Aston Villa Banter Archive January 01 2013 to January 31 2013

31 Jan 2013 22:20:56
Dawkins on loan done he, s a striker/attacking midfielder who's scored 14 goals in 54 games in the mls

More rubbish that won't cut it, I don't see any point bringing in so-called squad players on loan in the January window. VTID

It's a little harsh to condemn a player as "rubbish that won't cut it" before he has kicked a ball for us.
I suspect that at the age of 25 we would have known a bit more about the guy if he's been particularly talented
However, if he starts tomorrow and you are proved correct, that he really is rubbish, let's make sure he doesn't know we feel that way.
We are in the most perilous poison the club has been in since the inception of the premier league. We need the team to pull together, put aside any individual grievances they may have and give it their all for Aston Villa.
The team need the fans to do exactly the same
Mendax

I take it that you enjoy stating the obvious, we are in a perilous position, get behind the team blah, blah, blah. We are screwed, and a signing like Dawkins is proving it. I hope I'm wrong but I doubt it. VTID

My point is that I know nothing about Dawkins and I suspect you know little about him either.
Yes, the position we are in is obvious to anyone interested in Villa.
Believe me mate, there is no bigger cynic than me but the only thing we can do is support the team in the hope it drives them on even 1% further and pray that this will just be enough.
Your pronouncement could well be right (I think all of us have made similar statements over the past few months) and shouting on the team, getting behind them Blah, Blah Blah, may just be an exercise in futility. But what else can we do. Start the autopsy before the patients dead?
The recriminations for this season will go on for a long time after our fate is sealed whether we stay up or not. I see little point in starting it early
Mendax

I take it all back. We're screwed
Every time I hear the opposition have a corner I curl up in a ball and start to weep
Mendax

You leave Lambert alone, He's doing a fantastic job. just stick with him

I know nowt about Dawkins but Lambert does seem to be able to find and sign some gems. Benteke, sylla to name two. Perhaps Dawkins will be 3.

31 Jan 2013 19:49:29
NO MORE SIGNINGS

i have it from a very reliable source that we are done till the summer, sorry guys but think we need to get used to the idea that we are going down, gutting but honestly think we will come back stronger like newcastle an west ham have

Wait and see. Hammers selling Diamme to another prem club.
Also suggestion that Bent could end up with canaries. Holt the other way?

Well your kind of wrong

31 Jan 2013 17:08:21
Still need a left-back
Come on Lerner, give Lambert a chance

31 Jan 2013 10:08:25
Apparantly The Villa have inquired about the availablility of Zigic from Birmingham after the surprise resignation of the littler collector outside villa park #onion

He would be a shoe in for changing the light bulbs in VP too no stepladders required! UTV

30 Jan 2013 19:25:20
If people want another wide man what about aidan mcgeady on loan he is not to happy in Russia wouldn't be a bad move I personally think bent will go shame started well for us since pl came in don't want to know but to. Replace him with kenwyne jones no thanks but then again who in there right mind is going to come the way things are at the moment because we won't be paying wages like qpr wonder what percentage harry getting on them deals could be an interesting 24hrs we could be surprised but I doubt it

30 Jan 2013 17:42:49
We got rid of Hutton and seems like Warnock- surely that frees up some money for loans?
If so, defensive midfield, a winger, and a cb

30 Jan 2013 13:37:20
Is PL the only person who thinks Bannan can play at this level ?

Saying for months. Lightweight!

30 Jan 2013 13:06:36
If only KK was still at Liverpool then we could have cashed in on Bent for about 45mil.

30 Jan 2013 10:22:44
Stoke want Bent and are willing to sell Charlie Adam why don't we go for a swap deal plus cash as Charlie Adam would be better than Bannan in the centre

If he, s not good enough for stoke and Liverpool he, s not good enough for VILLA Bannon not good. but get a class player, no good being young and hungry if you can't cut it at prem level

Any player with a bit of ability is good enough for Villa. Adam may not have appeared good enough for 'pool or even for Potters but Villa are not up with either. Adam was great at B/pool and in a sh-t state that we are in he would light us up. Adam or Bannan, no contest.

30 Jan 2013 09:10:27

Forget the football. I can't believe we actually have a literate supporter. Who is this Mendax? Someone who actually has a vocabulary and something serious to say!
Who knew? more please.

Thanks very much
Mendax

30 Jan 2013 05:53:10
Taxi for bannan {Ed001's Note - what do you expect from a lad who spends the weekend after your game up in Glasgow boozing, rather than recovering from the game? Every athlete and coach worth their salt will tell you that recovery time is as important as the training itself, he needs to get his priorities straight. He is wasting his career.}

Norwich in for Benteke, No Joke

You'll find Bannan in the Scott arms in Great Barr. He's regularly in there drinking!

29 Jan 2013 22:47:40
PL needs to bring in a cm. bannan is probably not even championship quality. He is a useless player who gets shrugged off the ball and can hardly pick a pass out in the right direction. As for width, gabby agbonlahor should 100% be playing on the wing, just look at the start of the second half at Newcastle? God can only tell me why he was moved into a CF position. With zoggy on the other wing, our wide men are sorted. Upfront we have weimann and benteke

Should definatley pklay 442 for rest of the season. duune is out again !
so we definitely need a signing in defence and dfm ! if not then I would play

guzan

lowton vlaar clarke baker

nzogbia westwood delph agbonlahor

weimann benteke

stop playing the 3 man defence it not working ! And need to play the second half constantly for 90 mins and we shall be okay !!

UP THE VILLA !!!!

Watch yous play last night feel sorry for yous because BENT is not up for the fight every team in the EPL must be rubbing there hands and can't wait to play yous if yous don't get bodys in yous are gone, villa out of EPL that can't be right good luck

29 Jan 2013 21:43:16
Real Mallorca thought they were buying a world class full back . Looks like they got Hutton dressed as Lahm......DH

29 Jan 2013 20:18:57
Villa 0 Newcastle 2.......oh dear

29 Jan 2013 16:22:32
What is Mohamed diame's release clause?

3.5 mil

Stop thinking bout him, he won't want championship football

29 Jan 2013 09:30:07
No Aston Villa signings expected, admits Lambert

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By James McLean
Monday 28 January 2013

Aston Villa will not be making any signings during the current transfer window, according to their manager Paul Lambert.

Paul Lambert


tv writes that Lambert's opinion is that Villa cannot afford to spend their way to survival by the time the transfer window shuts on Thursday.

With the Villans sitting just a single point above the relegation zone, and exits from both domestic cup competitions at the hands of lower league opposition within the past week, top flight survival appears to be the only remaining target for the Midland club this season.

28 Jan 2013 21:00:56
Saw Sid Cowans in an old boys match couple of seasons ago - still bossing the game, winning the ball and stroking it around like the genius he was. Anyone else think its worth a punt to get him to pull on his boots for one last hurrah and be that midfield maestro we need?

And I also saw Ken McNaught commenting recently... Villa man - but they are words Ken - just words - get your boots on and help save us ffs.

Cowans is a coach at villa

27 Jan 2013 23:19:10
Do you think we'll get a couple of players in before Thursday with Hutton and Warnock of our wage bill if they leave ?

It will leave us with money to spend on wages so we will only bring in players on loan. If we bring players in on loan they have to have experience.

27 Jan 2013 18:43:54
I bet you wish you had mon back now anyway hope you win on tuesday

Martin O'neill is largely to blame for us being on this mess mate !
He's been the most overrated British manager I can ever remember
Kick and rush football and not a clue about spotting talent. I'd rather go down than have him back
Mendax

Totally agree. sold all our outstanding talent and the spent 9M on cuellar!

...and 10 million on Curtis Davis.
I still wake in the night screaming at that one
Mendax

Doesn't your boyfriend mind?

Lol
Very good
Mendax

Yeah because O'Neil is responsible for the accounting at a club. I'm sure he controls the balance sheet and knows what a club can afford in terms of wages and transfer fees. And I wouldn't be too disparaging of Cuellar considering how your defense looks without him this season

Pretty sure O'neil was gone when Downing and Young left. He also quit because the sold Milner. SO who sold your outstanding talent. Your chairman

All the top players that where sold were because they where greedy and wanted more money

I agree with the comment above, if a manager is told he had x amount of money to spend he will spend it, its the chairman and his financial staff who have failed, MON gave us Young, Milner, Downing, all sold for a profit whilst getting the best out of, Gabby, Barry, Dunne, Collins, Warnock along with the best football seen at vp for a long time, he never failed us it was the hieracy above him releasing the funds then needing it back suddenly when offers came in.

Let's get a few facts together here.
1. R.L did not force the sale of Milner.

2. MON left the club as RL said no to more signings as MON was asking for more players.RL told him to get rid of the high earners that he bought in for big money, I, e roecoker, heskey, cueller, knight, routledge, Delph plus others that he bought but was not playing. Lerner basically said he had funded him to the tune of £120 mil yet you want more and rarely play them.

