villan-scott Posted August 23, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted August 23, 2015 Adebayor thread will be open again soon i reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsimutv Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Adebayor thread will be open again soon i reckon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post avfc1982am Posted August 23, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted August 23, 2015 Of course the club realise that we need a striker. Actually il change it to realised. We've spent 16m on a couple. Sadly Tim Sherwood's picking them and after 3 games (and it is only 3 games), they look shit. Nobody can complain about the money made available regardless of where it has come from. We've had plenty to spend. Certainly to show improvements that we arent yet showing. Lescott and adebayor on loan will prob be as good as it gets. I think people can complain, our net spend has been less than the amount Bristol City have just spent on a striker. That said, I do agree with a lot of your post. Perhaps we should have spent £18m on someone like the new lad at West Brom, rather than £12m on Ayew and £6m on Gestede. Replacing Benteke was always going to be our number one priority this summer, and we've not even come remotely close to achieving this. Blame for this gets shared between Lerner and Sherwood. But tbh, I don't think more net spend would have made much difference, given who sherwood has bought so far. I mean, he's spent another 15m or so on midfielders who don't seem to be any improvement on Westwood who, without bashing the lad as it seems he's one of our better players so far, we do need to improve on him to move forward as a team. The signings look average at best so far in the most part. The odd moment of magic sure but overall it's been disappointing. Early days yet of course but a lot depends on the bloke you've got spending the money net/not net. So far, sherwood doesn't seem to be as good as we hoped. Some people need to give the guy a break. Good as what, Fergie?! We were f***** last season until he came in and got a tune out of a very crap team under a manager that was dragging the players to new depths week after week. On top of that we lost in the summer our most influential players including the only real goalscorer we had. The club have had to spread the transfer money around the whole squad whilst insuring we remain competitive, no easy feat itself. Some people can appreciate this along with the quality of players we are bringing to the club and although young have far more potential than a lot of those before them. Whether people like it or not the rebuilding job required due to previous mismanagement is going to take far longer than the first couple of weeks into the season. We will be crap at times and others look great, it's the same for everyone else. Highlighted even more so by the fact that at the moment individual performances are better than the team performances. Look at it this way, the team are not a cohesive outfit at the moment, players are still adapting to foreign surroundings, learning new languages and new concepts of how the club/sherwood wants them to play. Even still with all that going on we have been more than an improvement on last season and even in our 2 loses have been competitive enough for people to cut Sherwood a little slack for a while at least. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guyavfc Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 (edited) Think we should go for Pato, worth a try. Edited August 23, 2015 by guyavfc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morkery Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Of course the club realise that we need a striker. Actually il change it to realised. We've spent 16m on a couple. Sadly Tim Sherwood's picking them and after 3 games (and it is only 3 games), they look shit. Nobody can complain about the money made available regardless of where it has come from. We've had plenty to spend. Certainly to show improvements that we arent yet showing. Lescott and adebayor on loan will prob be as good as it gets. I think people can complain, our net spend has been less than the amount Bristol City have just spent on a striker. That said, I do agree with a lot of your post. Perhaps we should have spent £18m on someone like the new lad at West Brom, rather than £12m on Ayew and £6m on Gestede. Replacing Benteke was always going to be our number one priority this summer, and we've not even come remotely close to achieving this. Blame for this gets shared between Lerner and Sherwood. But tbh, I don't think more net spend would have made much difference, given who sherwood has bought so far. I mean, he's spent another 15m or so on midfielders who don't seem to be any improvement on Westwood who, without bashing the lad as it seems he's one of our better players so far, we do need to improve on him to move forward as a team. The signings look average at best so far in the most part. The odd moment of magic sure but overall it's been disappointing. Early days yet of course but a lot depends on the bloke you've got spending the money net/not net. So far, sherwood doesn't seem to be as good as we hoped. Some people need to give the guy a break. Good as what, Fergie?! We were f***** last season until he came in and got a tune out of a very crap team under a manager that was dragging the players to new depths week after week. On top of that we lost in the summer our most influential players including the only real goalscorer we had. The club have had to spread the transfer money around the whole squad whilst insuring we remain competitive, no easy feat itself. Some people can appreciate this along