This is off topic but it made me laugh.

Young small Mongrel free to good home !
Doesnt come when called
Doesnt do as told
Not fit for purpose
And extremely docile
Answers to the name of bannon or barry

Just come on to say after the results tonight that leave us in 19 position i dont know if Randy Lerner is preparing us for the championship , but he wants preparing for a firing squad the way this shambles is unfolding. And JCV stick around mate we have seen this all befor admitingly we were a little younger then , but what ever happens stay around for the banter ill crack open a few cans and pies to celebrate your return.

Rayk,

if that Sylla guy has played for Barcelona youth, then there is a glimmer of hope...can he stop us plummeting further into the abyss?

I also hope this now means we are going to abandon this useless 5-3-2 system that we have been playing...

Lamberts tactics have been very naive at best, some of his signings may still pay off but if he wants me to have faith in him going forward to the end of the season he needs to stop this 3 at the back with FB's playing as "wing backs", right now we are just not good enough to try this it leaves us way to exposed we are just giving space to the opposition, playing this way we are a disaster.

From now on we have to play a traditional back 4, and must play Benteke up front with Gabby & Wiemann wide & Zoggy sitting behind in the pocket, or any combination thereof, these 4 MUST start every game, we have to keep it simple and consistent so the young players can learn & understand, if can do this we may still stand a chance of survival.

100's of players go thru the barca academy on a yearly basis, It means nothing, I would be more concerned to why he has ended up in league 2 in France and has not been picked up by someone half decent, I will support him and hope he turns out to be a gem but we have been down this road before, Buy championship players on championship wages and guess what we will end up playing in the championship, What hurts most apart from not winning is we're not even trying to fight to get out of this mess

Vancouvrvillan - totally agree...

I'm all for squad rotation and bringing through the youngsters, but when you're fighting for your premiership survival, time for experimenting has to take a back seat...

Villa4life,

get point at you are totally right...but I'd rather have someone from Barcelona's youth academy - knowing how good their first team is - then getting more bargain basement signings from the fizzy pop league...

We have to accept that Lerner, Faulkner and Lambert have decided that the way forward is bargain basement signings.

Will this new signing sign in time to play for the West Ham game - it's another cup final!!

RayK
I agree, Sissoko he ain't, but he will get 1st team football & time to shine if he has it in him he may well surprise, he probably has something to prove, who knows better than nothing.
Apparently he is over 6ft big lad, look at it this way he may lift the other players and can he really be any worse than Bannan ?

As I said I'm not going to judge as I have never seen the lad play hopefully he is a gem but the price tag and the league he is coming from suggests we have another championship player, It has got to the point now were we need to make shrewd solid signings and not taking chances on a player from the french league 2

Vancouver,

he may even help Bannan...

Bahama,

Jones is a waste of money and right now we do not need another Striker - even if Bent was to go.

What we need is another central midfielder

The Kenywyn Jone rumours are complete rubbish.. even if Bent went why would we want him when we have Benteke Weimen already and our needs are more important in defense and midfield... i would be gob smacked if Jones came in.. esp as we would have to pay him 35K a week plus..

Hopefully Bent goes for 10M and we invest that money in at least two more players...!!

Kenwyne Jones would be an awful signing .
Not needed either

Jonnah
A portuguese international Cd, plays for porto

Why would we pay Jones 50k a week? It makes absolute no sense what so ever, So with that said knowing how our club is run it would not surprise me if he signed

So Sylla will cost the same as Sissoko did for Newcastle.
But difference is hes only played in French second division (much worse than our championship by miles BTW) and we'll probably only have to pay him £60 a week. Cheers Lerner.

Kenwyne Jones is on 50k a week?

If Jones joined and he gets 50k a week then why was that not giving to Sissoko or any other decent midfielder for that matter, If we sign Jones I would be more angry, Nothing against Jones, it's just it's not a position we need to bolster at this time

Jones surplus to requirements at Stoke, yet good enough for us - how far have we fallen down the pecking order....

Jones as already pointed out betters Gabby's record at missing the net, and is just as injury prone as Gabby...

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Guest (villa4life)

If Jones joined and he gets 50k a week then why was that not giving to Sissoko or any other decent midfielder for that matter, If we sign Jones I would be more angry, Nothing against Jones, it's just it's not a position we need to bolster at this time

Bahama,

Gabby did not change the game in the second half, the manager woke up and realised that the 5-3-2 system was not working...and if Gabby did perform for us, he did his 1 in 6...