3. Following this RL received a phone call while the other side of the pond from Liverpools c.e.o the year prior to MON s departure to clarify that MON had agreed in principle to become the new manager of Liverpool. RL flew straight to V.P to get MON to change his mind stating that he had backed everything MON had done at the club involving signings, contracts and the running of the club. RL soon after this started to take more control off Mon with the running of the club, contracts, signings now out of his duties this is when MON started throwing his toys out the pram in his last season with us, along with being told to sell his bad buys before signings were made he quit a 5 days before the new season starts.

These are the facts of the great MON tenure and to a degree I can understand RL actions since this period. He now fails to trust anyone with the whole running of the club as he did then, but sadly now is the time we need heavy investment but can't see it coming.

So to the obvious Sunderland fan who posted above, MON isn't god we are mainly where we are now because of him. You just want to hope he does not have full control of your club. Ask yourself this is there any of his signings not playing all the time, do you always play with players out of position and do you think the players he buys are over priced?

If every part of the above post is true, I am in total agreement. VILLA TILL I DIE!

Well said
I wish people would stop saying how great the football was under O'neill as well. We were 3-4 additional passes away (per game) from being Stoke
Mendax

27 Jan 2013 08:56:28
It's all down to who has the richest sugar daddy. Your American club doesn't have as much money as Manchesters American club or Saudi club. Liverpools American club has more money than you. At the end of the day you sold out to the wrong sugar daddy and now it falling apart you want a richer sugar daddy.......lol. You sold out now reap the benefits......enjoy. Soon enough the baggies will be the only club representing the midlands in the prem, you are going the way of Coventry

And the point of your post mate ?
Go on, explain the point of it as opposed to the content of it.
Actually, don't bother. I doubt you are capable of knowing the difference
Mendax

Point is you sold out, and now it all going down the pan you lot can't handle it.......mate!

The lerner trust that owns Aston villa is in fact richer than the other american owners in the premier league and has a valuie of somewhere between £4b - £10b

Blokes obsessed with sugar

Clearly you struggle to understand English but let's have another stab at it
My question is, why have actually bothered coming on here to state something that is effectively bogus. Aston Villa was sold by the previous owner to the current incumbent. The fans who you seem to suggest "sold out" could do nothing about it. So, I repeat. What is the point of you coming on this blog and babbling about a team that you obviously don't support ?
If you are going to post something personic, at least try posting it on the site of a team you support
Mendax

At last an educated response to the s-i- that appears on this site, sent by people from other clubs.

26 Jan 2013 21:51:33
I don't see why we don't sign anyone, this is not the season to get relegated with the TV revenue money we can get next season

If we could get anyone I would have a look at micheal carrick (loan), never rated him hugely but lots of experience and a strong player, mark Davies Bolton looked good this season and a fair bit of experience, Peter whittingham, since leaving for Cardiff has been a fantastic leader for them and loads of experience now could prove to be a good signing, Paulo Ferreira (loan), hasn't played in ages but a very experienced defender who can teach our full backs a thing or to and last one I would look at backary sako not sure about him looks a good player but not much experience, I think any one of these could offer us something even short term, I will keep backing lambert as poor as it has been we said it will take 2-3 years to rebuild the mess and I think lambert will do that so as hard as it may be il stick with lambert and villa all the way !

Any news Ed? It seems as if everybody else is prepared to fight for their premier league status... {Ed001's Note - nothing mate, but the summer signings were very much under the radar, with little fuss, so maybe the same is happening now. Though I am told it is a case of getting rid of some players first, if that doesn't happen, then I wouldn't expect anything in.}

Michael Carrick, dream on he is an integral part of the UTD team, where do these people come from?! A wish list is 1 thing but. C'mon get real.

Carrick ? On Loan ? That's Micheal Carrick, Man Ut'ds best midfield player this season, on a loan ?
Why not put in a cheeky bid for Messi while we'r e at it
Mendax

Carrick is one of the best and most under rated midfielders in the prem. he won't be coming to VP though

I would kiss the ground carrick walked on if he came here
Mendax

26 Jan 2013 20:21:31
The Cleveland Brown fans warned us when he bought in to Villa and they seem to be right. He made a promise to his father that he wouldn't sell them until they were a success and guess what he did? Looks like he has accepted we are destined for the Chumpionship and the fact that we are probably more saleable as a team who can come back than one already in the prem and take the hit on its value. Lets see if he sticks with us or breaks the promise to our fans and deadly Doug when he bought in. My guess will be on the latter.

26 Jan 2013 16:57:17
For some time now the canaries have been chirping on our site. I wonder how they are enjoying today.
Luton 95 places below them. Well done Luton.

Thing is we're not arrogant enough to think that it couldn't happen, you Villa 'fans' however are.

Villa fans are not arogant, they expect their side to perform and in the past the team has performed. Most Villa fans are working class lads, and you can't be serious when you call them arogant. If anything you are the arogant supporter expecting a small town club to outperform one of the 7 ever present prem. clubs. Many Norwich fans resented Lambert for leaving for Villa and since he moved they have been angry about it. However if you had the chance to improve yourself with a different job that paid you a lot more money you would take it. Lambert did and you don't like it. Grow up and be an adult and admit you are bearing a massive grudge. All of your posts indicate that you have a grievance, especially as your beloved canaries are now struggling. Villa have lost to two lower league teams but at least they were in the league. Sorry mate you have got it all wrong.

No they though it could happen that's why they booed them off the pitch at full time ? Did you not ?

If we're struggling and six points better off what are villa doing then? Lambert suits you with his arrogant smug persona.

So why is it a lot of you villa fans on here are calling for him to be sacked?? He thought he might improve himself but he went to the wrong club for that, check the bookies odds, he's the current favourite to be managing a championship club next season. Norwich fans accept him leaving if it had been for a bigger and better club, granted villa may be bigger, you can't say you are currently better, it's a club in turmoil - a poison chalice - it's board change managers more frequently than they change their underwear. So no issue with him leaving, he should have gone to a successful better team.

I am not calling for him to be sacked. However on the Canaries site some are asking for Hughton to go.

We would take hughton from you right now and you can have lambert back
Mendax

26 Jan 2013 10:46:01
Put your hand in your pocket Lerner everybody else around us have brought in one or two players. We haven't brought in anybody with less than a week to go what are we playing at. We haven't even had any solid rumours going around.

Lerner has dug up chunks to that club
Lambert believes his own hype, not 1 player tried to follow him from norwich, a much smaller club than Villa.
All the experienced players don't get on with him, who got Dimateo a cup @ Chelsea, the older players
No end of term players want to go to Villa
It is a club with papertalk ambition, poor manager with poor tactics & poor man management skills
Another john Gregory
Villa fans remember
Randy Lerner is not a football man, or a villa man he is a business man & villa are @ present a very poor business

You have nailed it pal, Norwich are a much smaller club. You are obviously not a B6 supporter. Where are our experianced players? If what you are saying is right then this squad should be in the top 6. Regardless of what you think, Villa should be fighting for a top 6 place but while other clubs are stregthening Villa sold their good players. The Engand squad a couple of years back contained 8 players that had worn the shirt at Villa park but some were drawn away by ambition and money. Lerner is a business man and after O'Neil spending his money he has shut up shop, it is just a shame that the defence have not done the same.

Bring back John Gregory
Mendax

Or that Dr Jo geezer, assuming he's not dead
Mendax {Ed007's Note - He isn't dead Mendax, we had him a Celtic manager in 98/99, I feel your pain.}

26 Jan 2013 00:35:15
After the performance against Bradford on Tuesday, 5 players need to leave:

Bent - got to be a problem between him and Lambert

Agbonlahor - lackluster performance, didn't apply himself at all

Ireland - don't get me started

Bannan - weak, slow, not a prem player

and maybe N'zogbia - hasn't shown it for villa, but has looked decent last few games.

at least 150k of wages there.
Apart from that I'm looking forward to the challenge the championship offers.
UTV!

At least gabby gets around the pitch if your looking at losing players sell given hutton warnock bannan albrighton nzogbia herd bent ireland as all of these put in lacklusture performances the crosses we put into the box are awful 1 in a 100 are decent, when you put a good ball in we score from it

I want some kind of assurance that barry bannan will never wear the Villa shirt again

You've got to give Bannan a chance
Mendax

26 Jan 2013 00:13:51
One week for Lerner to prove that he cares about Villa. At present he does not appear to give a damn what happens. Any football fan can tell him what is needed so why is he not responding? Do you think that he will shovel money to Lambert at the last minute as he did last window in a final offering? We look the worst team that has ever worn the famous shirts, even worse that the team that went down in 1959/60. Tongue in cheek, do you think that Lerner is getting the odds on Villa surviving raised so that he can make money with a late bet? Oh no I have to take my tablets again.

Southern Villan. 70 years down the pan.

25 Jan 2013 22:51:35
Surely a plan to take us down is outrageous! But as the weeks pass it seems more likely, we need the Club to state it's ambitions, however highly irregular that may seem. Enough is enough we need answers. AVFC TILL I DIE!

