dn1982 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 23 hours ago, rodders0223 said: Why sell Veretout and Gana for 3m and give up Richards on a free? Can see Veretout staying Gana is a bit pot luck and Richards has a £5m release fee but if we sold all 3 we'd get minimum £15m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 2 hours ago, Richard said: We need far too many players and black is not helping A new manager has to be appointed before we can start identifying players to sign. Until that's done this thread is irrevelant, at least for transfers in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Anyone dare to bet against us hiring fistface, with him making Bendtner his first signing [emoji2] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post thabucks Posted April 25, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted April 25, 2016 Didn't realise Tom Carroll from Spuds is out of contract in the summer, could be a great signing if we could tempt him. Nick Powell is also on a free and needs to kick start his career, Add to the list Daniel Bentley and that's x3 good young English squad players for little outlay. Add maybe James Morrison to the list. That would leave a good chunk of money to sort out the spine of CB/DM-CM/CF. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 4 minutes ago, thabucks said: Didn't realise Tom Carroll from Spuds is out of contract in the summer, could be a great signing if we could tempt him. Nick Powell is also on a free and needs to kick start his career, Add to the list Daniel Bentley and that's x3 good young English squad players for little outlay. Add maybe James Morrison to the list. That would leave a good chunk of money to sort out the spine of CB/DM-CM/CF. Am I right in thinking we'd still have to pay a tribunal fee for those guys? Not that it should be a huge obstacle (if we get a new owner) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguson1 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 2 minutes ago, thabucks said: Didn't realise Tom Carroll from Spuds is out of contract in the summer, could be a great signing if we could tempt him. Nick Powell is also on a free and needs to kick start his career, Add to the list Daniel Bentley and that's x3 good young English squad players for little outlay. Add maybe James Morrison to the list. That would leave a good chunk of money to sort out the spine of CB/DM-CM/CF. Two really good suggestions in Carroll and Powell to be fair and wouldn't hesitate in taking both. Good spot! Are you Riley in disguise? Don't know much about Bentley but presume you mean the Southend keeper? No doubt he'd be better than Guzan! Morrison isn't a bad option either and would do a job for sure. Centre half option would be Lewis Dunk for me. Joey Barton another I would be happy with. A couple of clever loans from some of the big boys and things could look a whole lot better without much spend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 (edited) Anyone following the Norwegian "Tippeligan" ? The scoring leader is a 20 y.o Nigerian kid named Fred Friday 6 goals + 1 assist in 7 games. Anyone seen him play? Would not be the first Nigerian who took the route via Norway to English football... Edit: Obligatory youtube video (from last season) Edited April 25, 2016 by sne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dn1982 Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 22 minutes ago, sne said: Am I right in thinking we'd still have to pay a tribunal fee for those guys? Not that it should be a huge obstacle (if we get a new owner) Carroll maybe but I think cause Powell has been transferred already he'd be a free I think 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 24 minutes ago, thabucks said: Didn't realise Tom Carroll from Spuds is out of contract in the summer, could be a great signing if we could tempt him. Nick Powell is also on a free and needs to kick start his career, Add to the list Daniel Bentley and that's x3 good young English squad players for little outlay. Add maybe James Morrison to the list. That would leave a good chunk of money to sort out the spine of CB/DM-CM/CF. These would be well worth looking at but I suspect they will have already spoken to clubs and will have signed for someone else before we have a new manager in place to do a deal for them let alone a new owner to agree signing on fees as well as wages for them. We need to do something now but I fear I will be saying much the same thing in August when players like these are long gone and we are still waiting on a change of owner that is not going to happen which will have been used as a reason to have done nothing to halt our slide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thabucks Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 28 minutes ago, sne said: Am I right in thinking we'd still have to pay a tribunal fee for those guys? Not that it should be a huge obstacle (if we get a new owner) Both are Carroll & Powell are 23 so I think we wouldn't have to pay anything. Bentley is 22 so we would have to pay something at a tribunal,but as he is from league one Southend it won't be much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 1 minute ago, thabucks said: Both are Carroll & Powell are 23 so I think we wouldn't have to pay anything. Bentley is 22 so we would have to pay something at a tribunal,but as he is from league one Southend it won't be much. Ok, I thought I read somewhere the break off age was 24? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 25 minutes ago, sne said: Anyone following the Norwegian "Tippeligan" ? The scoring leader is a 20 y.o Nigerian kid named Fred Friday 6 goals + 1 assist in 7 games. Anyone seen him play? Would not be the first Nigerian who took the route via Norway to English football... Edit: Obligatory youtube video (from last season) I surely can't be the only person who would be livid if we didn't sign 'Fred Friday'! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thabucks Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 You are right, it is 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 1 minute ago, HanoiVillan said: I surely can't be the only person who would be livid if we didn't sign 'Fred Friday'! Agreed, the name alone is reason to sign him, but he's also supposed to be quite the talent (not that I've seen him play) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 The Nigerian Gary Goals. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duck Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 33 minutes ago, sne said: Anyone following the Norwegian "Tippeligan" ? The scoring leader is a 20 y.o Nigerian kid named Fred Friday 6 goals + 1 assist in 7 games. Anyone seen him play? Would not be the first Nigerian who took the route via Norway to English football... Edit: Obligatory youtube video (from last season) At least we already have a song for him! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 15 hours ago, sne said: Anyone following the Norwegian "Tippeligan" ? The scoring leader is a 20 y.o Nigerian kid named Fred Friday 6 goals + 1 assist in 7 games. Anyone seen him play? Would not be the first Nigerian who took the route via Norway to English football... Edit: Obligatory youtube video (from last season) I havent seen defending so bad since Villa vs Southampton on the weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrusr Posted April 26, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted April 26, 2016 On 24/04/2016 at 19:46, avfcwills10 said: Jonathan Walters, Jadinak, Charlie Adam, Dwight Gayle, Jonas Olsson were the type of players i'd like to see us sign (i think). I say i think because i've had second thoughts as I was actually typing because if you look at the best teams in the Championship (Burnley, Boro, Brighton), Apart from Barton and Downing, these teams are made up of younger hungry players. Given that Gabby is younger than all of those except Dwight Gayle does he count? He's certainly hungry anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dounavilla Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 15 hours ago, Duck said: At least we already have a song for him! Or: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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