unique history, utter dogshite local neighbours within an 80-mile radius.

Put it this way: I work in PR, and I'd take commission work on Villa before fixed rate on the likes of Newcastle.

We had that chance in the mid 1990's but didn't take advantage. 

[VinnieChase84]

Apparently McKennie who didn't want to join us is joining Leeds Soccer Club

Never in for Mckennie this time around

Given there's less than a week left now Vinnie, have you heard how things are shaping up? We seem to be getting a bit close to the wire.

Honestly, it beyond hard to get any drips since some previous coaching staff have departed.....
Last i heard we were still confident of 2-3 in

[chrisw1]

Apparently McKennie who didn't want to join us is joining Leeds Soccer Club

Never in for Mckennie this time around

Whether we were or not the media narrative was he wanted a bigger and more historic club than Villa.  If he then rocks up at Leeds it just shows how either he's had to eat humble pie or (far more likely of course) the media were talking shite.

[LeeB]

Apparently McKennie who didn't want to join us is joining Leeds Soccer Club

Never in for Mckennie this time around

Whether we were or not the media narrative was he wanted a bigger and more historic club than Villa.  If he then rocks up at Leeds it just shows how either he's had to eat humble pie or (far more likely of course) the media were talking shite.

He looks to me like he's not afraid of eating pies

[JUAN PABLO]

Hakim Ziyech according to greg evans

[pablo_picasso]

Post Keegan nail recently Newcastle fans have had to put up with such crap but still turned up in numbers. Fair play. Now they are fronting a sport washing operation and apparently successful. Would you take that at Villa? For me no, we do things the right way.

Did they? I always thought they had an average of about 20k-ish for the years when they were shiter than they were before they got bought out by human rights abusing murderers... Oh, sorry, the mid 90's when they did ok for a shitty little club that had done nothing its whole history. Personally, I have always despised the deluded chimps...

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Hakim Ziyech according to greg evans

Strongly linked with a loan to buy move to Newcastle but they want Gordon and Chelsea would rather not loan/sell to a rival.
If we are interested, I hope it's a similar type deal. He'll be 30 in March, a loan deal looks the safest option.