I’m starting a little earlier then expected. The transfer-window closes in a 24 hours I will be keeping you all up with all the latest transfer news regarding Aston Villa, and maybe some other interesting things.
20:46: Shay Given WILL NOT be joining Liverpool on loan
20:45: I’ve been out for a bit. But Kozak has joined Aston Villa on a 4-year contract. And Bannan has agreed a move to Crystal Palace
17:54: Ireland has joined Stoke City on a season-long! Rejoice!
16:48: It’s close to official. Barry Bannan is nearing a move to Blackpool. He is set to join for a fee of £1.75 million and sign a 3-year deal. So I guess I was wrong, Bannan will move to Blackpool on a permanent deal, not a season-long loan
15:18: Ireland has arrived at Stoke to finalise his loan move.
14:34: It now appears that Kozak will cost Aston Villa £7m. The deal also includes add-ons. That’s a lot of money for someone who hadn’t scored a League goal last season! Apparently he is very versatile and an out-and-out striker.
14:33: Bannan’s move to Crystal Palace appears to be a season-long loan. That means that Aston Villa will not be able to offload any players permanently.
14:31: Mark Hughes is close to sealing a season-long loan deal with out of favour midfielder Stephen Ireland
12:24: According to Mat Kendrick and Stan Collymore they believe that Kozak would most likely be our only acquisition. With Bannan to Crystal Palace the only departure. On Twitter some claim that Lazio have also suggested right-back, Pereirinha and centre-back Stankevicius.
10:08: Apparently a fee has been agreed with Lazio. It appears to be a 7.5 million euro fee with 1.5 million euro add-ons. This means that the deal will cost Aston Villa roughly 9 million euros. That’s a lot of money.
9:29: Not much going on regarding Aston Villa, the only reports I find relate to Bannan’s medical at Crystal Palace. Stoke have bought in Arnautovic which is an interesting signing. Liverpool have strengthened their defence with Sakho and Ilori.
06:54: Today is transfer deadline day. I’ll be keeping you all up to date with all the recent transfer rumours and news. Last season, Paul Lambert brought in Ashley Westwood and Christian Benteke on transfer deadline. Will there again be activity at Villa Park? Well, so far Aston Villa are linked with a move with Lazio forward Kozak and Bannan is linked with a move to Crystal Palace.
23:00: It’s midnight where I live, I’ll be back tomorrow morning to continue this thread. Discuss below and if you hear of any juicy rumours remember to Tweet at the Aston Villa News and Views twitter account. It’s easy for me to check out and post all the rumours. Good night.
22:54: Rumour: Palace are trying to get Aston Villa to pay-off Bannan’s contract. This will see Aston Villa lose money in order to get Bannan of their hands. Villa are trying to negotiate that.
22:43: Rumour: Lukaku is bookies favourite to join Aston Villa on loan.
22:37: Romour: According to an ITK lady, Kozak is just a ‘smokescreen’ signing. Paul Lambert and Faulkner have an even bigger name lined up. Don’t know any more than that, I’d imagine that would only happen if we sell Bannan and Given though
22:27: People claiming a deal has been struck for Kozak, I’m hearing fee’s of 4 million or €7.5m plus add-ons. Nothing is official until confirmed, but Kovak will very likely be an Aston Villa player tomorrow.
22:19: Barry Bannan is currently at a hotel in London. Palace are negotiating a fee with Aston Villa for midfielder Barry Bannan. He will most likely be off, I can see this being a low transfer fee.
22:18: Kozak is rumoured to be joining Aston Villa on a permanent deal! A loan deal was rumoured earlier but everyone on Twitter is claiming a permanent. Fee isn’t mentioned. Deal to be completed tomorrow.
The BBC says that Given to Liverpool is off
Lukaka on loan to Everton Fellini of to utd
Given transfer fallen thru prob can’t agree terms
Is there ANY news that we might still be in for someone or is that your lot…………………
P.s Oohahh give it a rest mate FFS.
No news unless given deal still goes thru then that’s that
I take it once is a no go then
Don;t pick on Oohah he speaks words of wisdom boys all hail the great Oohah Oohah.
Right I’m off to the pub, I ain’t going through all this again like last year, pinned to my screen. I think thats it for this summer anyway, would have been nice for a DM or AM. Maybe I’ll wake up to a nice surprise. Night lads
Creative midfielder….? Has we forgotten the way Gary Gardener sprayed the ball about start of last season? He must be near match fit now?
