First Villa Player 'Signed'? Press Talk

I'll take anyone who is going to come in and fight for every point!

always rely on HH2

Do we really need an 18/19 year old from a foreign league who will take time to settle?? At the moment we need players who can slot straight in and improve on the poor performances we've been showing.

And pray tell Franco - which top quality player is going to come with us in this position? name him - and don't say it's the managers job. I knew some would never give a player a chance - what if he turns out like Yorke - this guy is already playing for the national team and in a French league - so what if it is league 2 - Jeez - some people think it's ohso easy to get a top quality player to come when you are struggling. Welcome the kid FFS and support him. He MAY turn out to be a gem and at the price not a big gamble surely?

i agree with nazvfc, give the boys a chance! We can never attract any great players in our present league and financial position, not to mention our "sell to buy" policy. So this is going to be "as good as it gets" at the moment!

hang on wasn't Osbourne supposed to be the new Vieira?? we need players now not players that will take a year or so to groom!!

nazvfc...I'm not going to have anything against the kid and if he comes I'll back him like I back everyone else who dons a claret and blue shirt. The problem is he will very likely need time to get used to a different style of Football. Even top players such as Modric, Nasri and Nani needed to settle. On top of that, Houlliers record of bringing in young players from abroad at Liverpool was average at best (Baros, Sinama Pongolle, Traore as well as the 2 above). I've been keen on Michael Bradley since the World Cup. A midfielder who likes getting into the box (and god knows we need one of them) and has experience in playing in one of Europe's top leagues. Mönchengladbach are not a top, top team in Germany so I believe we would have a decent chance of getting him. I'm just as peeved with the board, as this wreaks of the reason Houllier was bought in, to sign cheap players from abroad. Admittedly, "top quality" was a poor choice of words, experienced or proven would have been better. My bad.

Point taken Franco. I am not supporting the manager (although I was one of the ones asking to give him time - THEN). But I think we need to stop comparing what he did (purchases) at Liverpool. This is now - and maybe just MAYBE (I know it's a big maybe) the purchases just might be better than those you mention. I am sure though that if a "top quality" player was available and who would WANT to come to Villa - the board would sanction it. I just think people read the headlines and assume that we are going for the cheap option. Funny people were saying there's no money to spend - we are not going to spend - well 800K may not be huge but it's a start and until we see it for our own eyes rather than believing the media - I am going to presume that money is there and we will buy and we will sell - that is football. No club (not even Man City or Chelsea) can remain a buying club - they have to sell also. Give the new purchases (whatever quality they may be) a chance. It's not their fault if it goes pear-shaped - blame the manager for that. As for Colavfc - so buying 1 player at present means our youth are going to get overlooked? Well he needs to buy at least 8 more young ones to do that - jeez - over reaction or what! Please folks take a chill pill - I've been a fan near on 50 years - so I have seen highs and VERY lows - stuck it out and we are still here - we are still one of the biggest clubs in the world (no matter what the media and other "experts" say).

All this talk about who we are going to sign there's only one thing we should be talking about and thats when is randy going to sack that incompetent french bloke. He has took a well organized team with 1 of the best defence in the league to a shambles of a team, everone out of postition just chasing the ball like a pub team. There's only one place we are going to end up with this guy in charge and that championship no matter how much we spend in jan. What we need to do is use some of the transfer kitty to get rid, then get in a manager (Martin jol hopefully or even big sam) who knows what hes doing, don't just throw money at it we will be in big trouble come the end of the season. We could stay up even if we spend nothing in jan as long as we get rid of the incompetent french bloke as hes side kick.