2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[RamboandBruno]

Reading all this…its obviously very quiet on the signings front…
Im not sure we’re signing anyone either. Which Im reasonably ok with. Even not including Mings and Beundia, we havent really had everyone firing and fit at the same time this season. If we can get Ramsey and Moreno back up to last seasons form, get Tielemans, Torres and Digne back, thats a pretty strong squad.
Archer’s gone and probably won’t be back, so probs need to let that one go.

[PeterWithe]

George Hemmings is a tremendous name. Opened the batting for Surrey and England in the 1920s with Jack Hobbs. Explored the inner Amazon rainforest, now controversial for converting tribal leaders to Anglicanism. Invented an automatic shoeshining machine that put thousands of orphans out of work. Supporting character of an EM Forster novel about sadness. Invented the polo-neck.

Strangled a prostitute in a Patrick Hamilton novel.

President of the Board of Trade in the 1929 Ramsay McDonald government.

Widely considered to be the Sixth Man in the Cambridge spy ring.

Early investor in canals.

Also invented the little blue bits that go in washing powder.

[Monty]

George Hemmings is a tremendous name. Opened the batting for Surrey and England in the 1920s with Jack Hobbs. Explored the inner Amazon rainforest, now controversial for converting tribal leaders to Anglicanism. Invented an automatic shoeshining machine that put thousands of orphans out of work. Supporting character of an EM Forster novel about sadness. Invented the polo-neck.

Strangled a prostitute in a Patrick Hamilton novel.

President of the Board of Trade in the 1929 Ramsay McDonald government.

Widely considered to be the Sixth Man in the Cambridge spy ring.

Early investor in canals.

Also invented the little blue bits that go in washing powder.

Won the Victoria Cross for singlehandedly razing the Boer settlement of Neuwillemsburg to the ground. Was the second-best chess player of the 1910s. Painted a nude portrait of Alice Keppel (suppressed).

[coreyfeldman]

Reading all this…its obviously very quiet on the signings front…
Im not sure we’re signing anyone either. Which Im reasonably ok with. Even not including Mings and Beundia, we havent really had everyone firing and fit at the same time this season. If we can get Ramsey and Moreno back up to last seasons form, get Tielemans, Torres and Digne back, thats a pretty strong squad.
Archer’s gone and probably won’t be back, so probs need to let that one go.

i thought if sheff utd got relegated that we're obligated to buy him back?

[LeeB]

George Hemmings is a tremendous name. Opened the batting for Surrey and England in the 1920s with Jack Hobbs. Explored the inner Amazon rainforest, now controversial for converting tribal leaders to Anglicanism. Invented an automatic shoeshining machine that put thousands of orphans out of work. Supporting character of an EM Forster novel about sadness. Invented the polo-neck.

Strangled a prostitute in a Patrick Hamilton novel.

President of the Board of Trade in the 1929 Ramsay McDonald government.

Widely considered to be the Sixth Man in the Cambridge spy ring.

Early investor in canals.

Also invented the little blue bits that go in washing powder.

Won the Victoria Cross for singlehandedly razing the Boer settlement of Neuwillemsburg to the ground. Was the second-best chess player of the 1910s. Painted a nude portrait of Alice Keppel (suppressed).

You've all got the wrong George Hemmings. This one led the disastrous merger of Britsh Motor Holdings and Leyland Motors, and pushed for the square steering wheel on the Allegro.

He retired after a spell on the British Board of Film Classification.

Duh.

[Monty]

George Hemmings is a tremendous name. Opened the batting for Surrey and England in the 1920s with Jack Hobbs. Explored the inner Amazon rainforest, now controversial for converting tribal leaders to Anglicanism. Invented an automatic shoeshining machine that put thousands of orphans out of work. Supporting character of an EM Forster novel about sadness. Invented the polo-neck.

Strangled a prostitute in a Patrick Hamilton novel.

President of the Board of Trade in the 1929 Ramsay McDonald government.

Widely considered to be the Sixth Man in the Cambridge spy ring.

