Aston Villa Banter Archive January 01 2012 to January 31 2012

31 Jan 2012 20:55:39
Allbrighton is not going to leave aston villa for sunderland i can tell you this mon let the like of craig gardner go and got steven sidwell also this is the man that sold gary cahill to replace him with zak night also he wasted 10 mil on cutis davis also wasted more money more money then made on players that are almost pub players , the young players are down to 2 mil a season spent buy the board and hard work from sid and so on .... martin is a man manager , but when he gets his hands on cash worry ... but as soon as someone seads no then thats when he will kick off .. would be great england manager tho as he carnt buy and is gud at getting a team playing but he f***ed up at villa and i think he kinda knows it so sunderlnd he mite do things different ....

I agrre he should never of been allowed to get his hands on the money. If things where done the way they are being done now along with the money spent we could of been looking at a complete diffrent situation now. only way is up !!!
utv

31 Jan 2012 17:48:31
This is the worst day of supporting A Villa I can remember.

I dont want to hear transitional, Stability these are the things I deal with on a daily basis at home and at work.

31 Jan 2012 12:42:33
Typical, loads of transfer talk on other club's sites but not a thing on villa's. Guess we're doomed to lower half mediocrity for the remainder of this season and maybe longer. What's happened to the board's ambition ?

You are so wrong. We are doomed for the championship.

Guess we'll find out tonight against QPR, without doubt a six pointer ! A must win game but given our recent performances at home who knows what we'll get

Yet another poor performance, QPR were dreadful and we were still unable to secure three points. How is it that highly paid professional footballer can even pass the ball or put in a decent cross ?

Seems to me that the managers training methods are just not working

30 Jan 2012 19:57:47
think we shud move for jelavic 6 mil wud do it and heskeys days r numbered

30 Jan 2012 11:52:42
I hope that we can comopete with Bolton in the Zaha chase as i think he'd make sense.

Between now and the summer i can envisage reasonable amounts of activity, Heskey, Beye, Dunne, Collins all moving on. They would for sure need replacing.

Names that are popping up are Rondon, Dann, DunkMcGugan, De Laet, Keane (long term). They all would be good business from my point of view. We may also go head to head with Man Utd for Clyne.

In the summer were letting Heskey,Cuellar,Beye and Collins go so Obviously Villa will buy cheap to replace them i expect Villa to sign Rondon,Dann
and it would be a great bit of Business to sign Zaha and cut our loses with N'zogbia or sign Scott Sinclair

30 Jan 2012 09:22:12
Mcmuffin has been moaning to the press about the lack of experience on the bench costing us against arsenal. Only one thing to do Alex go out and do some business deals .

27 Jan 2012 15:31:08
i think lerner and eck are doing a great job clearing out all the dead wood that has been bought in by oneil. taking out petrov,heskey,collins,warnock,beye, would leave a good foundation to build on,

given,guzan,marshall
hutton,dunne,clarke,stevens (keeping ceullar would save money on getting another defender in and also his versality would be a asset in my opinon but a new left back and central defender must be added)
figuero , dann

herd,gardner,ireland,nzogbia,albrighton,makoun,bannan,johnson,delph(another attacking midfeilder required)
zaha

bent,agbonlahor,delfonso,weiman(another striker required)
defoe

All the good players have come through the youth .AM buys not to impressive Hutton a donkey,Nzogbia hit and miss,perhaps some one to over see transfers,Hoddle,Wilkins ,part time what a waste these can spot players as they were good players , Idont trust AM

25 Jan 2012 13:32:58
Our wage bill wouldn't be as bad as it is if we actually sold the players we don't need instead of letting their contracts run out. 10 players were released last year and half of them just sat in the reserves until their contract expired.

Not that easy to ship the deadwood out as they want to move on to another club that will pay them the same wage they are on now and to some of our deadwood, that's not going to happen if a fee wanted or needed. So they sit put and will probably make up the shortfall in wages drop in a signing on fee when they go for free and if some have a good agent they get a loyalties bonus on top too!

