Reports from France indicate that Aston Villa have made a bid for Nice left-back Jordan Amavi. Other reports have indicated that Tim Sherwood doesn’t rate Cissokho and is looking to sell the left-back that arrived from Valencia last summer transfer window.
The reports from France claim that Nice are interested in discussing a deal with Aston Villa, with Lyon, Atletico Madrid, Arsenal also linked with the young left-back.
Below is a chart that compares the players key stats against Robertson (who Villa have been linked with) and Cissokho and Richardson:
Amavi is a very young defender (age 21) and has had a very good season with Nice. This would be a great coup by Sherwood because Amavi would be a player that would be capable of filling the left-back position for Villa for a number of years. With other top teams also interested in Amavi it shows that this is a talented player, but Sherwood will have his work cut out in order to convince Amavi to join Villa in favour of Lyon or other European giants.
Bid accepted so lets see. Looks a prospect and fills a position we need to so fingers crossed he doesn’t get a better offer!
Another second rate left bk noones ever heard off!! Can anyone explain the concept to Sherwood and co that we need to buy quality not quantity ffs!
I trust Sherwood knows what he’s looking for and what makes a good player. I think he will get us some quality players for not over the odds.
I think you need dreams vs reality explained to you
Not really just like to sign someone IV actually heard of for once
What like Messi or Ronaldo? 🙂
Like Cleverly ?
“Another second rate left bk noones ever heard of” – He was rated third best player in Ligue 1 behind Ibrahimovic and Lacazette, and won 8 MOTM awards all at the age of 21. If you’ve never heard of him, who are you to say he’s second rate?
Still never heard of him and the French league is rubbish. But hopefully he will turn out to be the new ashley Cole and we can feed him to Chelsea for £30m and keep our feeder club record going!
and lets be honest he cant really be worse than Richardson!
OohAah – is he actually second rate? He’s attracting interest from some decent teams. Also, does it matter that no one (I mean you) has heard of him?? Had you heard of Anelka or Vieira or even Benteke etc etc prior to them plying their trades over here?? If you want someone you’ve heard of we could go back in for Stephen Warnock?
He could be a great signing if it happens and fits in well with Tim’s faith in youth. I hadn’t heard of Bentaleb / Mason / Kate before they played in the Premier League but I think they’re all good.
Need to be realistic. I would like trippier to be our RB for next season. He’s from a relegated club, he’s within our budget & we could double his wages but odds on were not going to get him as more successful clubs are looking. We need to trust our scouts and sherwood to pick a player.
Mason and Claude Dielna, both in talks with villa, Mason midfielder from Southampton, Dielna Sheffield Wednesday, Oohah you know these players what they like?.
according to Oahah second rate crap…..
Turv32 bet your right.
Haven’t a clue honestly.
According to Sky Sports, Spurs are close to signing Trippier. Brace yourself for Kyle Walker links.
Amavi is a great young player. Would be hard to find a better young left back. He had the highest amount of interceptions from any in Ligue 1 this year. Lyon have had a €4 bid turned down and currently Villa are the only ones to have offered the valuation of around €8. Seems convincing Amavi to actually join villa is the struggle as he is clearly attracting a lot of interest for very good reasons.
He won’t come to is if he’s that good and if he does he will want an escape clause so he can piss of to a sky four team
Very true, if he does come it’s realistically to get first team football in the premier league on a decent salary to showcase himself for sale to a bigger club in the future.
Reports are suggesting this lad isn’t that sure / keen on coming to Villa.
Can you blame him
If we’d have signed Kyle Walker and Ryan Bertrand, we’d have good wing backs already!
Neither weren’t actually good for us though. Maybe both would be great under Sherwood but Walker can’t defend worth a crap and Bertrand couldn’t do either under Lambert.
Have we actually signed anyone yet? I heard we were getting Micah Richards.
All I have read is that Lyon have accepted the offer and he is yet to agree personal terms. Where does it actually say he doesn’t want to come to the midlands other than a journos interpretation.
Nice player not Lyon. Also want Nice Attacking Midfielder Eysseric.
latest rumour doing the rounds is takeover deal is dead as the interested party failed due diligence lets hope its bullshit
Must be bullshit, nothing on the news sites about this. Would have thought that due diligence would have been done a lot earlier in the process. Like buying a house and getting the survey done the day before buying the property.
Due diligence is by the buyer on the seller not the other way round so it would be Villa that failed to satisfy the buyers due diligence. Due diligence can be undertaken pre or post a sale being agreed.
To tell you the truth, I don’t care if this takeover news is true or false. New owners or Randy, we seem to have money to spend this summer. The big wages for Richards, 8 million bid for Amavi, the 5.5 million for Huddlestone. While I would like new owners, I wouldn’t mind being stuck with Randy if he loosened the strings and gave Sherwood some money. About the supposed takeover falling through, I’m still waiting for John Percy to come out and say they failed due diligence. He’s one of the few people I’d believe.
