It’s official then and Mile Jedinak is now a Villa player.
This is a great signing in my opinion and one that’s been designed to give us some decent bite in midfield, which we’ve lacked for far too long. Or at least since we had a snake in our midst.
While I have my concerns that he’s nearing the end of his career and he’s probably high up on our wage earnings list (he must be, to drop down a division), he’s exactly what we need.
Couple him with Elphick and we now have two fighters in our side who will not let heads drop in the way they have over the last year or so.
Add the fact that it seems the Crystal Palace players are not happy with Jedinak being replaced as captain,
it bodes well and I totally welcome him to the club.
Combine it with Westwood leaving in his place and I’d be chuffed. But I don’t think that will happen although I can always hope.
Other good news is that Lescott is odds on to be on his way out, with Rangers’ boss Mark Warburton having met him for talks in Manchester.
There is mention that they’re willing to offer him £10,000 a week, which is a big drop on what he currently earns at the Villa, even if his wages, as suggested, have been halved as part of a relegation clause.
So he won’t be leaving for anywhere near free, as much as we all want, as surely we’ll have to pay him the equivalent of what he stands to lose.
Fair play to Xia, he said he’d pay to get rid and it would seem he will actually do it.
There’s also talk that Sunderland might be interested in the player too, but I’d suggest that’s a weak link, purely down to Moyes being the manager.
While I think it’s a great move for the Villa, because Lescott has been awful overall, I also find it a bit sad.
It might not have seemed like it, but we shouldn’t forget he’s actually a Villa fan.
Yep, definitely momentum, BWS.
And something that could be improved with even more communication, imo.
I’ve just actually sent one of them tweet things asking if it might be possible for one of the players to blog, similar to here;
http://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/rotherham-united/richard-wood-column-the-rotherham-united-defender-on-long-journeys-coffee-and-jon-taylor-s-rap-song-1-8076511
For me to entertain Twitter, things must be improving, as normally I wouldn’t touch the info seeking bag of crap with a bargepole.
People really need to relax on twitter. “Are we getting more than one more?” “Are more coming in?” “Can we get another transfer or two?” He’s answered every single one and good on Xia for doing so but it’s gotta be getting annoying answering the same stupid questions over and over.
With 40M spent so far, I reckon the good Doctor has employed a professional thumb-twiddler to man his Twitter account at something less than £1000 a week.
BWS – answer to your earlier comment. Oh for another Des Bremner – unsung hero of our success in the 80’s. Remember Sir Ron buying him and everyone said ‘Des Who’! Underlines that you need a team playing together not a bunch of prima donna’s
To be fair when Ron signed most of his players they weren’t really known. Who’d ever heard of Andy Gray and Tony Morley not me.
That’s was part of the genius of Sir Ron, round pegs for round holes.
I really hope we can pull off the Yedlin deal if true. What a statement that would show, apparently his in negotiations with Derby and if we can swoop in and seal the deal that will show the competition we mean business.
Mile Jedinak will not be available for selection when Aston Villa take on Derby County tomorrow.
The 32-year-old is still waiting for his his registration to be completed following his £4m move from Crystal Palace earlier this week.
Paper-work relating to his UK Visa is causing the hold-up. However, there won’t be any issues and Jedinak is expected to be available for the trip to Bristol City next Saturday. Yedlin is still in balance of who he choose.
According to Sky – Lescott has turned down a move to Rangers!
Word on the tweet (do you like that?) is he’s failed the medical.
He’s just one big failure full stop.
Oh Jesus, we are stuck with that freeloading, plastic disgrace…. thats ruined my weekend, Gabby will be on the bench next ….. !
If they had any ounce of decency and the slightest regard for our club they would both resign !!
Should have stuck the Wrigleys on his forehead.
Two right giddy, probably to fat to,run jump and kick a ball.
Dr x tweeting nothing to do with the medical & sky correct in saying he refused transfer.makes no difference we’re still stuck with the dud
Got a feeling we’re gonna be stuck with him ☹️
These guys won’t give up the couple of £m that Villa will have to pay them over the rest of their contracts; personally if it was my money and I was stuck with havig to pay them anyway, then I’d just pay them off and tell them never to show their faces at VP again…
May still come to that Ardent as I believe we were paying a sizeable portion of his wages under the proposed Rangers transfer
CNZ #2
lescott a villa supporter or just another arse*hole screwing the club, we seen it all before, so hes only following other arse*holes. hope somebody takes a shine to his brand new motor and plastic lover, goes around comes around
song of the day death or glory 🙂 rams1 villans 3
The Football Bum, as epitomised by NZ and Gabby, looks in the mirror every morning and has to admit to himself he is past it, whatever ability he had to justify a Premiership contract has gone. One of the most frightening things he faces is that – in order to keep drawing the fat pay packet until his contract expires – he might have to play football in front of a paying crowd. He would rather hide on the sick list or be ostracised to the bomb squad than move to the starting 11 at another club. Rangers fans are not known for their patience with English has-beens, dusky ones especially.
cabby and escort
villa fans
screwing the club
in gabbys case the club that made him a millionaire – For What
gabby and lescott
sorry
‘And escort’ – probably not that far wrong Steve 🙂
Centre Midfield looks weak…. Not what we needed!!!!