Early investor in canals.

Also invented the little blue bits that go in washing powder.

Won the Victoria Cross for singlehandedly razing the Boer settlement of Neuwillemsburg to the ground. Was the second-best chess player of the 1910s. Painted a nude portrait of Alice Keppel (suppressed).

You've all got the wrong George Hemmings. This one led the disastrous merger of Britsh Motor Holdings and Leyland Motors, and pushed for the square steering wheel on the Allegro.

He retired after a spell on the British Board of Film Classification.

Duh.

No no, that was George Hewitt. George Hemmings was the guy who was meant to marry Virginia Woolf (née Stephens) but didn't because they were both gay, and in the end had an affair with Leonard Woolf before leaving to take over command from General Dyer after the Amritsar massacre. Never came back, died of yellow fever in Bangalore in 1933. Wrote a bitter satire of Empire called Infernal Calling, only published in 1973 by his illegitimate son Benjamin Clemming-Hemmings after a case at the Old Bailey about the Official Secrets Act.

[RamboandBruno]

Reading all this…its obviously very quiet on the signings front…
Im not sure we’re signing anyone either. Which Im reasonably ok with. Even not including Mings and Beundia, we havent really had everyone firing and fit at the same time this season. If we can get Ramsey and Moreno back up to last seasons form, get Tielemans, Torres and Digne back, thats a pretty strong squad.
Archer’s gone and probably won’t be back, so probs need to let that one go.

i thought if sheff utd got relegated that we're obligated to buy him back?

Im not sure we’re obliged to? But maybe your right?

[nigel]

George Hemmings is a tremendous name. Opened the batting for Surrey and England in the 1920s with Jack Hobbs. Explored the inner Amazon rainforest, now controversial for converting tribal leaders to Anglicanism. Invented an automatic shoeshining machine that put thousands of orphans out of work. Supporting character of an EM Forster novel about sadness. Invented the polo-neck.

Strangled a prostitute in a Patrick Hamilton novel.

President of the Board of Trade in the 1929 Ramsay McDonald government.

Widely considered to be the Sixth Man in the Cambridge spy ring.

Early investor in canals.

I thought it was rumoured to be Roger Hollis? Or was he the 5th?

[Sexual Ealing]

Fabrizio Romano
@FabrizioRomano
🟣🔵 Leonardo Spinazzola, not part of Aston Villa shortlist for January transfer window despite recent links.

Spinazzola, expected to leave Roma but #AVFC not working on this deal.

[Drummond]

Hang on George Hemmings was a farm labourer who was convicted of stealing sheep and sent on the Marion on 7th June 1845 to Hobart and landed 15th September 1845 at Van Diemen's Land. He died 2 years later.

[VILLA MOLE]

what the Jeff are you doing to the transfer thread you lot 😳😃

[Risso]

Fabrizio Romano
@FabrizioRomano
🟣🔵 Leonardo Spinazzola, not part of Aston Villa shortlist for January transfer window despite recent links.

Spinazzola, expected to leave Roma but #AVFC not working on this deal.

Old Fab is going to be a busy man if he tweets everybody who Villa aren't going to be buying this January.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

George Hemmings is a tremendous name. Opened the batting for Surrey and England in the 1920s with Jack Hobbs. Explored the inner Amazon rainforest, now controversial for converting tribal leaders to Anglicanism. Invented an automatic shoeshining machine that put thousands of orphans out of work. Supporting character of an EM Forster novel about sadness. Invented the polo-neck.

He's been busy. When I was 16 I was too busy wanking for any of that stuff.

I suspect the same is true in the present day.

[Monty]

Hang on George Hemmings was a farm labourer who was convicted of stealing sheep and sent on the Marion on 7th June 1845 to Hobart and landed 15th September 1845 at Van Diemen's Land. He died 2 years later.

Never died, faked his own death, resurfaced years later under the guise of Jim 'Bonesaw' Mulligan, particularly cruel prospector who rose to the governorship of New South Wales in 1863.

[Ads]

That'll do, that'll do.