MessiWillSignForVilla

They should do away with the January window. Signings are usually shite and short sighted, players get unsettled mid season and everyone gets in a hissy if we don't have a "good enough" window, which totally sucks out any positive attitude that the club may be experiencing, especially recently whilst we've had good form.

I imagine the problem with that would be that Ukrainians in the South/East would identify as being Russian and would want to be part of Russia, whereas Ukraine probably wouldn't want to give over half of their country to Russia, and the US probably wouldn't be too happy with it either. I completely guessing here though, so could be hugely wide of the mark.

I'd be so happy, my username wouldn't just be something stupid I came up with when thinking about what to have

The people who get suckered in by "ITK"'s who then get hugely pissed off when it doesn't happen and proceed to fill the main forum with absolute drivel and having a go at anyone they can. Oh, and another for Deadline Day, don't understand why people get so worked up about it. EDIT: Whilst I'm at it, The Jump, what shit idea for a TV show, watching washed up celebrities jump 7m down a ramp, the most tedious thing I've ever watched on TV, including whenever Villa play on Sky/BT.

According to that guy we had a bid of £6.5m accepted for Aspas earlier in the wondow too... Would love it to be true though, think he'd add a lot to the team.

Just loaded up my Villa save after not playing on FM for a while, and beat WBA 3-0 to go top (albeit after 5 games) But then got reminded I'm playing at the Ricoh Arena as VP is being expanded

???? Intriguing.

Mat Kendrick ‏@MatKendrick 46s Given take: Aston Villa will not allow Shay Given to stay on loan at Middlesbrough for the rest of the season Hmmm, I wonder why?

Isn't Redmond supposedly a Villa fan? Maybe some interest from his boyhood heroes would unsettle him a bit Seriously though, if we did that we'd be just as petty as Norwich, best to leave it now.

Wasn't it the result of a free kick? maybe he pushed up as he's probably a better aerial presence than someone like Westwood.

I saw rumours of another club bidding for him, which would point to Norwich just being petty and not selling to us.

Not followed by the official Sky Sports Twitter and has no blue tick, I highly doubt it is him.

two CB's on massive wages and a LB? I doubt it. Probably not even Jim White.

Although not this window, would like to see us go all out to try and sign Lukaku in the summer. Obviously not going to happen, but he's apparently leaving in the summer and maybe Benteke can convince him that they'd be good together at club level Now where's that beer I was drinking...

"currently on course to finish with 45 points"! Talk about bullshit stats. How the hell you work that one out???? You take our current points total and divide it by out games played to work out our points per game (27/23 = 1.17) Then multiply by 38 and you get 44.6, or rounded up, 45 points. That's how he worked it out Although I do agree, it's a bullshit stat (as are all of them apart from actual points and position) I wasn't sure if he was being serious with not knowing how to work it out didn't want to explain it like in a maths lesson but glad you did. To be honest, I think it came across a bit dickish, but I just like Maths so couldn't resist

"currently on course to finish with 45 points"! Talk about bullshit stats. How the hell you work that one out???? You take our current points total and divide it by out games played to work out our points per game (27/23 = 1.17) Then multiply by 38 and you get 44.6, or rounded up, 45 points. That's how he worked it out Although I do agree, it's a bullshit stat (as are all of them apart from actual points and position)

We were 11th and pretty clear of relegation, I thought we were doing OK, like we're doing OK now. I'm probably in a minority though who didn't want McLeish sacked until it really went to shit and we looked absolutely doomed.

Aren't they all?

Not exciting, or for the first team, but apparently we're signing a youngster from Torquay http://www.torquayunited.com/news/article/archie-villa-1327032.aspx Is it the same guy we signed off of them last season? or a different one? EDIT: Reading it a bit more properly, it's only a trial.

In talks with Galatasaray, thankfully.

To be fair his performances at youth level deserved the hype. Injuries haven't helped but delph is proof it doesn't mean the end. Whilst Delph is certainly proof that he can still make it, Delph only had the one injury, GG has injured his ACL twice, unfortunately I don't think he'll make it as it's hard to over come one of those injuries, let alone two.

How many more goals like last night does he have to score before we call him t' Hammer

Now closer to Southampton than the Bottom 3, definitely time to be looking above us and not over our shoulders

YES! West Brom been shite all game apart from a moment of brilliance from Brunt, deservedly back in it!