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Danny Murphy on a free ?

Thought he signed for Blackburn??

Id haven taken Jimmy Bullard on a free short term contract.

Seriously? Wow....

Just signed for MK Dons (I think) and yet you'd see him at Villa :-/

Please tell me this was either sarcasm or a joke?!

Like the sound of Beneteke - hes a punt though - thought we would go for more experience. - but I suppose we won't get that at the price were prepared to pay.

Would like Olson\Cresswell and Charlie Adam on loan.

Poulsen has joined somebody now. Can't remember who though...

I dunno mate i'd say each to there own but in the games Bannan has played so far he's done nothing but disappoint me. Looks for the hollywood pass way too often. I'm hopeful though that he will slot in nicely with the type of football Lambert is hoping to get us to play.

If Bannan has done nothing but disappoint you then I don't think you've watched much of him play at all. He does go for ambitious passes but a lot of the time he completes them - I don't think we have a better passer of the ball at the club in terms of range and accuracy.

I'm a home season ticket holder. So unless he only plays well in away games i have to disagree with you.

I kinda agree with your ifs !

If we sign a couple more players

If our academy kids come good

Then yes I agree we would have a pretty good season - 10th or above. I am getting more doubtful by the day of significant additions to the squad

..and in the last 5 years only gabby has come through the academy to hold a regular place in the squad - throw in Cahill who has done it elsewhere.....

But yes if Baker, Bannan, Gardner, Clark,Weiman, Carruthers, Herd, Lichaj - all perform consistently at premier level this season then I will be happy .............(and surprised)

I don't have much doubt about Clark, Lichaj, Bannan, Baker and Herd at this point - I think what we've seen of them shows that they are good enough to be in the squad. That leaves the uncertains - Gardner, Weimann, Carruthers; the latter 2 showing signs of being able to cope with Gardner (IMO) not really showing anything yet.

Even if we don't sign anyone else and the uncertains can't cut it, I don't think we'll do worse than about 15th - and considering that there has been wholesale change going on, in pretty much every area - that'd do.

I understand it's just your opinion but how you can say that Bannan is good enough to be in the squad but you're unsure and Weimann is beyond me. I'd say Bannan has got everything to prove!

Bannan has played 40 games for the club and for me, has looked the part in most of them. Now, he has the chance to play in a side that actually plays to his strengths and if the pre-season is anything to go by, he'll do well for us.

Weimann has played fewer games and hasn't had as much of a chance to shine yet - he's shown glimpses of what he can do but it's still a bit premature to say that he's good enough yet. I have hopes for him and I don't think he's going to let us down but it's still too early to say.

I dunno mate i'd say each to there own but in the games Bannan has played so far he's done nothing but disappoint me. Looks for the hollywood pass way too often. I'm hopeful though that he will slot in nicely with the type of football Lambert is hoping to get us to play.

I kinda agree with your ifs !

If we sign a couple more players

If our academy kids come good

Then yes I agree we would have a pretty good season - 10th or above. I am getting more doubtful by the day of significant additions to the squad

..and in the last 5 years only gabby has come through the academy to hold a regular place in the squad - throw in Cahill who has done it elsewhere.....

But yes if Baker, Bannan, Gardner, Clark,Weiman, Carruthers, Herd, Lichaj - all perform consistently at premier level this season then I will be happy .............(and surprised)

I don't have much doubt about Clark, Lichaj, Bannan, Baker and Herd at this point - I think what we've seen of them shows that they are good enough to be in the squad. That leaves the uncertains - Gardner, Weimann, Carruthers; the latter 2 showing signs of being able to cope with Gardner (IMO) not really showing anything yet.

Even if we don't sign anyone else and the uncertains can't cut it, I don't think we'll do worse than about 15th - and considering that there has been wholesale change going on, in pretty much every area - that'd do.

I understand it's just your opinion but how you can say that Bannan is good enough to be in the squad but you're unsure and Weimann is beyond me. I'd say Bannan has got everything to prove!

I've been one of the 'Happy Clappy' Villa fans for a while now and i was under the opinion that Villa would spend this summer but i have to admit i'm becoming disillusioned by the board.