Well all in all, a decent transfer window for us. Bit disappointed we didnt pick up a top class midfielder, but maybe in Jan.
Okore-looks class. Prob be our most important signing.
Luna- Really impressed so far and should only get better.
Tonev-I think now that we didnt buy another midfielder, we will rely on him to come good. At least he can take a set piece!
Steer, Helenius and Bacuna will just act as squad players, but they all seem up to the task.
Fabian Delph looks like a new signing…so I guess we did get one midfielder!!
Although I guess the best signings of the summer was getting Benteke and Weimann to sign new contracts…good job PL!!
Well at least we signed more players than man u lol wheres your fregie gone? Wheres your fregie gone?
Cant believe they paid £27m for fellani good player but not worth that much. Puts not perspective the poxy £25m spurs were going to pay for Benteke. Watching spurs in Sunday they really could if done with him that solado is nothing special IMO
Where did Villa, Spurs, the agent or player ever say Spurs were going to pay £25million for Benteke?
It was widely reported that was the figure.
Widely made up figure, you mean.
No mate that is the figure we put on his head with that cheeky fucker Levy spouting figures around the £12m mark. Looking at the Fellani price I think we under valued Mr Benteke.
BWS – the other price reported was £30million but there was nothing ever official was there? Just lots of websites repeating the same stuff and plucking figures and buyers out of thin air. My point is it’s best not to judge the owner or manager on internet rumours that have no basis whatsoever.
It’s again a made up figure. It’s not the figure we put on Benteke, it’s a figure the media put on Benteke.
Fuck me lamberts go e nearly a whole hr without signing another striker!! Why the fuck did we not go for mcarthy ffs
Never any concrete offers just lots of rumours and speculation.
On the subject of transfers did you hear Garth Crooks on final score? He commented on how Villa (with Benteke), Liverpool (with Suárez) and Man U (with Rooney) had all stuck to their guns and told the player they were going nowhere as they were under contract, he (Crooks) thought this had started to bring the balance of power away from players and agents and back in favour of the clubs, not a bad thing imo and funny how all three clubs are owned by Yanks.
It was good to see though bale went. But lets face facts we would not have hold onto cb if this was not World Cup year he had no choice to stay. We all know he will be off to a sky 4 team next season just a question to who and how much. Then with the £40m or so we get for him Lerner can give lamberk another. Poxy 12m to spend on all the strikers he wants!!
The Benteke saga really confuses me.. why put a transfer request in.. keep quiet and let a bid come in for you.. if no bid comes in Sept 2nd sign a new contract..
I think he tried to force lamberts hand and spurs hoped we would let him go on the cheap so was just trying it on. When it became apparent that we held all the aces and prepared to use them Benteke backed down simply as there was a World Cup coming up and his only weapon of going on strike would have been to his own detriment. He knows he will go next season though unless he has a major injury or unbelievable loss of form
I wonder if it was a negotiation trick to get more money in his contract extension, he came back from holiday and signed the next day. There’s still no evidence Spurs were in for him.
Moyers is out of his deph man u on the way down ha ha
What price for him to be the first manager to get the sack this season? As you say – well out of his depth plus he’s won fuckall and lacks European experience.
Although I’m over the moon he got the job I can’t really understand the reasoning behind the appointment.
Prob because Hes a sweaty to#UTV
And another sweaty recommended by Fergy (us lot at VP know all about Fergy’s recommendations don’t we)?
I might be wrong but isn’t McLeish currently a free agent, you know, just in case Moyes is pushed out? I mean what’s good enough for our great club is surely good enough for that bunch of upstarts?
No one credible like mourinho would touch it straight after fergie moyes is just keep seat warm for Giggs or some high profile manager to take over.
I reckon PDC at sunderland will be 1st to go, publicly slagging his players off on MOTD, lost the dressing room? then there’s Martinez at everton, a lot of everton fans never wanted him so anything other than major success will have them clamouring to put him out and then there’s mr moyes always on a hiding to nothing following ferguson, fellaini 27 mil, personally I don’t really rate him than high, he had a real purple patch for a few months last season but faded badly toward the end and has done jack shit this season so far, yp if felani is worth 27 mil then benteke has got to be 50, but based on that if bale is worth 80 mil than I’ve got to be worth about 50 thou surely? 😉
glad its all over.
