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Who were Mon and ISM scouting at the Monaco v Marseille match recently? Sami Nasri was the name mentioned most at the time and having watched him score the winning goal against Georgia on wednesday he has got awesome potential.

I know he has indicated that he wants to stay at OM for another season but he is the kind of player we need if we are going to make other fans sit up and take notice of Villa next season.

Yes VBG, he is mentioned a few pages back.

Sorry BOF I must have slept through that debate. :oops:

Has anyone mentioned Alan Smith? It seems that he isn't in Man U's plans and I was very impressed with the way he and Barry linked up and worked off each other in the England B match.

General, as the poster who originally suggested Land of Hope and Glory and even posted amended words incuding Bright future and Proud History, I have to say that after watching the DVD that came with the promotional pack I was blown away with the gladiatorial and emotive soundtrack.

Now I'm totally happy to sit back and leave our anthem and songs in the hands of the Villa experts who made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up for ten amazing minutes yesterday. My thanks and gratitude to all concerned General.

You know, I knew it didn't look right but couldn't put my finger on it! Bloody Dutch and their stupid language...

Exactly the same thing happened to me the last time I went to Amsterdam!

Bayern Munich have signed Frank Ribery for £17.6m

Ah well, there's always Nasri.

I have a non smoking house and a non smoking car and have chosen to go to pubs where I know the ventilation is good and I don't get affected by smoke. As a life long non smoker I have made my own choices and I would like to see that freedom of choice retained by smokers as long as there are plenty of premises for both smoking and non smoking customers and staff to choose from.

we might as well sign shamoo the whale if we are going to sign harewood. i think he will end up somewhere like wigan or reading.

You mean Wigan or Derby. Reading are a different beast from Wigan. Maybe Spurs will beat us to him...

That reminds me nobody has mentioned Kevin Doyle lately.

Mertesacker would be a great signing, I hope we are genuinely interested. At that price also it would be a bargain!

German fans say that he is an ok CB, not the best at defending but dangerous at set pieces.

If we're not in for Sneijder we blumin should be! He would easily be our biggest signing of the summer imo a brilliant player.

Lets hope we are and all the paper talk is not lazy stuff started by Baggie Bill.

Also if we get chance talk to him with MON whipping out some magic to talk him round, if its true and Spurs are interested then they only thing i think we would have really is regular football to offer as Spuds have a million midfielder's.

Also i'm not convinced MON even wants him as he see's Petrov in that role!

Come on MON pull it out the bag!

Spot on Jez. Mon should get NRC and his agent to tell Sneijder what a massive club Villa are, far bigger than spurs!! UP THE VILLA!!!!

Ive got a feeling that this Sneijder thing wont go away until we sign him!!!!

Think MON may play him on the left wing with Barry inside him allowing Sneijder to play more freely (very similar to Berger and Maloney did at the end of the season)

Heres hoping!!!

Robs List...NRC

SNEIJDER

GORDON

L.YOUNG

DEFOE

Sneijder scored 18 goals last season, imagine him doing that at the Villa.

Isn't JG manager at QPR if we're being linked with a winger from there? Could be just press making 5 out of 2 + 2 again!

In fairness Lee Cook (the winger in question) has been linked with a lot of midtable clubs with Pompey putting in an alleged £2million bid.

Watching Ashly Young the other night play superbly on the left wing means that Mon can bid for either a classy left or right winger. Carew and Agbonlahor et al will get superb service and can look forward to getting a hatful of goals next season.

Good cuz I want Gordon anyway

Gordon has the makings of a good keeper but he hasn't looked that secure in the last two internationals. If anyone knows him well perhaps they could tell me whether he is a vocal keeper who commands his defence, because this is what we need next season.

I thought Sneijder was 22? That Sun article says he is 26.

He will be 23 very soon but 26 is pretty accurate by the Suns standards.

"Let me tell you categorically it is a load of complete tosh. I have not been near Celtic for the player and I won't be.

He is speaking about Nakamura, if he wants Boruc these comments wont stop him bidding.

How old is Geremi? I mentioned this name a while back and I thought the feeling was "too old"

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I have it on good authority from a personal friend of the man, that Villa want Per Metersacker and have offered Werder £4M.

He only signed for them after the World Cup but they could double their money by taking Villas offer.

I understand that he is keen on the move.

A good young German international centre back to create real competition. After all we can't rely on Larsons dodgy knees. :winkold:

is this paul meatpacker(english translation) any good then?we need another proper quality defender or two.

Had a good world cup, not the biggest name, but will be a regular in the German national team for a long time. Not a bad price either for an international centre back at 23 years old.

German fans reckon that he's not the best defensively but he's dangerous at set pieces due to his height.

I would be pissed of if we "scoured the whole of Europe",...as touted by scouts etc...only to come up with Paul McShane and friggin Jason Koumas..basically!!!

A lot of us are thinking it JV but you've had the guts to come out and say it.

Barry doesn't need me to defend him but I will anyway. He was the Villa heartbeat this season and for me he is irreplaceable.

Koumas and Bellamy, or Sneijder and Huntelaar? I know which pair I'd choose to pursue and I also think our credibility as an ambitious club depends on positive media reaction to our signings.

Koumas, your kidding me!!! Im not being funny, but if Villa were interested why does he need 2 weeks to decide hes bloody playing for WBA.

I know the same thought occurred to me.

What did it say Bromsgrove

Koumas was quoted as saying that he has been given two weeks to decide whether he will be wearing a Villa shirt next season'

Has anyone else seen the sky report on Koumas just now?

I've just heard that we're interested in Koumasovic, evidently he's been getting rave reviews in the Croatian second division could be a great buy but we need to move quickly because Everton are sniffing around. (Sky have just said that Koumas is going on holiday and has two weeks to consider accepting Villas offer! ) breaking news quoting Koumas.

Shouldnt we aim higher then Koumas? Just considering the PR babble we have been fed, Koumas isnt what crawls into mind.

What PR babble exactly? Anybody expecting Henry and Ronaldinho was always going to be disappointed.

Oh shit now you tell me!