AshVilla Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 (edited) If Whelan means we will never see Hourihane or Lansbury playing deep when Jedinak is injured i 100% approve of this signing. Keep them up the pitch please. Edited June 4, 2017 by AshVilla 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 11 minutes ago, Dr_Pangloss said: Would be great news for us. That only depends on who we get instead really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 7 minutes ago, AshVilla said: If Whelan means we will never see Hourihane or Lansbury playing deep when Jedinak is injured i 100% approve of this signing. Keep them up the pitch please. When you say "keep them up the pitch", surely you mean "get them up the pitch"? As they nor anyone else has really been up the pitch so far. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 1 hour ago, Junxs said: Sorry but we should be looking to improve the first team, not the back up. Rumour has it we are only planning on signing 3-4 players. If one of those is a back up midfielder I would be fuming. Especially when you consider one of those 4 will be a keeper. So that would only leave 2 more signings.. Do you still see that as an instant improvement? Whelan was still a regular for Stoke last year. He isn't coming here to sit on the bench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junxs Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 2 minutes ago, VillaChris said: Whelan was still a regular for Stoke last year. He isn't coming here to sit on the bench. I was replying to JV who suggested he'd be better than Toshiba. But since you seem so certain he wouldn't be a bench warmer, who do you think he is going to replace? Jedinak, Lansbury or Hourihane? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 Jedinak missed loads of games second half of the season, no way another year on he's playing 40 +. I think first choice midfield would be Whelan with Lansbury and Hourihane ahead. Jedinak will rotate with Baker at the back as an aerially dominanting CB brings out the best in Chester. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_gary_cahill Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 2 minutes ago, VillaChris said: Jedinak missed loads of games second half of the season, no way another year on he's playing 40 +. I think first choice midfield would be Whelan with Lansbury and Hourihane ahead. Jedinak will rotate with Baker at the back as an aerially dominanting CB brings out the best in Chester. I agree with you and I think Whelan would be a good addition on a 1 or 2 year deal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillanousOne Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 59 minutes ago, Dr_Pangloss said: Would be great news for us. well it would as long as we can find a decent keeper to replace him with 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 Fiorentina have confirmed the permanent signing of Carlos Sanchez (on twitter). Another one out the door (shame he can't take a few more with him!) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 (edited) Johnstone was questionable at championship level but he's nowhere near prem standard yet. I hope we don't pay £5m for him. Edited June 4, 2017 by theboyangel 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 5 hours ago, bobzy said: Glenn Whelan is wank and also a thug. **** that. I can't comment on the first bit because i watch very little non Villa related football anymore. Regarding the second bit, i really think we have missed a nasty little sh#t at this football club for years. Our team has such a soft underbelly that i really wouldn't mind seeing a bit of a thug in the team. Obviously not at the expense of any footballing ability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 Stoke fans still largely rate him on the Oatcake forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyp Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 (edited) 19 minutes ago, av1 said: I can't comment on the first bit because i watch very little non Villa related football anymore. Regarding the second bit, i really think we have missed a nasty little sh#t at this football club for years. Our team has such a soft underbelly that i really wouldn't mind seeing a bit of a thug in the team. Obviously not at the expense of any footballing ability. Well with whelan I'm afraid it would be at the expense of any footballing ability. He isn't good, at all....and im irish so i should be biased. A slight upgrade on westwood in so far as he has a bit more physical presence but the same as westwood in that he'll run around like a headless chicken, always arriving late at the opposing player with the ball, passes are too safe. Gives you the impression he's getting through a load of work. Not needed. Best thing tony could do is get on the blower to gary monk before someone else does. Edited June 4, 2017 by Johnnyp error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted June 4, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted June 4, 2017 Players are either 'powderpuff' or 'thugs' it's the classic football dichotomy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_b Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 It's all very unexciting 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 Summer 2015 was a pretty exciting transfer window from memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted June 4, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted June 4, 2017 2 minutes ago, VillaChris said: Summer 2015 was a pretty exciting transfer window from memory. And summer 2013, we signed Tonev for god's sake, the atomic strike seemed like our savour! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 2 hours ago, Zatman said: thug But he is. He's like a lesser Joey Barton. Even elbows his own teammates! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 2 hours ago, Dr_Pangloss said: There are thugs everywhere, even Roy Keane was nothing but a "thug", apparently. Not "nothing but a thug", but absolutely a thug. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 19 minutes ago, Tommo_b said: It's all very unexciting Indeed, but lets keep it real, 3/4 of the people we are usually linked with early doors never make it here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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