The plan is to go down, total clear out, knock our decrepit stadium down and start from scratch, maybe do a wolves and drop all the way the the old 4th division and start again, happens to Man City and look at them now, why not Villa?? Or does supreme arrogance think it impossible?
Mendax

25 Jan 2013 22:10:59
This is just getting from bad to worst now, out of both cups by 2 lower league clubs. i'm begining to think this is definatly a plan by lerner and lambert to take us down as low as they can get us. we all now, need to stop going down until something is sorted out, lets see what's said when they are playing in an empty stadium. lerner might then get the message we are all totally pi**ed off with it all.

Do you even suport the villa?? if you did i'm sure you wouldn't be suggesting hitting the club hard in the pocket whilst we are already struggling, have you ever heard of through think and thin, if your not PREPARED to do this maybe you should go support a manchester club!

come on you lions!!

I like the sentiment but we are past that, I love this club but enough is enough.

Boycotting the club is the worst thing that supporters could do.It would just provide an excuse for Lerner to cut back even further.
Lerner has abandoned the club financially because he doesn't love it. Doing the same shows you are as bad as he is !
We all need to back the club and show that it is a viable proposition for someone to want to buy it as I am sure that that is ultimately the end game for Lerner.
An empty stadium is not going to help us
Would you stop visiting your parents because they were in ill health and not much fun to be around ?
Mendax

25 Jan 2013 21:51:33
Any other manager would of had the bullet by now

Digbeth banger

25 Jan 2013 21:04:21
Is there any chance in recalling the fonz because he is doing extremely well as a lw in their 4-3-3 formation and he could be like a new signing at lw in our 4-2-3-1 formation. Put nzogbia on the right. Use agbonlahor as an impact sub on either wing. Ireland in the hole. We have really missed Gary Gardner this year:(

I agree bringing delfounso back bu tnot ireland in the hole put nzogbia there

The Fonz is, and never will be good enough for the perm. Upfront is actually the strongest part of the team
Can you imagine what we would be like with Benteke and Weiman infront of a midfield of Barry, Milner, Downing and Young ?
Mendax

25 Jan 2013 00:23:36
Guzan

vlaar dunne Clark
Lowton Bennett
Westwood Delph

Nzogbia

Benteke Gabby
Our starting line up for rest of season should be!

For me it

guzan

lowton, clark, vlaar, warnock,

gabby, delph, jenas (loaned in), nzogbia,

bent, beneteke

24 Jan 2013 16:37:47
Listern to the noises coming out of VP Lamberts job is safe even if religated, Lerner is not interested in staying in the Premier league, He wants Lambert to do with Villa what he did at Norwich Rebuild on a shoestring.

24 Jan 2013 09:25:16
Newcastle 2 international players in, another 2 in talks and linked with loads more.
Qpr 1 international in 2 in talks and linked with loads.
Southampton made 10 mil and 12 mil bids for 2 players yesterday.
Villa no signings, no bids, no links, no ambition, no future.

23 Jan 2013 23:03:19
In 22 years of supporting the Villa, we have the worse team collectively I have ever seen. Notice I used the word COLLECTIVELY, the reason being is that we have true proven quality in that squad (Nzog, Bent, Benteke, Ireland, Vlaar when fit, Westwood looks like a player) all of which Lambert is struggling to get a 90 minute performance out of. He appears to need to tinker and change formation far to regulalry watching our four strikers fight each other for a tiny bit of space was embarrassing on Tuesday night and showed us just how desperate Lambert has become. I couldn't care-less if we lose to Milwall, actually I would welcome it as the FA cup is distraction we don't need. However if we lose to NUFC on Tuesday our season will have gone from bad to toxic. I love the Villa but can not see how these massive problems are going to be resolved. AVFC TILL I DIE.

Villa's biggest problems are the lack of ability to defend set pieces.
Villa fall apart on every set piece regardless of if it's a corner or a freekick for me Clark could become the steel we need in midfield under Mcleish He played well in centre mid, I honestly feel Vlaar and Baker would be better at the back.

In Addition to this Villa don't seem to have any variation tactically as much as Lambert trys to put this into the team with changing formations. As Villa lack and lack variety tending to long ball it and I thought they were a prem team were as my sons under 14 team have better football brains than this

I don't call Nzog Quality and Ireland has not played a good game since leaving Man city, so you no nothing about midfield players, we play like lambs Joey Barton might be a bit grazy but he gives his all, even the great players have a desire, there none at VILLA PARK

23 Jan 2013 21:48:36
Only one week left of the window and the the only rumour is wether Lambert has quit or not. We need players desperately so where are the links?

What decent player in their right
mind would want to go to such a shambles?

23 Jan 2013 19:54:41
I think we need to be clever now, sell everyone for whatever is offered except bent eke, baker, Westwood, Lawton and Weizmann.
With fifty million cleared off the wage bill we can start to plan for our renaissance, unfortunately in the championship but at least we will not slowly die under huge annual losses.

23 Jan 2013 15:10:08
Looking at the performances since the Liverpool win, our obvious defensive frailties, lack of quality throughout the squad, lack of confidence & lack of fight I am struggling to see where any points are coming from. Looking at our remaining fixtures I cannot see where the required points to stay up are coming from, even if we get ourselves into a 2 goal lead you cannot say we look like getting 3 points. Newcastle are in a similar state but at least are being backed financially and I think the 2-3 fresh faces will spur them to a comfortable victory at VP next Tuesday. If we lose to Milwall on Friday the season is in danger of collapsing beyond repair. It is pointless sacking Lambert as it is evident Lerner isn't interested or willing to back him so how will any other manager ( no matter how big/experienced) fair any better. I am fed up with people listing made up targets on here or other sites. Lets face it our club is a laughing stock & we are in serious danger of finishing bottom not just relegation. This side is by far the worst I have seen since the Graham Taylor days. Bad times are sadly ahead.

23 Jan 2013 14:03:29
The fact we moved out of the relegation zone with a decent point should not mask the facts, a better side would have devoured us, AM {although a much hated negative tactician}would not have let a 2 nil lead slip nor would he have substituted Nzogbia irrespective of his recent return from injury.

Vlaar's return was welcomed and our saviour, Benteke, Lowton have been PL best purchases probably on the advice from others more knowledgeable & Savi about the game.

Aston Villa actually don't need that much to create a more industrial menacing side. we need steel & creative thrust in the middle and the final third. Lerner must get Coutinho a snip @£10mill or less {our new Merson/Ginola our affordable Silva/Mata} even the likes of Newcastle/Liverpool could exploit this bargain. Sissoko @ £3mill is a NO Brainer and as for Aubameyang he should be an immediate replacement for Dire Bent.

BENT MUST GO even for £9mill if we're lucky otherwise he'll cost us more in the long term. Bent would never in a million years have scored the type of Goal the Awesome BENTEKE did, even hit and miss Gabby's goal would be beyond Bent so why have him on the bench let alone on our payroll.

The fact we haven't made any progress in the transfer market reveals a much bugger problem at the club, the more the clock runs down the harder it will be, the loss of sponsorship is just the beginning,, LERNER take note speculate to accumulate it's worst in the championship, we all know as fans that you've spent a tidy some on the club but that was in the hands of your poor appointments, Get the above three players if PL is the wrong man to motivate winners then replace him now, otherwise he is your man for now & the championship SO BACK HIM ON QUALITY SIGNINGS ONLY!

23 Jan 2013 11:11:30
3 players all available will sort us right out

Olson 4mil plus warnock
Hangeland 4 mil
Sissoko 3.5mil


Plus I would really look at our scouting net work henke has left so get in someone that knows both African and Spanish markets there are bargains there like michu, wanayama, de guzman, diame ect

Dreamboat,,,,, they won't want championship football though,,,,,, that's where your wish lists all fall apart

23 Jan 2013 08:03:33
Villa seem to be good for the first half & rubbish on the 2nd half!
Benteke might be good but he misses far too many sitters but can score the wonder goals is just potty.
I'm not calling for Lambert's head yet but he has to make Lerner realise he needs a few more EPL experienced recruits.

22 Jan 2013 22:52:32
We've had 2 managers that have bought crap for 2 seasons and an escallating wage budget that has been spent on players with no desire. Lambert has had 6 months to sort that out, put down his philosophy and develop the squad with only 20 MILLION.

Mon had 4 years to do the same but had 200 MILLION.

The idea is just starting to come together and I think it would be stupid to sack him, especially after only 6 months. Very few clubs get far by changing managers every year and those who don't are successful, for example everton.

It's stability we need not change.

How many points do you think we will need to stay in the league this season?

I'm sure we will in the championship

Lambert needs backing, we need to sart keeping clean sheets ! we havwe enough fire power to win games its just the defensive side !

We need a diame / sissko dawson

To get clean sheets we need to learn how to defend set pieces as Villa seem to have forgotten how to

Vlaar and benteke both at fault for the bradford goal last night! poor marking and unable to cut the cross out, and these are our air threat and defence its no wonder we concede at so many set pieces, we need to look at the coaching of the players we have and try to bring the players together to make a team. we have individuals with skill but seem to lack the togetherness as a team.

come on you lions!!

Mon nearly had us in the champs league and lambert nearly has us in championship. which 1 do you want. some fans need their heads looked at, defending a rubbish manager and slatting 1 of the best we ever had.

