DANVANDAL

Dunne looked slow, awful, and the whole defence was terrible today.

Once we missed the penalty I had a bad feeling we'd lose.

Maradona 25-1 at Paddy Power...hilarious

Big week for KMcD, a win in the Europa and beating Newcastle and I think he should be a serious candidiate to take us atleast through till January.

Friedel

Young Clark Dunne Warnock

Albrighton Reo-Coker Petrov Downing

Young

Carew

Ireland to be brought on 20 mins to go for Reo-Coker or Petrov.

Gabby to get 20 mins for Carew if he's fit otherwise Delfouneso or Weimann

He'd normally take Heskey to carry his bags but he's still tired from bag carrying at the world cup....

I know its all a bit crazy at Villa Park at the moment but would you have bet we wouldn't have sigend anyone by 17th August!!!

John Gregory one more time?

Korea DPR coach, Kim Jong-Hun?

I think the main problem is that there are not many top class managers out of work at the moment.

Also just my opinion but a top class European manager will only come to us if he's offered a good war chest to invest in new players.

Frank Rijkaard from Galatasaray, he's only got one year left on his contract there?

We need a manager who can attract top players because of either his playing reputation or managing ability.

A manager who is willing to buy players from worldwide leagues and bring in a scouting network to make this happen.

We need a manager who can play an attacking style of play, bulit on a strong defense.

A manager who has managed at the top level in Europe, and knows how to compete in that market.

All in all a tough recruiting job for Randy,

Outside shot why not Gullit?

Maybe GT fancies a third go?

MYSTERYMAN any updates?

Dear god this window is boring!!!!

Our "Team" photo will be funny to see, once taken it could be out of date 2 weeks later.

Also i'm guessing the number 3 and 9 shirts are now up for grabs? with 2, 4 and 8 maybe to follow?

Excellent piece, thanks for taking the time to write it.

General glad to have you back on VillaTalk again, thanks for the info about the shirt release date, one point that wasn't addressed is that we're having a new home and away kit again this year.

Why isn't the home kit going to be used for two years? I understand the reasoning when we change manufacturer or sponsor, but we're with Nike next year and FXPro, so it just seems having two new kits next year is a bit harsh on the fans pockets.

none in, none out, the boredom continues!!!

Can I just say it now, how long until we're linked with Jenas again...

£20m plus Ireland and Raul on a free, happy days.

£25m is a great foundation to build the next stage of the squad on. Re-invest well and we move on.

We sell for £25m i can see us buying a replacement for £6m

Sad to say it but we are becoming a Sky 4 / Arab Fun club Feeder club

Not a great deal of time to find a replacement, if this takes a week or two to sort out.

If Sidwell goes in the next couple of weeks as well, our starting midfield for the opening Premier League game may be Downing, NRC, Petrov, Young

Interesting to see where he will fit in with

Yaya Toure

Ireland

Barry

De Jong

Viera

Wright-Phillips

Silva

Adam Johnson

Kompany

I hope they have nice comfy bucket seats....

If he gets Yaya Toure wages he'll be laughing all the way to the bank!!!

MYSTERYMAN have you got any inside info about this?

Atleast Barry will have someone familiar to talk to on Man City's bench