Shaun Maloney is linked with a move back to Aston Villa, the 30-year old may not be in Lambert’s age bracket, but he is a player with quality and hunger. Maloney spent 2 years at Villa Park and was sold back to Celtic. However, it’s unknown whether or not the midfielder is interested in completing his unfinished business at Villa Park. Maloney is currently with Championside Wigan and would accept a return to the Premier League. With Benteke wanting to leave Aston Villa, Maloney would add to Aston Villa’s attacking threat and Lambert would be able to snap up the Scotsman on the cheap.
I think that Maloney could be a quality signing for Aston Villa, yes he is 30-years old but could still make an impact for the next two seasons. If Lambert did sign Maloney he would add more of a threat on set pieces. He could also be signed for a very low fee. Maloney can play behind the forward and would become our main creative midfielder, I think he could do a job there and aid the development of Carruthers. But that’s just my opinion, he is definitely a cheap option if Villa refuse to spend big.
Ireland has been linked with a move to Middlesbrough, Tony Mowbray has been keeping quiet about a move for the out of favour midfielder. Some reports claim that Middlesbrough have already launched an inquiry about Ireland, however Mowbray admit’s that Ireland’s wage is a stumbling block.
“I don’t think there’s anything to be said on that,”
“I think you’ve got to put it in context. Stephen Ireland was at Manchester City not too long ago and he’s with a Premier League club on a Premier League salary.
“I don’t think he’s gone on Villa’s pre-season trip.
“I think with deals – whether it’s Stephen Ireland or any Premier League player – clubs go through pre-season, assess their squads and then make decisions about footballers pretty late on.” – Mowbray
I’m unsure if this is for a loan deal or a permanent deal. Hopefully we can sell Ireland because Lambert is stuck in-terms of transfers. Until Lambert sells the deadwood, there will be no further additions to squad. On a different note, I do want Ireland to leave because he deserves playing time and I hope he’d be willing to take a wage cut for regular football.
What you up to Oohah ,hiding your comments midway into the discussion, follow the leader, can you now stop knocking my club, your becoming a pain in the back side, please don’t come and say I can do one, as a lot of us are fed up with your constant slate of a football club,we have had years of tormented so called mangers, I’m asking you to give the owner and manager that chance to put our club right. To me its just rediculas at this time of the season to knock anyone trying to change the system of running Villa.
I’m fed up with your over positive club are perfect bollocks too. So we are both fed up!
Been away for a while, but I see that little has changed.
Lerner is a tosser for letting Benteke go for an as yet undisclosed fee with unknown add-ons when we thought it was £25m.
Oohah, what have Spurs agreed to pay and what have we accepted ? I haven’t got a clue, and I think there’s a chance he won’t even leave personally. I’d be interested to know.
They havnt offered anything yet but strong rumours they will offer us 20m with add ons. In other words they can’t afford him and Lerner is helping them by accepting payment in instalments if true of course
If true, of course.
I think that Lerner will hold out on this one. We would damage our reputation as a club if we ditch ambitious/mercenary youngsters into the stiffs because they want to move, regardless of the rights and wrongs of their behaviour.
We just have to live with the fact that it’s the way of life, it’s not a Villa thing.
Shame to hear that most of your mates have knocked STs of 25 years plus on the head. None of ours have baled, do they really think it’ll be worse than last season ?
Well they seem to think so. One or two are wavering slightly and seeing how it pans out in the next month or so. I think they are disillusioned with football Per se and even more worrying is their kids arnt really bothered about going either they would rather do something else. One of my friends has even given up her st in the trinity which has been in her family for generations so must be bad though even she’s had enough and her family are about as loyal as they come.
To be honest, it’s not worth worry about what Spurs are doing or might do. It’s been a month of articles talking about Spurs ‘considering’ to make an offer for Benteke. Although, from what I’ve seen all these articles are just the same and nothing has changed – Benteke is still at Villa. Until I see some official facts a bid has been accepted, it’s all fluff.
