Aston Villa have agreed a transfer fee with Lille for midfielder Idrissa Gueye (25 years). Gueye is set to fly out to Birmingham today to undergo a medical and agree personal terms. But the main headline is that the transfer agreed is £9 million, making Gueye our biggest signing since Charles N’Zogbia. Gueye is also a very good player, he is described as a defensive box-to-box midfielder that could get the best out of Delph and Grealish. Gueye is essentially a replacement for Tom Cleverly who left for Everton.
Lille fans themselves have said that they’d be upset to lose Gueye who they highly rate and believe that he is firmly worth between £12-14 million. In more statistical terms, he was Whoscored 16th best player in the Ligue 1 last season. Gueye is a hardworking player who has great stamina and fitness as he made 32 appearances for Lille last season and has been compared to Claude Makélélé.
Aston Villa would beat the likes of Crystal Palace, Newcastle and Southampton as they also eyed for Gueye’s signature. But overall this would be a fantastic signing for Aston Villa and a very crucial one as well. It has been a long time since Aston Villa have splashed out this much cash and this would be another excellent signing alongside Richards. It appears as the tabloid links have been incorrect because Sherwood has so far scouted some very exciting players. Let’s just hope that all goes smoothly and Gueye becomes an Aston Villa player.
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165 responses to “Idrissa Gueye Set to Sign for Villa for £9 million”
Gueye having a medical at Aston Villa sky sports are reporting.
reports coming out of denmark. Nicklas Helenius has re-joined AaB Aalborg on a free transfer. bye bye nicklas and good luck.
well that’s another one off the wage bill.
Wouldn’t surprise me, Delph going to warm the bench at City. He should have a chat with Sinclair first!
All this talk about Delph going to Citeh is laughable. I’m more concerned that Vlaar hasn’t signed for anyone yet!!! He’s going to end up back at Villa….I just know he is. #fuckoffvlaar
Fuckin hope not if we offer him a new contract that’s it for me
So West Brom chairman saying ‘they are expected to be sold this month’
150 :mil its been sold for. Buyers are from either China or America its been reported. What is happening with the sell at Villa or is it all bullshits.
Sale, bullshit .
Bullshit me thinks just a ploy to try and sell STs. Even if we did sell sounds like it will be twosome mercenary consortium anyway so may as well stick with the devil we know
Villa v Manu…moved to Fri night..fuck Sky, ruining football even more by having Fri games live!
Sky runs the show now, the FA carry no weight .money is fucking ruining footy disgusting.
Ps eurosports have the viewing rights for the Olympics from 2022 ,BBC never stood a chance
BBC should be scrapped anyway load of liberal pc correct do gooders who haven’t a clue! The only good thing about it is there are no ads
Police asked it to be a Friday night due to a march happening in brum city centre on that Saturday! It should only be the one game on a Friday, until for following season were the new TV rights kick in and Friday nights become the norm!
Fri nights is ridiculous time to watch match ffs. So many free live streams now no need to bother with sky and BT anyway
That’s why we should cancel Sky and watch every villa game live on net. Loads of decent free sites now
Havent paid Sky for 3 years now…..watched EVERY Villa game since with fantastic coverage. Even so, not really into watching on a Friday, stream or otherwise. Hope Sky goes bust
No chance of them going bust I’m afraid
Sat 8: Chelsea v Swansea City (5.30pm)
Sun 9: Arsenal v West Ham United (1.30pm)
Sun 9: Stoke City v Liverpool (4pm)
Mon 10: West Bromwich Albion v Manchester City (8pm)
Fri 14: Aston Villa v Manchester United (7.45pm)
Sun 16: Crystal Palace v Arsenal (1.30pm)
Sun 16: Manchester City v Chelsea (4pm)
Mon 17: Liverpool v Bournemouth (8pm)
Sun 23: West Bromwich Albion v Chelsea (1.30pm)
Sun 23: Everton v Manchester City (4pm)
Mon 24: Arsenal v Liverpool (8pm)
Sky’s first 11 games til near end of September…
Chelsea x3
Arsenal x3
Liverpool x3
Man City x3
Strangely only x1 Manure
nice of them to show the newly promoted Norwich for something a little different!!!!
Basically unless your a team from Manchester or Liverpool u never get shown so bias it’s untrue. Liverpool are only top 6 at best now so don’t see the appeal
Giddy, its fucking crap mate…..they will be playing at midnight next to suit worldwide audiences IMO
I wouldn’t put it past them, I’m sure awhile ago Ko Times were discussed to accommodate a worldwide audience.
Happens in Spain, they introduced the 10am kick off on a Sunday for audiences in the Far East!
