So the Mirror are saying we’re going to do the above;
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/aston-villa-plot-swoop-jonas-4635520
Olsson is 31 and according to Wiki, signed a four year contract in October 2012.
So unless we get incredibly lucky, given our record of over-paying for players, we aren’t going to get him on a free transfer.
Or are we? I’ll leave you to debate that, but I’ll bet he’s on top wages, even if we do get him for nothing.
So what am I getting at?
Well, quite simply I can only see this as another way of Randy Lerner pocketing a couple of million quid.
I don’t have anything against Olsson. He’s a decent, experienced defender, who’s being kept out by Lescott.
But is he on a par with Vlaar?
Or, more in line with what we should be looking for as fans, is he an improvement?
I suspect we’d all agree that he’ll be nothing of the sort.
Of course, it could be that we’re bringing him in purely as backup, given the crocks that we already have.
Which would be fine if that’s all it is.
So why do I suspect that he’ll be expected to go straight into the team?
Hmm, £4-5 million in for Vlaar and Ollson will cost around £1.5 million. It’ll be “undisclosed” of course, as most of our transfers are these days, so we’ll never know the facts.
So that’ll be another few quid in Lerner’s pocket, while he throws us the usual bone of around £5 million to spend in the winter window (which was par for the course years ago, remember).
In the meantime, it depresses me to think some will be praising him for it, because of how “times are hard” etc.
Yes, incredibly hard, if you haven’t received an extra £30 million a season from Sky: which the club has.
Even if this deal doesn’t happen, you can bet your last couple of bob that something like it will, in my opinion.
And still the fans don’t complain.
lambert is doing want lerner wants but come the other side of xmas when we are in the shite it might be to late no fit centre halves lambert doesnt want to play okore clark delph injured in training thats how many in 3 years start season with 2 number 9 out injured benteke came back early then got sent off giroud breaks leg last sat aug back for last sat nov kozack out for over a year bit like zog dunne grealish signs new contract then is not seen again saying he too young then lambert comes out saying nearly signed tadic 2 years ago but couldnt afford him lambert happy now nice new contract he couldnt give a monkeys because he will never manage again after this farce
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callum robinson scores again for preston
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29993756
Citizen Khan v lawro
Was Lauro pissed when he tipped us to win?
Wouldn’t surprise me if we won lamberk always flukes a win when he needs it the most.
Naaàaaaahhhhhh
Shit. Just three off the bottom with Burnley getting back to back wins.
stoke fooked up my coupon
What’s more worrying than yr coupon is the fact we all previously thought Burnley were sunk but now they’ve stuck a couple of unexpected decent wins together.
stoke 8/11 must have wrecked lots of coupons including mine, can’t seem to work them out, didn’t they beat man city and spurs away. burnley i feel will finish bottom of pile, but your right, two wins on the bounce and we are due there next week innit. that is the sort game where we struggle, usually more than against the so called bigger teams,
These next two are gonna be sqeaky bum games, that’s for sure…
All our remaining games will be squeaky bum time.
Burnley seem to have a bit of fight in them and have as many prem quality players as we do – not that many – so why wouldn’t they fancy three points? They also have a manager who appears to be well respected in the dressing room and the wider football community. We will be in the bottom three by the time the kids are taking the first chocolate out of the advent calendar. Going down without a bit of fight.
with our problems at the back, i would move cissokho into a back three, along side clark and okore, hutton returning as right wingback & richardson as the left wingback.this will add more to the attacking threat down the leftside. this might help having more cover at back, plus both cissokho and okore have pace so we can push up further, than of late with sendros or baker who haven’t’ any pace
burnley will fight and fight, but they will lack goals, granted they will face a weak out of form villa,lacking confidence but with benteke, next so it could be a hat trick of wins for the clarets.
Sounds great, hope Lambert’s reading this but hang about a minute, go on remind me again – you’ve won just what exactly?
Holtby for delph swap deal rumours are back. Thoughts ?
Great player Holby but would Lambert know how to get the best out of him? Somehow I doubt it.
holtby is on loan in germany, hes a type of player we need, but i suspect we couldn’t afford his wages, i would like to hear the club actually come out and say, we are planning to recruit in the next window or not. then this would make up the minds of the fans, whether to revolt or not. something needs to happen, or we will be there, up to our necks in the brown stuff come may
No one decent will join us the club is in turmoil and only 50 50 whether we stay up. Even if we did it will be the same again next year completely pointless. If we take our Villa goggles of would we actually want to join us when there are better alternatives. Unless of corse Villa offer a load more money. Sad but true im afraid
Im not a fan of delph tbh all our midfielders are a much of a muchness imo we can easily cover him if he goes. Iv not seen enough of Holtby to judge either way tbh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl8-FqHXOzQ&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1
Got a bit more about him than Delph don’t you think?
wot the fook u whining about this time txt boy, go take ur face for a shit lmao
In all seriousness if Man U / Arsenal come in with a silly offer for Vlaar and taking into consideration the fact he plays only about half the season due to inures, then surely you’d have to snatch their arm off?