Blimey, Muzz, not good!
In the meantime, more rumours.
Citeh in for Delph, being the one of interest;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3127134/Manchester-City-eye-Fabian-Delph-bid-fulfil-Englishman-quota.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Total rubbish, imo.
I wonder how many players are going to be linked in and out in this window?
We could easily beat the aforementioned 70 links in a previous season that I’ve seen written somewhere.
City are going to be linked to a host of midfielders and especially home grown players, much like we are.
Wouldnt mind having him and Trippier as our full backs for next season. Richards and Clark in the middle. We might not even end up in the relegation scrap!
Bournemouth away first game
August
08 Bournemouth (a)
15 Manchester United (h)
22 Crystal Palace (a)
29 Sunderland (h)
September
12 Leicester City (a)
19 West Bromwich Albion (h)
26 Liverpool (a)
October
03 Stoke City (h)
17 Chelsea (a)
24 Swansea City (h)
31 Tottenham Hotspur (a)
November
07 Manchester City (h)
21 Everton (a)
28 Watford (h)
December
05 Southampton (a)
12 Arsenal (h)
19 Newcastle United (a)
26 West Ham United (h)
28 Norwich City (a)
January
02 Sunderland (a)
12 Crystal Palace (h)
16 Leicester City (h)
23 West Bromwich Albion (a)
February
02 West Ham United (a)
06 Norwich City (h)
13 Liverpool (h)
27 Stoke City (a)
March
01 Everton (h)
05 Manchester City (a)
12 Tottenham Hotspur (h)
19 Swansea City (a)
April
02 Chelsea (h)
09 Bournemouth (h)
16 Manchester United (a)
23 Southampton (h)
30 Watford (a)
May
07 Newcastle United (h)
15 Arsenal (a)
We fear NOBODY
We will NOT be relegated
FFS Langford try aiming a bit higher eh.
Higher than ‘not fearing anyone’?……difficult!
“Difficult”? Maybe for someone like your good self who can’t post a message without constantly repeating the same tripe.
We fear nobody….we will not be relegated. It’s really difficult to aim higher than that ain’t it?
Yes….I cant help it if your as negative as your bum chum oohah! Who do you fear then?….everybody just like your bum chum….sorry, dont want to end up as negative as you two….are you in a relationship with him as you both spout the same negative shit!
We fear NOBODY
We will NOT be relegated!
Fuck off NEGATIVES, the Villa is OURS,
I don’t fear anyone or anything. Like I don’t fear relegation, that’s why I don’t feel the need to mention it in every post I post. I like to think we’ll be aiming higher this season, shame you don’t. So yeah I’m negative, that’s why I put things like “WE WILL NOT BE RELEGATED” or ” FUCK OFF LERNER, THE VILLA IS OURS” at the end of all of my posts.
I detect a hint of jealousy in the air Langford, is this because I have a bum chum who you can only fantasize about whilst I am getting the real thing? MWAH XX
Who gives a fiddlers fuck as to what B6 thinks, the lad talks absolute shit at the best of times.
I’ll buy myself a new hat for the wedding….I didnt have you down as a ‘negative, crossdressing cock sucker’….but hey, we live and learn! Hope you’ll both be very happy together. I have my speech ready for the reception, it goes something like this…….we fear NOBODY, we will NOT be relegated, fuck off Lerner, the Villa is OURS! 🙂
Aaahhh…Silly boy Guest is back on the scene……Welcome back Silly Boy 🙂
I look forward to seeing you at for the big day Langybaby. That speech sounds amazing, can’t wait to hear the rest of it. 🙂
You dont get on with Guest because he’s positive…..a concept that you and your ‘soon to be married’ bum chum dont understand!……back to school on Monday? 🙂
You keep twisting things Langybaby, Don’t worry about Guest, he’s just a silly little boy. 🙂
B6’s put downs are about as articulate and accurate as his posts.
Can you not think of something a little more intelligent B6 or is that all you have?
No need to think of anything a little more intelligent, Calling you silly already has the desired affect. 🙂
Zzzzzzzzzz
Fucking away yet again on the opening day FFS how many years is this now???
At least the fixtures against the top clubs seem to be spread out a bit better this season. If we’ve got to be away then Bournemouth might be a good game for us. They’ll be nervous for their first game so might be easier to play them then that later if they do manage to find their feet in the Prem.
Anyway we have to play everyone home and away so does it really matter anyway?
All that matters is that Tim gets us playing some proper football this season minus the total (and embarassing) collapses that have blighted us.
I’m optimistic
UTV
Am I the only one who’s not at all interested in this seasons window?
Other than Richards, it seems we are to be following the Lambert path – Cheap risky potentials.
Urghhh