I must apologise in advance as during these periods, the post will tend to come thick and fast meaning conversations in others may become forgotten and list.for the most part, I will update articles to minimise the amount of posts.
Right, it begins. Apparently Napoli have already agreed terms with Ron Vlaar and the rumoured selling price is 2m. The source is unsure whether that will be a January or at the end of the season.
I honestly never considered over seas teams, but at the same time I really can’t see us selling Vlaar unless we bring in another CB as we are still struggling with Senderos and Baker still out.
Regardless, this could generate interest and start a small bidding war.
I really can’t see Vlaar going to one of the top PL sides; too old and too injury prone – I think he as much as said so himself. Italy is a different matter and there could well be mileage in this one. I would rather Vlaar stay than Delph who we should flog now; just like Downing – “I owe the club for sticking by me’ – good riddance in my view.
I total agree Hitchen 60, Delph is a liability to the club in booking and madness in tackles, but saying that Vlaar also can be a problem with his part time games, I sit now and read posts because its the same thing about players, to me they will not improve under this management ,you could play Micky mouse and Lambert would comment I thought we played well, he’s dire and knows sod all about the English game , BWS ,knows it so do many more and got fed up with same old sob storyline, Oohah got it right don’t go don’t buy get him out. Better managers are on the move but Lerner wants money he’ll do it by breaking the clubs back and fuck the Brits.
Happy New Year to you and yours Bill. The unknown quantity is Tom Fox; he needs Villa to be both succesful and attractive to watch if he’s going to increase revenue streams. I suspect RL will listen to him and if he says we need a new manager……….
Assuming we are in the market in January it will be interesting to see if Fox and the new personnel guy (can’t remember his name) can close deals quickly rather than the ‘pulling hen’s teeth’ affairs we’ve suffered in the past
Happy new year to you and yours Hitchen 60, I do hope that Fox will be honest to Lerner because I don’t see us improve under Lambert, its no excuse on money in my mind its his ideas that worrying me, Me and my family spend lots of money in Villa Park at the minute we give 4 seats away every match now I’ve told my lad that’s it 20 games 11 goals bloody awfull
armchair man now.
Didn’t Tom Fox give lambert a new 4 year deal. He’d look a bit stupid going back after a few months saying sack him. Even though he should.
Steve, not exactly sure on timing but I think that deal had already been brokered by RL before Fox arrived. Also RL as chairman and owner would fire PL so Fox is really free to advise as he sees fit. Anyway it’ll be interesting to see what the next few months bring but I don’t think PL is as fireproof as some fans seem to think.
bill its 21 games 11 goals cup match and think back to back end of last season something similar maybe somebody has stats from last year can t go to villa to far away but got all my xmas presents from shop none last 2 years nomore to lambert lerner gone all together no more money for lerner
Cheer jvillan , your right ,I live away as well no had enough got to be a miracle now for me. Sorry affair we all sore this 6 games into his first year, well I did, happy new year Jvillan.⌚
Spartans 2up against the SCUM get in there LMAO. 😀
Oh how the mighty are fallen – perhaps we should wait until tomorrow before laughing too much! 🙂
Enjoy the moment. 😀
Er, 3-2 to the scum now 🙁
2 million EUROS the fee is supposed to be, which is about £1.5 mill.
I can’t believe for one minute we’d let him go that cheaply.
Would we?
I’d rather keep him till the end of the season and let him go for nothing.
As for the article, it doesn’t even mention the length of contract being offered by Napoli.
Hmm.
I tempted fate it was a moment SHITE
Hang on Birmingham are3 up now Rowlet knew he had it wrong first half so he changed it second half now that management.
Il Mattino is a very reliable Naples based paper so I would believe this to be true. My guess is in the summer for free as Napoli are often very skint when signing players. No length of contract but seems they need to offload Henrique to make room for Vlaar so summer it will be. Henrique’s just as good as Vlaar so it’s a stupid move from them.
There is really little chance that Napoli offered that much for a player 29yo currently injuried and out of contract in months. British newspapers just talk rubbish on this, they were even mentioning a 8m or 12m fee manutd was supposed to pay, it’s just not the value of a player going out of contract in pl, liga or serie a. Or at least not for vlaar, just wishful thinking. Any money paid to the club is potential money not paid to the player, so it’s not in the player’ interest as well. Villa will be lucky to get 1m from the early sale (and should probably take it considering the money saved in wages as well)
“@insideinfovilla: expect a surprise signing this week”
Let’s see then.
Scott Sinclair ?
I hope not, awful player.
I really, really hope it’s Bolasie, or along those lines at least..
Agreed. He’s got the pace of Gabby, if not better, the hard worker of Weimann and the actual technical ability of Young when he was at Villa. Be the perfect signing.
