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It's been a while since there has been a snippet of decent takeover rumours so hoping Abdulazizz is correct with his source, does tie in nicely with the Telegraph rumour section. Hope Randy can lower his asking price, hope he serves the club as the "great custodian" that he is!!

Are there any good free DM's at the mo? That has to be looked at for next season + LB and if I'm being greedy another winger I'd take Seb Larson as a free winger

Any names that you can indulge us with

Didn't Mysteryman say that we were sold a few weeks back?

Yup. He also says that good news for fans is that he will have news on interest on buying Villa. Sounds like he knows someone else who is keen to buy us. So no actual firm bid or negotiations taking place at the moment, deal is far far away, think Lambert has to get on with it hence the Senderos purchase, will be a very late takeover i reckon

Can I just take this opportunity to say...WTFFF!!

You're Kwan the right track anyway some are suggesting it was death by cox Good to know...at least it offers a Kwantum of Solace

I wouldn't have a problem if it meant knocking most of Aston down as it is a dump anyway. Aston may be a dump but we have a Premier League team named after our town, one of the best University's named after our town, have a motorway named after us and have the all famous HP sauce originating from Aston!!

What will the 3rd kit be? Surely can't be our away kit this season, hardly a difference to the proposed away kit for next year...in terms of colour clash etc

away looks good, home is meh

Enough with the pessimism, we will not be relegated. Fulham won't win against Stoke Cardiff won't win against Newcastle Norwich won't win against Chelsea Villa will win against Hull Just think how much space these teams are going to leave open for the home team to capitalize and score! Keep the faith guys!!

Although he's playing shit I think he still needs to be starting against Swansea. I don't think any manager, given how our injuries have gone, would drop him right now, especially given our predicament

Gutted!! Think we have enough in us to grind out one win out of the remaining fixtures, Fulham one being the main one, win this and we are safe Gabby and Weimann as the front two instead, no more hoofball, time to pass and move. We've won without Benteke before we can do it again

Beck (Rb) Bertrand (lb) Diagne (cb) Mulumbu (DM) Kiyotake (Wing) Hunt (AM) Praet (wing) Locadia (CF) Then I woke up...

Dunno - seems like a nice bloke to me - always smiling and enjoys his football - maybe needs a new deodorant if that's the case. i lol'd

That sounds very conclusive Ricardo, know something we don't? I thought the same

Is there no chance of him staying at all?

Right I think we have a very good foundation to the team now, and looking back now, this is probably what PL has been trying to achieve. Now for next season if we can purchase 3-4 players of top quality, possibly keep Benteke (probably a long shot) then we should hopefully have a better season than this. New CB (cover for injuries) Bertrand DM AM Winger who can play on either side (come on for Gabby or Weimann) I really hope Grealish and Carruthers are sniffing around the first team next year, time one of our young boys took the premiership by storm!!

We cannot really deny him a move, he's given 2 years to us which is fair play, you can hardly blame him as he is a class above anything we have at the moment. We all wanted him to stay the extra year and he has, think we should let him go and keep on to the good memories of him, hope there isn't the nasty reaction like last summer if he were to leave

His role in breaking up play so far up the pitch is pretty important considering we do not have a battling DM to do that job, if he could only add some creativity to his play then we would have a well rounded midfielder. For the system we play, i think KEA is showing signs of progress. Our players need some training ground drills on how to cross a ball, beggars belief how poor our crosses are sometimes, these are premiership footballers for god sake

For me he was my man of the match, I know tekkers will get the credit, but KEA did all the nasty work in midfield today, his closing down, interceptions and tenacity stopped Norwich from gaining momentum, hope he keeps this up

I thought we were excellent - This line is nailed on

Agree with this but if we ever did purchase a battling DM, where does Delph fit in? Do not see him as an AM

No, would not accept relegation at all! We really should be cementing mid table mediocracy and then build on from there, not going through relegation shite year after year. Do not wish to take a further 10 steps backwards

I've bitten my lip for far too long, I've tried to give Lambert as much support as possible but I just can't do it any more. His style of football is just atrocious, it's simply painful to watch that kind of football, no direction, no tactics no plan b, i don't know who can replace him and part of me does not want him to be sacked, but this style of play is just turgid football, one dimensional football. Newcastle were there for the taking, their confidence was rocked. Sad moment yesterday was that I had this conversation with a mate and said even if we were to go 1-0 up, it'll just mean that we end up shutting up shop and sitting deep. I just hope we do not get relegated, struggling to see our next 3 points at the moment