Jordan Amavi has officially signed a new 5-year deal with Aston Villa after moving from Nice at a reported £10 million deal. Amavi is one of the highest rated left-backs in Europe after being ranked as one of the best left backs in Ligue 1.
“I’m delighted to have secured the services of someone we consider to be a terrific young player.
“Jordan has been one of the outstanding players in Ligue 1 and is still very young and can become even better.
“There were a lot of clubs after him this summer so we are really pleased to welcome him to the Club.” – Tim Sherwood
Amavi is the latest left-back that has been brought into the club as Aston Villa look to solve a position that hasn’t yet been secured since Warnock’s and Bouma’s prime days at the club. Amavi arrival affects Cissokho’s and Bennett’s position at the club with Amavi set to become Sherwood’s number 1 left-back. Amavi is a very attacking left-back who also boasts decent interception stats. One of his flaws include frequent bookings.
This is a great signing and I am very excited that Sherwood has brought in a player of Amavi’s caliber. At the age of 21, Amavi will most likely remain Aston Villa’s left-back for a number of seasons and being so young, Amavi does have resale value. Left-back is a position where not a single left-back has necessarily secured it for more than a season, hopefully Amavi ensures that we don’t buy an additional left-back for the next few seasons. I’m excited about this signing.
See we are now being linked with a loan move for Adebayor. Not a bad option as long as we also sign a long term replacement for Benteke.
Another loan ffs
I thought you didn’t mind loans as long as it wasn’t to make a player better for another team? Adebayor wouldn’t be going back to Tottenham. So what’s wrong with it? Or are you going to find some other excuse now?
Yes you got me there Andrew but I just think he will be injured for most of the season. He will start well for first few games then die a death I’m afraid. He was rubbish for baggies and we are doing Spurs a favour yet again
I think spending 2-3 Mill on wages to bring Adebayor in for a season would be OK. He would be a free agent at the end of the season, so if he does well we can sign him for nothing. If he doesn’t perform it’s no different to taking a punt on a young prospect for 2 mill transfer and 1 mill wages for that year. I actually don’t like Adebayor, but think he could do a job for us for this coming season with no long term risk attached.
Seeing Adebayor’s never been at “the Baggies” I don’t know what you’re getting at. He’s been great under Sherwood and that’s all we can actually go on right now.
Also being reported in Italy that we are interested in Destro from Roma. Can’t see that happening!
I think we’ll know more when CB’s transfer is completed,well certainly his replacement.until then the links & speculation will be rife.I’ll be glad when this benteke saga is over it’s now getting extremely boring.time to move on then
Wish he’d hurry up and sign. Wang him gone now sick of this saga every summer.
No chance Arsenal are in for him
I would like to see two new forwards coming in. To be honest I don’t trust the ones we have .
I would like to see gabby getting more bench time,but he maybe the next skipper????
The only skipper Gabby should be, is aboard Captain Birdseye’s boat.
Surely we haven’t stooped so low as to have to have him as our captain !
Agree with Giddy Gabby should only start away games most of the time and will probably be better for us as an impact sub
I see that OOHAAH is still as emotional as ever..
So what if Gueye said that.. what’s the difference in saying it and him thinking it..
Every player has ambiiton to play at the highest level they can.. no one is going to come to VIlla and be a player who can play for a Champ lge team but think ‘allow that’
Players have ambition and drive to go as far as they can.. if they didn’t they probably wouldn’t even make it this far..
I hope Gueye smashes it and in 18 months time Mournhio is after him..
Every club is a selling club,, just like the club we brought Gueye from in the first place..
Because u don’t join a in as great as ours and on the first day say you want to play for a bigger club! If you can’t see how wrong and insulting and ungrateful that is to his new employers then there’s something wrong with you. Ronaldo joined Utd and wanted to play in Spain but you didn’t hear him say that from day one. There’s a way to conduct yourself and our new clown has no respect for us
Charlie Austin shortened from 3/1 to 6/4 and Adebayor at 1/4 to move to Villa on Skybet. Now I don’t really understand betting but many on here say the bookies are usually nearer the mark than the media when it comes to predicting outcomes.
I’m not sure I want Austin he would be great as a squad player but not as our main striker
I’m sure he’d successfully fight the prolific Gabby for a regular spot!!!
Don’t understand that ooh ahh, we were still a better team than Qpr last season ( marginally) and he scored 18 goals for them? What is wrong with a striker that scores 18 goals starting games?
No striker that scores at that rate plays as a squad player!
Austins price is 15m that’s honestly cheap for a proven prem goal scorer at 25
But a tad daft for villa to spend on a squad player.
We all want messi here whatever the cost but you can’t expect us to go from fighting relegation for 4 years to signing top goal scorers in. The league as squad players in one summer. Is that why you think everything is shite and you are constantly depressed ?(besides just an effort to create controversy/debate)
You basically want us to be Real Madrid tomorrow and anything less is a failure
When you put it like that Colonius I can see why everyone on here thinks I’m a negative fuckwit!! 🙂 I’m just not convinced he will stay fit for long enough periods and whether he can score 18 goals in his second season where defenders will be wiser to him. Just my opinion and hope I’m wrong
there are two things i really want to happen this year, don’t buy or bid for anyone from spuds that will put the media’s nose out of joint. and finish above the bin dippers.
