collapse collapse

Please donate to help towards the costs of keeping this site going. Thank You.

Recent Topics

Other Games 2025-26 by Rudy Can't Fail
[Today at 09:03:44 AM]


Villa Park Redevelopment by Percy McCarthy
[Today at 08:52:14 AM]


Amadou Onana by Ozzjim
[Today at 08:10:17 AM]


Unai Emery by N'ZMAV
[Today at 07:57:45 AM]


The NFL Thread (with added College Football) by ADVILLAFAN
[Today at 07:47:25 AM]


The Running thread by TelfordVilla
[Today at 07:38:02 AM]


Loanwatch 2025-26 by Percy McCarthy
[Today at 05:16:00 AM]


Aston Villa: On This Day by PeterWithesShin
[Today at 02:58:08 AM]

Recent Posts

Re: Other Games 2025-26 by Rudy Can't Fail
[Today at 09:03:44 AM]


Re: Villa Park Redevelopment by Percy McCarthy
[Today at 08:52:14 AM]


Re: Amadou Onana by Ozzjim
[Today at 08:10:17 AM]


Re: Unai Emery by N'ZMAV
[Today at 07:57:45 AM]


Re: The NFL Thread (with added College Football) by ADVILLAFAN
[Today at 07:47:25 AM]


Re: The Running thread by TelfordVilla
[Today at 07:38:02 AM]


Re: Unai Emery by PaulWinch again
[Today at 07:25:31 AM]


Re: Unai Emery by OCD
[Today at 07:08:42 AM]

Follow us on...

Author Topic: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.  (Read 271828 times)

Offline Smirker

  • Member
  • Posts: 8187
  • Location: Birmingham
  • GM : Sep, 2014
Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #2550 on: January 20, 2026, 07:36:34 PM »
Ornstein has said we're going for Mateta and Palace want Guessand.

Praise the Lord.

Online andyh

  • Member
  • Posts: 19345
  • Location: Solihull
  • GM : May, 2012
Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #2551 on: January 20, 2026, 07:37:23 PM »
Ornstein has said we're going for Mateta and Palace want Guessand.

Praise the Lord.
Don’t get upset but Princess Diana………..

Offline VILLA MOLE

  • Member
  • Posts: 8918
  • Age: 51
  • Location: STRATFORD UPON AVON
  • a v f c
Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #2552 on: January 20, 2026, 07:37:56 PM »
Ornstein has said we're going for Mateta and Palace want Guessand.

Praise the Lord.

i just cant see it , how reliable is he ?

Offline Smirker

  • Member
  • Posts: 8187
  • Location: Birmingham
  • GM : Sep, 2014
Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #2553 on: January 20, 2026, 07:38:15 PM »
Ornstein has said we're going for Mateta and Palace want Guessand.

Praise the Lord.
Don’t get upset but Princess Diana………..

Sorry only just seen.

If it happens I will do a little wee.

Offline VancouverLion

  • Member
  • Posts: 4975
  • Location: Vancouver, BC
  • GM : 24.01.2016
Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #2554 on: January 20, 2026, 07:43:51 PM »
Ornstein has said we're going for Mateta and Palace want Guessand.

Praise the Lord.

i just cant see it , how reliable is he ?
Apparently he doesn't report on anything unless there is smoke...

Offline PeterWithesShin

  • Member
  • Posts: 80870
  • GM : 17.03.2015
Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #2555 on: January 20, 2026, 07:46:46 PM »
We should get Samatta back in.

Offline eamonn

  • Member
  • Posts: 35862
  • Location: Stay in sight of the mainland
  • GM : 26.07.2020
Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #2556 on: January 20, 2026, 07:50:04 PM »
Ornstein has said we're going for Mateta and Palace want Guessand.

Praise the Lord.
Don’t get upset but Princess Diana………..

Sorry only just seen.

If it happens I will do a little wee.

As long as it isn't a sex-wee, what with your ball-tingling antics at Baros' old aparment/Unai's current place at the Mailbox.

Offline Smirker

  • Member
  • Posts: 8187
  • Location: Birmingham
  • GM : Sep, 2014
Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #2557 on: January 20, 2026, 07:50:07 PM »
We should get Samatta back in.

Would be an improvement.

Offline PeterWithesShin

  • Member
  • Posts: 80870
  • GM : 17.03.2015
Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #2558 on: January 20, 2026, 07:54:04 PM »

Online paul_e

  • Member
  • Posts: 38825
  • Age: 46
  • GM : July, 2013
Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #2559 on: January 20, 2026, 08:26:28 PM »
Ornstein has said we're going for Mateta and Palace want Guessand.

Praise the Lord.
Don’t get upset but Princess Diana………..

Sorry only just seen.

If it happens I will do a little wee.

I'm a bit surprised because he regularly goes on long runs of barely scoring, 4 in 19 in the first half of last season, 2 in 19 the first half of the season before and 5 in 22 in total in his first season there. Given your criticism of Watkins I don't see how he'd be any different.

Personally I think he'd be ok but I'm not convinced he'd be a good fit for us and how streaky he is suggests he very much a confidence player which would mean if he was struggling to settle into our style we'd probably see the non-scoring version much more than Palace have.

I worry he'd be a really poor use of the money. I'm not a huge fan of Abraham either but he'd be a much better choice.

Offline Nii Lamptey

  • Member
  • Posts: 2707
  • Age: 50
  • Location: Kidderminster
Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #2560 on: January 20, 2026, 08:27:43 PM »
Better the devil you know. Tammy over Mateta every day of the week for me.

Online Beard82

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 5517
  • Age: 44
  • Location: Suffolk
  • GM : 18.01.2027
Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #2561 on: January 20, 2026, 08:30:45 PM »
Mateta with Guessard as part of the deal sounds too good to turn down

Offline PeterWithesShin

  • Member
  • Posts: 80870
  • GM : 17.03.2015
Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #2562 on: January 20, 2026, 08:33:36 PM »
Never been a fan of spending big on milk bottle players, which Tammy and Mateta are. Even less so when finances are stricter than ever.

Offline The Edge

  • Member
  • *
  • Posts: 7854
  • Location: Birmingham B7
  • GM : PCM
Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #2563 on: January 20, 2026, 08:40:52 PM »
Ornstein has said we're going for Mateta and Palace want Guessand.

Praise the Lord.
Don’t get upset but Princess Diana………..

Sorry only just seen.

If it happens I will do a little wee.

I'm a bit surprised because he regularly goes on long runs of barely scoring, 4 in 19 in the first half of last season, 2 in 19 the first half of the season before and 5 in 22 in total in his first season there. Given your criticism of Watkins I don't see how he'd be any different.

Personally I think he'd be ok but I'm not convinced he'd be a good fit for us and how streaky he is suggests he very much a confidence player which would mean if he was struggling to settle into our style we'd probably see the non-scoring version much more than Palace have.

I worry he'd be a really poor use of the money. I'm not a huge fan of Abraham either but he'd be a much better choice.
He's been instrumental in Palaces recent domination over us in the past couple of seasons. On that basis alone he'd be worth a few extra points.

Online N'ZMAV

  • Member
  • Posts: 10610
  • Location: Kidderminster
Re: Winter 25-26 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #2564 on: January 20, 2026, 08:41:19 PM »
I'm happy to drive Guessand to London.

 


SimplePortal 2.3.6 © 2008-2014, SimplePortal