joeszwab

well done mate - thats the post of the day for me - sooooo many doom mongerers Villa fans always seem to be doom mongerers. It gets me down sometimes. You would think we were languishing in league 1 or something. Yes we have had great success in our history. It doesn't entitle us to anything. I could even understand if we'd done an Arsenal and were winning titles and FA cups etc until recently but had a drought. The last trophy we wone was the coca-cola cup in 96. Even Middlesborough and the scum have won the league cup more recently, we are in a better position than both of them, now. ffs the last league title we won was three decades ago, eight years before I, and I imagine many on this message board, were born. I'm not trying to say that our club shouldn't aspire to trophies and higher league placement. But the last 3 seasons we have finished 6th, 6th and 9th and people are acting as if an apocolapse has happened. Not only that but they want to nit-pick every signing and every potential target. I wasn't over-the-moon when we signed Mcleish, but was always willing to give him a chance. I'm very happy with Given signing. Not a world class keeper, but we aren't a world class club, as it is. The other players we have been linked with (not saying that there is truth to some of them), the likes of N'Zogbia, Parker, Hutton, Vargas etc are all players that will improve our squad and consequently improve our prospects. It's still early in the transfer window. Let's get a bit more optimistic, shall we? I bet any fan who has followed Leyton Orient for 20 years would be shocked to see some of the doom and gloom on here.

Given is a great signing for us. Not a world class keeper, as some seem to think. But he only has the exact same problems as Friedal has, i.e his command of the area isn't top notch, but he's arguably a better shot stopper and he's younger. I, personally, think we've upgraded our keeper. That can't be a bad thing.

yet another who wants to magically read into other peoples comments and then proclaims to be the worlds greatest supporter while trying to demand people who think for themselves support another club? grow up posters are pointing out the risks of paying a 35 year old huge sums of money for 5 years while we are supposedly on a huge cost cutting exercise you carry on ignoring real life and the real world dream boy But if he's not working out 2-3 years down the line we can always get rid. He'll still have enough clout to get another club. Especially in Turkey or somewhere; they'd accept his big wages, as well.

To be honest I have been wondering why everybody seemed to take Mat Kendrick's word as gospel, all of a sudden. Just cause he got one story right practically the day that it happened. He doesn't know anything. I guess we'll wait and see.

Hadn't thought about ranieri. Wouldn't mind him.

Come on! Two champions leagues is very good. The reason that the team could win those titles was that they were in a tough league. The Italian league over the last couple of years is the weakest it's ever been in my memory. And it still has some of the world's top players. Comparing it to the Scottish league, even now, is completely ridiculous. In the early to mid 90's (when Ancelotti started) it was arguably the strongest.

haha. I know you're joking, and I also realise it's ridiculous. But as soon as I saw Ancelotti linked with us, that was the first thing that popped into my head!