23 Jan 2012 14:48:52
Look all of you anti MON supporters. Remember he took Villa to 3 consecutive 6th place finishes in the Prem. league! -what have done since.
I have also heard Allbrighton is Sunderland bound before the end of the month and may not be the only decent player we have who will be heading to the SOL. Spend money he may have done but just watch SAFC move up the league now. They are a big club with tremendous support if MON is given the backing they will move. BRING MON BACK TO VILLA

He is the messiah our messiah where he belongs

They bring that little sniveling weasel back to Villa Park and I will never go again. Its partly his fault we are in the situation we are. His spending was woefull and he wasted millions that Lerner gave him when he was still interested on rubbish that he never picked. Friends that are Celtic fans will concur and warned me when he became manager...Sunderland fans enjoy the honeymoon period because he will do exactly the same at your club. Makes me laugh as he claims publically he wants craig Gardner..after he shipped him out at the first opportunity at Villa. Come back to the Midlands Craig, you'd be better off at any of the clubs here

Don't be daft MON was a legend at villa we played quality football and had players that any club would want who put in a performance most weeks. Now ,bar a few exceptions , we got a bunch of mediocre players who just want to leave. Sure he made mistakes like Curtis Davies, sidwell and who cab forget the man who just oozes quality that is emile heskey, but cannot deny the man's ability to manage a team and manage it well. Unlike the monkey we got in charge .

Yeah he is great

22 Jan 2012 08:06:49
McLeish has stated he wants Robbie Keane on a permanent basis.
Keane or Heskey?
I think i know which old man i prefer!

Heskey then? ;-)

21 Jan 2012 17:07:39
Robbie Keane, Pure class. Why didn't you play him against Everton last week Mr McClueless. Do you think anyone would notice if we sent Darren Bent back to LA in his place?

Gary gardner! a star AM can not drop him

Completely agree he had an assured game and was unlucky not to score. Petrov was poor and the first 45 and didn't get into the game until he kicked Frmpong in the head. I'd start Ireland in his place.

21 Jan 2012 15:55:05
how long is it going to take for mc leish to get the sack? omg we can not defend for s**te. he is playing a 4 4 2 today. he keeps choping and changing and noting is working for him. villa fans we have to pull together, the club needs a change. we have to get lerner, faulker and mc leish out, or we will be playing in the championship next season!!

20 Jan 2012 01:39:58
What happened to yannick djalo?

Trial was stopped before it even happened as McLeish believed we were strong enough in the wide positions and needed to focus on other areas first.

What a kn*b mcleish is that would have been a way.better signing than keane

18 Jan 2012 08:25:30
villa planning on a standing area in the ground so that we get in more capacity!!

How are they going to attract more fans back to the ground when there is nothing to watch. (nothing makes no sense at all, capacity is not going to rise with what is offered at the moment)

Am i wrong or would it not be more worthwhile for the board to spend money on a exciting young squad with a few star names and quality coming from the ranks and the fans to know we are not going to sell but build each season to get to the top and compete with the best in europe and then look at the ground capacity ?

17 Jan 2012 20:24:10
Just remembered we have Jean Makoun, we paid 6m for him and McCleish goes and loans him out? Why didn't he loan Heskey out to Crawley Town or something and save some money there instead.

Mcleish didn't loan him out, it happened before he got there

Wrong. He played in the walsall friendly which if my memory favors me was mcleish's first game ? . So no he did get rid and good riddance if u ask me he was a flop

16 Jan 2012 19:30:51
trust me on this one,craig gardner is on his way back,mr o neill didnt rate him before and dosent now,but if this our big signing for this transfer window we are in trouble,were not going forward only backwards,with this signing,this time next year doug ellis will be back, we are a joke and a laughing stock,we talk about been a big club we are far from that its not the manger's fault he has a poor bunch of players that have been left there from the previos muppets,

If he sigh.s craig gardner a long with the signing made, hutton, nzog it is ,who else can you blame?(are you a blues fan)

Im deffo not your talking about 3 players he has signed,he didnt signvthe orther 8 on the pitch,been told now to get rid of some of the squad now before he can buy,if we dont get players in i wont cross villa parks gates nor will i be any new jerseys for quite a while

Gardner is a blues fan and kept saying it when he moved, can;t see him moving back and wouldn't want a blues fan at my club!

You didnt want a blues manager either, look what happened there,gardenr is on his way back along with dann and ridgewell,im afarid its as good as it gets these days,mon broke us and we will have to suffer for that for quite a while

16 jan 2012 07:02:18
wow at all the gloom !!

we are not going down thats for sure and the club has to do what it has to do!
we should do what we can do and just stand up and be counted for and support our beloved club!!!!

come on you villa !!!!!!!!!!!