No chance of either we always buy spuds rejects and no chance finishing above bin dippers in fact we will struggle to finish above Leicester
I may be in the minority here but I would love to see a strike partnership of Adebayor and Austin. Tim can sort Adebayor’s head like he did before. Thats a much better strike partnership than either Benteke and Gabby or Benteke and Weimann IMO. Not forgetting Kozak who certainly looked decent before his injury. I would settle for Adebayor/Austin as first choice with Gabby, Kozak and Robinson in reserve, that looks pretty strong to me and will leave some cash (if Randy coughs up) for another couple of signings.
Langfordvilla, I was thinking about that myself. Adebayor was banging them in for Sherwood at Spurs. Austin showed us he can score in the Prem. Sherwood could have someone totally different coming in. I really think we need two new strickers.
Adebeyor is a waste of space he is not prolific and he’s lazy. He’s good in flashes and that’s about it
Oohah…you know fuck all. we will be way better next season with that partnership..better than at anytime since before MON IMO! But I’m only saying that to sell season tickets :).
Yawn you told me this last year and the year before and the year before!! Why don’t u just accept that I’m usually right. We will finish in bottom 6-8 as per usual nothing has changed
Because you’re usually not.
Bottom 6-8, so now you’re expecting 13th-15th? What happened to bottom 4 and being safe at 17th? Or is that like, not what we’re aiming for anymore?
We have a squad that is bottom 4 but always possible we could finish a few places higher. Even the bookies have us as 5th favs to go down so not just me
Of course they do, we’re losing Delph and Benteke. One was supposedly our best player and there goes our goal scorer. Bookies never take into account who we sign. Gueye’s better than Delph. we could very well sign 2 strikers, we signed Richards, Amavi. They don’t take into account those signings, all they do is look at who we’ve lost and that tends to get everyone betting on us going down for that reason.
These odds were laid down well before Delph and benteke were going.
Adebeyor is a lazy useless article and absolutely no incentive to even bother his arse trying now and I reckon he doesn’t give a toss I cannot emphasise how much I don’t want this twat to join the villa worries me though that Sherwood will sign him surely there has to be more ambition at the club than to sign this nob
Blimey, a right load of replies in this particular one, but Langford, I totally agree with you mate.
Adebayor and Austin is a really tasty thought, if both are firing.
I’ll expand more if it happens.
Just looked at the Citeh game on BBC live and they played two sides, one each half.
Delph wasn’t in either of them.
Welcome to the Citeh Fab (bench that is if you’re very,very lucky)
UTV
Probably because he hasn’t even trained with them yet
And your finally right about Benteke after 6 transfer windows have passed….fucking easy this prediction game eh? 🙂
Ha ha hate to say I told u so but…
Agree Dave…Tim knows Adebayor’s a bit difficult to handle but he posesses skills and ball control to a standard that Benteke will never achieve. I see loads of goals in that partnership paricularly so with Gil and Grealish pulling the strings. All, in all we can certainly end up a far better team if the Benteke money is spent wisely!
Langford – I agree with you. Best strikers operate in pairs with one complementing the other. Strikes me Adebayor / Austin partnership would do that and (despite Oohah’s paranoia over loans) a one year loan for Adebayor would be a good move for us. No doubt reality will be somewhat different!
What if one of those strikers get injured
Best comment ever OohAah – well done. Don’t sign two strikers in case one of them gets injured. Inspired.
Well if 2 strikers are only effective playing off each other a done gets injured we’ve effectively lost 2 strikers think about it!!
What is it with you OohAh – how do you live with yourself?
Dont you mean BY yourself? 🙂
LOL
‘WHAT IF’ one of the strikers gets hit by a comet ridden by father christmas.
@steve Then ooh ahh will tell you I told you so…
Now that could happen or Badger could run naked on the pitch and rugby tackle one of them thus causing a long term injury 🙂
If we signed them both, we’d have 4 strikers, plus 1-2 youth if necessary. Or we go down to playing 1 up front. Those two wouldn’t be the only ones we have. lol
Who else have we got then Gabby! Don’t make me laugh! And Kojak who’s wasn’t that great before his injury.
Kozak was quite good before his injury, and yes Gabby. You asked what would happen if one got injured, we have 4 strikers if we signed those 2. What are you expecting, more? You realize we have a squad limit we can have right?
Yep but Gabby is Shiite we all know that. In another note it’s weird that Benteke hasn’t signed yet suppose to be today
Not really going to have a better back up striker though, could do a job off the bench with his pace.
We should put him out on loan he’s a waste of space. He’s never going to get better plus he’s not as fast as he used to be so offers very little
I think a healthy Kozak could pair well with Austin. Holds the ball up well. Links play a lot better than Benteke and isn’t offsides as much.
