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I wonder if Barnsley are waiting on a replacement before rubber stamping this one?

Wonder what Steve's Mrs has to say about him having his pals over all the time?!

I love a good signing out of the blue. As much as i love following transfer news early, there was always something rewarding about checking teletext to see we had signed a player! Bjarnason has an element of a signing out of nowhere, which is great. I'm looking forward to seeing what he has to offer. I think with the added work rate of Lansbury, Hourihane and Bjarnason we will see a high pressing game, similar to what we saw be so effective away at Brighton. With Adomah and Kodjia chasing and harrying too, and a front 5 seemingly all carrying a goal threat. What is this witchcraft?!

Villa's Head of Medicine and Sport Science just tweeted this. Is there one or two in there though?!

Highly rated and highly regarded, whilst being chased by some of the best talent spotters in the business. I like the sound of it! Having a decent attacking right back in the place of Hutton sounds dreamy!

Xia trolling Villa fans by following Rooney and Sanchez is genius! Love the man!

I think this season becomes a matter of pride now, and finishing as high as we can. The play-offs look to be beyond us this season, which is a shame and the finger must be pointed at RDM for that. We need to bring in a few more players this window, with longer term planning like Hourihane and Bree, bed them in ready for an assault on automatic next season. The way this season has gone there won't be clubs queuing up to sign our players so can build how Bruce and Round see fit. The positive is that I've enjoyed this season so far much more than the last 5 or so years. I just hope we can nail it next season.

The much maligned Warnock with a similar if not slightly better record. Bruce has done well, but could have done better imo, he's the right man to steer this ship back around for me. It's going to take time. Lansbury and Hourihane will certainly help.

I wonder what the good Dr makes of this? He's kept himself quiet on the matter on Twitter.

Here's the said interview. Come on Conor, sign on that dotted line!

Not working out for him so chucked his toys out the pram! Understand why Bruce has been reluctant to use him if he's not turning up for training! Shocking! Meant to be a leader too.

Graziano Pelle

Enjoy my friend. Enjoy.

If we do make the play offs then I wouldn't want to face us. Unbeaten at home all season and tough to break down away if we play for the draw, even tougher. The only problem is getting there. We've been saying it since the start of the season, but we need to put a sequence of wins together and quick. Hopefully the addition of actual midfielders will help us away from home, and we can start to propel ourselves up the league. You don't get anything for being 6th after 25 games. If we sneak in on the 46th game it's job done! Plenty to be played yet.

Come home Kodjia. We miss you! Hopefully they mess it up against Morocco!

Berahino looks to have finally escaped the clutches of WBA. I wonder if he remembers how to actually play football.

Down at the Fulham training ground. Apparently his lad plays down there. Folk trying to make something of it though!

I wouldn't even bother for 2 hours, I'd feel worse for it!

I think Henri Lans-beret will be a quality signing. Adding bite and drive, with an attacking impetus from centre midfield which we have lacked for a long long time. I hope he's signed in time for Preston, then hopefully add Hourihane and a couple others before the deadline and Brentford.

From the Daily Mail who have always seem to have the inside scoop following their interview with Xia in the summer. May be next week now. That avfctransfers account is milking it now.

Here you go -

A likeable player, but a complete liability and wastes so many attacking opportunities. Every time we go forward and the balls gets to him it breaks down. A new right back should be high on the January agenda!

In that guys defence he was spot on in the summer. We all know the club are 'working on things' and we won't know the names of most. If he was to come out and say 'we're in for xyz' and only one lands, he'll be a failure for getting 2/3 wrong. If I were ITK I'd take Trents approach and not make a song and dance about it! Bruce said he's looking to strengthen in all departments if we can get someone better in, so hopefully a defender, HL and CH for midfield and a striker (Rhodes on loan maybe if they can't shift him permanently) towards the end of the window. It's setting up to be a good 2 and a bit weeks for us.

Very true!