You say Lambert and the team need backing, Now is that for 90 minutes or leave when your loseing, That says a lot to your team, Look at Carrow road Full for 90+, Lambert got all the support and respect that he deserved here, you wanted him you thought he would do the same for you as he did here, the big difference is he had players here that wanted to win.

Yes maybe mon got us inches from the champs league but the like of man city spurs everton and liverpool wernt as strong as they are now.

22 Jan 2013 22:32:28
Fair play to bradford... But uno what ?? What do you expect when you play barry bannan his the worst player I've saw in our midfield ever!! He can't pass a ball 5 yards can't tackle what does he bring to our side?? Over rated.... Ciaran clark over rated can't defend can't head.... Ireland dosnt wanna be there.... Delph shoots like his boots on the wrong feet falls over can't tackle.... Bennett hasn't got a clue what his doing... I think we are going down hurts me to say that but can't see it any other way

Bannan should retire from football he is a liability

22 Jan 2013 21:51:14
Any premiership club that have yet to play Villa this season, they are there for the taking, lets relegate them

22 Jan 2013 21:41:38
Not a villa fan just a neutral..really worried for you guys because this downward spiral started since last season and hasn't been addressed..you need a new coach, not that lambert is bad but in this your situation you need someone with experience who has new ideas and can motivate your players..or your owner releases funds to sign new players, if not I think you guys should prepare for the championship

Glen hoddle

Can't afford huddle

Wolves fan here with no animosity as regards to Villa at all..In fact, I'm quite saddened by what's happening across the other side of the M5.

But please don't go for Hoddle.If you do go down (which is looking plausible), take it from experience, he will NOT bring you back up.

Good lucks

Fair play, to the above post. We are in trouble, Deano will sort your lot out.

^^ I really hope you are right..I'm not yet convinced by Deano's hoofball however, or indeed convinced the board will let him spend..We are in dire straits at the moment, with a board that won't open up funds..I suspect a sale coming on..

But we are not alone..West Midlands football is in right mess in general, and I don't like it at all.I may laugh at the Blues struggling, but in reality, they really are in a state.And you lot seem to be following suit.I'd implore you lot to have some faith in Lambert..After all, it wasn't his mess that got you where you are now.It was that Scottish berk you got from across town..And if you do go down, Lambert is the right man to bring you back up.

The Wolves fan, concerned for the state of our football

But looking on the bright side, If Walsall get promoted that will be a heck of a lot of local derbys for you.

You robbed Lambert, thought he would do the same with you like he did at Norwich, The Norwich fans are delighted for you and hope you enjoy the Championship.

Watching you last night gave every prem team that has to play you a warm glow feeling of 3 points,
coming thier way and hope come May 4th you are down

22 Jan 2013 21:37:38
, Dear oh dear. Absolutely love it. Beaten by league 2

They also beat Arsenal, and villa beat Norwich & Man City. Funny old game

22 Jan 2013 21:28:02
Six minutes to go and your fans are pouring out of the ground.....loyal supporters!!

22 Jan 2013 21:21:56
Question: what's it feel like for a premiership clubs fans, albeit not for much longer, to be made to look like mugs by a league two club, not once but twice - so not a fluke ??

22 Jan 2013 20:58:44
Taxi for Lambert

And he can take the rest of the mediocre squad with him. Are you watching Mr Faulkner?

22 Jan 2013 16:31:02
simple solution to save the season -revert to a 442 formation, because at the moment no 1 seems to know what position they are playing. defensively the midfield is non existent, the edge of the 18 yard box is a chocolate box for opposition

22 Jan 2013 01:21:36
The fact we moved out of the relegation zone with a decent point should not mask the facts, a better side would have devoured us, AM {although a much hated negative tactician}would not have let a 2 nil lead slip nor would he have substituted Nzogbia irrespective of his recent return from injury.

Vlaar's return was welcomed and our saviour, Benteke, Lowton have been PL best purchases probably on the advice from others more knowledgeable & Savi about the game.

Aston Villa actually don't need that much to create a more industrial menacing side. we need steel & creative thrust in the middle and the final third. Lerner must get Coutinho a snip @£10mill or less {our new Merson/Ginola our affordable Silva/Mata} even the likes of Newcastle/Liverpool could exploit this bargain. Sissoko @ £3mill is a NO Brainer and as for Aubameyang he should be an immediate replacement for Dire Bent.

BENT MUST GO even for £9mill if we're lucky otherwise he'll cost us more in the long term. Bent would never in a million years have scored the type of Goal the Awesome BENTEKE did, even hit and miss Gabby's goal would be beyond Bent so why have him on the bench let alone on our payroll.

The fact we haven't made any progress in the transfer market reveals a much bugger problem at the club, the more the clock runs down the harder it will be, the loss of sponsorship is just the beginning,, LERNER take note speculate to accumulate it's worst in the championship, we all know as fans that you've spent a tidy some on the club but that was in the hands of your poor appointments, Get the above three players if PL is the wrong man to motivate winners then replace him now, otherwise he is your man for now & the championship SO BACK HIM ON QUALITY SIGNINGS ONLY!

You seem to have forgotten Bent kept you up when you bought him..... He bought you some time but now the time is almost up.

21 Jan 2013 17:33:01
Bennett terrible. Bowery who? Bannan absolutely useless. Why are we not signing anyone we are in serious trouble. We are Aston villa and we deserve better. We leave Ireland and bent on the bench they have much needed experience and are 2 of our best players. We desperately need a defender and a good defensive midfield player. There are players available and we don't seem to be in the market for anyone. Jon Arne riise is a good experienced lb and would be available on the cheap after a fall out with jol and would give us much needed experience at the back. Yoan Gouffran is available from Bordeaux for 1 million euros and is a good player. Sissoko for around 3 mil. Why are we not going for anyone! A good cb and midfielder please

21 Jan 2013 14:55:58
If true, then presumably PF was reluctant to sanction purchase of players because:

a) the decision had been made when PL came in to pick young players on whom the club has spent money bringing up through the 'famed' academy - he would be justified in claiming that 'Plan A' was still 'the Plan' and blame the failure on PL.

b) money has already been made available to PL and he had spent that on certain (also young) players

c) the team has been so inept under PL of late that to throw good money after bad would be madness

d) there is little faith in PL at the most senior level

e) PF is covering his own back when presumably he instigated the move for PL in the first place (?)

If PF was responsible for employing Houllier and McLeish, those would be reasons enough for him to step down. Clearly RL rates PF, although PF must surely be on dodgier ground than usual at the moment.

The bottom line: PF is responsible for the business of AVFC. Poor performances on the pitch equals relegation equals loss of tv money next season.

PF's only answer, short of resigning (which he won't do) is to sanction the sacking of PL. And bring in RDM.

The previous paragraph is hard to type (and not what anyone wants to believe) but true.

There is no romance in Premier League football.

Dimatteo got sacked at baggies he's rubbish Adkins is available but for me have faith in lambert it'll come good soon enough

21 Jan 2013 13:30:40
Why is Bannan even in the matchday squad ? His performances have been poor all season, expecially at Bradford, and he seems to think he has the right to take every corner and free kick, most of which get nowhere near the target zone.

Think most fans with a smattering of football knowledge can see that we need fresh faces (decent quality players) in midfield and at the back

Only reason that I can think of is the fact he's scottish, PL and AM both played him cause he's from their native homeland, or so he can translate team talks?

P.s. that was sarcasm, based on the fact that he's quite literally useless at anything else, he plays football worse than he drives!

21 Jan 2013 06:34:21
Why do people say we need experiance, all we need is quality, look at the man united squad of 1994-1995 with an average age of 24, the only difference is they had quality: Giggs Scholes Beckham ect {Ed001's Note - yes but their team had a lot of experience, and that was the year Blackburn won anyway. It mostly had Schmeichel, Bruce, Pallister, Irwin, Parker, Ince, Dublin, McClair, Kanchelskis, Hughes and Cantona in it. There is a misnomer that they won it with kids because of the quote by Hansen, they never had a team of kids. They had a core of experienced pros, then a few kids on top of that.}

20 Jan 2013 17:19:32
The fact we moved out of the relegation zone with a decent point should not mask the facts, a better side would have devoured us, AM (although a much hated negative tactician) would not have let a 2-0 lead slip nor would he have substituted Nzogbia irrespective of his recent return from injury.

Vlaar's return was welcomed and our saviour, Benteke, Lowton have been PL best purchases probably on the advice from others more knowledgeable & Savi about the game.

Aston Villa actually don't need that much to create a more industrial menacing side. we need steel & creative thrust in the middle and the final third. Lerner must get Coutinho a snip at £10mill or less (our new Merson/Ginola our affordable Silva/Mata) even the likes of Newcastle / Liverpool could exploit this bargain. Sissoko at £3mill is a NO Brainer and as for Aubameyang he should be an immediate replacement for Dire Bent.

BENT MUST GO even for £9mill if we're lucky otherwise he'll cost us more in the long term. Bent would never in a million years have scored the type of Goal the Awesome BENTEKE did, even hit and miss Gabby's goal would be beyond Bent so why have him on the bench let alone on our payroll.

