Aston Villa will listen for loan offers for out of favour keeper Shay Given, however they want any club to pay at least half of Given’s £3 million a year salary. The football league loan market has opened and if a club would be interested in signing a quality keeper on loan, Given will be available. Given’s contract at Aston Villa runs until 2016 and Aston Villa do not want to pay for the majority of his wage should he go out on loan. This is the main reason why Given’s loan move to Liverpool broke down, the club were willing to only pay a fraction of the wage. Given has fallen down the pecking order behind Guzan and Steer.
Manchester United are interested in signing Aston Villa forward Christian Benteke in January. David Moyes will soon be in the market for a new striker since Van Pierse can not play for United forever and Moyes would like to bring more strength to his already quality attacking line-up. Benteke may also be seen as a replacement for the unsettled Wayne Rooney who was linked with a move to Chelsea in the summer. During transfer deadline day, Aston Villa apparently rejected an offer from Arsenal for the forward.
Bacuna says he can play anywhere on the pitch, the versatile midfielder has already played as a central midfielder and right-back in the Premier League. In pre-season he was also given the chance to play out-wide.
“My whole career I have played every position – I’ve never really had one position,” he told Villa’s website. “For me it is not a problem but I will see how it is going to go.
“Originally I was a midfielder but I can play right-back or further forward.
“It doesn’t matter to me as long as I’m playing.”
Aston Villa face Newcastle this weekend and Bacuna is hopeful he can retain his starting 11 spot.
Nathan Baker has returned from injury and is in contention to feature against Newcastle. Baker sustained an opening day ankle injury and has missed out on 3 games since. However, Baker may have to settle for a place on the bench due to the good performances from both Vlaar and Okore.
We are supposed to be interested in Mile Jedinak from Palace but you have to wonder why Faulkner/ Lerner/Lambert didn’t make the deal while Bannan was going the other way???
We owe Holloway one.
Really? I wouldn’t think so and here’s why. Jedinak is 28 years of age and he’s more of a defensive midfielder. We’ve signed Sylla for that.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Jedinak is Palace’s best player but unfortunately the priority is an attacking midfielder
It’s in the Mirror Adam
‘Crystal Palace to re-open Mile Jedinak contract talks amid Villa and Stoke interest.’
La Gazzetta dello Sport: “Italy took the most winding road, but reached the finish line… Prandelli’s Italy have played better on other occasions, and Kozak scared them. But the happy ending arrived.”
We all love a happy ending
Why isn’t Sylla getting a game at the moment? I think he’s class.
Because he is a squad player at best
And this is based on? After what he actually showed last couple months, he’s absolute class and will get better.
Sylla is not class he is another hard working villa player with zilch quality but makes up for it in effort. Class is someone like a Patrick viera do u seriously think sylla is as good as him? 🙂
Patrick Viera was far above class. Class isn’t one of the best DM’s around, class would be closer to Premier League standard, which Sylla definitely is.
We will have to agree to differ Andrew sylla is ok for the money we paid for him. But has no quality whatsoever but is in the team for his work rate and effort which is what lambert likes
Oohah and how many ‘Super Stars’ where in Sir Ron’s team mate? How much did this lot cost Allen Evans, Des Bremner, Tony Morley, Dennis Mortimer, Kenny Swain (need I go on?).
Fair point but they were different times when you could buy on the cheap and win major honours. Remember we didn’t have world class foreigners in the old first division that played for opposition so it was more of a level playing field. Cloughie did exactly the same at derby and forest. Also bear in mind we had the best young striker in uk in shaw, Mortimer was quality and cowans different class. They were all players that had stayed as team for a few years without all the bollocks if out star players wanting to fuck of to a sky 4 team so we had continuity. This would never happen now as we sell our best players so will never be able to rebuild into anything other than a top ten team with an occasional cup run. The class players we had cowans, shaw, withe at his peak who had been there and done it with forest, shaw, Morley and Mortimer all had quality but with a too work ethnic though I know Saunders worked hard to get Morley to work and gave him a few kicks up the backside lol. We had the perfect blend of youth and experience which we don’t have know which is my other point about not signing someone like a Barry in load etc.
Yes mate it was a different time (and how I miss it) I preferred the football back in the 70’s and 80’s football players were that, football players not athletes and had a bit more style and panache about them and made the grade as pros because of their ability to play football rather than how quick they could do the 100 metres.
And yes you’re right it was a different time and a more level playing field when you could build a team over a number of seasons unlike today with your – just add money – instant success philosophy were the SKY 4 rule the roost and the rest are in reality merely Premier League Fodder.
Agree BWS especially how they are athletes today and not footballers. It was much better before sky and a lot of teams as well as Liverpool always had a chance especially if they started well. It was great to see teams like us, forest, derby, Leeds, Everton, winning the league with teams like qpr and Ipswich having a great go and finishing runners up. Teams like utd. Chelsea, man city were nowhere in sight utd even got relegated in the 70s Ffs. Chelsea and city were average 1st div teams at best and Chelsea especially were always being relegated. Arsenal I suppose were always the next best team after Liverpool but they didn’t win league after their 71 double for nearly 20 years. Utd were also a decent fa cup team but that was about it and they never ever went nearly 20 years at vp without losing and neither did Liverpool or arsenal who both took 5.1 hammerings at vp. Those were the days
Erm, that’s typically what most DM’s are there for. Work rate and to try… Although like most DM’s he can also tackle, get the ball back and pass pretty well and he’s strong as hell. I didn’t say he was world class, but he’s definitely Premier League quality. There are obviously a fair few DM’s better, but then again he’s made a total of only 11 appearances and impressed a fair few fans so I’d probably give him a bit more time.
Grealish to Notts County on loan sounds good