There has been a little bit of transfer rumours and speculation regarding Aston Villa in tabloids throughout the week. Starting with a surprising article by the Metro claiming that Aston Villa are set to sign Wolves winger Bakary Sako. It’s said that Aston Villa have been chasing the winger for some time and is set to beat West Brom for Sako who would join on a free transfer. The Mali international is keen to join up with Sherwood and has already netted 14 goals in the Championship for Wolves.
This rumour is a little surprising because Aston Villa already have Grealish who is a left-midfielder and a key part of Sherwood’s plans. Plus, Sinclair is also likely to sign for Villa at the end of the season. Surely it’s going to be one or the other. Wolves and Sako are also in talks over a new contract, so any validity of this rumour will be soon confirmed depending whether or not Sako signs a new deal with Wolves.
Micah Richards is linked with Aston Villa, not the first time Richards has been linked with a move with Villa and surely not the last time either. Richards contract with Man. City expires over the summer and is currently on loan at Fiorentina. He has struggled to get into their starting 11 and has made around 9 appearances for the Italian club. However, despite this former Man. City boss Mancini was keen on signing Richards on loan in January and will most likely make another move in the summer. In England the likes of Villa, Southampton, Everton and West Ham are all monitoring his situation. Apparently Sherwood would be keen on adding the Englishmen to his defence.
Richards is only 26, quite astonishing really, seems as though he has been playing forever. But I wonder why Sherwood would look to sign another right-back if Villa already have Lowton, Bacuna and Hutton. Perhaps he doesn’t rate any of our right-backs? Could we see Lowton leave Villa? These are all difficult questions to answer, but since Villa have been linked with Richards on several occasions, I’d be surprised if this move finally happened.
Some news and speculation from Spain see’s Cordoba striker Florin Andone linked with Aston Villa. Apparently, Aston Villa held talks with Cordoba over a possible move for the 22-year old striker. Cordoba are set to be relegated from La Liga and will face financial trouble. This will allow Aston Villa to sign the young striker for a fee of roughly £2.5 million, a bargain price considering the fact that Cordoba value Andone at £6 million. Andone has scored 6 goals in 17 games for the struggling side but has been called up for the Romanian international team and looks like a decent player.
I do think that Sherwood will bring in a striker in the summer. I do believe that Weimann will be sold in the summer, because he hasn’t really developed and just doesn’t add as much to the team as Agbonlahor and Benteke. Could Andone be the player to replace Weimann?
If these links have some weight then LERNER obviously won’t be parting with a lot of money yet again this window.
Course he won’t he only needs to spend 10m that’s it. That’s all Sherwood will get
Someone has fucked up here…I had this post yesterday. Are you in competition with the BBC to see hiw many repeats you can dish up? 🙂
Hmm, strange, Langford.
I don’t know what’s happened there.
Never mind, you get to read it twice 🙂
I’ll tell you what, I’ll knock another post up on another subject which I’d like to discuss.
I’ll leave it a few hours though, so this one gets a fair run.
Really hoping that Chelsea lose today so that they have to go all out against Leicester on Wednesday. Also hoping the bin dippers can beat Hull on Tuesday. Everton coming into form just at the wrong time for us, but hey…..we fear NOBODY!
Post scheduled for this evening.
I really don’t think we need to rely on other games as such, but yes, those sort of results would definitely help.
Fwiw, my personal biggest fear is Burnley on the last day, if things go totally against us beforehand.
Just noticed that Bertrand is in the PFA Team of the year. Such a shame that we didnt buy him IMO! He’s been outstanding at Southampton and he’s just the type of LB we need. We always seem to get one or the other of ‘cant defend or cant attack’. We really need to sort the LB in the summer!
LB is certainly a bigger priority over the mids, although we need better there too, imo.
Cissokho seems our current best bet, but Sherwood doesn’t seem in any rush to get him back in?
Hmm.
I think now senderos nd cissoko are fit sherwood needs to take a good a the defence including Guzan. in the last 4 league games we have conceded 3 goals in 3 of the games.
I think we need as much experience at the back as we can and then let our in form midfield and attack run riot.
2 or 3 clean sheets in the run in and we will be safe.
Steve, Cissokho for Richardson is a no-brainer for me.
But perhaps I’m going too far in questioning why he isn’t playing and it’s just that the coaches/Sherwood doesn’t think he has a full game in him yet?
I don’t know about Sendoros though.
He can read a game and is a decent defender, but is as slow as toast these days.
agree but our brief good start to the seaon was all down to the back four.
Hutton senderos vlaar cissoko.
3 block outs in the first four games.
then they started getting crocks.
Richardson is chosen simply because he is a better attacker than Cissokho IMO. Also noticed that Gil wasnt even in the squad yesterday. Somethings not quite right there although I do agree that he’s not suited to a relegation battle. Moreover, he would probably be in place of Grealish who deserves his place. Cissokho needs to start against Everton as they are really pacey on the flanks and I cant see Richardson coping with it!
Crikey! Everton gave Man Ure a tumping! And I thought they’d have gone on holiday already having nothing left to play for!
This worries, me is there a personality thing going on there? he may not be suited for a relegation battle but by that token, half our team aren’t. also he would not have to replace Grealish, he can do what Nzogbia does and was doing it a whole lot better before Sherwood came in.
I fear for Gil, that he said something, did something that pissed off Sherwood, and its curtains now.
bear in mind that I am guessing, I have nothing to support this other than observation and the squad selection over the last 10 games
I’m baffled too. However, he didnt play that much for his previous clubs. Is there an attitude problem?….like you just guessing as he his clearly good enough to get on the bench at the very least IMO!
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11677/9821327/redknapp-meets-sherwood
off topic, and this is a total Landan meeja love in innit? .. but this will help, this is what mourinho does with contrary controversy, deflects from the team and individuals,
I do have a question, why do people claim Gil’s not suited to a relegation battle? Gil helped Elche get promoted and helped them stay up by a total of 1 point last season. Gil’s been in a relegation battle and helped them stay up, so I don’t get how he’s not suited for one. It got him 8 appearances at Valencia so clearly did well during that relegation battle.