The fact we haven't made any progress in the transfer market reveals a much bugger problem at the club, the more the clock runs down the harder it will be, the loss of sponsorship is just the beginning, LERNER take note speculate to accumulate it's worst in the championship, we all know as fans that you've spent a tidy some on the club but that was in the hands of your poor appointments, Get the above three players if PL is the wrong man to motivate winners then replace him now, otherwise he is your man for now & the championship SO BACK HIM ON QUALITY SIGNINGS ONLY!

AM would notb of had a 2-0 lead to lose in the first place

20 Jan 2013 13:34:46
no one has a clue what goes on at the board of villa, what happens behind close doors stays behind close door's, we need 3 new players: a big holding defensive bully midfeileder eg.diame, a creative midfeilder that has experience, not to old, that can give n'zogbia compettion, and another centre half, because baker seems to be injury prone, and clarke is still learning, and dunne and vlaar have glass legs vlaar especially. keep the faith and with a bit of luck wee'll be fine hopefully.....i'm 15 and i'm saying this you don't have to be an person to work it out. UTV

Why don't they just sign diame he has a £3.5m release clause

19 Jan 2013 19:29:19
2-0 up and we threw it away what's going on

You wanted him, you got him

That is true but we don't have the Lambert who was at Norwich. Wether it's that the players are good enough I don't know but one thing that is blatantly obvious there is no plan B. It appears that the board/management are resigned to the fact we will be in the Championship next season. This is a damn shame, what has happened to our club?! Villa till I Die.

19 Jan 2013 12:17:25
Anyone else think this is a bit weird Adkins got sacked just after Lerner apparently approaching di Matteo what the odds of Adkins coming to villa?

Got every chance lerner seems to want any f**king manager of any team that plays well against us. this owner hasn't got a bloody clue on how to save this club from the abbiss its staring into.

That will be most prem managers then, and the gaffer og Bradford.

19 Jan 2013 08:16:22
press often give you a good idea. they strongly believe if lambert does not get 3pts at west brom today he may be sacked by the evening...
fergie faced the same and purchased m robins from norwich they went on to beat villa 2-0 and look at man utd now ! richest club in the world..
time to be realistic. man utd buy van persie for 30 million wich was a knocked down price as he was not going to sign a new deal.
lambert had so much to fix and 23 million does not go far these days.
pick a manager and support over a number of years only way for success.
is lambert the best man ? undecided myself.
i think this is why the purse strings are tight from mr lerner as a new manager could come in yet again and he will need to be supported and compensation again paid out to lambert ..
sort it out villa.. time for faulkner to go all villa fans know it..
i would love to see andy gray get a shot..

Personally I'm sick of Villa wasting money on managers we all know Villa won't be fixed with a couple of panic buys.

Villa need to back Lambert to build the team and I think he will but we may get relegated and play championship football for a year or two

The sooner Villa have gone through this period for me the better as all this started when Doug Ellis sold us as he kept a strict budget and all we've seen since he left was us finishing top 6 for 3 years.

and look at the price were paying those 3 years i'd have rathered finishing between 8-12 for those years as what did we achieve really apart from the owner now wanting to claw back that investment and I honestly think Lambert will be able pick out the gems on a low budget
I.E
Benteke 7m
Vlaar 3m
Westwood 2.5m

were as what did Mcleash bring in for that N'zogbia 9.5m and Hutton 3m

Houllier Bent 24m and Makoun 6m

And for every good buy O'neill brought he brought in 1 or 2 sh*t players and all were overpriced with exceptions of Young, Downing, Milner and Petrov

SO MY POINT IS WHAT EVER WILL BE WILL BE AT VILLA BUT I BELIEVE LAMBERT WILL BRING US THROUGH AND BACK FROM IT STRONGER

Hear hear to the previous comment! finally someone with loyalty to the club and its staff, we have been too quick to call for heads recently, lambert is building us a solid future with our youth system gaining top recognition we need to exploit this with the talent coming thru and eventually finding the ballance of youth and experiance maybe next season if we stay up.

if the unthinkable does happen then we will come back a stronger team for it, the young players seem to be here for the fight and hopefully will stick with us for a couple of seasons atleast giving us time to continue building and return to the greatest stage the PL.

come on you lions!!

I would love Andy Gray as manager and Brian Little as his assistant - at least there would be passion on the bench and the terraces...Bet Lambert never thought it would go pear shaped like it has this year

Former players do not always become great or better managers, Gray has done nothing for years except spouting on the radio and getting sacked on TV. Does he have badges for the Job, Little way past it as well Adkins is avaliable

18 Jan 2013 14:52:06
Pl on tv we are working on a few things but there's nowhere near the money we spent last January available which was 24 mil for bent and 7.5mil for makou

To me a few means more than 2 but I would think they will be loans after listening to him

That is incorrect, Bent and Makoun were signed by Houllier which was the year before

I think we all need to accept that villa won't be signing anyone, you can read between the lines what lambert has said lerner won't give him any money. so we must wave goodbuy to the top flight after all these years.

I know it sounds defeatist. But I almost want to get the season over with, accept the inevitable relegation and prepare for a hard but successful campaign in the Championship next season. Being bought by someone in the summer who has a real interest in the club would be a huge bonus.
The one thing that gives me any hope is the news of what Southampton have done today.We might survive due to the greatest own goal in footballing history.
Mendax

I really hope Southampton go down, to sack the man that got them where they are today is shocking.
I hope they spend loads, get relegated, go into administration and end up back in League 1....then they may remember what Adkins rescued them from.....NCFC Fan

17 Jan 2013 11:37:25
Malouda from Chelsea would surely be a good signing especially if given a leadership role

16 Jan 2013 22:17:21
If we don't sign anyone out team will be:

Guzan
Lowton Vlaar Dunne Clark

Gabby Westwood Delph

N'zogbia
Benteke Bent/weimenn

Which I personally think if we had that team from the start of the season we would be like 10th I think we could stay up if we don't sign anyone as long as we don't get anymore injuries. Villa till I die!

I don't think that's a strong enough team to keep us up, we need another strong defender, and a playmaking midfielder - if not I see us going down, which RL doesn't care about by the looks of it

16 Jan 2013 18:43:25
What are peoples thoughts on a cheeky pay-as-you-play/earn yourself a deal for Owen Hargreaves?? Worth a punt??

Not for me, pay as you play is all very well if we were higher up the table, but we need players who are going to play every week and keep us up. Villa till I die.

Yes but if he plays well and is injury free he will play every week and has real quality. If not then we lose nothing. I think it is worth a go. Also, he would be good to mentor the young lads, nobody knows better than him how quickly your career can slip away from you and despite all his set backs he has kept working hard. Model professional.

16 Jan 2013 09:33:55
With J A Riise falling out of favour at Fulham why don't we offer a swap with Warnock. Why not offer NRC a short term deal.

Both of those deals couldbeanywhere on the cards plus hangeland and sissoko but countinho looks dead

16 Jan 2013 00:31:10
We need someone like o'hara from wolves, Rhys Williams from Middlesbrough and perhaps a young confident winger who isn't afraid to take players on like Redmond from bluenoses who will have to sell cheaper then they would want.

15 Jan 2013 06:26:45
Thanks for taking Lambert off us, now he's going to bury you

You've got over it then ?
I used to think it was only Blues fans that were more interested in our club than their own.
Mendax

Once he walked out of Carrow Road nobody here could care less about him. An expression springs to mind for all you Villa fans - 'be careful what you wish for' - well now that wish is coming home to roost, and us in beautiful East Anglia absolutely love it.

Yes, I can tell that Norwich fans don't care less about him.....by the way you never shut up about the bloke.
It's sort of tragic
Mendax

It ain't tragic at all yam yam, it's hilarious. You wanted him, you got him, he's taking you down, now you all want rid of him. We get super Chrissy Hughton, who is a better manager, So thanks for taking him. Your team is relegation fodder and you lot can't accept it......Happy happy days.....Come on Bradford!

It is funny how a norwich fan can even comment about us, I forgot how outstanding your club has been the past 10 years, we may go down this year but norwich are a new club in the top tier with a little squad who next year everybody will be used to and you will make your way back down where you belong, oh and by the way yam yam is Black Country

You know what' it's all true. We wanted him, we got him, he will probably take us down and yes we are struggling to accept it (we are used to better). But there is something that eases my troubled mind...the fact that I am not a childish person who gleefully makes himself look more pathetic with every petty, childlike utterance he makes
Mendax

If you are so over lambert why do you keep talking about him we all know you miss him

14 Jan 2013 22:06:13
------------Guzan------------

Lowton--Vlaar--Dawson--Clark

-----------El Ahmadi----------

--Albrighton---------Holman--

-----------Wijnaldum---------

---Benteke------Agbonlahor---

14 Jan 2013 11:26:12
Reading don't need a new sick note Bent is not worth anything like £2mil you were ripped off by Sunderland and they are laughing like hell at you

14 Jan 2013 10:50:42
I wanted palacios who looks as tho is going to QPR for £2.5m an
Moussa sissoko who is supposedly going to Sunderland for £3.5m which would be soul destroying to think we'd missed out on 2 good players at cheap prices, an i'd even had taken Stephen Kelly on a free.

