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If it meant a risk to upsetting the rest of the dressing room then forget about it, this guy has just got too much of a negative name to be assosiated with us, too much bad publicity still surrounding him im afraid despite what he can do on the pitch! Lee hendrie is another one who can't control himself in what he does it seems and look whats happened to him. I dont want barton anywhere near villa park unless its turning up with his away he has signed for.

It was inside sport or something that was on tv earlier, towards the end it came to discussions with her panal members about the goings on.. etc allerdyce will sign for newcastle next week, and then onto sidwell saying he is on his way to chelsea.. it might not be confirmed yet but maybe give it a few days! Im still baffeled myself for the fact of all the other midfielders they have for him to join? maybe theres gonna be a twist to something going on at chelsea.. lampards not signed a new contract yet either..

Despite all mine and others thoughts went on Sidwell, we are all wrong it seems, Mrs Logan has just confirmed that Sidwell is infact going to chelsea! All i can say that if he is happy to join them and sit on the bench most of the season then good luck to him! obvious he is just a money greedy little shite that is happy with that! shame really as he looked promising! Big Sam joins newcastle next week aswell, not that its a huge suprise to everyone anyway.. It was a givaway when he appears on TV football shows he sports a Black and White tie!!

no it wouldn't, it would be hard to face that Gem sack of strikers!. thats class on class that is and i for one wouldn't like to face spurs on there day with any 2 from 4 of these guys on top of there game no matter what defenders you might have!!

Now then.. lets go back in time a little bit here.. there was rumours gallore about us signing (at the time) watfords ashley young... now on the day villa faced watford, did they not drop him and said thats pretty much goodbye from him... for him to sign for villa about 2 days later. Now lets move forwards to 2 weeks ago when reading hosted newcastle.. same situation with sidwell rumoured to be off, and subsequently he is dropped. coppells explantion being he won't be playing for the team again this season pretty much but wouldnt answer if the player had already found another club to join as it were. So he has definatly found a new club.. just what 1 is it.. its either us or newcastle.. and i think it actually is us, for the simple fact that the most rumours surrouding him are more in villas favour than newcastles.. besides with Fat Sam now going to St James it seems, who knows that he would even want sidwell anyway! id put my money on him already being our player tbh!! Your thoughts everyone?

But will MON go for Defoe over Bellamy?

History suggests otherwise ! History won't repeat itself... Have u familiarised yourself with the new revolution lately? just look how well the january signings went... smooth as silk.. no ifs, no buts, no smokescreens.

Put it this way, it dont really matter when the transfer window is.. because if we think about it, MON will have in mind very soon on all the people he wants and is going for.. and i cant see too much of a drag out with getting the new signings to the club because surely MON will want his whole squad inc new signings to all start pre season preparations together surely..

Defoe is definately on his way out in the summer, My mates a spurs fan and he knows that defoe is on his way out... (bit like us with baros really) he reacons they will use Defoe and cash as bait to land agbonlahor apparantly! Its not for sure but it all makes sense when we might be after defoe and ive heard in the last few days that spurs are sniffing around gabby... Mind you it would take more than defoe and cash to get gabby.. maybe if they gave us keane, berbatov and defore we would consider it.. but theres as much chance of that happening as there is gabby joining them in the first place!... I still think its between Defoe, Bent (if charl are relegated) and Bellamy only as to which 1 is coming to Villa Park IMO.

Well from what im watching he is showing more than very little tonight.. creater of 2 of the 3 goals and would be a massive improvment on McCann, not saying he is the one though.

Guit has been outstanding since he came on.. Ruud Van Nistelrooy anyone?? hes scored 2 so far!

Anyone else watching Madrid v Sevilla? its very entertaining viewing and sending offs left right and centre.. including a sub that never came on!

What aload of Mar-Mite why oh why would we ever go for this guy? not just press, but some fellow fans aswell need to wake up and smell the coffee, we dont need to be looking at crap fringe players who cant hold down a starting place in a relegation fighting teams! we should be looking at world class players.. afterall whos to say we cant attract big names! we have everything - the money, the new facilities, manger etc!. The worlds our oyster! I just find all mentions of players like, Marlon Harewood, Marlon King, Kepa Blanco, Emile p1551ng heskey!!!!, mark viduka etc. none of these players can offer anything to our club in our attempts of acheiving what we have set out to do imo! You would think "The guy that invented the bicycle kick" was still at the helm! :roll:

Who mentioned Micheal Owen? i think the 3 china vase we already have (Laursen, Delaney & Berger) are enough to be needing this guy! He is too much of a risk with how many times he gets injured.. and its too many for my liking to even consider signing micheal owen despite what he might be capable of when he is fit.. which still is not anything special in itself!. (He is the jonny wilkenson of football)

haha he could be the new Volcav Drobny, or bosko balaban!

This is all nonsense and a smoke screen on who we are really after/buying, its a good tactic to use and i don't feel any milage in this whatsoever... just think about it!.

He would be but i think a certain 'Boruc' has beat him at the line! While on the note of GK posys, why is there talk of Sorensons going to be the one leaving / everyone agreeing to it!, I'd like Tommy to stay, he once again gave a great display yesterday of how good he is! Surely it should be Taylor that should be the one going and have Tommy as a Brilliant sub goaly!!... competition for places after all. :winkold:

1 Boruc - Celtic 2 Geremi - Chelsea 3 Tevez - Westham 4 Bellamy - Liverpool 5 Bent - Charlton 6 Keane - Spurs ...If all from 1-4 are Villa players next season, that would be a good summer.. anyone else agree?

