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

[coreyfeldman]

Aston Villa have sent a bid in excess of €2m for Elfsborg goalkeeper Hákon Valdimarsson! @FabrizioRomano

[N'ZMAV]

maybe we're selling Martinez

[sid1964]

Why should Boro sell for less than what they believe he is worth?

If he signs hopefully then he will be a good squad player, if not I am sure that Monchi has other young players on his list for us to sign.

[eamonn]

Aston Villa have sent a formal bid to sign 22-year old Icelandic goalkeeper, Hákon Rafn Valdimarsson who plays for Swedish side IF Elfsborg.

If he's half as good as Joey Gudjónsson....

Or five times as good as Rob Olsen.

[Somniloquism]

Aston Villa have sent a formal bid to sign 22-year old Icelandic goalkeeper, Hákon Rafn Valdimarsson who plays for Swedish side IF Elfsborg. The bid is in excess of €2m while Copenhagen have offered around €1.7m

Apparently…

https://x.com/fabrizioromano/status/1748126382809288943?s=46

And we could have been in the know but Edvard is speaking to the Valdimarsson's anymore.

[algy]

B98 is the highest, not all numbers are used though. And a lot of them cover places outside Brum like Bromsgrove, Redditch, Cradley, Halesowen, Tamworth etc.

Solihull, too. I think that goes for all 'city' post codes, ie they cover the 'greater' city area - so Oldham, for example, will have an M postcode. Gateshead has an NE etc etc.

Yeah, I used to work evening & night shifts at the sorting depot in Newtown and postcodes are a bit of a mess in general. We flew post for parts of Glasgow to Edinburgh, for example, even though there was a Glasgow flight.

It actually makes me smile to see full addresses on post since those days.

(Master) John Jones,
12 Generic Rd,
Aston,
Birmingham,
West Midlands,
England,
United Kingdom,
B6 1FZ

If it's domestic post, write '12 B61FZ' and it'll get there.

You say that, but once in a fit of pro-Welsh enthusiasm I once sent my parents' house keys back to them - I'd accidentally taken them with me to Scotland - using an address written entirely in Welsh, something like

8 Ffordd Ysgol
Trefyclawdd
Sir Faesyfed
LD7 1AY
Cymru

It took about 4 months to get there, and that was with the actual address on.

[chrisw1]

With the current links it looks like a 'young and hungry' policy at the moment.

Sell our best youngster.  Buy others but at least we can amortise their costs.  Cheers FFP.

[pauliewalnuts]

With the current links it looks like a 'young and hungry' policy at the moment.

Hmm, I agree with your general point around it putting the emphasis on selling home grown rather than buying in replacements, but I would take massive issue with the term 'young and hungry' in the context of this site, as that refers to the days of buying Helenius, Bowery, Tonev and co and relying on them to come good as first teamers, which is a totally different thing in every way to investing in youth to develop for the future.

[VillaTim]

FFP is creating a strange dynamic in transfer strategies

[pablo_picasso]

I think he was in the Citeh academy wasn’t he?

Yes, very highly rated a couple of years back...

[chrisw1]

With the current links it looks like a 'young and hungry' policy at the moment.

Hmm, I agree with your general point around it putting the emphasis on selling home grown rather than buying in replacements, but I would take massive issue with the term 'young and hungry' in the context of this site, as that refers to the days of buying Helenius, Bowery, Tonev and co and relying on them to come good as first teamers, which is a totally different thing in every way to investing in youth to develop for the future.

You're right and of course I realise we're not back to the Lambert days.  But there's not much to suggest this Rogers lad is as good as Ramsey and Philogene (stats wise), so I just find the whole thing a bit frustrating at the moment.  One of the biggest clubs in the country with some of the richest owners and we're having to wheel and deal with our brightest kids.

[Ads]

B98 is the highest, not all numbers are used though. And a lot of them cover places outside Brum like Bromsgrove, Redditch, Cradley, Halesowen, Tamworth etc.

Solihull, too. I think that goes for all 'city' post codes, ie they cover the 'greater' city area - so Oldham, for example, will have an M postcode. Gateshead has an NE etc etc.

Oldham is OL.
Stockport is SK.
Altrincham has WA, but I also have a WA, despite not living near there- for my money the WA post code seems to have the biggest geographical spread up here.

On this Morgan kid, wouldn't our academy bods know an awful lot about him given they developed him at Sandwell?

[coreyfeldman]

At what age do young players stop becoming hungry?
I've always found that phrase utterly stupid

[rougegorge]

Aston Villa have sent a bid in excess of €2m for Elfsborg goalkeeper Hákon Valdimarsson! @FabrizioRomano

He kept a lot of clean sheets in the league season that's just finished and was named the league's keeper of the year, but has no caps yet for Iceland.

Before the new rule allowing 4 overseas players per club who don't meet visa requirements, a prospective signing like this would probably not ahve been allowed,

[Sexual Ealing]

B98 is the highest, not all numbers are used though. And a lot of them cover places outside Brum like Bromsgrove, Redditch, Cradley, Halesowen, Tamworth etc.

Solihull, too. I think that goes for all 'city' post codes, ie they cover the 'greater' city area - so Oldham, for example, will have an M postcode. Gateshead has an NE etc etc.

Oldham is OL.
Stockport is SK.
Altrincham has WA, but I also have a WA, despite not living near there- for my money the WA post code seems to have the biggest geographical spread up here.

On this Morgan kid, wouldn't our academy bods know an awful lot about him given they developed him at Sandwell?

Never mind the smoggy kid. If we're talking postcodes, I'm right fucking here for it.

I became obsessed with London postcodes when I first moved there. I couldn't work out why Whitechapel and Bethnal Green (E1 and E2) made sense, but Chingford, which is miles away, was E4. I dedicated my life to uncovering the mystery (I had a quick look on Wikipedia). It turns out that the 1 is where the sorting office is (Whitechapel in this case) and the other numbers are allocated alphabetically, hence Chingford's unjust elevation to the front of the pack.

I actually find that interesting. What a waste of a life.