LockStockVilla Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I really do think 1/2 additions would make all the difference. The bottom half of the league is so close and one win can move you up quite a bit. I think, or would like to hope, that Lambert has finally woken up to the 442 being the way forward and if in the next two days we can bring in a midfielder and defender, results will come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmytheirishvillain Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Is everyone's head up their arses here seriously I'm not been funny but people are still believing this miracle will happen that well win 6 more games. We've been dire all season we were dire most of last season we shipped out professionals in summer and brought in the worst replacements ever, we shipped out 2 experienced players in this window and we ain't getting any replacements none , we have a manager who can't pick our best team who can't teach the defenders how to defend despite playing 5 of them every game, a chairman who doesn't care and keeps stripping the club assets back time and time again and you think we can some how through all that win 6 games. You will all be better off coming to terms with it right now that we're down and there's no one coming to save us and next year it WILL get worse we won't be back in the prem league for years to come Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 If the players have that attitude. We may as well stop playing. Plenty of time to turn things around. Anything can happen in football.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I just don't think our manager has the personality to either 1) motivate the current crop (crap) or 2) encourage possible signings that Villa is the place to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 30, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted January 30, 2013 I also think 1 or 2 signings would make the difference. I don't think it would turn us into a good side or anything. But I think it would give us the ability to scrape survival. No signings=relegation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyAnty Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Bent for 8 Mil and Adam is good business. Sign a DM with the 8 Million to partner Adam. Sorted. I hope he has back up options..... 2 days left. Yeah thats what we need, another Scott at the place. 2 Managers and Hutton and Bannan were enough to do me a life time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shillzz Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Whoever we sign now will have to be prepared to stay with us in the Championship next year, or there's no point. Someone like Dale Stephens perhaps, but I wouldn't expect us to be signing any established Premier League players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciggiesnbeer Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 The club had its chance to save our season January 1st. PL, RL & PF all decided they didnt want us to stay up and didnt make those signings. Down we go. It hurts, but less each game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted January 30, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted January 30, 2013 Yep, we should have had all our transfers lined up before Jan 1st. Someone on here had a dig at me 'cos I was gutted we didn't sign any players before the Southampton game. Well, look at us now. Tragic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammy Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Whoever we sign now will have to be prepared to stay with us in the Championship next year, or there's no point. Someone like Dale Stephens perhaps, but I wouldn't expect us to be signing any established Premier League players. We can definitely sign established players. But only if the wages are high enough and we put a clause in their contract that they can leave when we get relegated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shillzz Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 We can definitely sign established players. But only if the wages are high enough and we put a clause in their contract that they can leave when we get relegated. Nah, can't see it myself. Let's be honest, there's a very good chance we'll be going down. A much higher probability now than there was on January the 1st. We weren't prepared to sign any players then because of financial constraints, and we most certainly won't be signing any decent players on Premiership wages now, because they'll just add to the financial headache at the end of the season. Lerner is trying to get rid of players on high wages, now you might argue that we should still expect to be able to sign players for £40k a week; but those kinds of wages aren't sustainable in the Championship. Lerner is not going to spend to get us out of this, that much is clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted January 30, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted January 30, 2013 (edited) Well when we do drop into the Championship we're going to have another year of not being able to buy anyone 'cos we need to cut costs again. So the summer will be fun. Edited January 30, 2013 by PieFacE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel1Avfc Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 FS doesn't look like Bent is Stokes main target QPR boss Harry Redknapp and his Stoke counterpart Tonya Pulis are arranging a swap deal involving strikers Peter Crouch, 31, and Jamie Mackie, 27. (Daily Mirror) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaForever1970 Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Bent at Stoke? Thats the funniest thing all window.Bent never wins a header, never flicks it on; Pulis wanting that? Bollocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shillzz Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 Stoke came close to signing Bent before he went to Sunderland, so he's clearly a player that Pulis likes (liked). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 He loves a good cross though. Here is what PL said last night '"There will be a few teams down there and we will have to fight our way out of it. Money dictates everything and the situation hasn't changed. I don't know if we will be able to bring anyone in, let's see what the next two days brings. You have to survive in the league and sometimes you need a bit of help." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Burgundy Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 "Newcastle have gone down a very different path, and in Moussa Sissoko appear to have the ace in the pack. One of five French players that Newcastle have brought in this month for a combined total of £18m, Sissoko marked his debut with a performance that suggests Graham Carr, the club's highly regarded chief scout, has recruited another star in the making from Ligue 1." Taken from the guardian blog this morning. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/jan/30/aston-villa-newcastle-united-paul-lambert And there my friends is the difference, how much did Lambert spend in the summer again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel1Avfc Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 "Newcastle have gone down a very different path, and in Moussa Sissoko appear to have the ace in the pack. One of five French players that Newcastle have brought in this month for a combined total of £18m, Sissoko marked his debut with a performance that suggests Graham Carr, the club's highly regarded chief scout, has recruited another star in the making from Ligue 1." Taken from the guardian blog this morning. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/jan/30/aston-villa-newcastle-united-paul-lambert And there my friends is the difference, how much did Lambert spend in the summer again? I'd rather support Villa & get relegated, than support France. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel1Avfc Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 (edited) sorry dub post Edited January 30, 2013 by Daniel1Avfc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCAM Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 I'd rather support Villa & get relegated, than support France. Yeah because buying overpriced British players worked so well for us. French or not, some of their new lads look good. Henry was French, so was Zidane, half of Arsenal's title winning side was French. I'd rather support Aston Villa, but I couldn't care less about about the nationality of the players! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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