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Tom Ince has joined Derby on a 4 year deal! Are you psychic?, if so, can I have tonights lottery numbers? 🙂
p.s…..why are we taking so long to sign this Gueye geezer
Depends on what you believe. Sky Sports said he had a medical today, personal terms agreed. Some claim he needs a work permit.
talksport said the same everything done but cant announce it till we secure a work permit. just hope there is some sort of pre-contract agreement signed so he cant suddenly change his mind and join someone else while waiting on work permit. that would be a kick in the nuts.
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/l/t1.0-9/11692598_711389972339558_3976773487521929614_n.jpg?oh=4e0aaf9271d543102a865e8f7c58f7fb&oe=56118098
Wow! Thanks for that link. I wonder what he is referring to?.new owners maybe?
p.s…..wheres my lotter numbers? 🙂
They’re mine. 😉
He also tweeted this
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11015356_711412885670600_6002045110537643166_n.jpg?oh=d8034ea419210786b4102a120d5be1a8&oe=561097A9
But quickly deleted it.
Oh great we are going to sign a new ball boy then!!
This strikes me as Collymore shooting his mouth off, and either thinking better of it, or even being asked to remove the comment.
I’d guess he probably shouldn’t have posted that, so quickly thought about it and deleted it. But yeah, he was probably questioned and without thinking answered.
Probably going to offer Vlaar a new contract about as good as it will ever get for us!!
What a bellend that guy is. Complete rubbish
James Nursey Mirror claiming ‘Chinese taking over at WBA after Lerner rejected them’!
Not surprising. Don’t think we were ever getting any kind of owner but possibly an American. Lerner does seem to want someone he can actually trust. For all the hate, I do think he has Villa’s best interests at heart.
I think he genuinely wants to do the best for us with sale oddly enough.
Don’t think it’s all that odd. I don’t think he’s ever really wanted us to fail, however a lot of things went wrong which obviously weren’t expected so things vastly changed.
Interesting though not sure I’d want Chinese after seeing what they’ve done at other clubs. Agree with Lerner on this one
Helenius has officially gone to AaB Aalborg. Good luck to him.
The talk around transfers, even though most of it is BS, does point to a more realistic investment in players this window. Lambert oversaw a period of reduction in losses to meet FFP and stop the bleeding of cash. Increases in TV money, maybe alongside an improving commercial outlook (under Fox), should mean that Lerner can invest more without necessarily setting the whole train careering out of control again. It must be obvious that he cannot continue year on year gambling with our position, and you would expect Fox to have argued this. Couple this with a manager intent on playing football that is more pleasing to the eye, and maybe it’s not all doom and gloom.
This takes me back to the takeover. If the talk was correct about someone being given exclusivity, this should really be completing very soon, or dying completely. If it had died I would expect something to have leaked. The Baggies have been a bit more open about their situation, admitting what stage they are at, and stressing that it is business as usual on the transfer front. I kind of like that Villa no longer conduct their business like Ellis did (lots of talk and little of substance). However, the information vacuum that leaves is just filled with speculation, and it just gets on my nerves occasionally. Maybe a little bit more openness from the club would help here.
Legally can’t talk about the takeover. So a little more openness would be suicide for them.
Really? i would have thought the club would be free to announce it had entered a period of exclusivity with an unnamed party, and even to update that it was progressing, and set an expectation of the timescale. How come WBA have (supposedly) come out and stated as such?
My guess because the new owners of West Bromich (if true), don’t care. Lerner’s supposedly rejected them, and the current in-talks possible new owners don’t want anyone to know.
Tends be a non-disclosure act between Lerner and possible owners.
maybe the people that was given exclusivity by villa are the same people given exclusivity by west brom. just a thought.
Apaatently the games been switched because WM police refused to have it on the Saturday because they have to police an EDL March through Birmingham. I don’t like sky that much but this wasn’t them. [Post edited by Badger; as I don’t want to go down that road] Police gotta do a job. It’s really not ideal.
Dont believe the WM police bollox for a second! Just because they dont want it played Saturday that it had to be moved to Friday….Sky could have easily moved it to Sunday/Monday? Feel sorry for ST holders! This is one of the main reasons why I, and many others choose not to buy a ST. I refuse to let Sky dictate to me when I should watch my club. Bring back Saturday ONLY football or have just one live game per week…..and yes, I know its all about revenue and it wont be changed……..Sky are killing the beautiful game IMO!
Fuck off Sky……football belongs to the people…..fuck off Murdoch!
Sunday/Monday wouldn’t of worked, Man U are playing in the chumps leagues after that weekend!
Cheers, didnt know that!
Me too Langford. I would find it pretty irritating if I lived a bus ride away, but when you are driving 250 miles round trip per home game, the drive home from night games ending in the early hours needs matchsticks to keep my eyes open. So I had to give the ST the heave ho. Now I too watch most Villa games on computer, my Russian is coming along nicely. A pity the rojadirecta site got blocked by the High Court -but thankfully they are clueless about the workarounds.