Although, the bigger news concerning Benteke isn’t so much his so-called transfer, but what will happen in two days when he returns for training. Will he return? Or will his f**ked up logic see him lose not only respect and a new deal, but all his wages for not showing up.
Remains to be seen. On another note utd have said they are not scared of letting rooneys contract run down if he dosnt play ball. Wish Lerner would take note that’s how to do it.
Of villa wanted to we could break benteke and his agent by letting his 3 yr deal run down on 20k per week. Cb needs to be careful or he could be left in limbo. My mate who’s a spurs fan wants cb but him and a few of his spurs mate are concerned about the way he has gone about this and that he supports arsenal and might go there next yr if they want him. I think if cb dosnt hit the ground running at spuds the crowd could start getting in his back especially at 25m whereas he didn’t have that pressure with us at 7m
Regardless of what will happen to Benteke, he’s completely backed himself into a corner with all thats gone on.
He has shown everybody what he is all about, good mate of mine, a gooner, is well against having him at the arse after the way he has treated us and he says almost 100% of arsenal fans around the blogs feel the same way about this mercenary. Tottenham will be taking a huge risk buying him at 25 mil only for him to piss off in a year or 2 and possibly be worth less.
If he stays with us he’ll be extremely unpopular with everyone at Villa. This scenario could just as likely happen.
Was a big mistake on his and his agents part putting in a transfer request with no official bids in.
Think your right though like everything fans are fickle and if benteke stays and scores a hatrick v arsenal and we win 3.0 then all will be forgotten. Look at Barry when he stayed we got right behind him after he started to produce on the pitch. I think benteke is a good player though and would hate to see him leave even for £30m. Funnily enough my mate who’s a spuds fan really wants him but my mate who supports arse dosnt he dosnt think benteke would fit in with their system and that as teams defend more against arsenal then he will get more attention and will find it harder. Prob why he’s not gone to Chelsea yet.
Personally, I feel that the sale of Benteke will have more to do with Lambert than Lerner. Regardless of what the club sells Benteke for both the club and Lerner stand to make a huge profit on their investment. Now, if Lerner – Faulkner go behind Lambert’s back or agree to sell at a fee without Lambert’s backing… well then Lerner might not only be looking to a new striker, but also a manager. Nevertheless, I can’t see this happening.
Overall, from what I can figure out, the main point of discussion is what everyone considers Benteke is worth. Rival clubs will say 20m, the press say 25m, and Villa fans will say 30m+. No one really knows but I can say Lambert has shown to be a man of his word. I say this because, even before the transfer request fiasco came to be I remember reading articles quoting Lambert saying, “interested teams will have to break the bank to purchase Benteke.” I think it even went on to state even 25m ‘will not even get you to the negotiating table.’ Now, there is an argument that Benteke’s transfer request changed all that, but for me, I really can’t see Lambert changing his stance on the issue. If he says 25m is too low, 25m is too low.
^ sorry, that was suppose to be a in response to Oohah on my above post
Hope your right Marvin will be interesting to c whether he turns up for training on thu if deal has not gone thru
What i love about ooh ah is that he pisses and moans about things that have not even happened yet, lerner is a joke, the club is a disgrace because they are willing to accept 20mil and add ons haha u do make me laugh! There is no proof this is the case and there is no proof that ANY offer has even been discussed! Ooh ah mate you are the joke because you believe pure media speculation bullshit is fact and you are a disgrace because you constantly slag the club off at every opportunity, Fuck it even if there is no opportunity you still find a way to drag the club down! And your brilliant comeback as always will be that im happy wit relagation battles and mercenary players but im not happy at all! I just have enough brains to realise we need to go through this shit, rebuild the club and then we can move forward, last year was the 1st step but you expect us to be sprinting with chelsea and man u! You call yourself a realist but sorry mate for that you actually have to live in reality for that!
