Bunnski

I'm bemused by the amount of people that can't see how good a player Westwood is. If we sign Sanchez then it will allow Westwood to sit further up in midfield beside Delph and concentrate on what he is good at, he is never a DMF. When we play good attacking football he is always at the heart of it, his passing is brilliant and he was second only to Gerard in chances created by an English player last season. It's not his fault he had the likes of Gabby and Weimann upfront who constantly made a balls-up of our good chances. I look forward to him improving again this year and being one of our best players. In the first quoted post, the words 'by an Englishman' are quite a qualification! Yeah I thought so to, thanks for your input!

I'm bemused by the amount of people that can't see how good a player Westwood is. If we sign Sanchez then it will allow Westwood to sit further up in midfield beside Delph and concentrate on what he is good at, he is never a DMF. When we play good attacking football he is always at the heart of it, his passing is brilliant and he was second only to Gerard in chances created by an English player last season. It's not his fault he had the likes of Gabby and Weimann upfront who constantly made a balls-up of our good chances. I look forward to him improving again this year and being one of our best players.

Was at a kids party today and was talking to a few Liverpool fans who told me Cissokho was improving everytime he played and was decent in his last few appearances so I guess this qualifies rock solid ITK going by the standards in this thread.

He has something to prove and he is giving it his all in pre season. He is a welcome addition to the squad and will hopefully keep the right attitude through out the season.

Looking at Danny Batth? I'd be very surprised if we signed this guy. He looked solid, and I reckon he'll go for money eventually, but we currently have 5CB's, 6 if you count Herd, and it seems like a position we just don't need to strengthen in. What's more, Batth is only tested at League 1 level, which would go against everything we've been doing in signing experience this window. We currently have 5 CB's but only 3 are prem standard We need to get rid of Clark and Baker ASAP At least Baker has shown signs of progressing, Clark has gone backwards and looks worse everytime I see him play. He might just about make a half decent defensive LB but he is never gonna be a CB at a high level.

The Sunday post in Scotland is reporting Tonev is on his way to Celtic on loan with a view to a permanent deal #avfc Could be true as he didn't even make the squad yesterday.

Chelsea are a big club and he did look more than tidy before he got injured. Stop the waffle.

I was impressed with him today. He was commanding and solid.

Getting a new CEO is fine and all but I'd much rather we got contracts sorted for the players we need to hang onto. The season starts next week and we haven't got anything sorted in that regard. Is it down to us not putting good offers on the table or have we not even offered anything yet or is it down to the players hoping to get out of the club or maybe waiting to see what happens with the ownership situation before they make a decision?. I really thought we would of had a couple of our important players tied down at this stage of the season.

Like someone mentioned he was doing fine up until the Liverpool away game. At that stage of the season he had 4 goals and 5 assists in 18 games and had also won us a few penos. He is not the type of character to turn to when things are going bad and he just becomes part of the problem rather than stepping up and showing an example to other players. I have hopes that if we are more solid this year and pose more of a threat then I think Gabby will find form again. I really hope he does it soon as he has been hopeless in pre season and the signs aren't good atm but he can be a big player when he wants to be and is a much better than Weimann is in the wide positions. In saying all this I can't get over how he didn't find Bent with that pass earlier, it was shocking.

Love this photo:

We could probably do with having a midfielder who can pass the ball in that team.

http://www.wiziwig.tv/broadcast.php?matchid=272332&part=sports

No Tonev in the squad, wonder is he on the way out.

Shocking production as per usual. You would think it would be easy to do a good quality live broadcast these days but it seems like they haven't bought any new equipment in 10 years...

It's interesting that Stevens starts ahead of Bennett. I've givin up on Bennett at this stage and am happy enough to see Stevens get a chance although I doubt he will be upto it but we'll see. I'd like to see Weimann through the middle and Gabby on the left wing with N'zogbia on the right wing.

Ron is on the bench so I'd hope he will get 45 mins today and then be ready for next week. Be interesting to see how big Philipe gets on vs decent opposition.

I'm expecting Palace to be keeping it tight at the back so Speroni should score high. Maybe Goose might be a good option now that we have a half decent backline.

I'd like to see Lowton tried there if we don't sign a proven DMF.

As you say, for Westwood to control games more then we need a proper DMF so he can stay pushed up and not have to keep dropping deep. Guzan Hutton Vlaar Okore Cissokho DMF Westwood Delph N'zogbia Kozak Benteke That would be a solid 4-4-2 and we would have good options off the bench for all positions.

http://www.mercafichajes.es/06/08/2014/aston-villa-atletico-opciones-chicharito/ Get him in on a 1 year loan. I'm concerned about Bent playing as our striker til either Benteke or Kozak get back. If we got Chicharito then Gabby could stay out on the wing and Weimann could play as back-up striker along with Bent. Doubt we will sign him but ya never know.

I'd laugh if it was Joe Kinnear and then I'd cry uncontrollably for days. The only positive if it was Kinnear would be the names he would get wrong for our players, obviously Charles Insomnia would be a cert, Gabby Ibangedawhore, Tim Westwood and Libor Kojak. Then we could we could sack him.

Team Name : BvC FC GK - Speroni, Begovic DEF- Lovren, Filipe Luis, Stones, Ward, Shaw MID- Delph, Coutinho, Cabella, Januzaj, Fabregas STR- Diego Costa, Bony, Riviere

Any idea as to what wages he will be on? my guess would be 25k-30k

Hopefully it is quicker than he is. State of affairs when we are getting excited over a player like this You've obviously seen alot of him then. Fill us in on whats so bad about him? Yes i saw enough of him last year in premiership and going on that i dont want to see any more. He started 12 games in the Premiership last season and it was his first season in England. You should probably reserve judgement til he gets a proper crack at it as it can often take a player a full season to get to grips with playing in the Premiership.