OnePablo

Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon admits the club would listen to offers for Shaun Wright-Phillips.

Kenyon confirmed The Blues have received an initial enquiry from West Ham for the winger although no official bid has been lodged by the Upton Park outfit.

Wright-Phillips has failed to hold down a regular place in the Blues first team since joining from Manchester City in the summer of 2005.

The England international has started just 15 matches for the Stamford Bridge club in that time, and Kenyon admits it is a frustrating scenario for the player.

"There's been an official discussion but no offers tabled. Clearly Shaun wants to play football," Kenyon told Sky Sports News.

"We've got no plans to sell any of our players because we've got our squad for the season but if an offer came in we would have to look at it.

"But that's not to say that we'd do it - we're still at the very early stages and right now see Shaun as a member of our 24-man squad which is what we need to see the league and other competitions through."

he is excellent in Pro Evo Soccer 6.........

I agree - we need a CB, RB, 2 WF's and a strong CF target man. We'd be the bollocks then

Petrov would be wasted playing a DM style role

i'd like to see us play 2 DM's, 2 wingers and 2 forwards. The DM's can then take it in turn top cover, like cambiasso and viera at Inter.

I never thought of Petrov in that role

if you think about it, gravesen was bought in at celtic as petrov was leaving

I have heard Roeder linked with every freaking player from here to Timbuktu. I wish the belgravia group would put them both out of their miseryand let the codes slide to the Fizzy Pop.

Scott Brown who was tagged in September as a possible MON target is being reported as eyeing up a move to Rangers for 3M. Does any one have any news or rumours that Villa are still interested in Brown ?

Newscastle United - what a way not to run a club. I'm very confident MON and Lerner wont run us into the ground a la Shepherd and Roeder.

This is a very 'robust' appointment. Lerner is looking to boost the perception of aston villa globally - more fans, more money, more sponsors, therefore attracting great players.

The good times are back

Maloney collection on You Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd8LAzszQPo

Skip to 1min 30 to avoid all the pointless montage (Even Rocky had a montage - MONTAGE!)

They also said he was £7m rated. Which is ridiculous.

£4m tops, or how about £4.5m +JLS

oooo - you bitch

:oops: your probably right, i just remember hearing something like that, when he was first ever linked.

googling first normally avoids embarassment

I think Maloney is almost a certainty.

urgh....

has anyone got a kleenex?

Maloney will be doing the vacated Luke role IMO

richard - what's your track record on guessing tranfers correctly? i hope it's good, because maloney would be a great acquisition

D'Allesandro please, also Klose and Makalele

Ronaldo, Ronaldhino, Henry, Robben.

garrinchia, zico, pele

Phillips? Anybody? No?

Dust? Anyone? No?

Apparently Mowbray at the Boggies has been told to sell before he can buy (small time philosophy that!), anyone for Davies?

gera?

the data makes him look very much like petrov, so if we did buy him it would be quite crowded in the centre of the park. saying that, manu manage to play rooney, scholes and a defensive midfielder - and they're top of the league.

i reckon we should purchase him - it would be a great acquisition and would start to give us strength in depth

Season 2003/04 2004/05

Team Leeds United Manchester United

Appearances 35 31

Minutes On Pitc 3,141 2,037

Goals 9 6

Shots On Target 34 25

Shots Off Target 41 33

Shooting Accuracy 45% 43%

Chance Conversion12% 10%

Goal Assists 3 4

Total Passes 1,214 797

Pass Completion %69% 82%

Total Crosses 43 34

Cross Completion %23% 26%

Dribbles & Runs 155 67

Dribble Completion %47% 51%

Defending

Tackles Made 85 73

Tackles Won % 71% 75%

Blocks 11 4

Clearances 36 10

Interceptions 7 6

Discipline

Fouls 96 50

Offside 30 15

Yellow Cards 6 2

Red Cards 0 1

hasn't smith gone to cardiff on loan?

Ribery is overrated shit imo. Not much of an end product and not got a brain on him either. A slightly better version of Vassell maybe.

and he looks like the dude from the phantom of the opera without his mask

i'd love keane at villa. we should have bagged him from coventry all those years ago

One Pablo - funny you mention about the sales director position as i did hear a rumour it may soon be vacant or did you already hear the same?

no - it would be my dream job.........!

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Dear General Krulak

Can I just say how positive it is of you to take some time to post a message on Villa Talk. We have been quite jaded of recent having to tolerate a chairman who didn't want to listen to the ambitions of hundreds of thousands of villa fans. We're a very patient fan base who don't expect things to change overnight, but every football fan I speak to agrees that Martin O'Neil was the best signing of the summer.

The general feeling surrounding Aston Villa at the end of last season was pure disillusionment. We had a tiny squad that was hampered by injury, and couldn't even find £1.5m to keep on James Milner. I suppose this had something to do with the fans voting with their feet and opting not to attend home games. Having a chairman who was so bloody minded that he wouldn't even allow any memorabilia of our European Cup win in 1982 was unforgivable amongst the fans.

What I can say now is that the whole team and fan base is visibly lifted. Of course the 'honeymoon effect' has something to do with this, but we all believe that something great is being built here and good times will return to Villa Park sooner rather than later. From a commercial aspect we can also see that the executive management are ‘thinking big’ – I’ve always thought we’ve undersold ourselves to investors and sponsors. If your sales director role ever becomes vacant – please contact me!

All the best, and up the villa!

Ben

Mind you I personally wouldn't mind Smith, if thats what MON wants

Yep, decent young player, sign him up...................... if his leg has healed properly.

would be a SUPERB acquisition

i really do think we should stick with 4-3-3, get rid of baros and buy a strong striker a la koller to compensate for the 'light' wingers.

so;

one striker

left winger

milner

RB and LB

I reckon £25m should do the trick

If we get a left winger and a left back, where do you propose to play Barry? Centre midfield of a three with Petrov and McCann?

i dont see him as a winger - more a left sided centre-mid. and i think we'll piss him off playing him at left back

i really do think we should stick with 4-3-3, get rid of baros and buy a strong striker a la koller to compensate for the 'light' wingers.

so;

one striker

left winger

milner

RB and LB

I reckon £25m should do the trick

so what does this mean about taylor??

That he doesnt have what it takes really....and Taylor wasnt MON´s choice...it was a buy from DOL that seemed a little bit surprising by many. So...he wasnt anything else than a short term deal for a backup.

The only way that I can see MON go back for Myhill is that he has a "buy-back" clause. I dont think that Myhill is such a big goalie that MON cant find a better player to compete with Sorensen. I think this story isnt true tbh.

we need a world class goalie to take us to the next level. not sure who though.

Now theres a player there wouldn't be much arguement about!

ooooo. robben and cole on the wings. that would be lovely.