Hes now 6/4 with skybet to join villa
Still an awful player. But he’s been linked to us since leaving Swansea and I have my doubts we’ve ever been after him.
Well if we make a signing this week, I’ll be surprised…
Yacouba Sylla?
The surprise signing will probably be Cleverley, as we’ll all be surprised how much Lambert is prepared to waste on him!
I doubt it’d be the 7.5m the media claims it is. More than like 3-4m and seems Cleverley would probably rather leave his options open.
Agree with you Andrew
I’ll be disgusted if we sell Vlaar for £1.5m!
We desparately need someone creative and proper goal poacher. Benteke just doesn’t sniff around the box enough. Surely Lambert can see this! Defensively, we’re currently 5th best in the league, so that is a massive improvement on last season!
Poacher ? Someone like darren bent ?
How about a punt on Dwight Gayle ?
His 2 goals in 13 appearances? Averages a goal every 222.5 minutes? Surely we can do better than him, no? Then again he is 24 so could get better.
Pirlo??????????
Simon Dawkins????
I wouldnt be surprised at all if we sold Vlaar for 1.5m. We should try and keep him and convince him to stay over the second part of the season, but we wont.
When he has potential CL football and maybe even title chasing Napoli after him? I doubt he’d wanna stay at mid-table mediocrity.
Much as I like Vlaar, he’s no Olof Mellberg.
If someone really wants to pay for a player who seems only able to play about one full game out of every four or five, Villa should take the money now…
Keep him for now, let him go for free and have more time to scout a replacement. Even if it’s an older CB that is back up to all 4 CB’s. We need the depth because we often get CB injuries.
Yes, we do often get CB injuries – and many of them are to Vlaar himself; how many games has he actually completed in the last two seasons?
10 of the 12 this season he’s played he completed
29 out of the 32 last season he played he completed
2 out of 2 in the League cup he completed.
26 out of 27 games in his first season he completed.
It’s more when he’s injured, he’s injured. 6 times he’s been injured, 1 only out for 1 game, 1 for 2 games, 3 for 4 games and 1 for 5 games. All 1 but were calf injuries as well.
Andrew thanks for the detail – but what I really meant was ‘how many games does he play for us each season?’ – so it looks like ’12 out of 20′ this season, ’32 out of 38′ last and ’27 out of 38′ in the first season [EPL] – better than I thought!
shaun maloney
Anybody who wants to leave the Villa gets a big tick from me.I despise Randy Lerner and if I saw him in the street I would chin him.Lerners a disgrace of a chairman needs a kickin.Vlaar,Delph,Benteke and Sanchez all deserve better than the shite club we are at the moment.I really fear we might end up a Leeds.UTV
well said……..jay……. pay peanuts, get monkeys. ppl fans want changes then the root of the problem goes right to the very top
Kozak could be set for a return sometime next month, great news in my opinion! I really like him and while I love Benteke you can see he’s raw in some parts of his game. Kozak has the same attributes and I think he happens to be in the right place at the right time, like a poacher!
We spent 7 million on both didn’t we? It’d be nice if we could spend that on an attacking midfielder now! And not Scott Sinclair, he’s not what we need right now..
As for Vlaar, surely if his future has been sealed with another club he should be stripped of the captaincy?
Doubtful Vlaar will be. Lambert will think he’s showing respect to Vlaar for staying in January (if he does) and the rest of the season by allowing him to keep it.
Who do we think should be captain? At the moment I’d honestly go with Clark or Sanchez. Clark as first choice though, but I see Gabby getting it back.
And I think it was 7m Euros for Kozak and 7m Pounds for Benteke, but either way transfer funds haven’t been the problem, it’s the wages that have been the problem at Villa. Like Junozovic or Alexandru Maxim… Or both. Junozovic has been playing more as a LM than Cm as of late and Maxim is a quality AM.
Clarke as captain is a decent shout but not Sanchez; too soon and he’s still learning English. I would go for either Guzan or Westwood but it will probably be Gabby 🙂
Whoever said sports journalists have no idea what they are talking about?! The Daily Mail has hit the nail on the head here!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2894949/January-transfer-window-does-Premier-League-team-want-sign.html
“Strengthening through the middle is key, Center Back is a must”
“Most likely to leave: Benteke”
Lol what the hell are they smoking there? Must be easy to write said garbage.
I also have my doubts we’re even looking at Olsson as a CB to replace Vlaar.
I might be in the minority but i’d love us to get Sinclair. He was quality at Swansea, everything they did went through him. Yes it was a dickish move going to man city at that point in his career and has stalled since but theres no reason why he wouldnt be that player he was at swansea for us. My only dislike is it’s a loan. City may be after Benteke too i read on news now.