Getting desperate now! PL needs to get to work now, an sign the players we need, not on the last day of jan but before Friday! Sick of losing out on good players because we're slow to react to players who are available.
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Fully agree with poster for me why did we sign KEA when we could of got Charlie Adam for 1m more

14 Jan 2013 07:10:54
****PL TIME TO ACT NOW OR YOUR TIME IS UP**

Villa FC cannot afford to wait until the last moments of the transfer window

ASTON VILLA don't need experience (we had that last season?/) we need quality/drive & passion for the game.

That's exactly what the dying rumour of Inter's Brazilian Playmaker Coutinho would bring, along side Sissoko plus the return of Vlaar would complete Villa. Can we afford it YES WE CAN. with a net spend of £16.5mill.

We would also have some big earning departures. Others such as Aubameyang should also be targeted even as a loan with a permanant deal offered on survival..NO BRAINER

Agree but Aubameyang is a target for man you city and real madrid so that's a no brainer

13 Jan 2013 20:41:50
Never understood why we have not taken on Curbs, what he did at Charlton is exactly what Lerner wants at VP, it is a match made in heaven

What Lambert not the man for Villa then, you lot changed your tune, but thanks for relieving us of such headaches we have a much better manager and club set up enjoy the lower leagues, they could be where you need to go to re-build

Canaries only sing when they're winning,,,,,,,,,

We didn't want him in the first place.

At least 3000 of you wanted Lambert, you could not stop singing his name when you played us at the end of last season.

Only 3000 though innit, think that means the majority didn't

You yam yam muppet, you all wanted him, now you can't handle the outcome....boo Hoo! Happy happy Days!

13 Jan 2013 12:34:37
Not a Villa fan (Forest fan) but just a genuine observation/question having watched them on MOTD, how does Christian Benteke get in ahead of Bent?

Bent was injured last game, happily have bent and weimann or gabby upfront. Benteke misses more than he scores

Bent doesn't do anything other than slot the last ball in the net.doesn't track back or hold the ball up.
Were as Benteke will hold the ball up track back, set up play seen as we have noone controlling the game in midfield benteke brings this to a degree, bullys defenders and create chances for his strike partner if their in a better position, does bent do this no!

I would rather have someone who only puts the ball in the back of the net than someone who runs around like a headless chicken without scoring, and anyway isn't its Bents job to score goals?

The difference is, if we send the ball to benteke's head, he heads it, if we send the ball to bent's head, 'oh where's the ball oh no i'm the striker i'm meant to head it lets just run under it and watch it go for a goal kick then stay standing offside for the next time its booted up to me'

Common knowledge, Sunderland saw you coming Bent worth no more than £2mil possibly £2'5mil

13 Jan 2013 08:15:54
Norwich fan here. So Aston villa fans I'm not here to cause arguments or anything but Paul lambert I knew as soon as he left Norwich for yourself he would not do as good as he did at Norwich reasons at Norwich he had a group of players who worked hard for him every single min they worked hard sadly Norwich are a little burnt out this season and need a few players but you look at villa and its a mess Paul lambert is not experienced enough to fight a relegation battle but also the players are to blame qpr have Harry know if they survive its cause of him but noone knows what qpr are paying him my guess is a lot. So my question is what players would you like in and what manager would you like to replace Paul and I'm glad you took Paul from us as CHris H has got our defence solid lets hope for a striker and attacking midfielder

I'd like any players tbh, just need to freshen it up. Like to see Curbishley in as manager for the long term but RDM would do well i reckon

Problem with Paul is he does not really sell players like bent has no passion you could make 10m possible and that 10m could get some great players 4m Cms I hope Norwich get him but you could and Phillips or ince from Blackpool but I think you nee experience.

12 Jan 2013 19:02:47
A friend of a former Villa star has claimed that Lerner isn't too bothered if the club get relegated, he would prefer the premiership to be an exclusive club where there is no relegation so that the income is protected but if the worst comes to it, he will accept relegation and use it to restructure the club, get rid of anyone on over 20k per week and then hope to rebuild.

He is being presumptuous in the hope Villa will be able to return to top flight football within 3 years but the truth is, if we go down it will take 5-7 years to get back.

Hence the lack of investment in January transfer window

No offence mate but we didn't need any insider knowledge that Lerner doesn't care if we are relegated.
It's been obvious for the past 3 years
Mendax

3 years out of the prem, you would loose out on about 200million, do you really think Lerner is not bothered? I don't know too much about Villas finances but with the wages you pay I would think a spell in the championship would mean serious problems.
You could easily end up like the mighty Leeds, or more recently just look at Charlton, Southhampton, Portsmouth, all stable prem clubs, then within a couple of seasons league 1.

I'm with you mate but how else can you explain Lerner's apathy ?
The next 2 and half weeks are probably the most important in the clubs history
Actions will speak louder than words
Mendax

12 Jan 2013 18:21:06
so southampton and the ref done us 2 day, i personally think pl should go, villa was a step 2 far for him and faulkner should be sacked too, granted, we have a young squad but not all of the young squad are good or will ever be, example barry bannan, players like him are dragging us down

Yes Saints won, and should have been at least 4 up by half time.

Don't blame Rodriguez for "diving"-he didn't appeal-it was the ref who gave it.

Your supporters drone on about your young team, but the Saints squad were a similar average age and the best player on the field was 17 years old!

I know losing isn't pleasant but your reaction is somewhat irrational.

Quite simply put Villa fans are as arrogant as Man you and Liverpool fans, they think they have a divine right to win. When this doesn't happen they can't take it. Like spoilt children.

Not very nice when the ref is on the other side is it, about time it happened to you lot, your going down.

He dived and we batterd saints we missed change after change

For the "person" who started "He dived", get your facts right. The penalty was not given for the incident with Rodriguez. Just because MOTD is ignorant, doesn't mean you have to be.

Saints were battered? Your team played with energy for about 20 minutes at the end, by which time Saints should have been 4/5 goals ahead. Hardly call that a battering.

Funny how the truth hurts, and the truth in this case is you are not good enough to stay in this Division.

Not good enough for the division? m8 you mad we have quite possibly the best back 3/4 in the league i hate you jokers on here slating teams that you have no idea about trust me m8 when enda stevens gets moved to left mid next ronnie mark my words

12 Jan 2013 17:10:41
Enough is enough now it's time for lambert to throw the towell in

12 Jan 2013 14:23:37
We are able to create chances up front what we really need are 2 new strong experienced center backs and maybe a central midfielder, any idea on who is available at an affordable price?

Lamberts time is up! The sooner we get rid of him, the sooner we can move on from his shambolic period in charge of our great club.. Shambert needs to go Randy!

11 Jan 2013 18:59:49
Let's put this in perspective. The players we have in the centre of the park, Holman to some degree aside, would not interest any other premiership team.
Unless that is addressed by the acquisition of 2 quality centre midfield players, we will go down. No question about it.
Mendax

I feel we need 1 midfielder and a centre half and then play clark in midfield as i feel he's better in midfield

10 Jan 2013 19:02:36
have you ever wondered why our reserves and youth have been so impressive. but some how we either let the wrong players go. or they don't quite make the mark..
due to the continued changing in managers this means they like players to fit into their own playing system naturally....
my concern is what lambert is doing with picking workrate over natural proven talent... im frightened that again the wrong youngsters will be released or sold. as money talks more than ever this year.
spurs evolved off m jols finds.. they come good a few years later...
do need to give the manager time.. but is pl the correct man

10 Jan 2013 16:38:48
Coutinho is very talented, but we need experience. Also, PL given four games to save his AVFC carrer. Southampton, WBA, Bradford and Newcastle all huge games, and PL needs 7 points and a trip to Wembley to fully secure his future for the time being.
WWWYKI

10 Jan 2013 16:04:54
Why has pl stopped playing kea?

He's got off to the africa cup of nations

He has gone to african cup with morocco

If morroco go that means greece, malta, cypres and turkey would go

Not good at Geography? Morocco is in north Africa!

10 Jan 2013 14:33:55
This 10 millon talk has got to be rubbish its not 10 we need its a 100, any half decant midfielder from the prem is gonna cost 10 and need at least 3 midfielders, 3 defenders, If we don't get a win at the weekend we are in big trouble, and i think if we lose we souldnt stand for it anymore and stop going to villa park, hit randy where it hurts we pay the so called players wages we pay for the stadium to be keep right in its glory we are the heart of the club, if he has to pay the complete wage percentage from his own pocket he just might start to listen to use and what we need, I don't mind puting my hard earned money of a sat or sunday buying match day tickets if we lose and play well,, but that just hasnt happened for the last while now we are now the pushover team of the prem, some the blame has got lie with lambert he had money to spent in the summer he baught a lot of rubbish, all bar the beast and westwood, plus he let two half decant centre backs go, he has never told use the fans how long vlaar is out for, any orther club would know the following monring how long there best defender will out for, i just think this club is FAST becoming a joke, do we really need to be putting our hard earned money into it in these hard times[ RANT OVER]

10 Jan 2013 12:48:55
Maybe the villa medical/trainning staff should be transfered, for the last three seasons the wafer thin squad has always been a problem because so many players get injured....the team would like ok if all the young guys playing at the moment, were the actual cover that lambert got them for. No team can cover there most experienced players been injured for a long period of time! oh and hutton and warnock suck so they might as well be injured too!