Very True old fart, If fulham sheff utd etc had either Gabby or L Moore it would be like a C Ronaldo to them!! We only need 1 more striker to give us 4! (Gabby, Carew Moore & *New Signing*)

Only time will tell... If we signed Bellamy, and Moore stayed, Id very very happy! Anyone else?

I'd just like to add, that if Bellamy did arrive at VP, but L Moore was sold either before or after Bellamys arrival id be very very dissapointed.

I totally agree with you General. I and many others do accept the state of the club it was in when you first arrived 9 or so months ago, in which basically we were going downhill, backwards and beginning to rot!. Many fans never returning, Key players ready to leave, 18th Century training ground facillities which our ex chairman tried to revamp but then stopped halfway through!, No money (or so we were forced to try and believe by the same ex chairman), just everything we looked at was turning into a disaster and really depressing in many ways. In the course of the the last nine months that Yourself, Randy and Co have been here, the changes that have happened so far is just something i am and im sure i speak for others on this, still catching up and coming to terms of whats happening, its just phenomenal! I could be here for hours explaining all the changes that have happened so far, - Brand New State of the art training ground facilities, Coach Trips for fans to away games paid for, Holte Hotel refurbishment, Money being spent on players we could only dream of doing 12 months ago, One of the best British Managers, The whole new setup of staff that are bringing this club on leaps and bounds, One of, if not, biggest kit supplier names in the sports industry is now apart of us, Stadium cleaned, pitch being watered again, A thread to be able to talk to you direct General where we can offer ideas, plus being informed regulary from yourself as to all the new changes and goings on in and around Villa Park is also unimaginable from what we had before. Just from what i have reeled off, its just unbelievable all this and more has happened in the last 9 months or so and were not even finnished yet in terms of where Mr Lerner wants to take this club. To say that what has changed so far, if only half of this amount had been done in the time you have been here would still have been brilliant!! I get the feeling sometimes people don't understand things from this way and expect things to happen to quickly. These days its not just about whats on the pitch in many cases. If we want to be a top 4 club consistantly its going to take longer than some people may understand and have the patience for, they just want it at the click of a finger to sum it up. Proberly through no fault of there own but thats just the way it seems to be these days and i guess thats football. I am pretty confident with the great Team on top we now have running our club that there is going to be more suprises instore along the journey to where we are heading and i am personally looking forward to it and i don't expect anything at all on a basis of, what can the Club do for me, it is more what is given in gesture from the club proves far greater when u don't expect it and it is always accepted now by myself no matter what. (Before, we would all question everything that came out our ex chairmans mouth) Its going to take longer than nine months, longer than even 2 years or more yet for everything to be the way we all want it to be. Its not going to happen overnight, it never does, because if you build the foundations properly at the start you will be stronger for the journey, if that makes sense.. suffer shorterm to be successful longterm! could be another way! I fully accept that what has happened so far and from what we had before it is just a blessing, and i would just like to say i hope everyone that reads this, understands a bit better with the way things are happening if you were unsure up until now. On this final note just once again a big big Thankyou to you General for your communication with us, and also please pass on a personal thankyou to Randy and everyone else involved bringing this club back to life. Many Thanks! Up The Villa!!

Hi there general, I don't think we have spoke before and this is the first time i have posted on this thread!! Firstly, just to say what a privilage it is to have such a great gentleman on board who listens to us fans and acts so responsible keeping fans enlightened, its just pure brilliance along with the rest of the great chaps you work alongside that are going to bring great success back to this club. Secondly, regarding the post to the Rockingham Speedway thing and what they did to entertain fans! I live literally 10 minutes walk from the actual Rockingham Speedway track itself and up until last year i used to go to the Nascar race day events when they happened, (it was something like 1 race every month from May-Oct) which would be the time they had bands/solo artists appearing to entertain before the racing itself!! I agree 100% with this type of idea to, RE: getting stars in for say pre match entertainment, good recoginsed bands maybe?... I.E, Kasabian, Keane, Killers, U2, Foo Fighters, Justin Timberlake, Scissor Sisters etc or something like this that is gaurenteed to draw people. It proved a success for the short term when they did do it up there, ok it was not the best of names of artists up there they had appearing, i.e Darkness, Honeyz, Rooster, ..maybe the 50 cent visit was the only best one of artists that was to appear because it was mainly new bands that were coming into the music scene that were mainly booked up there aswell as some other older recoginsed bands like Sugababes, Status Quo etc!, But the times they brought these bands to the venue, it generated extra crowds and proved a huge success, for which they have now stopped hiring bands to perform now for whatever reason i don't know, but its not as good now either because of it. Now i don't know if it is something we could do every game but say bigger games, like FA cup matches, or Big Premiership Fixtures, i.e vs Manure, Arse, Liverplop, Chelski etc. and maybe if it was 4pm KO. It could be an idea to start the show at 2pm before the game itself starts! (obviously 15 minutes at halftime for it to happen would be impossible! Some may not warm to the idea.. but if it generates extra income, Club recognition and other fans warm to it then i think its a worthy idea! I don't know of any Premiership teams that do this. What do you and the rest of the posters here think? Up The Villa!

Why would this be highly unlikely? whats to stop Aston Villa getting all 3 of these?

Correct, next we will be talking of signing gifton noel williams, or trevor benjamin! Hellooo.. we are not under leadership of a man who was time warped era now, to be looking at these type of players like we used to, in the article about king it states "after a poor season being injured" why the hell do we want someone like this? its madness! Carlos Tevez quality yeah but king, no. we have taken watfords best player IMO and we should leave it there!