I have had 35 years of being optimistic every summer (apart from the one just gone) and ultimately being all too predicably let down. I am fed up of having my weekend ruined by players who couldn't care less, a manager who is blatantly clueless and a owner who couldn't give a s**t anymore. I pay my money , I go to Villa park every game so if I want to be gloom then I will be, you want to pull the wool over your eyes that is up to you but don't tell me or other fed up fans what we should do.

VP could be full to capacity with loyal Villians each week but this won't change the performance on the pitch. All us loyal villa fans are behind the team but you have to say we need to improve, hence the call for a few quality players to get us winning again. There are very few premiership teams which a worse home record than ours in the last half dozen games.

14 Jan 2012 12:14:04
Could end up being our worst run at home for nearly 50 years if we lose to an average Everton team today. Great times ahead for us fellow Villa fans.

14 Jan 2012 11:47:27
So now we are getting rid of Nike, fair enough if there is problems with deliveries and the quality of the Matchday kit/Merchandise (Can't say I have had any problems with anything I have) as it's a business decision and obviously we want money to come into the club....but Macron? seriously? This is just another sign that the club is going downhill. Whay arent we in negotiations with a bigger company? surely we are still an attractive proposition for a comoany such as Addias or Umbro a company with a proven history of sportswear not some second rate Italian company who provide kits to a few Championship teams and Charlton? Had a look on the West ham website and the stuuf's rubbish. They better be paying stupid money for us wearing garbage. {Ed001's Note - they were willing to offer more, they are trying to break into the market and so will pay over the odds to become established.}

Doesnt make the clothes nice or any less embarassing to wear in public though....although at the moment its not exactly full of pride I wear the badge....probably like most of the first team!

Dropping nike as Lerner is getting finances in order for next owners..plus more money saved for himself

13 Jan 2012 17:42:31
McLeish has said that we are unlikely to sign any more players in January and yet more talk of reducing the wage bill. Is all this emphasis on reducing costs in anticipation of his failure to keep us in the premiership ? It appears obvious to me that we need to sign a few quality players to maintain our premiership status (said it before the season started and it seems that the realistic predictions of many villa fans are now, unfortunately, coming true). Do the board and the manager think that we can survive with good results in the next 5/6 games (those that Keane is around for) ? if we win every one, doubtful with our current indifferent form, we would only have 41 points one point above the number that most managers agree is required as a minimum for survival. Hate to be pessimistic but if we don't buy we'll be in trouble as our back four have been less than impressive this season. You never know though, miracles might happen and Mcleish might drop Hutton, Warnock and Collins and play Cuellar, Clarke and Stevens (he can't be any worse then our regular full backs !). Here's hoping that we see something worth cheering about tomorrow but who knows, certainly not the manager as he seems incapabable of motivating the team to give a performance of effort, quality and consistency. If we're lucky we may get one out of three.

09 Jan 2012 18:50:59
lads our budget is pretty low, id say the best we can hope for, a couple of championship players plus keane on loan, and maybe gibson on loan, sorry lads the good days under o neill are gone, we are a spent out club now, pushed hard for a top 4 finish,just noy hard enough selling top players to top 4 teams dosent make sence to me, if we still had barry,young,downing,millner,cahill,carew in the squad we would be flying high,oh i forgot plus martin o neill

Youre right about the last one but we got im marty the messiah

06 Jan 2012 15:08:50
Why are any Villa fans bothering to speculate or just plain lie about who we are going to buy? Randy Lerner has clearly given up on the club and is more interested in recouping money he has spent in previous windows. I'm sure he bought the club with best intentions but has become bored and unless we are sold we will not be buying anyone of note or talent. The Bent rumours have probably begun from within the club in order to speed a sale and lets face it his track record of loyalty is hardly great. Expect the Keane deal to go through but AM to leave him on the bench and bring him on when the game has passed us by and is unwinnable. great times ahead under RL and AM...if mid table obscurity is great times. A once great club is finished and before you all start slagging me off calling my pesimistic I am just realistic

I agree. Whats even funnier is that many fans call for Pienaar and Robbie Keane signings, but why?

Pienaar would mean Albrighton, NZogbia, Gabby and Ireland would get less time on the pitch.....is he really that much better than any of them?

