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I want Vlaar to end his career with us. Hopefully we will be firmly back in the top 6 again and competing for trophies by that time.

 

That's a lot of hope you have!

On trial at Blackpool, scored a couple in a friendly this weekend.

They are absolutly desperate for players so he should be able to get himself a nice pay day if he plays his cards right.

If they're that desperate , I suppose I could play for them for a reasonable fee

The most important thing is we spend 10m on average over the break even point every year so we are FFP compliant whilst spending as much as possible.

What is FFP?

Financial fair play

I blame the Chinese ....................

So the pilots got food poisoning?

La liga games can be moved mere days before they scheduled, so stay flexible. Barca tickets for games against 80% of the league can be bought at the stadium on the day.

Went on a school trip and we were due to watch a game but this happened to us!

Still did stadium tour of nou camp though, we also went round espanyols ground too although I think they've moved stadium since (went in 2006)

What people / journos don't seem to realise is player exchange deals are really rare, I know we did it with baros / Carew but they are few and far between, instantly goes under "bullshit" for me

We got Ireland as part of the Milner sale!

Not saying that was a good thing haha.

Ah a while back then! Don't think the hotel thing would happen now purely because of the internet and sites like trip advisor, loads of bad reviews and they'd get no customers!

Maybe somebody can confirm but I'm pretty sure he was captain in the 2nd half yesterday.

Never had him down as that sort of player.

I think he was Crewe's captain before we acquired him.

Ashley Westwood, first game at CB = Clean Sheet.

He was indeed, I watched him play in his last game which was the playoff final at Wembley!!

Nick Powell also played that game and got signed by united, think we've made better use of our transfer!

Dawson hasn't been a "good" centre back for a while.

He's been better than Senderos, Clarke and Baker and I think for a team struggling to stay in the league he'd be an asset.

I do understand what you're saying though, he's not been good enough for top 4 challenging Spuds.

You can say that again.

By the way, who's Clarke?

I think he's implying we are signing Peter Clarke from Huddersfield, an experienced defender with PL experience

Speculation!!

why do people think something written in the Mirror is true?

edit - hmmm it's in the Daily Facist

Even less likely to be true then if it's in the mail aswell!!

How long ago we talking?

People at work described Poland like that when they went there but I went there last year and it was really nice there!

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That's a pretty dangerous game to play. I can't imagine they know Robinson is good enough from his brief spells but have doubts about grealish.

Well it all seems a bit crazy atm but who knows!

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depends on what you want to do ...and budget

Probs 500 quid tops and not really fused! Last year I had a similar number of days hol left is drove round Europe, did 2800 miles in 6 days... Went Berlin, Auschwitz and Paris. Could do something similar bit north Italy, Austria etc? Not been Austria so don't know what it like there, love Italy though.

Other options Iceland or Dubai but probably out of budget.

Egypt would be good but it a bit crazy there atm so will avoid until that's settled! If I went there I'd want to go pyramids.

Really? I don't think there is a single Villa fan on here that wouldn't be delighted if Bent scored 15 goals last season. Not one and I don't see any comments in here that make me think otherwise.

All I see are some people, myself included who don't think that will happen and who aren't overly convinced by a seemingly overweight striker knocking in a couple of tap in's against Mansfield.

I'll be delighted if he gets 15 but I just can't see it.

Still have to be in the right position for the tap ins though, bent is like klose in that he only scores tap ins!

I would also be delighted if he scored 15+!

Going Brussels in Feb (4 days) & Venice end of March (4 days).

Not sure on the main hols yet, went Cuba this year and that was awesome!

Wouldn't mind going to Iceland as it looks pretty cool there, thinking about Costa Rica too.

Ended up going Mexico in end!! Coming back tomorrow though

Got 6 days hol left, anyone recommend a good short break? I'd say 6 hours max flight time.

Have negotiations even started? Why do you think Robinson got sorted quickly but jack hasn't?

At a guess, I'd say its because Robinson has appeared 5 times with around 20 minute spells whereas jack has appeared just once for like 10 mins max... Probably want to see how he handles the top level first to determine wages etc, got a year yet to sort things out!!

Sky sports are saying villa blocked transfer to west brom as they didn't want to sell to a rival, not sure how true this is though.

Mcgrath now saying Van Gaal should sign him for United. We should be aiming for at least 10 mill!

Paid 30m for Shaw... I'd want more than 10m for Vlaar!!

Don't think there is any legs in this story.

Nor do I think he is the answer to our midfield problems - El Ahmadi Mark 2

Probably why no ones commented on it for 3 months...

Long ball, short ball, passing non passing ............but for me his biggest problem has been his inability to construct a defence that is anything approaching 'tight' - which I believe is the basis for any team - you can't build on a leaky defence.

Liverpool managed pretty well, I wouldn't care if we let in 2 as long as we score 3 lol

When has lambert even spent £10m on a player? I really doubt he'll spend a ton on an out and out striker.

Wasn't Benteke 8m? Near enough 10m!

Could loan steer to Blackpool they only have 8 players and no gk, championship too so not too low level!

Then use given as first team competition and coach as said.

Went to Venice last month, nice there and there is a waterbus that goes to Venice Lido island which has a 7 mile long beach.

 

Only cost me about £400 for 2 people including flights & accomodation.

League 1? He didn't even stand out in League 2!!! I go to a lot of League 2 games and I'd never even heard of him when Villa signed him

If someone could edit Lamberts face into this pic, it would be ideal: