useless Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Still hoping they surprise us. I imagine a lot of deals will be done tomorrow and Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyAnty Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Just now, useless said: Still hoping they surprise us. I imagine a lot of deals will be done tomorrow and Monday. Yes, as i stated before n here, managers will be waiting to after this weekends games before giving the ok to let a player go. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post choffer Posted January 30, 2016 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted January 30, 2016 1 hour ago, StanBalaban said: I'm waiting for the thread to give me just the most tenuous of reasons to post some more Brie gifs! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 3 hours ago, Wainy316 said: So if Kalinic arrived by makeshift raft we can sign him? Not sure he'll make it in time for the deadline now though did you think Randy was going to fly him over? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 1 minute ago, Zatman said: did you think Randy was going to fly him over? I can see it now: "Aston Villa fail in a late bid for (insert name) on deadline day as the bicycle they sent for the player had a flat tire and thus he did not make it in time for his medical" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Remi knows the players he wants, its up to the board to deliver. Hollis trying to justify not spending money because he feels its been wasted, is total bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyAnty Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 1 minute ago, foreveryoung said: Remi knows the players he wants, its up to the board to deliver. Hollis trying to justify not spending money because he feels its been wasted, is total bullshit. No its because lerner has spent the most out of top 4 over the past 10 years according to Hollis. Clown, he just says whatever has jumbled up in his head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 As I previously quoted. I have no idea why Hollis is here. Yes he may be a great Midlands business man, but he has no idea how to run a football club. I'm actually begining to question his business acumen. I mean would you go into a big corporate business knowing there are very limited funds to improve it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLDVILLAIN Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 37 minutes ago, foreveryoung said: As I previously quoted. I have no idea why Hollis is here. Yes he may be a great Midlands business man, but he has no idea how to run a football club. I'm actually begining to question his business acumen. I mean would you go into a big corporate business knowing there are very limited funds to improve it. Hollis is a an ex liquidation specialist for kpmg,he is here to "restructure" the business. His business acumen is to tighten the "ship"...he will get rid of players we dont need/want (already started with senderos and friends) He will basically shred our spending power,sell off the players he can make money on(watch players like ayew,amavi etc be sold in summer) and downgrade the whole business model to suit life in the lower divisions. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whatever happened to ..... Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 So what happened to Doumbia rumour ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderball Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 16 minutes ago, OLDVILLAIN said: Hollis is a an ex liquidation specialist for kpmg,he is here to "restructure" the business. His business acumen is to tighten the "ship"...he will get rid of players we dont need/want (already started with senderos and friends) He will basically shred our spending power,sell off the players he can make money on(watch players like ayew,amavi etc be sold in summer) and downgrade the whole business model to suit life in the lower divisions. No he won't, dont be silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RimmyJimmer Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 2 hours ago, VillaCas said: You might think that, but nothing seen so far is backing that up. I "think" Garde would have liked to have a striker here from Jan 1st I 'think' that too...i think that he would have liked to have signed half a dozen players that would improve us............. But we're bottom of the league Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RimmyJimmer Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 7 minutes ago, thunderball said: No he won't, dont be silly. 24 minutes ago, OLDVILLAIN said: Hollis is a an ex liquidation specialist for kpmg,he is here to "restructure" the business. His business acumen is to tighten the "ship"...he will get rid of players we dont need/want (already started with senderos and friends) He will basically shred our spending power,sell off the players he can make money on(watch players like ayew,amavi etc be sold in summer) and downgrade the whole business model to suit life in the lower divisions. Ha ha....you couldn't make it up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukes Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 (edited) As a message board we are so blessed to have so many posters that are so well versed in our actual situation and with the business acumen needed to let the board of Aston Villa know what move thed should make next. Yawn yawn Fact is, nobody here knows what efforts are being made, nobody here knows how attractive the proposition of playing for Villa in 2016 is to professional sportsmen. Sam Allardyce reportedly had a list of 6- transfer targets for January, I for one am happier that Remi has a better idea of what is needed and won't just settle for any old exotic sounding foreigner. Our summer spending spree and the fact we signed so many players has been identified as one of the reason the team didn't gel at the beginning of the season (I realise there are many other reasons), I think at most we probably needed 3 players in January, a keeper, a strong midfielder and a striker, Remi seems to be prioritising right back, but I trust him to work with the board to the advantage of Aston Villa, without making us bankrupt. We are in the mire, and chucking a load of money on fees and wages at the problem is not likely to solve it. I'm not saying we should be waving the white flag just yet, but above all else I want my club to survive for the long term future and not have years in further much deeper oblivion. Just for the record, as the club is effectively owned by one person/family that person that most seem to think has given up on the club is the one that stands to lose the most should our stay in the championship be extended beyond the years of the parachute payments. i still think we will have 3 new players on Monday. Edited January 30, 2016 by dukes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post StanBalaban Posted January 30, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted January 30, 2016 (edited) 2 hours ago, choffer said: That's a creamy pot of Brie (possibly Camembert but no matter...) Seeing as we're talking of cream and Brie however, here's Alison Brie licking both an ice cream and a strawberry. Edited January 30, 2016 by StanBalaban 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 1 minute ago, dukes said: As a message board we are so blessed to have so many posters that are so well versed in our actual situation and with the business acumen needed to let the board of Aston Villa know what move thed should make next. Yawn yawn Fact is, nobody here knows what efforts are being made, nobody here knows how attractive the proposition of playing for Villa in 2016 is to professional sportsmen. Sam Allardyce reportedly had a list of 6- transfer targets for January, I for one am happier that Remi has a better idea of what is needed and won't just settle for any old exotic sounding foreigner. Our summer spending spree and the fact we signed so many players has been identified as one of the reason the team didn't gel at the beginning of the season (I realise there are many other reasons), I think at most we probably needed 3 players in January, a keeper, a strong midfielder and a striker, Remi seems to be prioritising right back, but I trust him to work with the board to the advantage of Aston Villa, without making us bankrupt. We are in the mire, and chucking a load of money on fees and wages at the problem is not likely to solve it. I'm not saying we should be waving the white flag just yet, but above all else I want my club to survive for the long term future and not have years in further much deeper oblivion. Just for the record, as the club is effectively owned by one person/family that person that most seem to think has given up on the club is the one that stands to lose the most should our stay in the championship be extended beyond the years of the parachute payments. i still think we will have 3 new players on Monday. After a PR job at VP???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 4 hours ago, RimmyJimmer said: Would everyone agree that last summer was one of the best for signing players and the optimism that it bought? Everyone was jizzing their pants because we had signed so many players and spent a load of money. If you're not buying players that are better than we already have then that's where the problem lies. In hindsight, of the 13 signed i would say ayew/veretoout/amavi were capable of getting in last years team. So really, we only made 3 decent signings in the summer. We are now bottom of the league by some distance. How much more difficult do you think it is to get decent players in??? Just 'getting some players in' is exactly what got us into this mess. Despite all the conspiracy theorists on here I think remi is being backed for whatever he wants....and he wants the right players. We will probably will have to wait until the last day of the window, thats if we manage to somehow persuade good enough players to come. Conspiracy theorists? Have you paid any attention to Aston Villa and how Lerner has run the club in recent years. I think your opinion that Garde is being backed for whoever he wants is the sort held by men with tinfoil on their head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukes Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 5 minutes ago, theboyangel said: After a PR job at VP???? Just tired of meaningless whinging 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 6 minutes ago, theboyangel said: After a PR job at VP???? I'm amazed there's still people who fall for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanBalaban Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 9 minutes ago, dukes said: As a message board we are so blessed to have so many posters that are so well versed in our actual situation and with the business acumen needed to let the board of Aston Villa know what move thed should make next. Yawn yawn 1. Fact is, nobody here knows what efforts are being made, nobody here knows how attractive the proposition of playing for Villa in 2016 is to professional sportsmen. Sam Allardyce reportedly had a list of 6- transfer targets for January, I for one am happier that Remi has a better idea of what is needed and won't just settle for any old exotic sounding foreigner. 2. Our summer spending spree and the fact we signed so many players has been identified as one of the reason the team didn't gel at the beginning of the season (I realise there are many other reasons), I think at most we probably needed 3 players in January, a keeper, a strong midfielder and a striker, 3. Remi seems to be prioritising right back, but I trust him to work with the board to the advantage of Aston Villa, without making us bankrupt. We are in the mire, and chucking a load of money on fees and wages at the problem is not likely to solve it. I'm not saying we should be waving the white flag just yet, but above all else 4. I want my club to survive for the long term future and not have years in further much deeper oblivion. 5. Just for the record, as the club is effectively owned by one person/family that person that most seem to think has given up on the club is the one that stands to lose the most should our stay in the championship be extended beyond the years of the parachute payments. i still think we will have 3 new players on Monday. 1. It's true that nobody knows what efforts are being made. It's probably even more true that we know less about Sunderland and Big Sam's list. How do we know how many names were on Remi's list? We don't, so it's a kind of strawman argument to say we're being smarter than Sunderland in our approach. It can also be true that an "exotic sounding foreigner" can also be a good player btw. 2. Our "spending spree" amounted to little more than we received in sales, so it can be argued that a poor team from last season was barely improved at all. Problem is, the teams around us all improved to a greater degree compared to us. The team gelling is debatable, as it seems to me that the older guard are the ones letting the side down, especially whilst Ayew and Veretout were getting up to speed. Guzan, Gabby, Grealish, Sinclair had plenty of gametime yet delivered very little in the was of quality or end product earlier in the season. No coincidence that they're not playing much now. 3. We don't know this. The fact that Debuchy has been linked strongly doesn't mean that a RB is his priority. As others have mentioned before, it is possible to be looking at multiple players at once. It's just that some may be more attainable than others. 4. There's a middle ground. We're still a PL club. We can afford to bring in a competent striker to show there's a bit of fight left in the club without bankrupting the joint. Surely the club owe this to the fans that have pre paid for the rest of the season? Do they get a refund if the board decide to give up now? 5. I like classic cars and have bought a few over the last 5 years. I know that if I don't have the stomach to invest in what could be a money pit, I need to keep my nose out of the Autotrader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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