10 Jan 2013 09:25:16
Who are villa accually linked with?? There's no speculation in papers or anythink just ppl chatting rubbish on here!

Coutinho bid 9, 5m
cavanda in talks
stephens apparently nearly done
graham made enquirys
k jones made enquirys
groufffon linked
aubermberg linked

10 Jan 2013 00:27:20
Any news on a defensive mid? We can go on about defenders all day but even if we signed excellent defenders it won't count for anything if we continue to be so lightweight in midfield!every back for needs some form of protection and i'm sure everybody would agree when i say none of our midfields, other than westwood perhaps, are capable of providing cover for the defence!

09 Jan 2013 23:05:48
Mr paul lambert has taken second rate players at norwich and turned them into a premier league team damn you people who say more championship rubbish.. I have no doubt that championship players can cut it in the prem our problem is experience we have lost a leader in stiliyan and have yet to replace him and young kids just are just happy to play win or lose. I would take a punt on joey barton yeah hes a dick but he is undoubtably a good intelligent FOOTBALLER even if hes not intelligent off the field we need the tenasity and show the young guns how to cut it in the big time hopefully as a role model he would be mature about it.

Leave lambert alone

09 Jan 2013 22:18:57
Aston Villa have announced they will no longer be following Lamberts policy of looking to the Championship for young hungry players, they feel looking at leauge 1 and leauge 2 players will be more than enough to strengthen the squad....
In Lambert we trust......AVFC

09 Jan 2013 12:29:52
after last nights performance id say only 2 out of the 11 deserved to wear the shirt... bannan delph bennett clark baker lowton arnt championship players never mind premier league... lambert/learner somethings gotta be done.. fed up of all these young hungry players get people in who wanna fight for the club people who wanna wear the shirt.. if we stay up this season it will be a miricale.. we need experience not league1/2 tat !! RANT OVER

09 Jan 2013 09:36:24
As one of the 4, 500 that travelled to Bradford last night I hope that this dire performance now convinces PL & RL of the urgent need to sign AT LEAST three quality players CB & 2 CM's. Both Delph & Bannan played so poorly they cannot be seriously considered as Premiership standard and several others didn't cover themselves in glory.

We allowed Bradford to dictate play in the centre of the park and had to resort to playing the long ball as there was a large hole where our midfield should have been.

To progress we need to control the middle of the park, play at a much higher tempo than we did last night and be much more clinical in our finishing.

Finally, let's hope we play much better than this in the games between now and the second semi.

UTV

As we already have Westwood, petrov and Gardner out. And have el Ahmadi out injured, forget playing bannan and delph, and instead opt to play Holman and Ireland in the centre. That way you get experience and presence in the centre. And we all know Holman will work his socks off for the team and hopefully this will rub off on Ireland. Also I definitely think we should get palacios on loan at least. I'm sure lamberts got his ideas but he needs to move fast, otherwise coutinho and co will not want to come to play in the championship!! In lambert we trust

I felt possession wise we controlled the game but as you said gave up the midfield to Bradford and with 7-8 players back when villa kept throwing the long balls in bradford were able to deal with it with ease.

Villa need a few players like young and downing as a couple of seasons ago when villa attacked we would cut straight through teams and the moment those 2 had a good front man to get the ball to Villa were immense for 11 games when bent signed and now we have several good front men but long ball it which is frustrating to see.

And Why are Villa always so sh*t at defending set plays surely it's basics

09 Jan 2013 07:43:35
absoultley gutted by last nights result,

we need to get premiership experince in defence, the kids are starting to panic at the back and they need help! left back, central defender, a destroyer in midfeild required urgently

sort it out lambert quick time!!!!!

09 Jan 2013 00:33:27
Rather than buy or sell, shall we just apply to the FA to suspend the season as it stands? That way, we'll stay up, have an outside chance of the league cup and well in for a shout for the FA cup.... c'mon Villa - love my team 4 Eva!!

08 Jan 2013 22:07:38
What a joke the defending and finishing was a disgrace need vlaar back asap and a midfielder who can put his foot in

I can only see Villa picking up 2 points from their next 7 games if this form continues, 1 point from Southampton and 1 point from Newcastle....the next points after that are in 8 games time against Reading, we will be cut adrift at the bottom by then.

08 Jan 2013 22:01:53
If Paul lambert managed man utd he would take them down he's that bad come Lerner wake up get rid. I never wanted him and said this would happen. But I'm just a taxi driver what do I know ????

08 Jan 2013 21:46:42
I have supported this team for over forty years and tonight i my totally ashamed to call myself a villa fan, they are without doubt the worst villa side i have seen. to lose 3-1 against a 2nd div side is unacceptable and lambert should this very night be pissed off back to norwich because he hasn't got a clue. lerner i beg of you to get rid now.

No thanks, you can keep him

Lambert did very well at Norwich, maybe the problem is the poor team and lack of ambition.

Not back to Norwich thanks, Mr Ego is yours now, you stole him you can keep him :-)

As a Norwich fan I would not want Lambert back, he is not proven at the top level, when Norwich came up the momentum of the previous 2 seasons achievments carried us over the line, Lambert was starting to run out of ideas towards the end of the season.
I think this will be a long hard season for Villa.

What on earth makes you think we have a job at Norwich he could do, we have all the program sellers we need, (Perhaps now you will be careful what you wish for) Enjoy the champoinship

We will, see you there

08 Jan 2013 20:06:38
Haha one nil Bradford....get in!!

What are your excuses tonight, injuries, referee, lambert a selection, you were shocking and you were muller end again on live TV. Absolutely love it, it was worth going out at the last round to watch you be such an embarrassment.

The only excuse we have is we have an ex norwich pratt who is totally out of his depth

Awes what's up, has the new messiah failed to save you and now you are bleating. So, Who's manager are you gonna try a steal next??

And you wanted him, now keep him,

08 Jan 2013 00:40:45
Not a rumour, just an educated guess.Villa cannot afford to buy anyone unless and until they sell big earners. Casts doubt on Lerner's confidence in Lambert.
Relegation dogfight and Wembley Cup Final apperance. Remind you of another 'team'?

How about relegation dogfight and no cup final appearance?

Relagation dogfight yes, the wembley final is looking a bit dodgy!

07 Jan 2013 18:43:07
I hope Villa Sign:
1. Dawson- or another centre back with premier league experience.
2. Modou Sogou- from cluj- scouts watched him when they played Man. U
3. Moussa Sissoko/Scott Parker
4. Phillipe Coutinho- maybe a bit unrealistic
5.Pierre- Emerick Aubemayang- Have to be quick, as Newcastle could go in for him, if they don't get Remy.
WWYKI

06 Jan 2013 19:09:38
WHATS GREEN AND YELLOW, AND CAN BE SEEN IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP NEXT SEASON........................NORWICH CITY, CMON U VILLA

Very good, I did smile when I read that one, the oldest ones are the best.....
Its the kind of joke you would get in a christmas cracker.... which reminds me well done Villa what a CHRISTMAS CRACKER you had Chelsea 8, Spurs 4, and Wigan 3.

And in the semi of a cup, next round as well of the fa cup and not in the bottom three, wages slashed, old root being cleared, alot of promising youngsters gaining experince and the window open

Looks good to me

Another canary on our site. Dont they know that they lost 4 on the bounce?

I think that we should ignore all the cr.p that the canaries keep adding to our site. They are only full of envy and jealousy for losing pL to AVFC. Ignoring them will just pi.s them off. Finally we should rename them the turkeys and give them a stuffing for Christmas.

Youngsters gaining experience..... Yeh I bet none of them have been mullered 8-0 before on live tv :-)

Villa were most definitely the ones who took the stuffings at Christmas............Villa the true Turkeys

You yam yam's are full of it arn't you, yes we have lost a couple of matches, but who hasn't lost to man city Chelsea and any club being reffed by Clattenburg, unless he's on your wage bill as well. How you can say we will go down is beyond me you only stayed up this season by sheer luck and looks like you are going to get clobbered in the next few games enjoy championship next season,

05 Jan 2013 13:10:27
Lambert will no doubt get a warm reception from the Ipswich fans today.....NOT
Thanks Lambo for smashing them 9-2 over the course of a season, one of your great moments at NCFC, them derby matches mean so much to the fans...
You will be a lengend among the Villa faithfull if you can manage to beat The Blues home and away when play them next season.

Villa v Wolves will make for a good fixture.

My god how long r you norwich fans going to keep going on to us about and the championship your no better than us, what c**p did we beat to reach the semis can u remind me please ?

We're six points better than you sonny, and lots less goal conceded...... Just look at it this way, you beat Ipswich by one goal with your current premiership squad, when lambert had Nirwich's championship squad he beat them by 3 and 4 goals, that about says it all. Nevermind hey, at least it looks good for you getting points off Ipswich next season....enjoy.