OLL….you dont need to watch it in Russian, there are loads of better sites than those. I have watched all the Villa games in English. Not sure that I am allowed to tell you how on here. But you can email for details if you wish!
****Badger, you can allow OLL to have my email addy if he asks for it *************
You can email me too if u get chance Langford I know a couple but always good to have others in case one let’s you down. Also I would rather listen in Russian still makes more sense than Owen on BT and Sky commentators who spout constant cliches full of crap
Noted mate 🙂
And yes, you’re right to not post them on here.
I post links occasionally, but only because I’m there to delete them a few mins later.
Can you also email me these links I have a number of methods, the last being absolutely phenomenal .. hd quality english stream, but always looking for a back up plan. I can share my experience with the ones I have used also
They could of played it sun instead and it televised it. They always show us when we play Utd as they no Utd never lose at VP
That was reported a while ago. We rejected the bid from the Chinese consortium and they turned their attentions to the Baggies
Fulham supposedly in for Bennett;
http://footballleagueworld.co.uk/championship-side-fulham-set-to-move-for-aston-villa-defender/
Another one of the deadwood may be off the books, although Sherwood likes him and is supposed to be ready to give him another chance in the pre-season friendlies, if you read the stories.
Love the ESPN claim Citeh are about to pay £8m for Delph! Lol!
Talking of Newsnow, the Villa links are absolutely shite. HITC are and awful site but listed every other entry, the Transfer Tavern are still up ther as well. It used to be a really good source but now hardly worth visiting. Even Vital are hadly ever there. Shame the quality control at NN has slipped so much.
Back to the Villa, I’m liking the look of the way we’re stepping up (a little) and looking at some tasty players. Not in a touching your bottom way, but a nice bit of talent…Hold on. I’ll get me coat!
All NN does is recycle the same story a million different times altering the headline slightly. I simply connect direct to sites in there now and bypass them altogether.
http://www.thfclatest.com/2013/07/03/9-million-bid-made-for-jordan-amavi/
Andrew do you know how reliable this is? Because if this is all true, it would be amazing.
What a team we could potentially be building.
No idea if it’s reliable. Never heard of thfc but someone on facebook posted it so I decided to post it here. Be incredible though.
It’s in the sun.
So unreliable
Le10 Sport in France is now claiming we’re looking to sign him, Porto’s major competition for him though.
If it’s true, then we may be in for an exciting season. I just hope it’s not another false dawn.
Also, respect to Lerner if he really dis turn down an offer from some dodgy Chinese outfit. We’ll see what happens with the Baggies…
Spot on Bum Bum
Yes but this is being financed by sales of Delph and benteke so we will not improve just stand still at best
well if the transfer window closes and we have spent no more than we have sold then we can moan until then im living in hope.
ooha still chumming the water like a pro 🙂
Always so negative oohah. The time has come, changes will be made. Villa is emerging from the grave. The uprising has begun. The sleeping giant has awoken.
Up The Villa
Oohah don’t worry lad, listen to daddy, I feel it in my water, its like a water diviner its pointing up and means we’re on the way up. Better days are coming ,the good days will be back, but can you do me a favour? When I’m gone send a prayer to the good lord and let me know.thanks
That’s an image worth seeing Bill
Don’t we say that every year.
I don’t think anyone says everything is going to change every year, in fact we have one of the most negative fan bases around every summer when it comes to transfers.
And from the sales of Delph and Benteke, who neither are even close to leaving. Interesting.
They must be going how else can we afford new players. I think at least one will go.
No reason to think we can’t afford new players. New, higher paying sponsor, 2 new betting partnerships. I know you don’t like it, but yes we do have money to spend.
That’s not the point it’s ok saying we have money to spend but a whole different thing actually spending it!
Without actually having to sell anyone, which I know you want.
better days are coming . bill says it but so did jimmy 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt73omJ9GiE
Praise the Lord, people for we are saved., Amen….
A reading from the Book of Tim –
‘And did Tim, in all his righteousness and power, lift the Villa from the dead as was Lazarus and from thence they dwelled in the land of Mid to Top Table. And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the land of the Barcodes and Those Whose Noses Are Blue…’
Believe it
UTV
I believe, praise be.
Oohah won’t,☝
Pat, I like it mate 🙂
Thanks Badger I’ve noted them two, hope they work on the day.
Colonius, I’ve mailed you a couple on links via your Hotmail account.
But they’re both European, so may not be ideal for you.
Probably ok for backup though.
Got them thanks, always good to have a pre ordained list besides frantically googling links that are spammy, ppv, crap etc
Also loving the link to Dennis Praet. He looks some prospect. At this rate, we may end up with a decent team come August! At least Sherwood has identified where our problems lie
Oohsh and Colonius……I DO NOT have your email addy!
Oohaghpaulmcgrath@icloud.com