54 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Didier Drogba has signed for MLS side Montreal Impact Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Jonathas off to Sociedad from Elche. Quality signing for Moyes, he seemed to single handedly keep Elche up last season (on the pitch anyway). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Sergio Romero to Man Utd How'd they sneak this one in then? Going to be great laughs when they end up with Victor Valdes, David De Gea and Sergio Romero in their squad all year. Especially when we're rocking a Karl Darlow in our starting XI. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Tbh, Romero isn't a great keeper. Plays above himself for the national team. I'd be surprised if he's anything other than a back up even when De Gea goes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinport53 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Raylor has signed for Hull. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 'Delighted' http://www.behindthespread.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/1.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 J. Ayew confirmed fro Villa. If it's £10m they've been robbed. It isn't, it is 8m plus bonuses. Ayew had been told he could leave for that, then we took an interest and Lorient hiked the price massively. We said no, Ayew said he was annoyed, and apparently has foregone some pay outs he was due from Lorient to make it happen. The way I look at it, this is a replacement for Weimann - sold him to Derby for 2.5, thrown 5.5 more in and got Ayew in instead. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Villa a strong candidate to go down this season? Would say so. Not a chance Decent purchases so far and we've barely made a dent on our transfer cash yet. It looks like we've sat down and thought about who we're going to buy, and have realised we need to start spending a bit more money. Three more decent signings and we'll finish top half. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxfree Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Third Jordan to join Villa this summer? Jordan Veretout heavily linked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikky Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Lucas Digne to Liverpool? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeloEmre Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Lucas Digne to Liverpool? Moreno benched/sold then? Another fantastic piece of business by Rodgers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxfree Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/27/psg-bid-angel-di-maria-manchester-united?CMP=share_btn_tw Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain are in advanced negotiations for Ángel Di María, with the French club having offered €40m (£28.5m) to buy the 27-year-old. The fee is less than half the British record £59.7m United paid Real Madrid for Di María 12 months ago. Ed Woodward, the executive vice-chairman, is thought to be resisting PSG’s offer as he seeks a higher price. Although Louis van Gaal had wanted the Argentinian to stay the manager now accepts Di María wishes to leave and so there would be some surprise if he were still at the club when the transfer window closes on 1 September. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeloEmre Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Haven't all other reports said around €60m? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Villa a strong candidate to go down this season? Would say so. Not a chance Decent purchases so far and we've barely made a dent on our transfer cash yet. It looks like we've sat down and thought about who we're going to buy, and have realised we need to start spending a bit more money. Three more decent signings and we'll finish top half. In any case - he's shit. I admit it's personal but i've followed his national career closely and he's terrible pretty much every time out. He's not without talent, decent pace, decent dribbler. He's frustrating as hell, can get into decent positions but the final product is usually awful. Whenever he starts I get upset. If he wasn't Abedi's son and played in Ligue 1 I don't think he would have so many caps at this point. At an age he can become a good player though. And he certainly has some tools. But wouldn't be suprised if you hated him by January. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incognito Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 I'm going to put a quid on Jordan Ayew to be PFA Player of the Year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Third Jordan to join Villa this summer? Jordan Veretout heavily linked. Some journalist in Nantes has been tweeting that this evening. Three Jordans from Ligue 1. Odd. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Villa a strong candidate to go down this season? Would say so. Not a chance Decent purchases so far and we've barely made a dent on our transfer cash yet. It looks like we've sat down and thought about who we're going to buy, and have realised we need to start spending a bit more money. Three more decent signings and we'll finish top half. In any case - he's shit. I admit it's personal but i've followed his national career closely and he's terrible pretty much every time out. He's not without talent, decent pace, decent dribbler. He's frustrating as hell, can get into decent positions but the final product is usually awful. Whenever he starts I get upset. If he wasn't Abedi's son and played in Ligue 1 I don't think he would have so many caps at this point. At an age he can become a good player though. And he certainly has some tools. But wouldn't be suprised if you hated him by January. If he's got pace and get get into decent positions and has some tools, he's already significantly better than most of the utter fucking dreck we've had playing for us the last few years, believe me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 re Verretout (of whom I know next to nothing) is that we recently appointed Hendrik Almstadt our sporting director. Almstadt worked at Arsenal where he spent a lot of time workingwith Wenger and, to a lesser extent, Tom Fox (then their CCO, now our CEO) on linking the football and commercial sides of the business. It seems that there was a process under way, which stalled, to bring Verretout to Arsenal, and that Almstadt was deeply involved in that deal. It could be that this - unlikely sounding - deal is getting to be possible based on that relationship. In the wider story, I do wonder how come, after five years of cunting around in the transfer market like idiots, we've suddenly started to look like we know what we want to achieve, and we've invested time in finding the players to help us do it. In other news, apparently Charles N'Zogbia has this evening tweeted something about "politics", removed all Villa references from his twitter profile, and changed his profile pic to a banner saying OFFLINE. I hope that's because he's offski. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 N'Zogbia forgot he existed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 N'Zogbia forgot he existed. I'll do you a demonstration of what he does. *puts laptop aside, stands up, runs into wall* *waits 20 minutes* *repeats* Him, Aaron Hughes and Habib Fucking Beye. Three players we had who had NUFC on their cv and all absolutely shit. And N'Zogbia and Beye were SO shit, I almost feel bad about putting Hughes on that list. Milner was mint, mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 All of them were very good/excellent for us as well. Milner was miles better for you than he was for us though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 All of them were very good/excellent for us as well. Milner was miles better for you than he was for us though. Milner was fucking great for us. I love him. Of all the decent players we've sold and utterly failed to replace the last few years, he's the one Villa fans would most like back. Honestly, I genuinely love him, with his endless work rate, decent technique and quirky 1940s, wartime schoolboy haircut that makes him look like he should be holding a gas mask and waving goodbye to his parents on a smoggy railway platform. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Milner was nowt special for us. I'm sure he flourished at Villa because he played centre mid didn't he? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 All of them were very good/excellent for us as well. Milner was miles better for you than he was for us though. Aaron Hughes was absolutely not very good/excellent for us, like. When he was RB for us during Bobby's time he was regularly the weakest link on the field. Pretty solid CB in general, mind and shouldn't have been sold given the crap that ended up playing instead in the coming seasons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Beye was mint, it's only now with Janmaat that we have actually got someone as good as him at RB. It's amazing that we'd had Colo, Bassong, and Beye all in defence the year we went down yet were shocking defensively. All pretty good players on their own, but that season we had a shocker. I think it was mostly down to what was in front of them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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