Wev been rebuilding the past 3 years how much fuckin longer will it take! On another front and I stress this is just a twitter rumour that Anzhi may be making a bid for cb at £23m which we may be tempted to accept to give spuds a kick up the arse as they’ve no competition at the moment. Like I say only a twitter rumour so prob not true
Lambert has been rebuilding for 1 year mcdraw was a slow decay not a rebuild!
The club per se has been rebuilding since mon threw out his toys. As we keep selling our best players the rebuilding will always be ongoing
And who do you blame for that, Lerner? I think not. The blame falls fairly and squarely at the feet of MON, he was given more than enough funds to make the top 4 but blew it and in the process wasted millions on dross and sent the club spiraling towards bankruptcy.
Told to be a little more sensible with his transfer policy he threw his toys, rattles, dummies and every thing else out the pram and left at such a time as to inflict maximum damage, so if you want vent your anger I think it should be in that direction.
MON has a lot to answer for BWS that’s for sure
Kerryvillan, we are waisting our time with Oohah the mans a leach to Villa,he’s at an age now if he don’t moan his world is in crisis, what a fan of the club, makes statements people he knows not renewing st, I’m a member of a sports club with 13 football teams ages from 6 to 30 odd years of age, I see young boys with Aston Villa shirts which makes me proud to see them wearing, he reconds our youth will not follow Villa, I give up with talking to an idiot. Oohah get real mate.
So these 6-30 year old players has Lerner sold them as well 🙂
Me and terry are wasting our time on you too
Oohah mate still can;t access submit an articale when clicking on it on the home page can you look into this for me as think i have been sabotaged by one of the darkside.
So you should, its only slagging the Villa again ,
I thought you were the dark side Terry
Somebody had deleted the page, i’ve just restored it, not sure who it was but it wasn’t me, for the record, because the page had been deleted nobody could access it, me included.
I hope you weren’t referring to me as the dark side TJ, nobody has tried to sabotage you. we are not in Hitlers third reich for crying out loud this is a forum.
I’m sick and tired of you and your fucking sidekick, the pair of you are absolute cretins and do nothing but moan and you are clearly borderline schizophrenic.
Bollocks to this blog, what should be an arena for discussion is tarnished by a pair of miserable fuckers, i’ve done my bit and gave you lot a nicer platform, shame the pair of you have to spoil it by constantly bemoaning the club, it’s chairman, its manager, it’s players and even it’s own fans, the pair of you are an absolute disgrace to the club and i’d rather not waste my time defending parts of the club i feel are worth defending when all you want to do is attack it from every angle, you are fucking boring.
Adios.
Don’t want Maloney, as he is a reasonable club player but nothing special enough to be that Magic Man behind our main striker.
For whatever we get for Benteke and Bent and the freed up wages from Hutton, Ireland and Given, I would buy 2 strikers, 2 attacking midfielders (one runner and one ball player) 1 defensive midfielder come centre back (hint Kouyate) and a young defender.
Alfred Finnbogason
Luc Castaignos
Hiroshi Kiyotake
Omar Abdul Rahman
Sam Byram
And don’t forget the man who will give the team backbone Kouyate.
personally I really like Maloney.He s a very clever,very skillfull player.
Should have a couple of good seasons left in him
However ,I don t think Lambo would go for him as he likes younger
players.
Top priority now must be to replace Judas Benteke
players.
Guest hold fire please there are some of us going to try and stop this constant slagging of our club, I’m pissed off so are many more, Quest please hang on mate.
Bill this site is built on everyone’s opinion positive and negative. Are you seriously saying that people who slag of the club and are negative shouldn’t voice their opinion!. I say things that I believe are correct and again your confusing negativity with realism. In your world what Lerner and lambert are doing is great in my world it isn’t that’s not to say that I will not get behind the club once the season starts. Yes there are positives in the club like Weimann, Guzan, Okore but the negatives of the past 3 years far outweigh the positives. I don’t slag you off for being positive we live in a democracy this site is NOT a dictatorship where everyone has to agree with me or Anon but likewise not everyone has to agree with you either. It seems to me that if people don’t view the club the way you want them to then you throw your toys out the pram. As far as me and Anon are concerned this site will air everyone’s views positive or negative that is something we will not be changing.