Agreed H60. There is nothing wrong with a years loan. With an Austin/Adebayor pairing we will move into the top 10 at a canter IMO. That essentially means that Adebayor has paid his own wages with the considerable increase in prize money that we will receive!
oohah, cant see beyond the end of his nose 🙂
That partnership could work quite well. And we’d still have Gabby as back up, and Kozak. 4 probably different types of strikers that can work well together. Kozak and Austin do have some similarities but choices would be great and those 4 could do quite well together.
Although reports of Destro are coming back. Arsenal definitely aren’t in for him, only West Ham are so we definitely have a chance, if he’s willing to leave Italy which is the problem with him, doesn’t seem to want too.
Why don’t we all be realistic? Firstly we don’t have 32.5 million for Benteke and 8 million for Delph to spend. Both surely have clauses where their previous club gets a share of any future transfers. Next, we are not going to attract a top class striker, even with a big transfer fee for Benteke. Nobody in their right mind would want to come to a club that has flirted with relegation for so many years. We need to try and build up the reputation of the club and climb the table in order to make us more attractive to higher profile players. What’s wrong with Charlie Austin as an option ? He has scored goals at Premier League level, although I would value him at no more than 12 million. If we are to get Adebayor, then I would also prefer the loan option. Come August and the start of the season, we will then see how good a manager Sherwood is He has his own squad which, on the face of it, has the potential to be more attacking rather than the dross Lambert promoted. I see Lambert has been interviewed by Sky, firstly stating that Delph has the right to change his mind, twice. He said that he could have walked away at the end of the season for nothing and at least Villa have got a fee for him. It sounds as though this move was planned all along. Then he goes on to say that Benteke’s move to Liverpool is money well spent. That’s a far cry from him saying that Benteke was not for sale and that he should stay at Aston Villa for his own development. Sounds like disloyal sour grapes to me.
I suppose u make a fair point in that we have better attacking options. It’s pointless relying on just benteke to score for us. We need a regular 3-4 players that chip in on a regular basis which means we will worry defended more
Is this the longest medical on record or what?……got a feeling that manure have come in at the eleventh hour to snatch him from the dippers…..would love that to happen!
My thoughts exactly MATE
It’s being touted we’re paying £7m for Adebeyor…
i don’t believe that . spurs are desperate for him to go . they will save £5m if we pay his wages for the season so a loan is looking more likely . £7m lol
My thoughts exactly though Lerner is so naive and stupid nothing would surprise me
But Fox isn’t – get a grip man
That was in the express and it doesn’t say what we are bidding it says spuds set to bid 7 million for njie no mention of a villa fee Bum Bum u just hope we don’t sign the lazy twat either way no way we will pay anything near that it will more likely be a loan deal
What a joke they should pay us to take the useless twat of Spurs books
Sorry not u ament to say I
We should go and get Alexandre Pato…..Pure class! Prob get him for 10 million. Get Austin as well………WOW!
I can’t understand why we can’t get Messi and Ronaldo we should be aiming for the ceiling!!
Can you tell me when Adebayor played for West Brom as you claimed earlier. I’ve googled it but can’t find any info on it. 🙂
My mistake he didn’t for some reason I got him and anelka mixed up 🙂
Easily done, they are both the same colour. 🙂
Lol now now 🙂
I think you might be thinking of Kanu
Yes your right it wasn’t anelka after all. It was Kanu. I’m worse than that ref that mixed up Gibbs an Walcott lol
Good point Steve. He’s the same colour too.
It’s because they both played for Arsenal. Kanu was quite good at Arsenal
Haha Pato. Never seen a player not give up after the injuries he’s had. His club does want rid of him though.
Starting XI: Steer, Hutton, Richards, Clark, Amavi, Bacuna, Gardner, Westwood, Sinclair, Gil, Agbonlahor.
Team against Swindon to start with.
I expect goals!
If we pay 7m for Adebayor then Sherwood definitely has an eye on returning to Spurs one day!!
Plus I dont buy the idea of a partnership of Adebayor/Austin as it is very unlikely we are going to play 4-4-2. I just hope if we sign one of them, his first name is Charlie!!
Me too rather have Austin not much quality but gives 100% every game a fighter just what we need. Adebeyor will just turn up when he feels like it. Bit like ballotelli no doubting his ability but his head is rarely right in a consistent basis.
Anyone else trying to watch the swindon game and getting a blank screen?
wish I’d had a blank screen when Lambert was in charge.
Just purchased the subscription this evening. Go to watch the game and can’t get it to work. Fuck me can they not get anything right down the villa. Will be looking a full refund in the morning. Watch a bunch of morons !
Fcuk mean why do u want to watch a meaningless friendly that’s sod all. Though good to see the tria list brothers playing for Swindon 🙂
I’ve had a very boring day so I though fuck it. In for a penny in for a pound. Lol !
Stuck reading the Live Match on the B.Mail, but glad to hear Sherwood is pushing Bacuna more forward.
1-0 Villa! 🙂
Who scored
Sinclair…..6 yard screamer into the bottom corner. 😉
Sinclair