January 2023 Transfer Rumours, Discussions and Done Deals Thread

[Pete3206]

Why would they when there's clearly going to be nothing doing?

[ldavfc4eva]

Agree with Dave,

Why Ings and Sanson have been allowed to go without having replacements pretty much signed baffles me.

Guilbert and Marvellous I get as they haven’t played, but our top scorer and a midfielder who has played well IMO when given the chance not being replaced seems insane.

Understand about recouping some money for Ings, but if he were here now I’m sure there would have been another 3-5 million chucked at us as a last minute deal, or we keep him and retain some strength up top.

Very poor window, I just hope Unai agrees with the lack of action rather than being pissed off at how little we have backed him.

[Steve67]

Never mind eh. We still have the 20,000 season ticket queue ready and waiting in the wings.

[pauliewalnuts]

Same old boring story.

"Maybe next window". Pathetic. It never changes.

[LeonW]

• We’ll sign top players if they become available.
• Appointing a decent manager then not adequately backing him.
• Treating supporters with disdain.
• Doing just enough to show a level of ambition but not really going beyond it.
• Relatively low net spend over a period.

I hate to say it but isn’t this all a bit Doug?

[PaulWinch again]

Yep I guarantee we’ll finish the summer short in 2 or 3 positions. It never feels like we have a coherent transfer strategy and it’s evidenced by the balls up we’ve made this January. That doesn’t mean we don’t sign some good players, clearly we do, but as a squad we are always short.

[Malandro]

• We’ll sign top players if they become available.
• Appointing a decent manager then not adequately backing him.
• Treating supporters with disdain.
• Doing just enough to show a level of ambition but not really going beyond it.
• Relatively low net spend over a period.

I hate to say it but isn’t this all a bit Doug?

Treating supporters with disdain?
Bizarre.

[Dave]

It just seems to me that it's typical Villa, it's not the first time that we have looked promising at Christmas and just needing that one player to really make a challenge, the only difference so far is that in past days we were looking for a stallion and actually bought a donkey.

I'll raise you a Bartelt.

It's an interesting comparison. In Feb 2000, we thought that Dublin, Joachim, Carbone, Vassell, Walker and Merson weren't enough options in attack after we shipped Collymore to Leicester.

So we brought in an extra body.

[LeonW]

• We’ll sign top players if they become available.
• Appointing a decent manager then not adequately backing him.
• Treating supporters with disdain.
• Doing just enough to show a level of ambition but not really going beyond it.
• Relatively low net spend over a period.

I hate to say it but isn’t this all a bit Doug?

Treating supporters with disdain?
Bizarre.

See proposed gambling sponsor thread.

[dave.woodhall]

It just seems to me that it's typical Villa, it's not the first time that we have looked promising at Christmas and just needing that one player to really make a challenge, the only difference so far is that in past days we were looking for a stallion and actually bought a donkey.

I'll raise you a Bartelt.

It's an interesting comparison. In Feb 2000, we thought that Dublin, Joachim, Carbone, Vassell, Walker and Merson weren't enough options in attack after we shipped Collymore to Leicester.

So we brought in an extra body.

If you want to go even further back, in 1994 - when there was only two outfield subs - our strikers were Fashanu, Atkinson, Saunders, Whittingham, Yorke and Fenton.

[Malandro]

• We’ll sign top players if they become available.
• Appointing a decent manager then not adequately backing him.
• Treating supporters with disdain.
• Doing just enough to show a level of ambition but not really going beyond it.
• Relatively low net spend over a period.

I hate to say it but isn’t this all a bit Doug?

Treating supporters with disdain?
Bizarre.

See proposed gambling sponsor thread.

Oh! I thought you were talking about transfers!

[N'ZMAV]

It just seems to me that it's typical Villa, it's not the first time that we have looked promising at Christmas and just needing that one player to really make a challenge, the only difference so far is that in past days we were looking for a stallion and actually bought a donkey.

I'll raise you a Bartelt.

It's an interesting comparison. In Feb 2000, we thought that Dublin, Joachim, Carbone, Vassell, Walker and Merson weren't enough options in attack after we shipped Collymore to Leicester.

So we brought in an extra body.

If you want to go even further back, in 1994 - when there was only two outfield subs - our strikers were Fashanu, Atkinson, Saunders, Whittingham, Yorke and Fenton.

that's not a bad line up - but, I was only 10 at the time, so can't really remember if that line-up was that strong or not

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Leaving it a bit late aren't we?

[pauliewalnuts]

Agree with Dave,

Why Ings and Sanson have been allowed to go without having replacements pretty much signed baffles me.

Guilbert and Marvellous I get as they haven’t played, but our top scorer and a midfielder who has played well IMO when given the chance not being replaced seems insane.

Understand about recouping some money for Ings, but if he were here now I’m sure there would have been another 3-5 million chucked at us as a last minute deal, or we keep him and retain some strength up top.

Very poor window, I just hope Unai agrees with the lack of action rather than being pissed off at how little we have backed him.

The thing with Ings - getting some money in was clearly more important than maintaining (let alone improving) our ability to score goals.

I just hope Emery was on board with all this because, if not, it's not going to end well.

[Dave]

It just seems to me that it's typical Villa, it's not the first time that we have looked promising at Christmas and just needing that one player to really make a challenge, the only difference so far is that in past days we were looking for a stallion and actually bought a donkey.

I'll raise you a Bartelt.

It's an interesting comparison. In Feb 2000, we thought that Dublin, Joachim, Carbone, Vassell, Walker and Merson weren't enough options in attack after we shipped Collymore to Leicester.

So we brought in an extra body.

If you want to go even further back, in 1994 - when there was only two outfield subs - our strikers were Fashanu, Atkinson, Saunders, Whittingham, Yorke and Fenton.

that's not a bad line up - but, I was only 10 at the time, so can't really remember if that line-up was that strong or not

It was stronger than if we'd decided that because we had Atkinson and a teenage Yorke then we didn't need to bother buying Saunders because he wasn't at his optimum value point.