For once I agree with you
anyone remember deadline day last summer, reports had villa inquiring or making a cheeky bid for palace’s bolaise. watching the palace pool game hes defiantly a player that would improve us, should we try again??
Why would he want to join a club that below is own team?
You need to wake up “Nath” and realise what’s going on.
Your as blind as Lambert and Lerner.
whether he would want to come or not isn’t the question and whether lamberts uses him correctly isn’t the question,we need players asp because injuries happen and we haven’t the depth of squad to cope.
but the answer to all the guys on here is, why don’t you protest. instead of talking it up on a website, words won’t remove the guy lerner hired. action speaks louder, your the majority so you all say. then why hasn’t lambert been abused like mcliesh or pardew was at newcastle 5 games ago, do the magpies care more for protesting.
if people think all is needed is removal of lambert, then seems like a lot of people need to wake up. lerners made all the decisions, its his toy and not one decision made, has benefited villa, why people think he will get it right next time.finally if a player at palace won’t want to join this club, why on earth would a decent manager with ambition do
Problem is, is Villa fans can protest Lerner out all they want, he doesn’t have to go, if no one wants to buy. Lambert can be sacked tomorrow and bam, gone, Lerner’s not in this position. He probably wants to leave but he can’t.
And I do agree, here, other forums, hell just read the Official Aston Villa Football Page, no matter the post, there’s at least 75% of the comments are about Lambert out, anything about Lambert doing interviews, over 90% are about him out and the majority of the last 5-10% is spam. Yet there’s no protests to get Lambert gone.
No surprise he’s come out with more pathetic bullshit about how he’ll do everything he can to turn Villa around and such, despite losing 48 of his 99 current games, he still believes he’s good enough to turn this around, delusional dumb ass.
I think there are a lot of posters on club payroll and they will also censor anyone who wants him out imo of course. That’s a problem we don’t have here thankfully whether u want lamberk gone or not you won’t be censored
I do have my doubts they’re paying posters, they honestly don’t care about posters and they’ll delete the harsher comments on their facebook/twitter pages, the only ones they’ll ever pay any attention too, if that.
Probably right but I think some fans even at ground are connected to club and told to drown out any discontent.
My point exactly if we lose 10.0 tonight the fans will just accept it. There are fans hired by the club to silence boo boys out allegedly.
Do you really think Lambert would bring the best out of him???I doubt it
Looks like we’ll be dropping another place,I don’t think the scousers are too happy with their lot either.
4th from bottom now lads!!!
And dropping fast.
Its not all doom and gloom the league is tight a part from the top three.
Any team from the Baggies down could get dragged into the mix but on saying that on form we are in serious trouble.
Mike the struggling teams below us are starting to perform we ain’t, it’s just as if we’re in a rut.yes it’s tight but I still can’t name atm 3 teams easily worse than us.
That’s our level we were in a false position before
The teams below us now picking up points, it aint looking to clever Giddy.
Lambert’s got to be staring down the barrel, lose tomorrow and it’s got to time for the bloke to be collecting his P45.
Rodgers will be sacked if they lose Wednesday night jurgen klopp to replace him
If I was a betting man,I’d say Rodgers will be sent packing before Lambert.BWS even if we get a thumping fuck face will still be at the helm next match & the one after that one & so on.I do think though the fans will become more vocal.
Unfortunately Giddy I think you’re right.
Nath Nath , where are you,? Ffs the writing on the wall. 🙂
i don’t give a flying fook if villa sack lambert ,so when you lot think it does, its laughable. i don’t give a flying fook bill bill or wide awake lamberk. it matters not. i will sleep soundly and not lose my appetite over it. seems like if you people concentrate on harassing lerner and the club 2 sack the man you blame, instead of trolling a site for anyone you deem worthy of attacking, you would get somewhere
Oh deary me “Nath”, I do feel sorry for you.
Are you being bullied at School for supporting Villa?
I’m guessing this is only your 3rd season with the Villa?
i am so sad and scared lamberk, please don’t bully me. or i might remove ur geeky glasses and poke you in the eye
no i don’t support villa i love the blues
They don’t like it when you tell them the truth eh, instead resort to the abuse you previously mentioned. Pitchforks sharpened boys, you lot best be out in big numbers tomo night
HELENIUS just what is this here truth you allude to? Feel free to enlighten us, the great unwashed.
Is it the 50 loses from 100 games that stirs you, or perhaps it’s the 5 goals scored in 11 games (the lowest of any team in any division) that does it for you?
Or is it Lambert’s pièce de résistance – the many records broke for all the wrong reasons, is that the one that really floats your boat?
Now don’t give it ‘the get behind your team’ standard answer bollox, come on give us the ‘TRUTH’.
Liao.
