Condimentalist

Harewood??

Good lord no.

I'd be satisfied with Ferguson and even Xavier for the time being but they don't excite me.

Don't rate Trezeguet, I'd genuinly prefer Nugent.

Both really Grant.

As to the quietness so far, due mainly to games being played yesterday I would guess and people wanting to keep a squad together for that, I'd expect movements to begin after tonight

Still think Micah Richards is going to sign Rich?

:winkold:

http://eurosport.com/football/ligue-1/2006-2007/sport_sto1042565.shtml

Linked with dica. Anyone know anything about this bloke?

I've heard he's a bit of a knob.

Sorry :oops:

he would get a couple of goals

Yeah, literally.

I wouldn't mind Smith at all but he's not really the goalscorer we need.

Nugent could be? Bent? Who knows, but Alan Smith is more of a 'second striker' really.

Perhaps Pompey could replace Kanu with Baros?

Rowan Vine?

Hope not.

I'd be pretty pleased with Nugent I have to say.

He keeps on banging them in for Preston and thats exactly what we need.

Plus he's only 21.

Distin, Barton, Nugent, SWP, Stearman.

Unrealistic? Perhaps.

Attainable targets individually though.

Thanks General for getting back to me so quickly.

Just a further question -

I read somewhere that a major announcement regarding sponsorship was going to be made by the end of the year? Is this correct or will sponsorship deals be reviewed at the end of the season/contracts (ie kit, ground etc)? Finally, could we have a top kit manufacturer for next season (ie Nike)?

They have 8 hours 12 minutes to make such an announcement which, bearing in mind that we've not heard much about it, its the middle of the season, its sunday and new years eve, seems pretty unlikely.

I think you could safely assume that wherever you read that was a misinformed source.

I don't care who makes our kit by the way, just so long as it looks good and sells well.

why do Villa have to wait until these wonder players become available that will take us to the top 4 ?

So we can sign them??

Are you advocating spending money on relative chaff just because its slighly better than Aaron Hughes? What's the point? Patience is the virtue Malcolm and we may well have to wait for the right people to become available.

Panic buying is not the way forward.

Thanks for the update General, hope you and your family have a great christmas. Wish Randy and the team the same from us too.

There's no point in discussing the value of a player like Gabby because, for a start, he's not for sale. Secondly, no one really knows whether he's actually going to develop into a good all round striker or whether pace will always be his only asset.

We wouldn't sell him and no-one would want to buy him because it would be an inflated price and a gamble.

At present, he isn't worth anything like £10million, even including potential.

if we spent 15 million on bent i have to admit i would be abit concerned

10 million is what hes worth IMO

Sometimes you have to pay a little over the odds to get you're man - especially mid-season.

Thats not cause for concern, it's cause for jubilation because we'd have got the player we want.

Darren Bent would offer bad value for money at the moment.

Don't see why, just because he hasn't scored under Harold Bishop yet doesn't suddenly make him any worse a player.

I'm with you Pablo

Even on MOTD you could see how bad Hughes was.

Right Back, Right Mid and Striker have got to be our priorities I reckon.

Our key needs by order of importance-

right mid

striker

right back

striker

left mid

left back

Having not kept a clean sheet in 6 matches and having conceded 12 goals in that period I'm beginning to wonder whether we need to look more seriously at central defence.

Having said that, I think this is largely to do with having our first choice keeper out so I'll agree with that order.

james milner?

With the supposed funds we have< i think we can now do better. Don't recall him pulling up too many trees at the Barcodes this year

He's playing pretty well at the moment actually Rudy.

Also, he's stil only, what, 20?

I'm getting the impression that he won't be sold though. I have to say I'm totally clueless as to who we may or may not sign in January.

Good bit of publicity for the club, the general, Villatalk (for those who know) and for Hev!!

MON has confirmed his priority is a Premiership striker and ICBirmingham speculates Darren Bent is his man.

Fans FC speculates it's Mark Viduka

:eek: :evil: :yawn: :wow:

We are the most intelligent Villa message board after all.

I'm with you that there is some quality overseas to be tapped into but it seems like January we'll be purchasing from the championship and if we're lucky, premiership.

And Celtic, obviously.

Obviously, that goes without saying :winkold:

My January wish list Martin:

Baines

Someone good at right back???

Muntari

SWP / Jesus Navas

Pazzini / Keane

It doesn't sound as if we'll be signing too many overseas players next month (read ISM article) so you might have to wait until the summer for you're Muntari's, Navas' and Pazzini's.

Probably sensible I guess. I'm with you that there is some quality overseas to be tapped into but it seems like January we'll be purchasing from the championship and if we're lucky, premiership.

The Times.

The Independant is a decent paper as well.

Lets just get DISTAN from city, that will sort out defence for the time being, especially when Laursen returns as well. Then lets get a right winger (SWP would be fantastic) of some standard, call back hendrie and let him play left wing and let Barry play left back. And then throw some serious money at a striker.

Sounds alright actually.

"And in any case why should James Milner want to leave Newcastle United?

Because he could leave the divisions comedy club and be managed by Martin O'Neill as opposed to Glenn Rodent. Just for starters...