Im pissed off with it as well. There are many great things you could say about our club…so why be constantly negative?
Do you two really think you’re right about all of this? All this constant trashing of the club, it’s owner, it’s manager.. well take a closer look, because there’s a reason it’s only, well, the two of you.
Read my reply to Bill
Rotterdam82, I’ve tried to tell them they are taking it too far, don’t mind a joke now and again, but what they don’t seem to understand that fans grow up being loyal to a football team and don’t want people slagging their club off. OK we are not what we would like to be but a massive change is about to happen, let it happen, and don’t force you’re opinions on to others, its got to stop.
Bill you are talking crap mate I am not forcing my opinion on anyone but if you think I am then so are you. Like I say if no one agrees with your positive mantra you throw your toys out the pram. I suggest you grow up and accept not everyone thinks like you
Ps iv supported villa since third division days so am as loyal as anyone
Your right Bill. It hurts to hear constant negativity. Good job I was not like that in the 3rd division days. Fans were more patient and loyal in those days. Thank fuck that they were otherwise we would not have had this great club to support. We have been through 3 or 4 years of instability…. That is now over and I feel the club are now moving in the right direction again. Support the shirt and NOT just the success or failure of our great club!
Supporting villa in the old 3rd were some of the best days I ever had supporting villa. Even though we were in the third there was still more hope and optimism than there is now you just felt we would rise again but I don’t feel that now.
According to UtheVilla we have been linked with Lyon striker Bafétimbi Gomis. This fella looks a bit useful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnu3iR_S1AU
Would be a good replacement for cb and only around 7m
Christian who?
Lol
ooh ah you take it to far mate and its not just me, look at how many have a go at what you force onto them, it maybe you’re site but you will not slag my football club, You and Terry are damaging what once was a good forum, as for throwing toys out of the pram please stop calling the kettle black you are the person doing just that, Anyway Oohahpaulmcgrath if you don’t understand what your doing then I’m afraid the forum has no way to go but down and not up.
Bill enough now as your getting on my pip. If you think me and terry 2 nobodies can damage this great clubs reputation then you are seriously deluded. By the way use my user name please. Thanks
I think the point is you and Terry Jones are bringing people to breaking point with your views.
We get it you hate Randy, Falkner and ‘Lamberk’ and want them all to fuck off and a Billionaire Arab come in and build villa park up to 100,000 capacity and spend £2billion on players a year!! It’s not going to happen, we have Randy and he is going nowhere!!
As ‘guest’ put it perfectly you sound like a broken record, yes this site is about opinions, negotiation and agreement on views. It was a friendly site but not now. There is no negotiation with you and Terry and to be honest I always read this site and it puts me in a bad mood for an hour to two afterwards. It brings me down constantly reading your negative views.
Other people feel the same and people are going to start leaving this site, which renders it pointless. You would not get away with this on Vital Villa.
Rather than a snappy cocky reply think about what I have just said.
Ooh ah I rest my case, just look at all the replies.
Lions 0 Cristians 1………bah boom
Oohah youve been on mine for months, OK will not use your real name if you please think before you open that gob of yours in slagging ‘off my football club. It now ends until you lambast Lerner, Lambert or Vllarr, we do have believers out here.
The problem is oohaah you constantly go on and on and on about it..
we talk about Benteke and you will turn it into a debate about the whole club.. RL is a joke we are a selling club blah blah blah.. YES we know the issues out there but to bang on about it on every single post and topic gets to the point where people like GUESt want out.. because all we do is end up debating the same ground hog day point u keep on making..
