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  1. Breaking | Aston Villa are signing Frédéric Guilbert from Caen for €5m, but will loan him back until the end of the season Our reliable colleague Mohamed Toubache-TER is reporting that French full-back Frédéric Guilbert is currently undergoing a medical with Championship side Aston Villa, who will loan the player back to Caen until the end of the season. The deal will cost Villa €5m plus €1.5m in bonuses and a sell-on percentage fee clause will be included in the deal. Guilbert will sign a 4.5 year contract with Villa should the medical go to plan. https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2019/transfer-deadline-day-live-31st-january-2019/
  2. Yep, apparently so. Would be ideal for us but he's very highly rated and I would think we have next to no chance of signing him.
  3. Maybe we should have a look at Victor Moses this summer. Unwanted by Chelsea and barely played by Liverpool while on loan there - can play a number of positions, is relatively young, quick and strong with plenty of Premier League experience. Will probably cost less than the £9m Chelsea paid for him though wages could potentially be a stumbling block. Oh and Kiyotake has one year left on his deal this summer so he'll be probably cost £4m-£5m rather than the £8m-£10m being kicked around last summer
  4. Crazy to say that gabby couldn't of picked delph out, have you seen some of his assists this season? Albirghton really hasn't done a lot and is playing for a contract, why change what's working well? Well, Gabby has the most assists this season for us with 5 (6 if you include the one in the League Cup and that also doesn't include the 2 penalties he won at the Emirates on the first day of the season). Interesting point about Gabby though is that all of those assists came away from home (apart from the League Cup assist). If you look at WhoScored ratings (which I admit are only an indicator but still useful for making this point) his match ratings away from home are markedly better than at home. (and before anyone says it, that is not indicative of the team as a whole - our total home points now matches our away points after yesterday)
  5. Tonev. Sylla. Bowery. Herd. Baker. Not even close. I agree with that without the ball he's very good. He's generally one of the more advanced of our midfielders when we press the ball, and he has a very high tackle count (according to Squawka he's the 8th highest in the entire league : http://www.squawka.com/football-stats/english-barclays-premier-league-season-2013-2014). He's been consistently doing this all season which makes me wonder where some of the vitriol aimed at him has come from to be honest. I agree that he did have a patchy first season and he's not the most creative player, but like Agbonlahor said just recently, he does a lot of stuff that goes unnoticed and he has chipped in with a couple of important goals as well. I think if we want to progress further up the table then we still need to get more quality in midfield (beyond Delph, Westwood and him we really don't have anyone else up to standard), however I still think there's room for him as part of our squad next season and beyond. I expect him to get offered a contract extension at the end of this season.
  6. But if we could get that one quality midfielder who vastly improves the team, that 9th or 8th place would generate more prize money meaning more could be spent in the summer. It would also mean that the player would be acclimatised to our ram and players hopefully meaning that we could push on next yr and not have a complete rebuild again next summer According to this : http://anfieldindex.com/5707/the-financial-importance-of-a-good-premier-league-finish-for-liverpool.html Each place up the league table in 2013/14 is worth an additional £1,126,750, which is quite a jump from the £755,062 last year. So if we were to finish 10th this year that would mean a prize money receipt of £12,394,250, as opposed to the £4,530,372 we got last year for finishing 15th - nearly an £8m difference. Given how close the table is this year, a bit of an investment now might be a good idea.
  7. Unless he got badly injured today during practice. Well... ummm. yes....?! Unless he injured himself in a freak shaving accident this morning
  8. I'm only doubting it because he was on the subs bench less than 24 hours ago. It would need a remarkably quick turnaround - ie for Kozak to get injured, taken to hospital, necessary scans done and reviewed etc to say he is ruled out for the season.
  9. Do we have a source for this other than HH? He was on the bench yesterday....
  10. I only mentioned the Heitinga thing because he sort of fitted the supposed criteria we're using for potential players ie experienced in the Premier League In one of the positions we may strengthen May not cost an arm and a leg Might consider a move to us given current playing/contract circumstances Back to wildly speculating about other players it is then
  11. Looks like Heitinga is going to Newcastle. Spurs are apparently in for Lescott according to the Telegraph.
  12. Afternoon everyone Thought I'd sign up on to here and say hello after lurking for many months... been a Villa fan for 20 years although I am currently living in the West Country so don't get a chance to go to many games, so I am limited to keeping a close eye on proceedings on the TV at the moment!! UTV
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