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Who do you see buying him? A bournemouth/burnley type team? That or off back to france

N'Zogbia keeps being included in people's potential squads - I reckon sherwood's gunna sell him off.

You serious? 4 decent months and you want him to captain the team! Wow expectations for the team really have fallen more than I realised. More about the person than the ability (although Clark had a better season than Delph imo), Clark seems much more vocal and acts more like a leader out there than Delph (not a dig at Delph). I don't have a problem with Delph being captain, but if you asked me who was more suited to being the captain I'd say Clark. I, as a fan, feel more unqualified to judge who should be captain than just about any other player assessment. How can you really judge who's better to be suited as Captain? Because one player yells? Not convincing to me. Has no bearing upon respect in the dressing room, which should be the key component (and a regular on the pitch of course). For what its worth i've seen Delph point and yell plenty of times. Also this whole release clause thing is just conjecture and speculation right? People are talking like it's a real 100% confirmed thing...

No solid evidence whatsoever. Every paper just jumps on the bandwagon. Happens every year with different players.

Was reading twitter and some stupid scouse tit thinks he's awful - was about to type out an argument but thought he's literally too retarded to argue with, so didn't bother!

I just don't understand why he isn't involved. What club doesn't use their captain in promotional material? Very strange that - still reckon he's staying though. If anything using Benteke instead of him (someone they're sure is staying) is more tactical.

With the exception of Gueye, I would be surprised to land any of the above. If we knew about Gueye before all this news we'd be saying it's unlikely we sign Gueye too tbh.

Richards with Bacuna ahead of him - that right hand side would be pretty solid.

Don't we need a right midfielder/winger too? If Sherwood's not sure about Gil I can see us being in for one … Bacuna? But would he be first choice and surely we wouldn't JUST have Bacuna… we'd have competition right? Seems to me that Gil isn't really a winger either, more a right attacking mid

Don't we need a right midfielder/winger too? If Sherwood's not sure about Gil I can see us being in for one …

Not sure about this one. Depends where Richards ends up playing (although many people seem to think he's here to play as a CB) and whether we get another RB to use Bacuna further up the pitch. I've just been on the club official website and noticed that Bacuna is listed as a midfielder…. does anyone know if that's always been the case??

This. Must be relatively confidant the big marn ain't going nowhere, or that would be number one priority. Just because there's not more links in the media doesn't mean he's not leaving. More just lazy journalism. We'd be a hard club to make a striker rumor for if Benteke is leaving.

I reckon Benteke is good enough for a top 4 team but whether he'd perform depends on the team I think. It's hard to say because he's been one of the few shining lights for Villa in a few really shit years and, as they say, "you're only as good as your team." Yet he's still bagged goals and pulled off some nice football. I reckon he'd smash it at Arsenal personally.

It's the Daily ****ing Mail. Yeah they blame immigration for him wanting to leave. Daily Mail Sources suggest that Fabian Delph has been corrupted by weed smoking, homosexual, militant ISIS activists and has decided to leave Aston Villa.

Was great at Torino but didn't perform to the same level at Juve Edit - so i've heard i should have said. Can't say I've seen him more than twice

Good, honest, interview for once instead of the usual "I'm just happy to be here, great club, i love [insert club here]." Some friends of mine in Manchester are good mates with him, I reckon he'll be good for team spirit. Always smiling!

Yeah I agree with this. I think that's why Sherwood isn't **** about and he's getting players in. Also Benteke speaks french… So do Gueye and Praet (who's also Belgian) - that would help Sherwood convince Benteke. You'd think so anyways.

I assume you mean if you HAD to choose…. cos' if you think Enrique is worth 7 million… LOL. Wouldn't take either deal personally.

We'd still be in danger of relegation. We need to add more players than just Gueye and Richards IMO. People forget that other people add to their squads at the same time. I always laughed at United fans when they only bought Fellaini and said "yeah well we won the league last year with that squad" And I was sat there like "Yeah but you're playing new teams now ya spud." Still need a couple more.

Apparently we've bid for Dennis Praet? Isn't he some highly rated youngster? Heard his name before… Praet tell ….

Listen, i've had enough of this positivity. Us Villa fans are far too positive ALL THE TIME.

So you know people who regularly watch Lille? I've seen mostly good things said about him. 138 caps at lille…. can't be that shit

Sympathypool think we should let them off 7.5 mill because they've "been through some hard times". Also "that other player", Firmino, is fecking class.

Is this sarcasm? Based on one clip?! Really? Which is why I said "based on that one clip" - as in that's the only clip i've seen to be able to judge him on, but in said clip he looks tidy and composed. So no I haven't decided he must be a tidy player all the time, after viewing one clip of one game, as your post suggests.

Gueye looks decent based on that one clip. Pretty tidy and composed.