Yesterday you said i thought Randy was the messiah.. simply die to me saying maybe benteke for 23M plus add ons might be cool as long as we get another striker and a creative midfielder.. it was a ridicuolus comment on ur part and i couldn’t be asked to write an essay about Lerner ( as i have done before ) with regards to his mismanagement under Oneil and the Mcliesh appointment.. simply because its been said before.. why must a person have to say it again and again..
Your the type of fella that if he found out his Mrs had cheated on him you would forgive her but then bang on about it every day till she said feck it i am off..
YES it is a debate site but when a topic is being spoken for exapmle how can the club re build IF you keep saying fcuk it we are a selling club randy is a tw@t blah blah then instead of a constructive debate we get into the same old and people are getting fecked off with it
🙂
The thing is, there is nothing wrong with negativity, but it needs to be balanced, the same goes for positivity, too much of either is an unbalanced view, OohAh you say your’e not being negative and that you are a realist, well a realist would know when to shut his mouth and stop dragging everybody down with him, because essentially, that is what you and TJ are doing.
Now, nobody is saying that you or TJ aren’t entitled to your opinions, but when you constantly slate something that we all adore, it is eventually going to get peoples backs up, we are all aware of the issues at VP and we are in it together, my grandad died of cancer, whilst he was suffering i didn’t bleat on all day, every day to my family until he passed, we were all aware of what was happening, we didn’t need harp on every day.
It’s a shame it’s getting to the point where people want to leave because of a couple of posters that only see the bad, there are some brilliant members on this site, BWS, Bill and Lionheart all have amazingly balanced views, they see the positive and the negative and it makes for good conversation and good banter, and that is what this site is supposed to be about surely?
I have to say, it’s a bit of a crossroads for me, i could build another blog for myself and invite people to it but then that goes against the freedom of speech and what a forum is supposed to be about but at the same time, i’m sick of the same arguments.
Go for a new site Guest, this one has died a death a little.
Robo buggered off when he could see we wouldn’t be relegated.
Vaze anyone who wants to leave us are free to do so me and Anon are not holding a gun to your head to stay. If I was as unhappy as you and some of the others then I wouldn’t visit this site either. You will be missed of course but good luck on the other sterile sites where comments will be moderated or deleted if they don’t agree with you!
Well that’s a good idea guest if you want to build a positive site that you can run on your own terms that’s fair enough it’s a free country. As you know me and anon earn fuck all at the moment on this site and are doing it as a labour of love and we paid good money to keep site running from Ian. I’m sure Bill and co will follow you mate so go for it.
That’s not the intention as i said before, it’s not about creating a positive blog, it’s not about banning anybody or their opinions, what i’m saying is it’s really difficult when there is constant negativity, and it is constant, you make me want to bang my head off the desk repeatedly, which isn’t a good feeling to have at all, i’m not asking you or anyone to be positive, i’d just like to have a discussion that isn’t based around defending the club, if you have all these issues with the club, why support them?
I know you boys paid good money for the site, which is why i wanted to help refresh it for you both as i felt you had been massively ripped off by Robbo (apt name).
Lol guest wev not banned anyone except for a couple of abusive racists which I don’t think anyone could argue with. We appreciate the work you’ve done to the site and you have done an excellent job no one can argue against that. I’m not trying to be negative if there is something to be positive about I will sing the praises of the club to. If you go thru archives I did some very positive posts after win v Liverpool and Sunderland away etc but no one ever mentions that.
I’m a flag waving rattle shaking Villa public relations servant if I put any of my views across.
I think that all I’ve ever said is that I feel Randy has his heart in the right place but he has made some serious cock ups.
Apologies for supporting and watching our great club and hoping that they do bloody well this season.
You can feel like the odd one out on here sometimes with those ‘views’, glad to see I’m not alone.
The diatribe from Oohah has just become laughable, I’m sure it’s just a poor man’s effort at spiking replies.