Poll Results On The Transfer Window - Gulp!

pretty fed up at the minute. i'm sure we will sign some good players still, but day after day i check the news about 20 times - i'm addicted, i can't help it - but to no avail. barry can sod off, i'm sick to the ears of him now. if you don't want to play for my beloved club, you are not wanted. end of. just can't believe how many good players teams like spurs sign while we are standing still, if that. hurry the **** up MON (who incidentally is still a legend).

How I hate transfer windows...

MON`s transfer patern is the most frustrating ever hope it comes good theo it must but we all thought it would last year never ended up with RB did we..?

71% say that they are losing faith. Thats a truly damning condemnation of the clubs efforts in the transfer window throughout the summer. 71%!!! Says it all really.

problem is glensider that if we lose say the first 4/5 games then he will have just invited the pressure on himself,if he knows that he struggles to do business in the transfer windows why is he not talking to clubs about players earlier?getting all the negotiations done before the season ends......if we sign anyone now he wont play them till feb anyway saying they havent had a proper pre season.

Surely starting this season without a recognised right back is unthinkable. We need a good right winger to give us balance with young (i.e. not reo-coker). We need some fresh competition up top and need at least cover for Bouma. Its no good being a great man manager if you dont have the men to manage!

lol, steff, come back!! tylervilla, for some managers I think that would work but MON is 'old school' and I'm sure would hate the thought of a director of football type 'above' him??? I don't think ALL players have been saying they won't come to Villa, one like Bentley possibly as he wanted London for his own reasons but I don't believe that many players wouldn't jump at the chance of coming to Villa, most know we are a massive club and it is a major career move. Only ones above us are those in the CL and we could push for that in the next few years - chicken and egg time - IF we get the signings we need!

well to be honest, from the outside looking in, you can't help but feel something is not right. MON has a way of conducting himself which shows he is a very intelligent man - so I often think he MUST know what he is doing. He has said numerous times he is trying his hardest to get quite a few players in, but the fact of the matter is, we would be much better prepared for the new season if we had all of the 8-9 players we need, signed and sealed a month ago.

And..not a director of football...just someone to take the list of players mon wants and go and do all the business side of things. Basically going and getting the checkbook out. Kenyon not director of football?

Oh yeag i forgot we have already signed one of the top 3 keepers in the league and locked one of the best young english defenders down permanently add guzan and sidwell and compared to everton our closet rivals o`neill is flying lol.

ric112....8 or 9 players????......seriously? The squad's not that small. MON is having a tough time trying to get his vision of quality players into our club, its obvious he's extremely cautious...but the transfer window is wide open fo a few more weeks, time for at least a RB and LB to come in. But it looks like my faith will be resting with the youth lads making the step up and putting pressure on the rest of the squad who I think, need to make their mark this season. Its a massive season for the likes of Maloney, Salifou and Routledge. All cheap MON signings who have had time, and a full pre season, and now have no excuses. I like the look of Salifou, I hope he gets a chance, same for Wayne, he has the required 'quality', we all saw it when he played for Palace, Spurs, Fulham and Portsmouth.... I know they are young, but we have some excellent talent in the squad too, Delfouneso has pace and a cool finish, Allbrighton crossed for Gabby's goal againt Reading and Stieber has been consistant for ages and is finally getting a look in too. Now we have a new look goalkeeping pecking order of Friedel, Guzan and Taylor, possibly our strongest for years. Guzan is unproven over here, but he's ready to learn, comes highly recommended and he'll have a great teacher in Friedel. As a squad we have the following, Friedel, Guzan, Taylor, Davies, Lausen, Bouma, O'Halloran, Knight, Gardener, Osbourne, Salifou, Routledge, Sidwell, ReoCoker, ,Petrov, Osbourne, Allbrighton, Stieber, Young, Carew, Agbonlahor, Maloney, Harewood, Delfouneso, Thats 24, ok 22 fit now Davies is back playing. A couple of Jose Bosingwa, Patrice Evra types wouldnt go a miss but they all want Champions League, and sadly our UEFA cup 2nd qualifying round tie isnt juicy enough right now. But if we can get to the group stages and hang around the top 6, come the xmas window we should look a better prospect. Nicky Shorey anyone?

I've been a Villa fan all my life and try to post/vent on these forums as little as possible as I don't think it rally helps (although reading about other people in the same boat with the same worries/concerns keeps me sane. I think tylervilla said it best regarding Kenyon (no not the runt himself). In todays world it all about the sale, selling yurself, selling yo product and closing the deal. I am a huge MON fan & the the job he does with the players and team is fantastic but he can't close the F****g deals. MON, pick your targets and let someone else do the negotiating. I'm not suggesting that he gets given the players and lumps it, but, makes his targets known and have someone else negotiating the contract, selling the club a closing the deals. Rumors are we have actually spoken to a lot of players but they've still gone elsewhere, bad sign. MON is the messiah but he couldn't close his eyes.

@churchill LOL. That's what I like to see Ashtonvilla, some positivity. MON will come good

Roll on the season, and something MON is the best at, motivating and leading his team to victory!!!!

i can't believe we're supposedly in for luke young a year after we let him go to middlesbrough for 2.5M without making a bid

I bet Randy Lerner is laughing his head off, the club value is 20-30m more than he paid for it, and so far he hasn't had to stick his hand in his pocket, all the signing MON has made since he came have came out of the clubs profit, He has picked the perfect manager to run a club without having to fork stupid amounts of cash into the club, Even Hughes a manager that isn't used to big money is thinking about 12m signing etc etc, i hate Moaning and i know it isn't Lerners fault, but what the hell is going on, so far we have not had one top class known signing since he came, and that is something we was promised top class signings, Young was a very good signing but was unknown and a lot of people thought it was a big risk for Villa, but that's the only time he has taken a risk with money, i still don't see why we sold Cahill and brought in knight.

villa4ever,Who do you think we are real madrid?We have only just got back into europe after 7 years who do you expect us to atract here?,give the "top class" signings time,And unless you have lived under a rock for the last 6 seasons brad friedel is a top class signing.But you keep flapping mate.What people want is not players who will make a strong TEAM in the long term but big money glamour signings to get them a bit excited,That is obvious because the vast improvement on the pitch is just being ignored.

this close season should have been a frenzy of activity and CAN STILL come on MON lets go for broke go for GOAL forget the distraction of gareth throwing his toys out the pram he's PATHETIC. Lets get the ball rolling and i'm sure more will follows. SWP YES PLEASE. LEFT AND RIGHT BACKS YES PLEASE + 1 other midfielder and 1 PROVEN GOAL SCORER. Come on you Lions

I am sick to death of this transfer saga........MON will get it right, just like last season. We were all worried this time last year. Top 8 without doubt and a semi in one of the cups. That would do for me this season.

lmao Bellwipes, i watched him against Obdense (or however you spell it) and the ball went over his head and he just stood there watching it in the air over his head and the other player is already running onto it, then he is like oh yeah I'm in the middle of a football game and starts running, only for the other player to smash it across the goal to hit the post, Taylor was beaten and we was so lucky, then i hear he was on against Reading for 29 Min's and made four massive mistakes, God bring back Cahill.

No you need three great CB's if you want to survive in the premiership, Cahill was still learning and he would be able to fight Davies for a place for god sake look how long Davies was out for and Knight was playing, imagine how much time Cahill would of had to shine, he is now showing man of the match performances at Bolton, i don't believe we had to sell him, but if you noticed we always sold before we brought which is a strange way to go about things.