Villa Signings and General Rumours Thread

estebancambias

Knight? That lad is horrible.

JPA

I honestly don't think Anton Ferdinand would be a premiership player if it wasn't for his brother.
He's garbage.

Bounty Hunter

DSB wrote: »

I can't think of many top-flight players I'd prefer Knight to, to be honest, Still don't think Ferdinand is the man for us. I'd like to see us go for Bouhlarouz.

Knight should be no more than 4th choice but Bouhlarouz is a good shout IMO and one who people judge seemingly just on a very short poor spell at Chelsea. "The Cannibal" is back at Chelsea now too after his loan spell in spain ended and should def be available. I say go for it raid Chelsea for Sidwell, SWP & Bouhlarouz.

DSB

And Paulo Ferreira too if they're offering.

Bounty Hunter

http://www.skysports.com/video/0,20285,12602_3711588,00.html

the Gardner video interview from SSN

invincibleirish

Boulahraz (is'nt that an ABBA song?) is quality, i'd love to see him at VP despite his Chelsea days & Ferriera & SWP, thats too many ex Chelski players though!

homah_7ft

The home Intertoto game has been confirmed to be on the 26th July at 17.15. Time to book flights and hopefully I will magically get match tickets. :pac:

PHB

6 days till the season starts again, woohoo

Tomthepost

Good news lads!
The Villa Inter-toto cup games will be Live on Setanta Ireland, the free channel on the NTL/Chorus package.

DSB

Oh class.

Neil3030

Oh class.

+1 :pac:

Double the Villa, double the fun! Heading over to the home game anyway, but nice to be able to see the away leg.

Tomthepost

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8690_3713769,00.html

Now that gives me the Friday Feeling:):):):):)

Raekwon

Rafa Benitez may be considering ripping up his plans for the summer after growing exasperated with the 'ludicrous' fees demanded for his original transfer targets.

Is from the same bloke who wants £15m for Peter Crouch and £10m for Scott Carson and who slapped a ridiculous £12m price tag on Craig Bellamy last summer?

My heart really bleeds for Benitez...........infact if you listen really carefully you can actually hear the smallest violin in the world playing for him right about now

Neil3030

Hard to see Barry staying unless he issues one hell of a convincing press release (in addition to firing his agent).

Savman

Don't care what anyone says, even though it's highly unlikely but if Barry did stay it would be our best new signing of the Summer. Won't hold me breath tho...not until 11.59pm 31/8/08

Bounty Hunter

Links So Far:

Goalkeepers: Brad Friedel (Blackburn), Joe Hart (Manchester City), Ben Foster (Manchester United), Paul Robinson (Spurs), Sergio Asenjo (Real Valladolid), Jens Lehmann (Arsenal), Yoann Pele (Le Mans), Heurelho Gomes (PSV Eindhoven), Carlo Cudicini (Chelsea), Carlos Kameni (Espanyol), Boaz Myhill (Hull), Jussi Jaaskelainen (Bolton), Wayne Hennessey (Wolves), Mark Oxley (Rotherham), Artur Boruc (Celtic), Brad Guzan (Chivas USA), Scott Carson (Liverpool), Marton Fulop (Sunderland), Robert Green (West Ham), Andreas Isaksson (Man City), David de Gea (Atletico Madrid)

Defenders: Sokratis Papastathopoulos (AEK Athens), Hugo Campagnaro (Sampdoria), Richard Dunne (Manchester City), Marco Caneira (Valencia), Nicky Shorey (Reading), Michael Lumb (AGF Aarhus), Stephen Carr (Newcastle), Paul Scharner (Wigan), Jonas Olsson (NEC Nijmegen), Christian Maggio (Sampdoria), Jean Calve (Le Mans), Joe Mattock (Leicester), Pascal Chimbonda (Spurs), Willy Sagnol (Bayern Munich), Cata Diaz (Getafe), Bernard Mendy (PSG), Daniel van Buyten (Bayern Munich), Cosmin Contra (Getafe), John Paintsil (West Ham), Richard Stearman (Leicester), Jose Angel Crespo (Sevilla), Nélson (Benfica), Jose Bosingwa (Porto), John Arne Riise (Liverpool), Justin Hoyte (Arsenal), Giourkas Seitaridis (Atlético Madrid), Adriano Correia Claro (Sevilla), Michael Dawson (Tottenham), Steve Finnan (Liverpool), Joao Pereira (Sporting Braga), Frank Simek (Sheffield Wednesday), Miguel (Valencia), Carlos Cuellar (Rangers), Nicolae Dorin Goian (Steaua Bucharest), Anton Ferdinand (West Ham), Martin Stranzl (Spartak Moscow)

