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Our odds have just been slashed to 10/3 to sign Tom Ince although Everton still 9/4 favs

I still think we will make another signing before the window shuts. I'd love it if the Fischer rumours were true, would be amazing. My my head says it just won't happen although Hellinuis's deleted tweet has made me hope a bit more! In regards to Shawcross, I personally dont think we will be signing but ruling him out because people thinks he doesnt fit Lamberts mould is wrong too. He has shown that he will go after experienced players to if he thinks they will fit. The Dempsey bid last year showed that.

but Scott Parker will definitely not be coming. He won't even be leaving spurs this window

I said about this the other day itt, just as pure wishing. Hope it happens

I've been seeing Lescott being linked with a few clubs. He was/is a Villa fan right? That could work in our favour as he nearing the end of his career (30 now). I doubt he is on Lamberts radar, but I think he'd be a great addition for us. Will take some of the pressure of Clark a bit and help him develop and we will have 3 top quality cb's (maybe 3 and a half if Dunne plays for us again) to choose from when we have injurys. Not sure how long he has on his contract, which would influence his price if it was longer but a loan with view to permanent deal seems possible

Love the video clip on page before as it just shows the top corner and fingertips lol - what a save! I was gutted when we let him go in the summer. Knew he was going to be a quality keeper. Thank god Lambert has sense and sorted that out quickly before he got snapped up

Was brilliant today and at Newcastle. They way he tries to close down and doesnt stop really adds to the team. Not only does it make it much harder for the opposition but it makes the other lads work harder to they dont wanna look lazy after he's running round like a blue ar*e fly!

If Chelsea sign the kid from Bayen L today then it looks like Sturrige would be available on a year loan. Liverpool interested but would also love to see us go head to head with them on this one as I think we would have more chance than the Dempsey situation. Also think Chelsea would rather loan him to us than potential rivals

theres an interview on the bbc website with McLeish talking about next season. I think he has been assured his job is safe for next season.

As long as it meant McLeish going at the end of the season, I would take just about anyone. Would be happy with one of Martinez, AVB, Cappello, Kevin MacDonald+Laursen as assistant with Laursen taking over after Mac....... ......but, wouldn't be surprised if we spent our transfer budget giving it Wolves as compensation for Terry Connor!!

Wow! At last! I've been waiting for this all season! We are actually having a go. Easily our best 45 minutes of football all season. I like the look of the team, shame Ireland come of but what an inroduction from Bannan, so close. Nzog playing the best game he's had for us, looks like the player we all hoping he would be this half. We've made Arsenal look poor. Brilliant first half, such a shame about the pen but if we play that good 2nd half we should get a result but if we don't I'll be much happier that we finally give it a good go and won't mind as much losing like this. Team selcetion has probably been forced with injuries etc which I'm glad about. Hope some of these players get a run in front of some of the people that are out (except Bent) - come on Villa, Keep it up

I 3would just like to see McLeish go, even if we haven't got anyone lined up. imo it at least shows a step in the right direction. I'd much rather see Kev Mac take over for the rest of the season if we couldn't get anyone in straight away and then try everything we can do to get Moyes next season - just doubt any of this will ever happen. I'm villa till I die but our current state and how our future is looking is really depressing

Makes it laughable now when only a couple of seasons ago people were calling for MON head. At least we could give any team in the league a game then and played exciting football. Now it seems like just a matter of time before we're playing championship football, if not next season, then it won't be far off unless we make some big changes sooner rather than later. To save this season we need to get some serious reinforcements in, hopefully survive (I even happily take mid table obscurity at this point just to save any end of season worries), then I hope and pray Lerner has the sense to change the manager (even though he prob won't) or sell up

I think he ended up winning that award. I haven't seen this kid play yet, I'll be watching the game tonight vs Spurs with interest. Alot of people seem to think very highly of him. I hope he does well - same kind of story as Delaney, that what it reminds me of and he turned out to be a great player for us.

In reality, it's one of our best starts of the season being unbeaten still etc but it feels like one of the worse. I'm not a moaner and I really think we have potential and I'd love it to come out, but the way we are set up to play, I just can't see that ever changing against anyone we play all season. Sure, maybe some of the players will be changed about through the campaign but our football is just painful to watch. Bent gets no service what-so-ever but he'll still score goals, but he'll know he can do better in a better team, which is why he left Sunderland to come to us before all our best attacking players left....