Sidmon

The barometer of whether we're getting reasonable value for money for Ings will be if Chris Wood goes to Forest as rumoured. Six months older than Ings and whose scoring record of late has been abysmal in comparison.

40 minutes ago, Pissflaps said:

Spurred on by the potential sale of Ings for yet another big loss, Grealish aside as we didn't pay for him, when was the last player we actually sold for a profit in terms of fees paid to buy, then compared to the fee received to sell? 

I reckon this would make for horrible reading in the main. Shocking transfer business over a long long period of time. The last I can recall are maybe Benteke or Downing?

Totally agree and we seem to always be pushovers in the transfer market, even when it's desperate relegation candidates buying our players who are desperate to bolster their ranks in order to stay up.

Ignoring players brought through our ranks like Jack or players purchased as youth from other teams academies the last "profit" we've from a signing I think was Ashley Westwood reputed to have cost us £2m but sold (although not clear) for possibly £5m.

Michael Beale on Talkshite earlier stated he's tapping up Villa for a loan signing so sounds like it could be QPR he's off to.

14 minutes ago, Rightdm00 said:

Feel we are being a bit harsh. Purslow financial muscles dwarfs anything Lambert had at the time he was managing us. 

He could have had all types of fanciful countinho like dreams but no way was Lerner going to finance them. 

Think people forget speculation was we were in for Coutinho back in 2013 at the same time Liverpool bought him when Lambert was manager unfortunately we could only go to £6m for him and Inter wanted £9m. Take was we had first refusal over Liverpool but we just wouldn't pay the money as it was the Lerner pulling the budget days. Ended up signing Sylla the same window for £1m. Lambert also allegedly wanted John Stones but again wasn't able to bid as much as Everton so another one that go away....story of our club sadly (remember the talk of Klinsmann negotiating in Doug's back garden but he tried to take £5k a week off the contract he wanted so went to Spurs who paid it on the spot).

Under the financial circumstances Lambert did OK and ultimately lost his good reputation within the game in managing us. 

On 19/02/2021 at 00:09, Chindie said:

The cynic in me would suggest on another day we'd have a different WWE fan. Or perhaps even if they'd used a different hat.

Just reading his wiki page it seems he's a Cleveland Browns fan so maybe through Lerner's previous association he's a Villa fan just as some Villa fan's become Browns fans back in the distant past.

Is anyone else looking at Ross and as much we want him to succeed here and become a fan favourite, keep seeing his anonymous performances and think "Jack Rodwell" if we signed him permanently?

The concern is and it backs up the "play if fit" clause claims, is that Ross wasn't put on the bench like you'd expect when nursing someone back to fitness. As soon as he was even half fit he was back in the team taking AEG out who was so on form was a nomination for Premier League POTM. While I agree with the feelings that such a clause sounds like a Champ Manager theory, these kinds of actions do little to stop the suspicion of it. We had the same theories on Drinkwater last year though when he was continually picked despite being unfit and shite, but that (fortunately) proved unfounded and now Drinkwater plays on the other side of the continent!

Anyone else get the feeling this could come back to haunt us ala Cahill?

Hope we get at least £2m and a 25/30% sell on clause, just the sort of player you could see having a blinding season and being a target for lower Premier League teams for £10m+ next summer.

28 minutes ago, useless said:

If Smith stays but Terry (peace to him waving goodbye many thanks if he does) goes, maybe he'll look towards Craig Shakespeare, referred to him as his friend at the press conference for the Arsenal game.

Think they're old pals from both their Walsall days.

On 15/07/2020 at 11:02, Zatman said:

Didnt he cost us more tham Hourihane at the time

We had Hutton, de Laet and Bacuna when he joined then Bruce signed Elmo and played Tuanzebe there. Its like we signed him because we could. Another of the failed Villa transfer policies

Understanding was when we bought Hourihane despite him being out of contract soon was worth way more than we paid. Barnsley were keen to avoid losing money on his sell on clause to Plymouth Argyle so we agreed to load the money on the Bree deal in order to keep Barnsley sweet. To be fair Bree was a quite highly rated youngster at the time and I think his stats for Luton while he's been on load (especially given they've been struggling) have been very good.

