jacketspuds Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 At the time pretty much everyone on here was happy that we got Ireland, and most thought the deal was decent. Milner wanted to leave, once a player wants to o there is little pint in trying o make them stay. I was happy because I thought (stupidly) that whoever came in as manager would still get £20m from the Milner sale to play with, as well as anything else Randy felt like giving. However the plan seemed to change that season and the cutbacks began. Even the January Bent signing was funded by future sales of Young and Downing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukes Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Emergency meeting is needed on Monday. Lerner needs to give Lambert £20m (can be partially off-set by a £10m sale of Bent in the summer). For a bit of a mix of Premiership experience and quality we have to go for players like... Dann & Olsson - £10m Ince - £7m Trotter - £3m Thing is now every other club will know we are desperate so will rinse us, as they should, and we won't sign anyone. It's all so easy isn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 At the time pretty much everyone on here was happy that we got Ireland, and most thought the deal was decent. Milner wanted to leave, once a player wants to o there is little pint in trying o make them stay.i wasn't happy. I described him as a rich mans lee Hendrie. He isn't even that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomaspg Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 hopefully these players leaving means there are some on their way in. doubt it will be a top quality player but anything would make me happy at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukes Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 i wasn't happy. I described him as a rich mans lee Hendrie. He isn't even that. I did say 'pretty much everyone', and at that time you were a bit of a curmudgeon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 It's all so easy isn't it. I wish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knvilla772 Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Surely we can get someone in, this is quite depressing now. If we lose Tuesday, genuinely can't see how we will get out of it! It would be a matter of hoping three other teams mess up more than we do and have made the wrong signing.... I was one of the many big fans of lambert when he came in but I can't understand that he didn't recognise we needed a cm, unless he thought KEA was going to hit the ground running.... Watching Bannan and Delph is painful though, I still don't understand why bannan is still taking corners over nzogbia, our corners create chances for a counter every time - and it does explains why we can't defend corners if he is taking in training, our defence just think one on the front post, one on the opposite 18 yd box corner and we are sorted! Sad to think at one point 5 or 6 years ago we were the kings of set pieces! Can't we get Laursen in to teach people set pieces! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poitier Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Bannan's corners are accurate, it is the penalty area that is in the wrong place. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Just found 43p under my cushion, maybe if we all look in our sofa, behind cushions, in old bags we might be able to raise some money to help get Randy out of his poverty. #SaveRandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Surely we can get someone in, this is quite depressing now. If we lose Tuesday, genuinely can't see how we will get out of it! It would be a matter of hoping three other teams mess up more than we do and have made the wrong signing.... I was one of the many big fans of lambert when he came in but I can't understand that he didn't recognise we needed a cm, unless he thought KEA was going to hit the ground running.... Watching Bannan and Delph is painful though, I still don't understand why bannan is still taking corners over nzogbia, our corners create chances for a counter every time - and it does explains why we can't defend corners if he is taking in training, our defence just think one on the front post, one on the opposite 18 yd box corner and we are sorted! Sad to think at one point 5 or 6 years ago we were the kings of set pieces! Can't we get Laursen in to teach people set pieces! Apparently teale and Laursen have both offered services to help out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 How can we not have got even a loan signing yet? This is just sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shillzz Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 It dawned on me while taking a piss late last night that this could be the end of Aston Villa as we know it. I'd never really allowed it to bother me much until now, but having supported Villa all my life, as I'm sure most of you will have done, it saddens me that our decline could span far longer than just this year. We really are looking like the next Leeds, and it's quite sad really. I fear this could be the end of our football club as we know it, missing out on increasing television revenues from the Premier league could very well exclude us from the top flight for the foreseeable future. We're dropping like a stone, and getting worse with every week that passes. And yet we could still do something to halt our fall, but our owner refuses to do so. And people still compare him favourably to Doug? No chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyVillian Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Just seen Barry Silkman (football agent) on SSN. Said all the bottom 8 are looking to strengthen their squads apart from Villa. Hasn't herd anything to say we're looking to improve. Either we're keeping our cards close to our chest or "we will go again with what we've got" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AVFCforever1991 Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 I think Lambert wants everyone to think we wont strengthen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis_B Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 I think Lambert wants everyone to think we wont strengthen.If so that's one **** thing he has managed to succeed in :-) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam_ Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 hutton and warnock out frees up about £90k a week that's 2 very good players right there Both are loans though so depends how much of the players wages the other clubs are paying for..... I doubt the other clubs would even be paying 50% of their ridiculously high wages! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Signing Martin Laursen in some way to help us would be the best possible signing! We are being run by a bunch of idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 If it's true Warnock's leaving on a free (approx £45k pw) and Hutton on loan, with part wages being played, we could free up over £60k pw in wages. Surely, we could fund 2-3 players off that??? Riise on 6 month loan as LB Diame DM Dragovic CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biskitt Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 I genuinely think the biggest thing we are missing at the moment is physicality. Since last season, we've been without Collins, Cuellar, Dunne and even Hutton and Warnock who despite not being great players, could all handle the physical side of the game. My biggest criticism of Lambert is that with the exception of Benteke and Vlaar and Bowery at a push, the likes of Lowton, Westwood, Bennet and KEA all look like they are struggling with the physicality, despite looking like tidy footballers ( in most cases ). I do think Lambert inherited a particularly poor squad of players including those that have been off form/disinterested since before he joined ( Ireland, nzogbia, bent etc ) and academy players who aren't quite good enough so his rebuilding job was probably bigger than we all initially thought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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