Likewise with Keane. Who loses playing time when he is playing for Villa?

To be honest we dont look like that big a threat to go down (touch wood). So why then dont we start shipping out the likes of Heskey, Petrov, Warnock (absolute disgrace), Collins (disgrace also), Hutton (worst RB ive seen at VP since Useless De la Cruz) and start trying to blood the youngsters?

the youngsters play for the badge as it means something to them whilst the rest are just mercenaries who dont give a crap as long as the checks keep rolling in

05 Jan 2012 15:03:16
In The Jan Transfer Window , I Would Like To See Moves For:

-Kranjcar (2.5M)
-Keane (Loan)
-Davis (Swap Deal For Cuellar)
-Onuoha (2.5M)

I Think These Moves Would Strenghten Our Slim Squad Under Budget.

04 Jan 2012 21:19:29
Does anybody know who we are signing,or is the owener just going to leave this weak and pittyfull squad to go down,we need to hang on to bent forget about keane get somebody with pace keep gabby out wide,and a midfielder that can break from the middle

03 Jan 2012 19:26:19
Why are we looking to bring poor league of ireland players when last seson we were talking about bringing in beznzama last season,please can sumbody make sense of this move today,kayal,kranquar,joe cole,samba {Ed001's Note - can add Matty Phillips to that list of possibles too.}

It was sorted last year! He is a left back, one for the future, get a grip!

03 Jan 2012 16:16:55
I think it's about time Randy Lerner woke up and realised that he has made a massive mistake in giving Mcleish a job.I don't care he was at the blues he's just c?p and is clueless. Mr learner please as a harden villa fan who has the clubs best interests at heart LISTEN to the fans, they know football more tha you do like you said when you came to the club, you don't own the villa the villa fans do so listen to them and get rid of Mcleish, if you don't we will get relegated and the club won't be worth as much in the championship,as you only seem to be worried about money and not success. I think it's about time the villa fans stood up and where heard by mr Lerner..

Its not that he,s from blues ,Mcleish has no idear blues fans having a good laugh, its not right, useless team selection

03 Jan 2012 01:49:00
Aston Villa Transfer 2012 January:

We have been linked with many players to come in during January. They are:

Tranquillo Barnetta-- Bayer Leverkusen
Darron Gibson-- Manchester United
Markus Henriksen-- Rosenborg
Robbie Keane-- LA Galaxy
Josh McEachran-- Chelsea
Steven Davis-- Rangers
Bobby Zamora-- Fulham
Jean-Alain Boumsong-- Panathinaikos
Danny Guthrie-- Newcastle United
Jacob Butterfield-- Barnsley
Steven N'Zonzi-- Blackburn Rovers

I personally would love for the Villa to sign; D.Guthrie, J.McEachran, T.Barnetta and R. Pavlyuchenko. Possibly J.Defoe doesn't start many games and may want a move out. Arsene Wenger looks set to move M.Chamakh out maybe we could look for a loan deal till the end of the season and possible buy in the summer if Darren Bent goes in the summer. We also need a decent centre back.

I can't see Mcleish doing much the useless ginger t**t he is. But hopefully we bring in some good top players to help us shoot up the table and will give service to our forwards.

In:
J.McEachran

In: J.McEachran
E.Stevens
R. Pavlyuchenko
D.Guthrie

02 Jan 2012 23:21:34
Villa are in a bad way at moment,petrov is carrying this team im afraid if he there is only 1place where we are going and thats down

02 Jan 2012 17:25:39
NEW YEAR ,SAME OLD RUBBISH THIS SQUAD WONT KEEP US IN THE PREMIERSHIP UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF MR A MCLIESH OR WITH A PLONKER LIKE LERNER,

Totally agree absolutely woeful. Bent is a goner cos from today's performance he don't want to be there. Absolute shocker .

Lerner an,t bothered any more. knew that when he employed this useless twit who is totally inept at what tactics to play. everybody should stay away from villa park till the penny drops

Knew bent wouldnt last long but i told you so

Speculation about Bent may be rife but who can blame him for being unsettled when we fail, other than the Arsenal game when he wasn't playing, to get crosses into the box. After a superb battling performance at Chelsea we follow it up with a woeful performance against Swansea where we were far to narrow. Surely McLeish can get the team to play wide expansive football ! and then maybe with a little work we can get a decent final ball. With the quality we have should be able to achieve this.