Fingers crossed we don't give up on him too soon only to see him become another Lowton. Kid could at the very least act as a good squad cover regardless of the league we're in.

On 29/02/2020 at 21:04, leighavfc said:

A few lads on our minibus are staying in the green man to watch it I think. Would imagine a lot in same position will do the same. 

Sadly Green Man was closed just prior to kick off so they could clean up. Ended up in Flannery's on the High Street (well they call it High Road).

Going down tomorrow despite not yet having a ticket. If I don't get one in the meantime is anyone else doing the same and just wondering which pub would be best to watch the game? (Real ale would be a massive bonus).

9 hours ago, imavillan said:

1.27 Of a very early MotD

 

Great fine, and is it me or is the keeper wearing gloves? 

1 hour ago, KHV said:

Correct, he is a scouser

Born in Liverpool due to his mum I believe, but moved to Brum when very young so definitely a Brummie.

2 minutes ago, PieFacE said:

Are we just going to ignore everything Rodgers did before Celtic then?

Promoted Swansea and played some good football but the foundations were laid by Martinez and Sousa, leaves for Liverpool and inherits Suarez and a rejuvenated Gerrard and finishes second which is probably a career high. For every Coutinho he bought there's a Markovic and Illori or Ballotelli (though admit heard Mario was forced on him), remember Lambert's Norwich playing Rodger's Swansea and Lambo totally out thinking him. Wouldn't be a bad appointment by any means, but don't understand the hype and the potential compensation costs involved could be huge.

Genuinely intrigued by the enthusiasm for Rodgers, he has managed Celtic during a time where their fiercest rivals have been recovering from a financial meltdown. On that basis surely Gordon Strachan and Neil Lennon are sensible candidates also?

Always going to be a contentious argument but given the amount of games he's been given to perform, it's hard to argue against him being one of, if not THE worst signing we've made (and let's be honest, that's an accolade that has many candidates!). Balaban and Kachloul were never given the game time that N'Zogbia has hence the theory that he has been a worser signing. Whether those two were ever worth the game time is another argument but N'Zogbia has been given it and has never really justified it with the little he's given on the pitch. My only concern is when he signed many Villa fans wanted him much in the same way that many of us are fast warming to the signing of Adebayor....let's hope we have more luck this time if it happens!

Three of them are ex-Villa! David James was a surprise, he always seemed to have his head screwed on....although this would go some way to explain why he was playing in Iceland!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/29896728

Not sure if he lives in Milan but what if Randy was talking to Marcello Lippi about our job? There ain't many managers in the world with a better record than his!

I think a fairer assessment of KM's abilities would be after 5 or so games, but so far everyone can't help but be impressed.

The thing I would say is that for him to take the job permanently I'd imagine he might prefer to have someone experienced in a Director of Football roll above him which Sven would potentially be ideal for. KM and Sid overseeing the team day to day training and on matchday's and Sven negotiating and scouting new talent.

SSN has just confirmed Tommy Hitzlsberger has joined Wet Spam for an undisclosed fee.

Not sure about everyone else but if his transfer fee and wages were reasonable I'd have liked him back as back up, think he'd be more effective than Sidwell has been. :cry:

Best route for me from Tamworth is via train down the West Coast, off at Watford Junction then connect with the London Overground to Wembley Central. Back same route connecting with 20:45 Watford Junction back into Tamworth at 21:52. This one also calls Rugby and Lichfield too.

Like the sound of the bus from Tamworth but a little early and I'd struggle to get er'indoors to drop me off due to this! Looking at going via west coast but this means underground from Euston to Marylebone and if it were to go to extra time I reckon I'd miss the last one back.....decisions, decisions.

I'll throw another name into the ring.....Simon Kjaer the new Martin Laursen.