personally I reckon we’ve done some decent business, we got out targets in early instead of fucking about on deadline day paying over the odds and desperately trying to sign anyone, anyone! a lot of business yesterday smacked of that, arsenal and man utd especially. we’ve unloaded a couple from the wage bill, Ireland and bent and I can already see okore is going to be a good player, how much was he again 30 mil? 20 mil? no? omg how can he possibly play in the prem then? 😉 luna is defo an improvement on Bennett and we’ve got competition for the front line places, admittedly no cm but you cant get what aint there and we aint gonna go spending silly money on just anyone for the sake of it. I imagine we didn’t go for mcarthy because Whelan has put a ridiculous price tag on him, lots of interested clubs, no takers there says it all really.
no can we get on with the football please 🙂
Instead of overpaying for a good midfielder that we need like carthy we overpaid instead on a striker we don’t need called kojak!! Lambert is clueless
NM – I’m mostly in agreement with you but I can see the midfield being fine, especially now with Delph coming on strong, Westwood improving on last year (hopefully) and competition from KEA, Sylla, Bacuna, Tonev, Bacuna, Gardner and even Helenius and possibly Wiemann for the other midfield spot. Could this be Gardner’s year? Will Herd have a massive breakthrough and get a starting spot? Is Sylla as good as he started to look and can KEA actually break into the team for good? OOHAH – that’s not an invitation for you to just heap negativity on everything (Sky4, Vlaar, Sky4, Vlaar, Lamberk Lerner out).
The Star is reporting that Arsenal put in a bid yesterday for Benteke but was turned down. Might be complete garbage, might not. Either way we’ve held on to him, Guzan and Wiemann; we’ve put out Bent, Delfouneso and Ireland on loan, with Bannan sold (but unfortunately still have Given and Hutton), and hopefully all their wages off the books; we’ve brought in some players in positions where we were clearly lacking last season (Okore and Luna) and we’ve strengthened elsewhere. No, we’re not going to win the league this season and the owner clearly isn’t going to pump in all his money to try to buy the title, so the team is being built up slowly but surely and I reckon is looking good.
Not forgetting that Grealish is coming on strong (a hat trick the other night) and both Carruthers and Burke are out on loan hopefully getting some experience in. Donacien also looked good in pre-season, I wonder how long until he goes on loan to a Championship club?
Spot on there Foxy. We’re not world beaters but I am more positive than for a long time. We could be Newcastle fans. they spent zero 🙂
Disagree foxy apart from the Okore signing I’m struggling to see where Wev improved we are slightly better than season IMO but that’s it
Spot on that.
Foxy its nice read a positive article for once, ever word you said is spot on, I think I’m the oldest teenager on here but I can see the light in whats going on at our club, other’s just moan and moan giving no belief in Aston Villa efforts to change our plight. Regards.
Why should we have belief for a club that has consistently struggled for 3 years and is only 14th in the list of spenders this season. The club is a joke until we start buying more established players and holding onto our best ones for a few years we will ever progress above mid table
But we did try and buy established players. Then we consistently struggled for 3 seasons. Say a lot, that what are considered established players ended up in the bomb squad and were our worse performers recently. Been there, done that, have the relegation battles to prove it.
They were under a different regime and where put on stupid money and long term contracts by mon and we all know why allegedly but not allowed to say. The point I’m making is someone like Barry would if been a good bit of business to bring along the youngsters and at least he is guaranteed to give a 100%. Even though I don’t like loan deals on this occasion it would make sense as no risk and if he did well at least we would have a chance to keep him.
O’Neill bought established players, McLeish bought established players, Houllier bought established players and Lambert bought an established player you absolutely hate and another one you “don’t rate”. For the most part, every established player bought under the first 3, Villa fans wanted gone, for the most part anyways. So why in the world would you trust Lambert again in going for “established players” in which all of these players are having played 3-4-5 seasons despite their young age.
Read comment above re Barry.
I 100% agree Barry would have been a good signing, however he was here before all 4 of the manager’s I mentioned came in. So neither of them still brought in the influential senior players you claim we need. But I more than agree I’d have loved Barry back.
