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I'm from the island of Guernsey where we don't have a professional team, so there tends to be a lot of 'glory hunter' fans over here as they have to choose a team to support as there isn't a local one to automatically follow. The closest team to us is Southampton, in terms of geographic location and the personal link as their legend Matt Le Tissier is of course from Guernsey. Most young players over here who are decent end up having trials with them as the club has a link with the island and they use to take on a batch of players from here every year, however I think they may have stopped this now, we havn't had a professional player come from Guernsey since Le Tissier. I support the Villa as I was one of those that was born into it, my dad's parents are from Sutton Coldfield and so my dad's side of the family all support Villa, we still have family over there and occasionally go over to watch the odd match when we can. There's hardly any Villa fans over here, the majority are Liverpool, Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal and people always find it strange when you tell them you support Villa, there's hardly any of us over here, but I like that, it's good to be different and not support one of the 'mainstream' teams over here.

Assisted the Lowton goal with a cross yesterday and had another assist with a cross for one of Helenius' goals. Apart from that I havn't seen the matches so don't know how he's been doing in general play unfortunately

I'll do it

I was about to say.. Jack Grealish ‏@JackGrealish12h Standing outside nandos n would kill for one atm but there's just no way at all I'm eating in there on my own lol I don't think Grealish is in Germany

I don't think so, he keeps tweeting to all the Villa players and none of them have ever responded, however the official account follows him, but none of the players do.

Guess this is his reward for putting up with sitting on the bench for years, great news!

Anyone else read the Sky Sports scout report they wrote on him a couple of years back? States that his potential value is £40 million. Seems unlikely he'll be worth that much, but from what I've seen I think he has a good chance of making it here, and I really hope he does. http://www1.skysports.com/transfer-centre/scout/15198/7328163/Sky-Sports-Scout-Gary-Gardner

James Nursey‏@JamesNursey8m Watford have asked to take Gary Gardner on loan but #AVFC refused & want to see what GG can do in last year of his contract

'AVFCAgent' on good ol' twitter seems to be very confident of this happening. Can't say he's convinced me however, and I don't think he's fooling many. Belhanda will agree terms and sign this weekend and will be revealed early, next week probably Monday #avfc @AVFCTransTweet @HeartOfTheHolte fine if Belhanda signs delete your accounts and if he doesn't I will delete mine @CustomMade_x @AVFCTransTweet @HeartOfTheHolte I've seen him in Birmingham that's how confident I am

Sky Sports are reporting it again with quotes from Belhanda reiterating that he wants to come to England. Sky Sports Football ‏@SkyFootball 33m Montpellier's Younes Belhanda attracting interest from across Europe but favours England move. Villa said to be keen. http://tinyurl.com/l7xy3r5

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~3216082,00.html So it's been confirmed that Junior shirts and the Youth team will wear shirts displaying the 'Acorns 25 logo' for the 2013/14 season. Nice touch I suppose for Dafabet to allow this, looks like they're definitely trying to build a good relationship with the club and fans.

http://www.uksoccershop.com/categories/1_191.html

Where's that from Villaonsea? awaits the 'Oh someone whos ITK on twitter' statement... It's on Sky Sports actually Sky Sports News ‏@SkySportsNews1h Sky sources: Udinese reject £8m bid from an unnamed Premier League club for Matej Vydra #SSN

He's so good that he defies gravity.

file:///Users/Josh/Desktop/Screen%20Shot%202013-06-16%20at%2015.48.19.png I wasn't sure how to upload the image, but if you copy and paste that link it's a picture of his in game stats No that's a link to a folder on your computer. Give me your IP address Josh and I'll have a mooch about your hard drive. Everyone chill, I got this

file:///Users/Josh/Desktop/Screen%20Shot%202013-06-16%20at%2015.48.19.png I wasn't sure how to upload the image, but if you copy and paste that link it's a picture of his in game stats

Callum Robinson signed his first Pro contract today, looks like another promising player

In case it hasn't been mentioned yet, he looks pretty good on Footy Manager

According to My Old Man Said, it's a done deal to be announced tomorrow. His agent has apparently confirmed it the the "MOMS grapevine". http://www.myoldmansaid.com/jores-okore-villa-transfer-done/

Since I left for work this morning this thread has almost doubled in size! Liking both the kits though, the home kit looks smart and the away kit is a bit different, which I think is always good for away kits.

Tor-Kristian Karlsen ‏@karlsentk40m Yet, doesn't strike me as a fwd that relishes the physical side of the game. A "second striker" rather than a "9" despite massive size (3/3) Tor-Kristian Karlsen ‏@karlsentk44m Technically sound, moves well off the ball, quite agile for his size + proved a decent goalscorer/finisher (at a much lower level) (2/3) Tor-Kristian Karlsen ‏@karlsentk47m I hope Nicklas Helenius proves successful at Aston Villa, but not the kind of signing I would expect them to make (1/3)

He was last years Danish Superliga player of the season on the UEFA website

If we sign Jesus he'll be hoping that Lowton and Bennet get better at stopping crosses coming into the box, because he's probably not going to want to go any where near them..

Yeah, Stevens looked decent enough in those games he played in, I wouldn't write him off yet, beside he was cheap, wasn't it like 250k? I was actually surprised he didn't get more games last season as he looked more consistent defensively than Bennett. I imagine that Mcleish bought him with the view to make him the first team left back, unfortunately for him though with Mcleish leaving and Lambert bringing Bennet in that probably now won't happen.

I thought this Stevens did an alright job the few games he played, I think if he hadn't gotten injured he would probably have had a longer run in the team. Can't see that he'll ever be used for anything but backup at Villa though.