No hater of Gabby at all but its ridiculous he got a 60k contract and has scored what 10 goals in the last 3 seasons???
Granted hes been often played on wing etc but that is still a truely awful record.

It's not hatred, just that he needs to produce...on that note Good Night...

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NickC

Proud History

Gabby was awarded his wonderfully rewarding contract by none other than MON.......nuff said........

Cilla who ? Fecking hell. Surprise, surprise ! You couldn,t make it up. Yellowcab for lerner asap.

Jonnah
Rolando is class would be ideal but highly unlikely, But if the mirror rumours are true about Kenwynne (kiss my teeeth) Jones, I would defo prefer to have Rolando, than Kenny especially on his wage. I hope to God that he does \we can have a couple of additions tommorrow dont need a CF

If we end up signing Kenwyn Jones and pay him 50K a week i'll have to laugh my bolllocks off.
the lunatics would have really well and truly taken over the asylum.

maybe Sylla will be an excellent signing and we're unearthing a great gem but it does smack of signing ppl we'll only have to pay peanuts in wages to which is what makes the Kenwyne Jones link seem even weirder and dafter if he is on 50k a week at Stoke.

need at least 18 points from our last 15 games which needs a Wigan like revival and we don't seem like we have the players or the knowhow to get the 6 wins or 5 wins and 3 draws.

I hate bein negative but i'm just bein a realist. Can anyone tell me they expect us to beat West Ham (h) Reading (a) Fulham (h) Sunderland (h) Norwich (a) Wigan (a). I'm still crossing my fingers and toes and praying that my Villa get a reprieve.

The second half against Newcastle gives me some optimism but unfortunately it also shows that despite playing well we couldn't get the telling goal in the end.

Sylla was obviously not our first choice, but he may well have been on Henke's list let's hope he's a gem, we have to do something BTW Henke wants to go so he can get more involved in the day to day at a club again, why not get him involved with us ? he picked out Benteke, we would have someone else at the club who knows something about football seems like a no brainer to me.

On Jones, I can see him working for us, big strong presence, works hard, some speed, but i think we need to spend on MF/CB we can do without replacing Bent, I wonder if there would still be time for villa to take him + cash for Bent and then use him as makeweight for another deal, can you do this ?

The second half against Newcastle gives me some optimism but unfortunately it also shows that despite playing well we couldn't get the telling goal in the end.

Kenwyene Jones would be a really terrible signing. Especially if hes on 50 k a week . I can't quite believe some on here think it would be a good signing or are warming to the idea.
A stirker with a worse scoring record than Gabby of past few years , a bit part player of Stoke.
Why on earth do we need a striker for now ?
Unless really are selling Bent now but Jones goalscoring record is crap . myabe hes really Benteke's replacement longterm?
Who the hell knows but its ridiculous if looking at to bring in an erratic crap striker like Jones and good wages and have signed budget DM on few hundred quid from 2nd division in France which is much more key area.
Also Dunne i heard got injured again and is out for months again ? So where the hell is our new CB ?

i can't believe how bad this transfer window has gotten.
19th in the league now. FFS . Wake up you complete morons.

Morning oh what will.deadline day bring ???

All this talk of tactics, and possible transfers, and cup finals - we are odds on to be relegated with every bookie, we are the worst side in the league, we have no form, and every other team at the bottom are picking up points.

We will soon be a Championship side and we may as well get used to it.

Jcv. You can't give up on the villa !! That's such a brummie thing to do.

tears....

oh what will.deadline day bring ???

with al the talk about Jones from SToke - if we were to get one of their strikers in part for DB, perhaps getting Crouch back again would be better?
Somebody on here mentioned Shawcross - but it defines our miserable position that he is considered just a dream - a bit like a young lad dreaming of that good looking girl but "out of my league" - the way we are going these good players will very literally be out of our league....

While I could say there are a quite few times in my life I've been proud of my the Villa, that is not something I can say about the fans, you guys should look at some of these post people just making stuff up and then every repeats it like its 100% true !!
These are dark days and trying times for the team and for the fans but its our job to support the team and raise the roof at Villa Park !!

Whats the god damn obsession with cutting the wage bill and spending nothing on players wages? Can someone remind Lerner this is the Premier League and not the Conference. Of course player wages will be expensive, talented players demand high wages. This 'trimming the wage bill' nonsense has left Villa in a position where the team consists of low quality youngsters who are happy on 10 000 a week, and aren't the results really showing the success of this policy. Maybe Lerner should buy a Bradford or a Bristol Rovers, at least there he doesn't have to spend on player wages.