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A down payment on Carroll?

Aright, it was a nice thought.

£18m smacks of desperation and I think we've had your pants down here.

Yeah, we take your best player off you without any of your fans knowing about it and you've pulled our pants down... :?

It's Sunderland pissing around. Sour grapes.

I just hope that VP is packed to the rafters on saturday and we make the players know were in it together, im chuffed with bent as he scores goal and thats what we need, if he comes and does as he has everywhere else this will help our defense go back to being solid, our lack of goals have not help them as if you dont score you are always likely to conceed, i just hope that ash now signs the contract and we get our ash back from 18 months ago, you don't win young player of the year for no reson, also that team posted earlier is frightening, lets hope SI wakes up in the morning and decides that he wants to be here and starts to show the talent we all know he has.

Also if we had bent on sunday there would be know way he'd have skied that gabby chance in the 1st minute, hopefully this signing gives gabby the kick up the ass he needs.

My team for saturday

Brad(Snr)

Walker Collins Dunne Clark

Reo-Coker

Albie Makoon Downing

A.young

D.Bent

It is unlikely Makoun will have clearance to play on Saturday.

Have a day off smetrov ffs.

Whilst Delph will have to be eased back in, and his attitude will be at odds with that as he is something of the terrier, he is without a doubt in my mind one of the brightest prospects in the country and will be a top Premier League player with Villa. It may take a year or two but as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, it will happen.

I cant wait to see him and Gary Gardner play together in our future midfield.

In the meantime, we need a player or two to get us through. There's a question mark over how these two recover form their injuries although touch wood, with our staff and facilities they'll play it right.

Clark can look after himself alright. And you can always put Dunne on Carroll and have Clark covering.

Delph can get stuck in without being an out and out defensive midfielder.

He just has the added bonus of being very useful going forward and a superb, possibly the best at the club, range of passing.

That's Smithy from H&V.

A very funny man.

Heskey available for.... say, £8m?

If Ireland is impressed with the club (and why not) then he'll most likely accept we're going to appoint a decent manager and move on.

All that has changed is that MON isnt there any more. For all we know he might see that as a bonus, who knows?

I also think any manager we're likely to get will be glad he's with us.

I just wouldn't sell him full stop. We could really do with him in the squad.

Many times. And its utter bollocks.

SWP---------Young----Downing

--------------Gabby--------------

Works for me.

Extremely lightweight!!

About as hard to get through as wet budget bog roll.

If you dont think having a full pre season makes a significant difference you know absolutely **** all about anything.

Why would they even bother having them otherwise? It does make a difference.

James Milner taught Judas how to play fair.

Calculating Randy's worth isnt that simple. He owns the Browns which are worth something like £1bn amongst other assets, his own personal wealth is considered at something like £800m and then his trust fund, which he obviously has access to, is reportedly into the multiple billions.

That's not to say he has all this money and assets to liquidise and throw at Villa but he's a very wealthy man with more financial power than his personal wealth would suggest.

I thought Kallstrom was available on a free?

Anyway, I'd have him. Good player.

Of course they will.

They will want him away wherever he goes and, in their arrogance, wont see him coming back to haunt them as a problem.

if we do win this battle.. then we've got no money for other possible transfers. so someone guns have to make a mice for us to be able to get fresh faces in!!

Not true. We dont have to sell Milner to buy players and we certainly dont have to breed and sell mice to get new players in.

Are you in a state of advanced refreshment or retarded?

Last years was red, this years is purple. And its better.

How could we sell him if he wants to stay? He has a contract with us and he can stay if he likes.

He cant go without our permission and we cant sell him without his.

Mashcerano is the most overrated footballer in the world and I'm sick of hearing about him.

He's **** pony.

Hes really not.

Was Makelele crap as well, because Masherano is Makelele but quicker.

Liverpool finished just below us but with shed loads of injuries along with Lucas and Masherano in midfield.

Now Lucas is absolute shite, so i doubt they did ok with two shit CM's

Yeah, he really is.

Once they lost Alonso and Gerrard lost form they were crap. I wonder why? The season before their quality hid his lack of. The truth is he runs about kicking people and gobbing off at the ref. Whatever he does to earn this reputation, Ive yet to see it. Doesnt score, doesnt create, passing isnt up to much or very imaginative, isnt particularly quick or powerful. Average.

People say he's much better than NRC but I cant see that either. In fact NRC replaced him at West Ham when they were plummeting towards relegation and helped save them. Mascherano was shite then and he isnt much better now. Completely overrated.

Anyway, I'm not talking about that Speedy Gonzales looking gobshite any more. He isnt as good as Makelele was at all and I hope he never darkens our door. Believe the hype if you want. I dont.

EDIT:

Just out of interest, and to check if I'm going mad or not, I checked the actim index to see where Mascherano ranked in the top 100 players last season. He's not even in it! Even more pointless than I thought then.

Mashcerano is the most overrated footballer in the world and I'm sick of hearing about him.

He's **** pony.

Its the way of things in the academy but its also a good sign in a way. If they're letting good players go it means there are better behind them they need to make way for.

Good luck to them though.

This is very true, next season's u16s are outstanding and I expect at least 8 of them to get scholarships for 2011/12, it's probably the best all round group we've ever had.

That does sound promising. Good stuff.

Even if they're as good as the crop that produced Fonz, Albrighton, Clark... etc I'll be over the moon.