with the quality of players we are bringing to the club and although young have far more potential than a lot of those before them. Whether people like it or not the rebuilding job required due to previous mismanagement is going to take far longer than the first couple of weeks into the season. We will be crap at times and others look great, it's the same for everyone else. Highlighted even more so by the fact that at the moment individual performances are better than the team performances. Look at it this way, the team are not a cohesive outfit at the moment, players are still adapting to foreign surroundings, learning new languages and new concepts of how the club/sherwood wants them to play. Even still with all that going on we have been more than an improvement on last season and even in our 2 loses have been competitive enough for people to cut Sherwood a little slack for a while at least. As they say, nail on head. Lost one world class striker, one England midfielder and also needed to rebuild almost every other position. The manager is doing well, needs time however. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Re: Adebayor, I think the general consensus was that if we were to sign him it would likely be on the last day of the window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerner's Driver Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Did I actually just see our two striker signings written off and called shit after just 3 games. 1 of which 1 of them scored our winner. Good heavens Yep. Though the acknowledgement that it was 3 games and too early to call was there too. Don't let that get in your way tho. Seriously what are we supposed to do? Not form an opinion? At what point can we start having an opinion. 5? 10? 15 games? So far they don't look very good. Simple as that. Are you incapable of having a positive opinion on anything? No Woodytom is clearly one of Villatalk's realists and thank God for that - without him we might all just get carted away to the funny farm! What about the current Villa makes you giddy and carefree, then Woody? Will you show us your inner innocent fool, gambolling around like a new born lamb in spring? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Our season hinges heavily on what we do during the next week & a bit. ****. It's nearly September. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronk-villa Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Walked past the albion shop in merryhill today....there's a huge pic of lescott, printed on to the back wall. I want us to sign him just coz of this! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 We are screaming out for Charlie Austin. Just give them the 15M and sign him up before he goes on a free to another club next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsimutv Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 We will get a striker in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndJo Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Think people need to be realistic, we are entering the last week of the window and have used up all of the Benteke and Delph cash, with Lerner still here we are not going to be splashing out 15m on one player (Austin) I think the best we can hope for is Lescott (2m) and Adebayor (loan) and id be over the moon if we brought those 2 in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Jordan Nando? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillanousOne Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 watching other teams, it feels like a lot of them have improved I don't think Sherwood has a clue what his best team or formation is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 (edited) Think people need to be realistic, we are entering the last week of the window and have used up all of the Benteke and Delph cash, with Lerner still here we are not going to be splashing out 15m on one player (Austin) I think the best we can hope for is Lescott (2m) and Adebayor (loan) and id be over the moon if we brought those 2 in Over the moon?? Boy you must be a happy guy My understanding was that Lerner is no long involved and the club was being run like a business with Fox in charge. Which means a 15M pound signing should not have to be sanctioned by Lerner. Unless all the shit about him standing down was bullshit? watching other teams, it feels like a lot of them have improved I don't think Sherwood has a clue what his best team or formation is. Yet you can't see we have improved? Edited August 23, 2015 by Vive_La_Villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 I can see the potential for improvement. I don't think we have too much yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czechlad Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 Apparently Palace are in for Austin. We are screwed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 I can see the potential for improvement. I don't think we have too much yet. Short memories. Do you not remember how bad we were? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted August 24, 2015 Author Share Posted August 24, 2015 watching other teams, it feels like a lot of them have improved I don't think Sherwood has a clue what his best team or formation is. In fairness, a lot of them haven't signed as many people as we have and/or saw their old spine of the team leave. Just for a change, we're in a transition period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I can see the potential for improvement. I don't think we have too much yet. Short memories. Do you not remember how bad we were? We still have been bad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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