villaslash Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 McGeady? Milner? I thought I accidentally logged into the 2010 transfer speculation thread. The last few days of the transfer window always the roughest, I feel a compulsive need to check every site hourly for action even though 99.9999..% nothing will have changed except Richard bumping the Stephen Ireland out thread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Pete Colley @petecolley For those asking, Villa after an attacking midfielder IF the figures work out... Nothing we didn't know already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 I get what Lambert is doing, it is just so frustrating seeing fans of other teams getting excited about new signings, when all we can get excited about is balancing books. Its like seeing your school friends go off to Thorpe Park, but you have to sit back and do extra Math homework. You'd think, even if we didn't want to spend more on a player, we could at least go for the next Westwood. 7/8 bodies is better than 4/5 bodies in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 I always thought we should have gone for Nathan Redmond from bloose!! Doing well at Norwich! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 I get what Lambert is doing, it is just so frustrating seeing fans of other teams getting excited about new signings, when all we can get excited about is balancing books. Its like seeing your school friends go off to Thorpe Park, but you have to sit back and do extra Math homework. You'd think, even if we didn't want to spend more on a player, we could at least go for the next Westwood. 7/8 bodies is better than 4/5 bodies in. Errr well we have signed quite a few players this season... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwan Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 People just like signing things for big money. Let's all blow a load over NRC for 8.5m again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Why is it that we excuse a big money signing by stating that it will turn out like one of our poor signings? We like many other clubs have made poor signings for a lot of money yet like a lot of other clubs we have spent big money on players who have turned out fine. On that basis alone we wouldn't want any of the recent AMs we've been linked to because they might turn out like NRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newry_Villan Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Curtis Davies for £10m. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Benteke - £5.5m I'd take another of those thank you please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyBM Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 the same could be said the other way round at the beginning of the window, we snapped up 6 players, and whilst we were getting excited about a lively transfer window, other fans were panicing about the direction of their clubs purchasess as, not for a long time now, were the ones who have got in there first and got transfers tied up quite exciting really, our new purchases have had time to settle in and we wont need to wait till xmas to see any progress, as its already being made Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Curtis Davies for £10m. Ashley Young, James Milner, Stewart Downing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkwingduck Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 7/8 bodies is better than 4/5 bodies in. That type of logic will send you bankrupt. You'd be hard pressed to find any Manager's who agree with that I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Our purchases have worked out better than almost anything O'Neil bought. I mean Davis, Beye even, recently even released by Doncaster. Zero skill, more red cards than goals..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradarmstrong_ Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Ince just scored for Blackpool. Sign him up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Ince just scored for Blackpool. Sign him up! This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Math 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 It's not about the fees it's about the performances. Too early to judge players properly yet but Okore and Luna in particular look like good buys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Benteke - £5.5m I'd take another of those thank you please. Wasn't it £7-8m? Can you explain what you said before about the transfer fee having been "clarified." The wikipedia page says "around £7m". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daggy_333 Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Benteke - £5.5m I'd take another of those thank you please. Wasn't it £7-8m? Can you explain what you said before about the transfer fee having been "clarified." The wikipedia page says "around £7m". Lambert said that the fee was lower than the £7mil quoted in the press. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarpie Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Can easily take off million or two from the reported fees from almost all transfers as media inflates them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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