People have said that the early signings were just to increase season ticket sales and I honestly sat reading these comments thinking how stupid the people saying those things must really be, but maybe they were right!

Villa fans are fickle and should we spend £20 mil in the next 7 days i'll probably be back to singing Lerners praises but at the moment i am one very unhappy and disappointed Villa fan :evil:

Tom Huddleston approached Villa yesterday wanted to come to us albeit on loan . Was told politely there was no interest from our side :!:

MM as you can see we're almost all starting to get a bit worried now. Do you know if we are actually in for anyone or are we done for this window unless Dunne/Warnock/Hutton etc leave???

It's not Benteke he's currently with Genk preparing for Euro League tie!

How do you know that pal?

I thought he was just seen in a Merc not chauffeur driven.

This is how the rumours escalate.

Purple monkey dishwasher.

So he was flown in a Mercedes helicopter?

Randy's private merc jet????

This calls for one man and one man only...calling TheTrees!!!!

I believe to summon him you have to stare into a mirror in a dark room and say his name 3 times...

People are getting uber excited because this is the first sniff of a transfer that we've had for weeks!

What exactly has happened today? In ten words or less.

I Woke up. Went to work. Slobbed on the sofa.

Nah the guy in the Merc was blacker than that.

:?:

Clearly shopped, face and hands are different colours!

Feed the Hare and he will score!!! It's clear that Marlon is coming home!

Rumours on Twatter are that Lambert is supposedly there to view Stephen Ward :-/

Haven't Lambert & Faulkner pretty much said we're done for this window now ?

Or is that a smokescreen ? IMHO we need 4 more players but I just cannot see how that will happen

Lambert hasn't said anything. Faulkner has supposedly tweeted some PR crap about sensible spending, which is one of the catalysts for some negativity on here.

I see QPR have agreed a 5.5m fee for Turner of Spurs. That's our net spend this window so far. Depressing.

I'm guessing you mean Dawson not Turner and the rumours are it's over £9mil that they're paying....

Yeah lets just sign a target man and Pump it up to him.. Why Not?

Heskey is still available....

Sign him up Lambert, 4 year contract at 60k a week.

Only 4 years?! Hmmmm ok but only if we have an option for a 5th year!

Was at the V festival.

Wasn't in the match day squad so i don't blame him for making the most of his spare time.

He'll be gone soon enough

Heard something???

another player that would improve us is seb larsson, from out on the wing he can put a cracking cross in, plus his free kicks are good.

imo if we could get adam, larsson, defoe and a right back in before the end of the month our first eleven would be a match for most teams outside the top four. i think that that we could get all four players for around 16mil. what the squad needs is players who can go straight into the first eleven now

You honestly think a RB is more urgent than a LB?

People were saying Lerner was at the game yesterday.

Hopefully he's staying for a few days to discuss things with Lambert and after seeing our shortcomings first hand maybe he'll loosen the pursestrings a bit?

Just read an interesting stat, Fletcher has been involved in 96 Premier League games now for Wolves/Burnley and in the games he's played his team has lost 62.5% of those matches.

Not all his fault obviously but just thought it was quite interesting....

looking at some stoke message boards, they think KJ is signing for us on monday and that Hutton is going their way.

I'm sure they were saying the same thing about last monday to be honest...

Richard

Major problem is hutton and warnock are so shit they wouldnt make it in the blue square prem think villa should terminate both and pay there contract ups we have paid for shit managers to join and leave so lets just bin the idiots off

Would probably cost 10 million + to pay off Warnock and Hutton after loyalty bonuses etc. Might eat into the transfer budget a bit?

The this is a utter utter joke and heads need to roll the fact is we had NRC spend 8mi and let him go for 0 we had King Carlos and he went for 0 we signed warnock for 9m that makes me wanna cry higher management should be made accountable and hold there hands up were a shambles and Lambert is the only good thing we got

Transfer window hasn't closed yet, chill your bean and calm down for your health if nothing else!

Has he left yet?

Just wondering as i don't think i've seen anything on the OS yet :/