Midfielders: Miralem Pjanic (Metz), Aaron Ramsey (Cardiff City), Pedro Mendes (Portsmouth), Jermaine Pennant (Liverpool), Sebastian Eguren (Villarreal), Diego (Werder Bremen), Bernd Schneider (Bayer Leverkusen), Michael Bradley (Heerenveen), Christian Poulsen (Sevilla), Gary O'Neil (Middlesbrough), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich), Steve Sidwell (Chelsea), Mario Santana (Fiorentina), Marcos Senna (Villarreal), Riccardo Montolivo (Fiorentina), Ruben de la Red (Getafe), Esteban Granero (Getafe), Pablo Hernandez (Getafe), Brian Howard (Barnsley), James Milner (Newcastle), David Bentley (Blackburn), Jimmy Bullard (Fulham), Rafael van der Vaart (Hamburg), Zoltan Gera (West Brom), Danny Haynes (Ipswich Town), Victor Moses (Crystal Palace), Yossi Benayoun (Liverpool), Mariusz Lewandowski (Shakhtar Donetsk), Paulo Assuncao (Porto), Danny Guthrie (Liverpool), Andrei Arshavin (FC Zenit St. Petersburg), Stephen Hunt (Reading), Shaun Wright-Phillips (Chelsea)

Strikers: Tarik Elyounoussi (Fredrikstad F.K), Freddie Kanoute (Sevilla), Kevin Doyle (Reading), Jefferson Farfan (PSV Eindhoven), Sean Scannell (Crystal Palace), Giampaolo Pazzini (Fiorentina), Ikechukwu Uche (Getafe), Diego Forlan (Atletico Madrid), Sam Vokes (Bournemouth), Bafetimbi Gomis (St Etienne), Eidur Gudjohnsen (Barcelona), Peter Crouch (Liverpool), James Beattie (Sheffield United), Thierry Henry (Barcelona), Habib Habibou (Royal Charleroi SC), Andy Johnson (Everton), Carlos Tenorio (Al Sadd), Darren Bent (Spurs), Roman Pavlyuchenko (Spartak Moscow), El Hadji Diouf, Emile Heskey (Wigan)

Total number of players linked so far: 113

DSB

I really do despise tabloids.

Neil3030

We could make a fun game out of this.

How many players will Villa be linked to before we actually sign someone

Place your bets folks:

115-120
121-130
130-150
150-200
200+

?

PHB

You did sign somebody

DSB

PHB wrote: »

You did sign somebody

We didn't sign Sidwell yet if thats what you mean.

Bounty Hunter

Van Der Vaart has been liked to Liverpool for around 15m, yes he was linked to us too but perhaps this could indicate a cooling of interests in Barry due to his price tag.

c'mon this midfield next season... () = if first choice is injured

Young(Maloney)

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Barry(Petrov)

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Sidwell(NRC)

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Bentley/SWP(Routledge)

Neil3030

Hmmm.... are the OS usually this slow getting the media watch up on a Monday morning? Or could they be working on something else? Like maybe.. announcing something? Like... signing a player?

I'll just... go back to bed will i?

Savman

yup!

Neil3030

Yup go back to bed or yup we're signing a player?

Neil3030

Holy sh*t it's a slow day. But I found this interesting:

Who posted in the Villa Signings and General Rumours Thread

1. Helix 496
2. Savman 437
3. Bounty Hunter 402
4. Raekwon 330
5. Villain 321
6. shoutman 268
7. DSB 253
8. invincibleirish 226
9. Neil3030 198
10. One Cold Hand 190

Oh yeah:cool:

Villain

5th?? Surely I should be first by default for starting the thread

Mr Alan

ppffffttt I'm gonna gate crash that table soon enough

wait and see

:cool:

Helix

jesus i wouldnt have thought id posted anywhere near that much in this thread

invincibleirish

Bah! in 8th, im not even going to get Intertoto Cup, i guess i'll have to rely on the Fair Play award to get into Europe!

Bounty Hunter

woo im in the big 4 (Helix, Savman, me & Raekwon). wouldent be shocked if Mr Alan or some other non Villan does break the top 10 at some point though.... jesus about a 5th of all my boards posts have been in ths one thread

slow news day for the Villa so far it seems apart from that

edit: just wondering how serious are people taking the Heskey link? dont expect or want him to sign unless its as a replacement for Marlon who i dont expect to leave anyway i.e the happy to just sit on the bench backup forward.

homah_7ft

I'm a couple of divisions down.