Tish out injured. We will get battered tonight
Pointless turning up then.
Playing well but no creativity in final third. Can see Bent coming in and getting winner in last ten mins typical villa
Will need at least 3 goals tonight to get a result
Looking at the bench we have 4 defenders on it.
Stuck at work if going by the bbc stats we’re all over them.
Don’t be fooled mate, we are getting battered at the minute.
Here comes bent. What odds he will score in last 5 mins can see it coming
We have a proper centre half pairing now Ooh Ahh !
Agree I must say its the best pairing we’ve had for donkeys years. Neither seem error prone either. Though cissoko worries me and so does keeper. Also if one of our centre halves are injured we will be in trouble but with jedinak we will be strong down the spine which is the basis of a decent team
Bacuna and Westwood playing well again……!!! Gardner’s become a Westwood clone and does Ayew understand the term teammate??
And we’ve missed 2 absolute sitters. Same ol garbage. Thankfully this is a shit league with some tremendously terrible teams that will see us ok.
Wtf is that gangly snail doing playing too. I’d rather sling on Richards up top!!!!!!!!
Ayew defends well and gets in decent positions but his final product is woeful
The dreaded last 10 mins
Mid-table fodder at best.
Weve been playing for a draw since the 60th minute!! literally nobody bothering to really attack. That’s really worrying imo.
We’ve can’t carve teams open at all. Still need some creativity. Grealish should be doing better in this league imo
McCormack spent most of this half walking wondering why the fuck he came to a team without any creativity. Must have been for a payrise because it weren’t for the football.
Bring back Lambert
I think RDM set us up not to lose rather than win but averaging S point a game will only get midtable. Squad still nowhere near good enough for top 6 but don’t think we will struggle at the bottom either. Forget promotion this season is about putting down the roots for next year
If you can’t win the game at least make sure you don’t loose it ! It’s been said on here numerous times. Give them credit for that. This team is a work in progress and with a few more additions to come we should at least be challenging for playoff positions. It’s a tough league but a long league also. Rudy going off showed up that we still need another forward. Kozak is not up to championship standard on today’s performance.
Distinct lack of pace especially out wide, and strangely I feel we slow the play down too much – Ayew runs in to trouble repeatedly and doesn’t get his passes off quickly enough……if he can be replaced with a better team player i’d consider cashing in on him. I think that might be the end of Kozak too – he’ll offer nothing as a target man, he thrives off of scraps in the box.
Interestingly before the season started I’d have thought that a point at Derby would be a good result, but seeing how bad they were and the last ditch draw with Huddersfield has made it feel like an opportunity missed.
On the plus side, our centre halves look the best pairing we’ve had in years, and we’re unbeaten in 3 League games with Jedinak and Tishbola to come in………need a striker, an extra centre mid (creative) and a right back.
I’ve seen enough, no way is that team going to dominate this league, Kozak is as they say useless, we need a right back, a midfielder, pluss a player that is a strong centre forward, we had bad luck missing by inches with cross bar, post, that’s not winning games. We are just a middle of the road team.
Agree midtable is roughly where we will finish but j think we’ve a chance of top 6 next season.
In fairness that’s 2 of the hardest games we’ll play this season out of 4. Derby and Wednesday away. 5 points out of the first 4 isn’t the worst we could’ve done with a relatively small (although we have a lot of players) squad.
Xia tweeted after adding more we’ll be good enough. Add a couple more players and we should be aiming for top of the league
Your joking Newcastke home and away blues h and away wolves Brighton Norwich all teams that we will struggle against
Of course I’m not joking. 2 of the hardest games this season were going to be Derby of Sheffield Wednesday. 2 OF THE HARDEST, not the 2 hardest. There will be more, though Blues, Wolves and Brighton aren’t up there with those 2. Newcastle obviously, Norwich obviously, a couple more yes. But that doesn’t change the fact two of our hardest games in the league are done.
Both blues games will be tough they play it as if it’s their cup final. Very rarely have we had an easy win v blues they always make it hard for us. Brighton are a good team we won’t beat them and I doubt we will beat Bristol away next week tbh
Unlucky not to be 2-0 up at the break. Might as well played with 10 men after Rudy went off as I was not impressed with Kozak. Needed Jedinak in the middle second half as we were over run even though Elphick could have nicked it.
Good point in the end and we will improve.
We need 3-4 more players if we are going to challenge.
Seems to be Xia’s aim is about that many. He didn’t specifically give a number but a few more seems 3-4. At least they know the positions we need with the types of players linked. Though it’s been a while since I’ve read an attacking midfielder linked which can be worrisome.
An attacking midfielder is paramount.
People are being fairly harsh on Kozak. Including today he’s played 320ish minutes in 3 seasons. Do we really, really expect him to actually be fit? Good god no. Hard to blame him for not getting into the game, after the countless injuries he’s had he’s fortunate enough he can even play the game still.
Xia’s confirmed we’re going to sign a few more players. A striker has always been a target, as well as an attacking midfielder and looks likely a midfielder as well as a right back. The transfer window isn’t over yet.