BWS what’s liao????that’s a new one on me mate.looked it up but only found Singapore related.
Giddy that’s short hand for had one to many beers mate 🙂
Agree giddy jurgen klopp will replace him. Though I wouldn’t mind Rodgers at villa
No he won’t. And FSG confirmed they’re keeping hold of Rodgers.
Means nothing dreaded vote of confidence. The liverpool Mafia in the media are sticking the knife in and when that happens it’s the end. Would love someone like klopp at villa though that will never happen
Well duh, even if we had money we couldn’t lure Klopp. He seems to have his priorities as a manager different to others, which is why he’s remained so loyal to Dortmund, despite a lack of money, such a thin squad and a horrid injury crisis, especially to their best players like Reus. But then again that’s basically us, match made in heaven.
Well now the true colours are showing Nath, a true Villa fan would worry, you are a fan that sits on the fence, The Villa matters to me people like you don’t, I live here you don’t piss off and be a Man utd fan, because all we get from you is excuse, after excuse, its now a fact that Villa are in trouble, you have only just come out of the cupboard in the last few weeks, how many times have you left this site in saying we moan and don’t give Lamdert time, your the one that slated fans for complaining, Nath your what as known as turn coat, stop being a keyboard warrior and face the problems we have, Villa are crap, I don’t Like it but seen all this shit over the years, just listen and understand, you young punks have no idea of life, ask yourself, it don’t come easy you have to work for it,( did you? )I say again have respect for knowledge, and dont think you are the answer to all Villa’s problems, I had to say it Nath because that’s life.
my good god bill. gullible sod iam more villa than anybody, i bleed claret, i die for the claret & blue when somebody is out, trying to wind me up…….i am discussing football matters ~ they come back with personal stuff trying their best to get a reaction, i am not going to give them the pleasure, some people are provoking a reaction trolling just to try get a kick. this sites slowly going to the dogs.
if posters don’t like me posting, i will gladly leave, no problems the best posters, i enjoyed reading are no longer posting anymore anyway
i will take my ball with me 🙂 lmao
We are all villa fans here . Everyone is entitled to their opinion . We need to get behind the team as one at the moment, they need our backing. Come on villa !
Mike with you man, 🙂
thats not entirely accurate mike, if you agree with the regular posters then no problems, if you dare have a opinion with conflicts with them, be prepared for personal attacks, chances you will be a sheep a berk or a keyboard warrior, i agree lamberts should be sacked,,,,,,,, by hey I DON’T MAKE those decisions. but cos i asked about a player today, i seem to get the attention off the sites troll’s.
debate website should mean we are able to express our opinions, every topics can lead too many views more views means better debates, people with contrasting views, shouldn’t be assassinated lmao, why do people have to ram their views down my throat, or other posters throats
Jesus man you need to take a long hard look in the mirror, you’re hardly Britain’s answer to Henry Kissinger are you now?
The fans have been behind the team what are they getting in return??????
Getting nothing in return with Lambert in charge . We all want the best for Villa, its not going happen till L & L are gone. Lambert gone we might have a chance.
How refreshing to hear a manager (Rogers) actually take responsibility for a poor run of form.
Lambert your an idiot.
Lambert will never be man enough to do that.
Nor is he a manager, sorry about that!!!
Hate liverpool but do like Rodgers but I think his days are numbered. Jurgen klopp to be appointed this week
Klopp said he won’t leave till 2016 when his contract is up. He’s absolutely in love with Dortmund so I have my doubts he’d join them.
Ronald Koeman tactically more superior than Paul Lambert Saints to be victorious tonight #GoingDown
Paddington Bar is more tactically astute than paul lambert
Bear
Lol
Keane- “4-4-2 tonight Paul?”
Lambert – “Dunno pal, you fancy one of these marmalade sandwiches?”
Lambert slates Switzerland for not being careful with Senderos injury and yet at West Ham he played Baker who got injured early on for most of the game when he should have been taken off and is now out for 2 months.
Lambert does not have a clue.
Vlaar & Senderos out think Delph and Benteke still to we will get fuckin hammered tonight 3-4 nil
That stands a fooking good bet JD Villa, ive never been so un sure of Villa as this balls up in managers, Norwich fans must be pissing themselves laughing, Ho happy days-?
Pissing old tablet. Other got hick-ups
Ok we will win tonight. They will have 75% possesion we will park the bus and nick a couple on break. Then cue lamberk apologists who think we’ve turned the corner and what a great manager he is! Sad but true
Can’t see it myself, Lamdo’s plan A B & C ( incidentally B & C are the same as A) have been bubbled so teams sit deeper so I’d go 0 – 0.
*Lambo’s*
oohah, you alright mate, you sound ill? This is not you at all.
No match preview yet again???? Understandable.anyway Im going 0-6 saints & I’m being generous,the only positive I’ll get from this fixture will be the fans turning on the management.it’ll be about fucking time if things do go pearshaped.
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