I wonder is there an announcement on the way like the calm before the storm.

Villain

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

woo im in the big 4 (Helix, Savman, me & Raekwon). wouldent be shocked if Mr Alan or some other non Villan does break the top 10 at some point though.... jesus about a 5th of all my boards posts have been in ths one thread

You see I'm like Villa I'm going to break into the top 4 in the next 2 seasons

Savman

Hey, the Top 4 is unbreakable so the rest of you shouldn't even bother. Raekwon is in 4th I see, he obviously can't be overtaken, it doesn't matter that those in 5th and 6th can catch him, 4th place is his devine right. He can also poach the best posts from the user in 6th place, shoutman as well as piss and moan about why he's not #1 when in reality he just doesn't have what it takes.

Villain

9 Posts??

I'll have 4th by dinner time

Mr Alan

You lads should post in the stand-up forum, i reckon ye all have wat it takes :rolleyes:

Villain

You should keep your promises!!!!

Mr Alan

You should ask my bollox

Savman

Mr Alan wrote: »

You lads should post in the stand-up forum, i reckon ye all have wat it takes :rolleyes:

Savman

Mr Alan wrote: »

You should ask my bollox

Ah go and rob some houses :pac:

Villain

Mr Alan wrote: »

You should ask my bollox

I never talk to anyone or anything smaller than a pea!

Anyway back on topic, Hull are apparently linked with Harewood for 2 million. How much did we pay?

Bounty Hunter

Mr Alan wrote: »

You should ask my bollox

Dear MrAlan's Bollox,

your owner has refered all inquires to you, So could you please ensure that he keeps his promises.....something about a bad hair day... im lazy, har har etc.

yours,
BH

Savman

Villain wrote: »

Anyway back on topic, Hull are apparently linked with Harewood for 2 million. How much did we pay?

£3.5m or somethin, maybe £4.5m cant really remember.
Would most defintely not sell the Hare.

Bounty Hunter

Harewood has said that he is happy at VP and has no intentions about leaving unless Villa dont wanth im, despite this since the seasons end he has been linked to almost every lower premiership side possible and if he was for sale Villa would prob recoup the near 4m they paid for him. I dont expect him anywhere other than VP next season though

Villain

Yea defo not unless we buy some strikers, I mean we don't exactly have a big selection.

Anyone else worried that if/when Ronaldo goes to Real, Utd might look at Ashley Young?

Bounty Hunter

dont think we will have to worry about Young till next season for some reason and hopefully by then Villa will have pushed on a bit.

Esse85

Villain wrote: »

Yea defo not unless we buy some strikers, I mean we don't exactly have a big selection.

Anyone else worried that if/when Ronaldo goes to Real, Utd might look at Ashley Young?

Im hoping Robinho or Sneijder might be included in part of the deal. I think Alex will look elsewhere.

invincibleirish

I wouldnt mind losing the Hare, as much as i like him, he is only ever going to be supersub for Villa, maybe if MON gets rid now it might inject some urgency into signing some decent strikers.

Heskey is always going to be linked with Villa due to the MON connection, im surprised its taken this long before he has being linked, if Villa are going after Wigans strikers how about taking Valencia instead?

Raekwon

Neil3030 wrote: »

Who posted in the Villa Signings and General Rumours Thread

1. Helix 496
2. Savman 437
3. Bounty Hunter 402
4. Raekwon 330
5. Villain 321
6. shoutman 268
7. DSB 253
8. invincibleirish 226
9. Neil3030 198
10. One Cold Hand 190

I haven't really posted alot in here over the last few weeks because well..............there has been nothing but verbal tennis with the Liverpool lads of late (by 'lads' I mean Mr Alan ) but I couldn't resist a quick post just to say.............Champions League place baby! Btw hard luck Villain but if I were you I'd listen to Savman because he is right........you are not going to catch me and even if you do I am just going to open up the 'why Zat Knight is ****' debate and pull away from you to reclaim my position again

One Cold Hand

Dammit. Relegated. Still we (I) put up a good fight and we (I) expect to be straight back up next season!

On Harewood, I don't really mind what O'Neill does, once we have a replacement BEFORE we get rid of him.
Actually stratch that. TWO replacements. Cos we need a new striker anyway.

Raekwon

I'd like to keep the Hare as he is a decent squad player, impact sub and perfect cover when Big John when he (inevitable) gets injured or suspended. We do need another pacey striker to provide cover & competition for Gabby though.

Hopefully when MON gets back from BBC Euro duty the transfer flood gates will open (with players arriving for a change).