brummybloke

is bent injured? or is it a ploy by chorlton to sell him now and spend the money on replacements, stating that he wouldnt be playing for a whole month anyway? a way of appeasing the fans of chorlton.

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gamst pedersen

thankyou.

I personally can't see us signing SWP though - we're not 'high-profile' enough or in a place where he has any ties etc - nice to dream though!

you say that, it wouldnt suprise me if swp speaks to his dad, his dad is a big fan of MoN, maybe 'wrighty' can persuade son number 1 that it would be better for his england chances and for his long term development?

Could be possible.

Bent aint going anywhere, he is captain and scored last night and Pardew would be mad as a hatter to let him go un-happy or not.

Lucas Neill its whe worlds worste kept secret that he is off to Liverplop.

The other i don't know the positions of.

I'm sure City would have something to say about them losing Distin,Barton and Richards don't you.

We have lost players we have wanted to keep in the past, yorke, Southgate, Ehiuogu, Boateng..........all left because, once more money is offered, and they are enticed - you just cant keep them.

For once, I believe, and I may be proved to be wrong, the boot is on the other foot as we have the money to entice players that our 'rivals' don't want to lose.

Would Pardew really turn down 13M to spend on his own players in his quest to keep charlton up?????? really???

Distin WILL go to the highest bidder, and whoever is willing to meet his 50k wage demands.

Barton, if he has a clause, will most probably do likewise.....

got to agree with this, £13 million may be a little too much but certainly £10 million and the djemba twins for bent. £10 million would get charlton 4 championship players. they are going to have to down scale slightly now, like blues did, signing deejay camel when they did. otherwise they are gambling with the whole future of the club, if they go down bent wont go for as much money and they are stuck with players on big money and poor crowds who wont help pay for the wages. they could sign 3 players with the money, and all 3 would be proven quality for the championship, they are going to have to gamble a little as by keeping bent, hasnt done them any good so far this season.

Saw today that Davids might be allowed to move on, anybody think he's worth a crack?

no thanks, maybe a year ago or 2, but not now.

I liked A.Hughes but after another awful performance against MU it's obvious we need new RB.Ronaldo is very good and skillful player but everyone can run around him and just watch the ball.I can understand that Hughes is slower but he never tried a tackle.Very poor display!!!

Defo agree that we need a new RB that gets forward.

james milner?

i thought most stadiums with sponsors names were names because the sponsor paid for the majority of the stadium and the stadiums were in gerneral new builds?

i would not like it for villa park to be completely renamed, infact i would rather it left as villa park.

maybe changing the way we have sponsors in the ground would do for starters, instead of being sponsored by big johns chippy on a couple banners , why not have corperate sponsors in the ground and the local business in the match day programmes?

and changing the old crap boards for electronic things all the way around the ground

and maybe renaming the ellis stand and the north stand to one sponsor, then if it is a positive responce from the fans, get ground sponsorship and get the 2 stands renamed on a public vote on what we want the names to be.

randy for me also.

football is a business nowdays, not a plaything for the rich. chelsea will go under if the russian gets bored.

i want the club run as it has been but with everything in larger scale ( not the debt obviously).

an initial spend and business plans to recouperate and make a profit.

steady investment into the team and club which will bring steady improvement in the team and club.

then if in 5 years randy departs, the club is still a going concern rather than concern if it is still going.

im going for 3

dont know why as we show no signs of getting anyone else but then again most have come from no where.

because distin has apparently stated that if swp goes, he wants to as it shows a lack of amition to get rid of your best players ( although it didnt do everton any harm did it?)

i dont see the point in comparing phillips to yakubu or forsell, we didnt try and buy either of those, first tentitive offers were sounded out but no solid bid for either where as beattie there was a proper bid on the table as there was for phillips. i went for phillips.

phillips is 31, this to many appears to be a bad thing. how old is figo? how old is nobby? how old was merson, mcgrath and many others who still gave good service at this age? dublin was no spring chicken when we got him but he did a job for us.

Young Chelsea forward available for £2 million - Portsmouth are looking at him to replace Yakubu.

Will he be next season's Peter Crouch?

hehe, with all this talk of take overs and the like this brought a smile to my face.

thanks for that one.

saha on loan for 1 year from the mancs?

it seems they are wanting him to go out on loan for a year.

if this IS the case then a cheeky 6 million bid should be tempting to fergie ( not the fit bird from black eyed peas but the dour faced scottish tit who miss manages manc ure)

technically it is what ever people will pay for it, on the other hand we have someone in his 80's who doesnt need the money.

i think he will only sell to who he thinks would be right for villa, even if it meant getting less money than someone he thought would not be good for the club.

but 60-80 million is still a snip.

no van bommel then, he is off to barca

ashton needs to be bought quick, otherwise i can see either chelski or arse buying him and loaning him to norwich for the season and then having him in the starting line up once another years experience.

parker is a must buy, he can play most places and is a david platt sort of player

malbranque im not sure about, he does do some great things but how many midfielders have we already got and bearing in mind berson is ' only for certain games and passes the ball too much' can you see d'ol buying another?

yakubu or owen would be the last choice, i think the 20 million newcastle thing is all rubbish, the money isnt as free flowing as it once was. so i think owen could be got for 8 to 10 million ( alledgedly 1/2 our budget although no numbers have been put forward officially by the board) either would be worth it as they can both produce their own goals from little.

oh and carlton cole?? no thank you.

voted for A_N OTHER, kevin gage was one of my faves during the taylor years, him and shaun teale man of steal.

BB Kev Gage owns my local pub now - see him quite often

ahhh thats right, i remember about 10 months ago we had this one. i thought kevin gage was awesome, lots more skill than credited for. he was the mastermind behind the 6-2 win at villa park against everton ( ok so sid got 2 goals but kev started it with a move involving ormonroyd)( i think, it was so long ago)

get him a drink for me will you drat

voted for A_N OTHER, kevin gage was one of my faves during the taylor years, him and shaun teale man of steal.

well if villa have contacted liver poo over baros which seems true, then i presume we would have to pay money for him of at least 2 million, so im guessing that we have atleast 2 million left.

with the knuckle draggers buying peskey it has placed pressure on ellis to deliver a couple big name players ( not the huge names but big names) so i dont for one minute hold the same negative view when it concerns money for players.

i would say that there is another 5-6 million left for players as this would be the money that we got for the possition in the league. it wont have escaped dougs attention that when we climbed the table we appeared on more live games than were planned which also meant more money and as DOL had only bought 3 players was being given a dry run before a large amount of money was made available.

it is the weekend, even football managers have time off work.

i would say the next signing will be next thursday at the earliest, that gives players time to sign, medicals, contracts and the rest of the crap that goes with signing a player nowdays.

oh and i still think he may go for matteo

Smellpiss will claim "we don't want to overstretch" and give DOL £4m and then start talking about 'realisitic goal for next season is to do the Double and win the UEFA"

that would be the treble then?? :wink: :wink: :wink:

about £2.50 if we do qualify as doug will say that obviosly D'OL doesnt need the money as we qualified for europe with out spending any.