31 Jul 2013 12:33:00
Baines and robben on the short list

1.) 31 Jul 2013
I doubt this. If Baines was to leave Everton, which still looks unlikely this window, it surely must be to United? Also we wouldn't have much space for Robben in our current setup? With Bale, Townsend, Chadli and Lennon able to play as wingers in the 4-3-3 formation?

Unless of course we sell 1-2 of these players.

2.) 31 Jul 2013
31 Jul 2013 14:27:08
Caulker believed to be in Cardiff undergoing a medical. 8. 5Mil. Good deal or not? Future England defender going to waste imo.

3.) 31 Jul 2013
For the right price, we can get Baines but I doubt Robben will come unless we pay him something like 200k/week!

4.) 31 Jul 2013
Well where going to have to make a long list then

5.) 31 Jul 2013
Take it messi is also on your list?

6.) 31 Jul 2013
Baines only leaving Everton for Manchester United

7.) 31 Jul 2013
Polite message here from delighted Villa fan.
Allow me to advise you that without Saint Gareth of Wales who looks certain to leave you for a much bigger club than you are, you will be relegation fodder this year.
After you spent months trying to unsettle our best player, how does it feel having the same done to you-not nice is it?
The biter bit it seems.
Good luck in division 1 the season after this.

8.) 31 Jul 2013
You my dear chap, are as deluded as the word can get. Relegation?

Look at the quality of incoming players. Bitter much? Jeez, and what of this obsession with Spurs man?

Crankyid

9.) 31 Jul 2013
Wow villa fans actually exist. Congratulations on keeping benteke saves crying yourself to sleep every night. You struggled last year with him and guess what your struggle again.

900

10.) 31 Jul 2013
What an absolute tool. For a start, your best player put in a transfer request, he didn't need to be unsettled. For seconds, we asked what the price was and it was laughable so that was that. Nobody made any serious offers for that person and so he went back for a new contract with his tail between his legs.
As far as we're concerned, we have the biggest team in the world wanting to smash the world record transfer to take away a fantastic player who had not asked to leave beforehand so, not quite the same is it? As for relegation fodder, I think we'll struggle for top 4 or 5 without spending a decent amount of the fee (which Levy won't) but please, we'll still finish above you even if we were playing with 10 men every week.
Simmo

11.) 31 Jul 2013
Villa fan. this is hilarious. Our u-21's would be capable of getting a result at Villa park these days. also. I don't ever recall Spurs unsettling Benteke?!

12.) 31 Jul 2013
To the villa fan, you are clearly a Muppet. First, not that it would happen but if we were relegated then next season we would be in the championship not division 1, you obviously have no clue.

Also without Bales goals last season we would have 25 points less, which would still give us 47 points finishing in 9th, quite a bit above you still. You may argue the assists he made, well that was only 5. Had he not been there then someone else surely would have scored or assisted at least once.

Now you already have 2 players and with 85 million I suspect we would get at least another one.

I know you think we tapped up Benteke but I think it was more wishful thinking on your side that you had a player worth tapping up. Go back to your page and let us Spurs fans worry about our team.

Heed

13.) 31 Jul 2013
What makes you say we unsettled Benteke? We never were going to pay the money for him and fyi, we will get £85+ for Bale while ye could get pittens for Benteke when he eventually leaves ye should he have a stinker next year!

14.) 31 Jul 2013
Even if Bale leaves we will bring in 2 or 3 top quality internationals from the top teams,
unlike villa who shop in the bargain basement,
i think villa will finish bottom.
championship is about your level.

15.) 31 Jul 2013
To troll another teams site shows a serious character flaw, rather sad really.

16.) 31 Jul 2013
I think if you ask the ed's they will tell you Spurs did not bid for your player and in fact it was he who tried to get a move to us. As for who will end up going down well we were not the ones last year fighting for our life at the end of the year. One of Spurs & Villa might drop but sadly for you we have the money to stay up and the players you my friend do not.
Spursmad Dave. {Ed008's Note - An enquiry was made Liverpool done the same thing yet no Villa fans are on the Liverpool page? Always on here nothing else better to do I guess.

17.) 31 Jul 2013
31 Jul 2013 20:24:31
Meant robben when bail goes and still think bains as well

18.) 31 Jul 2013
Not a huge fan of Caulker. Hope the lad proves me wrong as he seems like a good character, but for me £8.5m can get us a lot better.

19.) 31 Jul 2013
You Spurs fans are such a bunch of clowns it's unbelievable. Everyone knows that your lot tapped up Benteke and his slimy agent and encouraged him to put in a transfer request so that we would let him go. You then promised to sign him but welshed on the deal because your smarmy chairman wouldn't pay the required fee and tried to get him on the cheap which we wouldn't let him do, leaving the player in limbo. They say the truth hurts and you lot wouldn't recognise it if it bit you on the backside. RELEGATION FODDER. {Ed008's Note - Where's your proof? All talk back it up with some facts please.

20.) 31 Jul 2013
Baines will not be joining spurs. Why would he?

21.) 31 Jul 2013
Ed the only reason they are so bitter is because Benteke was interested in joining a "bigger" club and saw spurs as such a club. Now for Villa fans it's hard to grasp that spurs are a bigger club than Villa at present. That's why they don't visit the Liverpool page with such comments as they see Liverpool as a bigger club so wouldn't have minded the move as much. If any of that makes sense?

22.) 31 Jul 2013
I can't believe such statements are being made by a villa fan calling us relegation fodder - have you hibernated your little head the whole season, you were the one's scrapping at the bottom not us. Unreal

23.) 01 Aug 2013
Aston Villa have been a mediocre club for decades. Taylor, O'Leary, O'Neil, Houlier, McLeish and Lambert all talked about glory, yet the club have done nothing.

Look at the last 10 years alone
2003 - 6th
2004 - 10th
2005 - 16th
2006 - 11th
2007 - 6th
2008 - 6th
2009 - 6th
2010 - 9th
2011 - 16th
2012 - 15th
Average Position = 10th place

You talk about Benteke like he is a great player. Even John Carew notched up a fair few goals, and he was terrible. Everyone knows Benteke tried to orchestrate a big money move. The truth is the big clubs didn't want him, and the interest was merely to see if they could snap him up on the cheap. Mark my words he is totally one dimensional and will flop to around 14 goals this season.

Your team is a mess and Lanbert probably got blinded by your exaggerated ambition. Like the last decade you will finish around the mid table, but all the league will be laughing if a few promoted teams get a run on you. Prediction 12th place, and far more likely to be relegated than challenging the top 4.

Goodbye you Holte End fruitcake, and good luck this season, by jolly you'll need it!

24.) 01 Aug 2013
Relegation Fodder! Really.

Grow up mate, I now the 6 weeks holiday have started and it seems you may have been out in the sun a bit to long, get mummy to put a little sun tan lotion on.

As for tapping up Benteke, he put in a transfer request which some clubs responded to with enquirys, such as spurs but when the price Villa quoted was plucked out of dream land, our chairman pulled away because even he knew that Benteke wasn't more than £12m as this season will prove, Look at it logically £25m for a 1 season wonder who throws his toys from the pram to force moves or £26m for a seasoned striker with 80 goals in 140 goals in the top spainish league, a Spainish international, world cup, euro cup and confed cup winner, a true professional.
Good luck for this season I think your going to need it.