Villa until today had 9 first team players injured and had 3 come back from injury today when played a weakened team giving key players a rest this said by lambert himself.

Frankly i dont care what score norwich racked up against Ipswich as a win is a win regardless if it's 1-0 or 10-0
and look at the facts Norwich beat Ipswich, Villa beat Ipswich and beat Norwich.

So what does that say?

Maybe Villa didn't see Ipswich as a threat

You are all hilarious, I used to say Norwich fans were inbred fools for a joke. Now ... I sort of believe it. You spew nonsense regularly on our page because we took your manager who you would love back, you would drop your trousers if lambert came back to you. Just take it like a man. We are villa. He is our manager and doesn't care about you yellow stumble bums. We thrashed you in the cup so how bad must you be, seriously. Yu were lucky today as well, pathetic performance.

It says Norwich should worry about their own club!!!

As were under no illusions were a Villa who have burnt down to ashes and now attempting to rise again and given time we will be back where we belong in the top 10.

Can Norwich fans tell us what happened when they crumbled in the prem and subsquently were relegated not once but twice before rebuilding to a prem team and how long did that take.

This is Villa's 2nd season of trimming the wage bill and attempting to rebuild.

VILLA WILL FLY AGAIN. IN LAMBERT WE TRUST (as Norwich did. Now get over the fact he left you for a bigger club all be it a bigger club who are struggling)

Come on Villa fans lighten up, or have we hit a nerve...this page is called Aston Villa Banter, if it was not for us, the Blues and every other set of fans that don't like Villa it may as well be called Aston Villa Opinions by Aston Villa Fans......
That would be good for you all, telling each other how good you are with no outside view...

We are like a Phoenix rising from the ashes soon to soar higher and higher :)

Norwich fans just accept paul lambert has gone and that you and ipswich are both rubbish teams no one cares about your previous results against ipswich so go back to your small clubs page

Yes it's a banter page, but some of he things that you Norwich and say aren't banter they're bitter haha, at the end of the day we are doing what it took you years to do, rebuilding a good team. Only difference is we won't get relegated twice while we are doing cos we have more money, more fans, better players, officially the number 1 ranked youth system in the country. What do you have, an extra Shrewsbury striker and Leeds old league 1 midfield, garrido and hoolahan are the only players I actually think are good enough for the prem, actually I won't lie I have like howson for many years, which is why I trust lambert will bring him to the villa

Who's the bitter one.glad lamberts gone I thank him for what he done at Norwich, I couldn't understand him though.he will do a good job for you. OTBC

Clueless norwich fans need to go on their own clubs websites instead of coming on villa pages to talk about their favourite saviour that is paul lambert. Without that man norwich would be a nobody club! And as for you genuinely believing you're that much better than us, why would paul lambert leave a club he put so much work in for a club supposedly doomed, he clearly sees more potential then at norwich, a team who have made it as far as they ever will. As for 'only scoring one more than ipswich' in the cup, its the FA you donut! Liverpools only score one more against mansfields, newcastles lose to brightons! Teams like wolves get knocked out! No team is the better team in the cup and playing a second string attack against a full first team of ipswich we can hardly complain at a win? When you won 1-0 against united we didnt go on your pages saying 'haha you're rubbish you only put 1 past them' as for the league cup, i spoke to one or two norwich fans before the game and they all said 'i think we can go all the way in this cup, on our day we can beat any team left in the competition' is that including the 'rubbish team that will be in the championship next season'? You're just bitter because paul lambert clearly knows we are more than a bottom of the table club and he wants to take us back to wear we were 3/4 seasons ago when you were down in league 1.

Table doesn't lie

04 Jan 2013 16:59:06
I don't see why many fans do not want Ireland at the villa past January as he is creative when he comes on he changes the game maybe not defensively but attackingly and we score when he plays he will definatly not go.

We dont want him cause although at times he shows his flair and can be a game changer. he shows this skill once in a blue moon and we have to put up with him being lazy and doing F**k all for 10 games before producing some skill when he's got his leg over and has a spring in his step.

Ireland is a cheque collector not interested in the club at all and it shows, he got boo'd off for a reason. i personally never want to see him in a Villa shirt again

03 Jan 2013 19:29:36
I would swap bent for huth and jones of stoke

Defiantly

I bet Tony Pulis is of a different opinion.

03 Jan 2013 12:51:13
hangaland in a swap deal for bent if bent takes a wage cut, if that dosent work out we are going for dawson who i think is a better all round defender, mcgeady for nzobia, wes hoolahan wants to reunite with lambert as he feels he gets the best out of him, im wondering who do we get in to replace bent, maybe welbeck on loan as he can play wide and put in a good shift, (edd is any of this true they are all experienced players would add to the squad)

Wes Hoolahan is doing fine without Lambert, as are the rest of the Norwich team, Wes has played championship football once so he won't want to go back to that in may with Villa.

So you know what wes is thinking?

The Canaries current form looks great, you are this seasons nose divers

Is that why he signed a contract extension two weeks ago?

Keep dreaming, and set your sights on the Championship cause that where the Christmas whipping boys are headed.

A few weeks ago the canaries were crowing about getting into Europe, fair do's.
However they are now only a few places above Villa, only 6 points difference and Villa have just had 3 appalling results. Heading for Europe, only if Hughton can write a song. Finally why do you attempt to tell others what Hoolahan is thinking? Do you have a close contact or a crystal ball? Most of what the canaries put on the Villa site is ba--s.

No one is claiming to know what Hoolahan is thinking, the comment "Wes is doing fine withuot Lambert " is based upon the fact he was playing well under Lambert, but he is playing even better under Hughton, (so the comment from origonal poster saying "he feels Lambert gets the best out of him" is rubbish) maybe he would love to move to be with Lambert again, only time will tell.....I feel Wes is playing better now for Norwich than he ever has..

Norwich fans are always on this page, why waste your time? How about focus on ur small club punching above there weight

03 Jan 2013 07:59:20
Dorrans can look for a new club. I think its worth a look.

I agree,
but isn't it a sad state of affairs that we are looking at players in an OK Albion side to improve us
Mendax

02 Jan 2013 19:35:14
If bent goes to fulham we will be hangerland plus 7 millon aling with the 10 randy is handing over if lambert can get it right with that sort of money we sould be more the fine and with hangerland and vlaar we will be very solid, looking forward to second half of the season already

Is this just a hope that that will happen or is it true?

I am fed up of reading "If we sell Bent" and "When we sell Bent"
face it bent is going nowhere, 80K a week, 12Mil transfer fee.....reality check for much less you could have Demba Ba, there is no comparison...

I would love hangerland to give ue height, defensive discipline and experience.

I heard the same i think the deal will go trough, if bent takes a wage cut that leaves me a bit worried but i think he will to get first team football, also on the in is huddlestone, mcgeady on his day is brillant,

We will probably have to pay the difference in wages if Fulham dont pay it all, the sale of Ashley Young that money was put to one side to cover the costs left for the darren Bent deal

02 Jan 2013 17:18:59
Pierre emerick aubemayang pacey as hell him and the battering ram together will tear the prem apart give weimann his dues tho

Can I just mention we are being linked with people with a buying from of 5-10 million, and most sources say we only have 10million to spend so what's actually happening are we getting more than that, ed do you know? Or anyone else {Ed001's Note - no club is going to reveal their actual budget, I very much doubt anyone knows what it really is. I wouldn't take any notice of anyone saying the budget is X amount, it will be just an opinion. If the right player became available at the right price, I am sure money would be made available. Clubs never have a real set budget, like people get in football management games, it just doesn't work like that. Hence why a club can sometimes over stretch their finances to get in players they feel will move them up a level.}

Cheers, so to be honest I think we should get Pierre emerick augbameyang, I think we could get Huddlestone on a permanent deal now that Parkers back for spurs and fingers crossed lescott then we can put Clark left back. they are just what we need and hopefully at about 20million which may sound a lot but it would be good if we could sell some players like bent, N'zogbia etc that will give us at least an extra 10-15mill

02 Jan 2013 15:07:20
I'd like to see abou diaby come to villa park as wingers already said he's not part of his plans. The only problem is that he is injury prone. Plus he's on 50k a week but when you look at players like given, dunne, n'zogbia and Ireland who simply aren't performing and are on around 60k a week so maybe it could be a good signing for 4 million?

01 Jan 2013 21:31:21
If we don't sell Bent early, we might as well do a swap deal with teams

01 Jan 2013 17:14:43
Why oh why can't we see a game out, 4 mins into extra time just boot the ball over the blinking stand

01 Jan 2013 14:34:34
Lambert after a defender defensive midfielder and a atriker which are said 2 be sorenson from bolognia 2O yr old defender john guiditti on loan 2 fill the striker position only on though maybe with view 2 buy and derek boatang as the defensive midfielder.

Also dunne goin 2 new york red bulls hutton extending stay at forrest with bannan a 9m target for them warnock wanted by west ham bent wanted by fulham/qpr for 1o-15m and Nzogbia ireland given and makoun listed on transfer market

Lambert told he has 10m 2 spend then the proceeds pf selling any high earners