Fair enough would have liked him to
how many league positions do you get for spending most money personally i am glad we haven’t spent a lot that means that our manager is happy with what he sees
Foxy is bang on. Some people only moan just to be different and feed an ego I believe. Denying facts for the sake of what they believe. Funny how some of these guys have complained a the stupid transfer fees for players between other clubs then bitch when we don’t pay them. The if the tables were turned and we mention other clubs they ‘don’t care what goes on elsewhere’. We’ll be far from a relegation battle this year. I just don’t buy this Lerner being happy just to survive now. How the hell does that make us a commercial prospect to make profit? If that’s all you believe he wants. Sponsors wouldn’t be happy with it either. Makes no sense. We look a lot better and if we keep improving at the rate we have, I can see a fairly decent season moving on to better in the future. I’m happy. Obviously we’re about to be called a sheep etc… and we’ve been brainwashed I bet.
Sponsers don’t care as long as we are in the prem and we play the sky 4 games which are televised globally. Remember sponsers never pay us anywhere near as much as utd etc so their expectations are lower. There is nothing to suggest Lerner wants the club to challange again either. No one expects us to buy bale etc for £80m but we do expect this club to compete with teams like Southampton and Swansea Ffs
Do you ever change the record?
It’s all Vlaars fault, I don’t what is but it absolutely indisputably most definitely is.
I blame Sky.
I blame the parents
Nah, surely its Lamberks and Lerners isn’t it?!!
No it’s Dunnes fault 😉
Thought u were abducted by aliens 🙂
Lol, but we’ve never tried to sign the players Southampton and Swansea have. The only 2 big signings Swansea made were Shelvey who’s not better than what we have and Bony who we don’t need. Then they signed 4 Spanish players you’ve probably never heard of, a young English player for free and a young Cyprus midfielder for free from Olympiakos. The only reason they spent more than Villa was because of Bony, which we have Benteke, other than that, we spent more than them.
Southampton on the other hand needed a better squad, so what did they do? They spent 40 million Euros on 3 players. Lovren, Wanyama and Osvaldo. That’s what they did. That’s all they did. 3 players who yes are better than what they currently had but like Ozil to Arsenal, will cover the cracks of needing a better squad than just 3 players. Although Wanyama and Schneiderlin are probably the most exciting midfield duo going in the EPL. Just because they spent 40m Euros on 3 players, doesn’t mean they had a good enough transfer window. Hell they had West Bromich Away. Sunderland at home and Norwich away and came up with 1 more point than we did.
Andrew, you’ve given facts. That’s never going to win an argument around here. Your absolutely right though. Established players weren’t going to improve us and would probably hindered more.
Like I said earlier and Andrew agrees is it depends who it is someone like Barry yes so done like Beye absolutely not
I still think they have a better squad than us especially in midfield
But the further up the table we get the more we can demand from them as we will get more televised games, so it makes a lot more sense to move forward. Too much emphasis is on how much we spent. At the end of the day its not money on the pitch it actual players. Some chairmen, agents and players are so greedy that it stands to reason fees are inflated by their ego’s and the price does not represent the quality. We got some promising players in that people in the game have said look like good signings. So what your saying is, just because a team considered smaller than us spent x amount, we should spend more than x amount even if its not on players we need or sustainable. I disagree, the manager should buy players based on what he feel he needs, not on what other clubs are doing. I look at our squad compared to Southampton and I’d take ours over theirs anyday, yet they spent more?? We are going to be absolutely fine. Based on what I’ve actually seen and the way we play, we’ll get more positive results this season.
But didn’t Southampton finish above us last year?
On goal difference, yes they did. Same amount of points however.
Yes, with the squad they had last year. But this year we look a lot stronger. Showing even spending more doesn’t lead to more quality. Like was said above, how many points do you get for spending more?? Zero!! Its about how the players perform on the pitch, not the pound signs. We’re going up the table, have some faith man. Other wise, if you get your way, Lambert goes, we spend another month looking for a new manager and another 2 seasons in transition for you to complain about that guy not playing the way you want him too. Can you not see the viscous circle you could get us in. Now is the time to back this team, not stand in its way.
I hear Nigel kennedy’s been on the fiddle.
Ha ha good one
we were never going to spend all summer and more shipping players like Ireland and bent to reduce the ridiculous wage bill and then go and sign barry on 60+grand a week, that would be clueless!
We coukd have got him on loan for one year
That’s beyond some peoples comprehensive, pretty obvious to some NM.
‘We coukd have got him on loan for one year’ (barry)
yes we could of……..at 60k+ a week making him our highest paid player…….a loanee in his mid 30’s………and you say we’ve got no ambition but you think that is a good ambitious move for villa then?
On this occasion it would have a good loan deal. He leads by example is a good captain has experience and always gives 100% plus he would bring on players like Westwood who could learn loads from Barry