VillanousOne

according to sky sports Rolando has indeed signed on loan for Napoli. anyone got any news on Ba?

wikipedia says he's joined them, so even the french fans love **** with that site....... doesn't look likely for us though

jesus Chelsea can't even beat Reading!!!

link a little bit newer than that one

wasn't Ba the guy we tried but failed to get on loan but Porto would only sell on a perm?

so he's a 22 year old midfielder from league 2 in France. that is fooking random, not saying it can't be a good signing but it's another major gamble - but then again KEA didn't seem much of a gamble and he turned out (so far) to be quite poor, so who knows.

Bent did nothing wrong, he worked hard and had to come deep to get the ball as there was no width and no service. If he had been on the pitch alongside Gabby and Weimann then maybe he wouldn't have looked so inept. It's weird though even though we did better in the second half because we have no central midfield presence the only option Lambert has is to flood the pitch with attackers, his determination to play Bannan over Ireland is utterly baffling. Benteke - Weimann Gabby -- Westwood -- Ireland -- Zog Baker - Clark -- Vlaar -- Lowton Guzan Is the best team we have and it's so obvious i screams PLAY ME and yet...........

I can't fault the second half performance and if we do that against Everton we might stand a chance.

I didn't think Bent did much wrong to be honest, he worked hard and had to come deep to get the ball. It was the formation and set up that was the issue not Bent. Bannan was much better in the second half but utterly awful in the first, in the only Zog played 90mins

first half woeful second half we played really well and deserved to get a point, but we need to play for 90 mins or else we are down. At least we didn't concede from a corner!!!!

did you see Weimann pass Debuchy on the left hand side?

does the ref ever let play just continue?

dirty ****!

Lambert has picked an utterly shit side and formation for this **** OFF BANNAN

the ref is a word removed also

at least having Vlaar back did............... oh erm **** all

its like watching a dead corpse get violated by Jimmy Saville

well what can you say, Zog hits an amazing volley and hits the post they hit one and...........................

Many have the same acid tongued 'not good for enough for Villa' approach to most of our players and not just in recent times. It is too early to judge KEA - he has had three or four games where he has been awful, but no-one around him as looked any better. Most of the time he has looked tidy without getting stuck in, or gets stuck in but is untidy and a liability - somewhere between the two might actually work!

Ladies and gentlemen. The return of Dougology! "we tried, honest we tried" Juniniho was sat in my lounge but he didn't like the selection of nibbles Sneijder got lost on the way to Bodymoor Heath and ended up having a dodgy curry in the curry triangle and got so annoyed he flew home. -------- I think agents just link us with players so Newcastle, West Ham and QPR can then sign them. We are the worlds first press propaghanda generating transfer feeder club. 'Hey look Villa want such and such' 'Jesus get on the phone quick!'

if we can get the KEA back that played the first few games for us then that would be a big help now, we really need his industry and tackling right now.......... presuming he can remember how to pass to his own players.

Pogatez going to West Ham, along with Warnock for free - always nice to watch every player we've been linked to in this window go to another club

I sort of agree but then i think to myself he's sold the Browns and invested a hell of a lot of money in the club and he must have some kind of pride and love for football or else why did he bother in the first place? I can see why he has had enough of spunking money up the wall but this is not the time to take a stand, he can do that when we are safe. As many have pointed out Warnock and Dunne are out of contract in the summer. Hutton isn't on big wages either. We need competent, experienced and talented players and to get that you have to pay 40K plus, if you pay less than that you get half the shower of shit we currently have dragging us down. The hate campaign against Ireland, Zog and Bent because in some people's eyes they have not lived up to the hype is a bit over the top, but the bottom line is we need to back them and play them if we are to have any chance of moving them on.

we do spend far too much time on here getting angry about wages and speculating bitterly what players earn, and no-one outside of Randy, Faulkner and Lambert knows what any individual player is being payed, anyone who says otherwise is speculating. All players are paid to much, and clubs like ours i.e. not in London or Manchester have to pay more in wages and on cut throat scum agents to attract players to the club. MON threw a lot of money around, but had he not done so we probably wouldn't have been able to sign some half decent players as when he came to the club we were..... well where we are now, but his crime was the fact he kept doing that even when we should have invested abroad and in bringing in players for the future. I'm not saying it isn't evident that we have massively overpaid in wages in the last five years, but I don't think we are now operating wildly above the market boundaries, the gamble to survive mentality is rife throughout the premiership. There are only around eight clubs that have the kind of infrastructure, following and international turnover to stay within realistic financial boundaries (but even Man Utd are mortgaged to the hilt, as are Liverpool, Chelsea are a paper castle propped up by Roman's oil money and so on and so on). But next season clubs get huge amounts of money from the new TV deal I just can't see why Lerner is playing hardball over survival. Granted if Lambert wanted to spend another 23 mil, then i can see why Lerner would say no, but bringing in a player on high wages with a relegation clause plus a loanee is a no brainer.

Both Houllier and Lambert froze Warnock out so maybe there is something about him that really rubs people up the wrong way. He was great for us at first but seemed to lose a whole deal of pace and composure in recent times. Didn't Hutton return to the preseason over weight? I actually miss his dreadful tackles because even if it was for the wrong reasons he added a bit of grit and physicality to the team.