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I'm hoping we don't go in for Sinclair from Swansea. Seems to have a lot of hype around him, but he's never impressed me greatly.

But he does come with a great song.

Which is?

He's Scotty Sinclair

He's Scotty Sincair

He shags Rosie Webster

And Sally don't care.

I quite like what Lambert is doing. He clearly has an eye for a player.

We've always talked about buying players from the lower leagues. Better than spunking £4.5m on the likes of Zat Knight, £5m on Steve Sidwell and £4.5m on Marlon Harewood etc.

Ipswich fans seem pretty gutted to be potentially losing him, so that's good enough for me. £3.5m is a no brainer.

I personally think PL has used Carroll's name to distract from his real target. I don't know who that is and if we're close to getting him, but I get that feeling. Let the media think we're in for Carroll and quietly chase our real target. Perhaps that striker from the Dutch league?

However, if he is in for Andy Carroll - I think it would be a cash-price deal, I can't see a loan deal materialising. It's not in the interests of either club to do that.

From the sketches I saw

Exactly how I saw it.

Close, but I think the shoulders are still claret with a blue macron man logo on it, not the other way around like in your mock-up. Also I think there's less stripes on the collar but hell, it's a better effort than I could ever do.

Here's the screenshot of what we assume is the final design of the homeshirt again in case anyone missed it.

This looks promising!

Who is Richard and what has he said?

Why is Richard's opinion valued so much. Is he a genuine ITK or someone who simply has thousands of posts?

He's a manic depressive when it comes to Villa to the point of annoying.

For him to be optimistic, there must be some seriously good news.

and as he is pretty cynical, he must be 100% confident of what he knows/has been told.

Finally, in the years on VT i've never known him to pretend to be ITK.

Time will tell, hey.

Firstly, welcome Paul Lambert to Aston Villa. I'm sure you'll do well. A few questions, though;

Who is Richard and what has he said?

Why is Richard's opinion valued so much. Is he a genuine ITK or someone who simply has thousands of posts?

Cheers.

Tom Ross and his pal defending him.

Claimed that if we had won another 10 or 15 games this season we'd still be against him.

Says a Blues fan about the manager who got them relegated.

If we had won another 10-15 games this season we would probably be challenging for Europe and the appointment of Mcleish would have been proved to be inspired and we would have been 100% behind him. A hero in fact for relegating Blues and taking us into Europe.

Meanwhile back in the real world all that has happened is he has proved to be as crap as we all knew he would be.

15 more wins? We'd be on the verge of winning the league. I don't think anyone would be against him!

All is forgiven Doug!

We are going down my fellow supporters. Realise it now, and it won't come as such a shock on May 13th.

I can't see us getting 1 more point this season. WBA will beat us for sure, as will Spurs. Norwich will have a good time in the sun, no pressure, and put a performance on for their fans. We've utterly lost the plot.

Randy Lerner - do the honourable thing and sell the Football Club. You are absolutely useless and have shown your true colours over the past couple of seasons. You're not a fan of Aston Villa, you're merely the owner. You kicked us all in the teeth by appointing this neanderthal and you weren't brave enough to get rid when it became even more abundantly obvious to get rid.

Together you've broke all kinds of records this season - for all the wrong reasons. Unfortunately, the worst is yet to come, the relegation of Aston Villa Football Club from the Premiership.

Thanks, Randy. Thanks for nothing.

Sad news about Piermario Morosini who died in a Serie B game earlier today, due to a suspected heart attack.

Thoughts go out to his family.

RIP.

We're the famous Aston Villa and were probably going down, going down, going down...

Might see us win a few games in the Championship.

Alongside Dunne, Stephen Ireland shouldn't be anywhere near Aston Villa now.

Care to reason why? Particularly with regards to Dunne.

Stephen Ireland's comments regarding Birmingham and Aston Villa showed his commitment to AVFC. He didn't want to join us in the first place, has been given a number of chances in which he has failed to take any of them and still complains. It seems that it's everyone elses fault apart from Stephen Ireland's fault in his screwed up head.

Richard Dunne's behaviour on the team bonding weekend, abusing the inexperienced team members and a club legend, taking advantage of the 'treat' that they had been given to get pissed showed his attitude and thoughts towards AVFC. I'd also say his performances last year should have ensured his Villa career was over, and whilst some may be raving about him this year - he was at fault for the second tonight and there is still the panic whenever the ball goes into the box - and I'd place any improvements in defensive performance on the negative shite football that our 'manager' now 'plays'.

Move on.

Won £900 on an accumulator a few weeks ago, with a £10 bet. It was fantastic and yes, I'm showing off!

Reports now coming out Hutton has chosen Fulham and Villa have subsequently switched attention to Danny Simpson of NUFC.

Gutted.

Great signing imo.

Thing with Ireland it doesn't matter if he had a pre season or not he is not fit and will not be fully fit for awhile. His sharpness and muscle strength will take awhile to come. He always has niggling injuries. AM has stated that they have got him working with the fitness coaches to improve his conditioning. I reckon we will see a lot more of him as the season develops, we can't chuck in a player who hasnt played consistently for God knows how long and expect him to be at the level of Bent or someone in terms of fitness. I think AM is being complimentary of him in the press as he doesn't want him to feel as if he isn't in his first team plans and to give up in training, he wants him to get to the level he was before and is just sweetening him up. I think its good man management personally. Better then GH slagging him off!

But surely that fitness only comes playing games? He hasn't been sitting on his arse the last two years. I'm sure he's still been training etc. I've not overly criticised him but now I'm not too sure.

Ireland will be fine.

Put Ireland and Nzogbia into this side and it's looking positive.

I hope Gerrard or some other Plop thug beats him up on a night out, or his misses/boyfriend on a night in.

:shock:

Some distasteful comments on this board.

Stewart will do well at Liverpool.

I think if Villa wanted Moyes, or could get him, he would be here IMO. Got to agree with the Everton fan tbh. I think McLeish will surprise a few anyway, so I'm not too bothered.

We need NZogbia, badly, but all our deals are going to take time now because of two reasons;

1) incoming players questioning the ambition of the club

2) £36m burning a hole in our pockets and the whole world knowing.

Big summer for Lerner. Spent the Milner money on Bent and Makoun, effectively leaving us without spending any cash in the last two windows, after player sales. Hopefully we spend more than the £40m we have received in sales, we really need to unless we are just accepting mediocrity.

Getting fed up of reading about wages and fees, we are the fans, not the sound businessman running AVFC. Some people are losing all perspective, Ellis would have loved you lot.

As for Given, great signing.

If we get Given for £3.5M I will be delighted. Good start.

Agreed.

Well our admin team are back in tomorrow so hopefully we can get things moving. Yes, astonishingly according to MK our admin team along with the players have been away and aren't back until tomorrow hence the lack of any transfer activity.

What a circus we have become.

Still someone around to send off the papers when we sell someone, though.

Very good player on our hands if Eck can get him on side. Darren Bent will love to feed off Ireland's clear ability and vision.

L'Equipe say he is coming to us for £10mil

Source?

Would be a fantastic signing if true. Think he'd be an exciting player to have down at the Villa.

Check out the economists on this site. Chill out lads, go to bed and worry about something real.

We may sign Given but not at 5mill and not on 85k a week. It may happen one day that we give a signing 85k, but it won't be Shay! In terms of him as a goalie, FWIW, we could do a lot worse.