A new rumour: Lens keeper Charles Itandje

To be fair obviously apart from the official website.

I find that skysports is the most reliable and doesn't often make up things for the sake of it. Thats not me saying its definately true but just saying

the source is l'equipe

I dont know, it seems the only reliable news comes straight from our very own AV web-site, all other news is total tosh. Let's just sit back and trust in MON as he is no fool. ;)

Gordon should be our priority really. If not, we should look at Kameni or Ustari. Both young and competent.

lets hope its a rumour with a record like that

His record is not impressive at all!!!!!

Does anybody think we should try and test chelseas resolve with letting Cudicini go. I think he would be an excellent signing.

Good keeper

Why has the Carson link gone quiet. I wonder if any of the signings are gonna smash our transfer record. It would be great to bring in at least one double figure super signing.

just think!iv the season starts 2moro then this would be the team againts liverpool!!
Sorensen
Mellberg Cahill Laursen Bouma subs:
taylor
Young Reo-coker Petrov Barry gardener
moore
Carew Agbonlahor delany
harewood

wouldnt be so bad would it!!

there is only a choice of 4 keepers i would have at villa, which are realistic and i will put them in order

1.foster.
2.carson.
3.gordon.
4.jasskelinan

Have we even enquired about Craig Gordon or Jussi Jaaskelinen yet? My point is that maybe we should make serious offers for these players before being linked to tin-pot french keepers!

According to Craig Gordon's agent, there have been no fresh bids since Hearts turned the £5m offer from Sunderland. If this is the case, MON should get in there and quick !!
Todays reports say that Keane is in talks with another three or four players at the moment and i'd be gutted if Gordon was one of them and we missed out on him.
MON should get Craig's mobile number...it worked with Marlene !!!
UP THE VILLA ;)

2 new rumours flying around today:

"Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill is ready to offer £2.5 million for Arsenal fullback Justin Hoyte.
Arsenal are now prepared to listen to offers for the 22-year-old, says the Mirror."

and

"Aston Villa face stiff competition to land Toulouse midfielder Achille Emana.
Emana has admitted if he is to leave Toulouse, he would prefer a foreign move, but Villa must see off Fiorentina if they are to take the midfielder to England."

Never heard of the second guy, but Hoyte would be a worthy addition :)

I've just had a little scout around and found out that Achille Emana is a 25 year old Cameroon international. He played in the African Nations in 2006 and is described as an attacking midfielder who can play wide right or in the hole.
Arsenal and Gerard Houllier's Lyon were after him in 2005 for £4.77m but he obviously stayed with Toulouse.
West Ham are reportedly interested at the moment to replace Yossi Benayoun. Sounds like a decent player if Houllier and Wenger like him !
If i can find anything on you tube, i'll post the link later.
UP THE VILLA ;)

RE: Achille Emana
Have a look at this !
LINK

Hoyte is quality!

Wow thats a good goal :o

Hoyte for 2.5mil would be a bargain.

Al right AV33,
Just been looking at your youtube link on Emana, nice finish...!

i think we shud sign ben foster myself or carson

i only think realisticly were lookin at 4 keepers.

1.foster.
2.carson.
3.gordon.
4.jasskeleinan

i would put them in that order to be honest

UP THE VILLA!!!

Hoyte would be a good choice, another youngster with bags of potential & not a bad price to boot.

Just got to big up my main man Hendrie, villa blood running through his veins. wish we had another ten more like him, he his already looking forward & hopeing Sheff Fc draw us in the cup next season so that he can come back.

not being racist or anything but everyone who we are after is black.
But this is a good thing as they tend to be fast,powerful,strong and athletes.so lets sign emana,defoe,swp,hoyte and curtis davies or glen johnson

i dont see why everyone wants us to move for ben foster, yeh he has the potential of being great, but hes injured for most of this season, so it wud solve nothing and secondly, we all no its a matter of time before he replace van der sar. im sorry but that transfer just aint gonna happen

I've heard of Itandje and he's not bad, but i reckon it'll be Gordon as our number 1 target.

i doubt we'll get carson if dudek goes to madrid, i dont think bolton want to let jussi go an want to run his contract out, i think gordon is out of our price range considering the amount of other players we need, so i reckon these kind of rumours will have some truth behind them. still i would love to see gordon between our sticks, think he's quality and will only improve with time. signing him would show our intention and im sure MON would get the best out of him. get him defoe swp and hoyte an id be the happiest villa fan in brum. ;D

no no no no no! not Glenn Johnson, anyone but him.

I just read a comment from a French football supporter regarding Itandje. He reckons he is probably David James' french cousin ! (lol)
He went on to say that Mandanda is a much better keeper and we are probably being linked with Itandje only because it is common knowledge that Mandanda had a trial here.
Hope this throws some light on the matter.
UP THE VILLA ;) :D

I personally wouldn't go for the French keeper and would match Hearts asking price for Gordon. His price is irrelevant. I don't like to see too much money mentioned in the same sentence as Villa. We have a significant amount of money to spend and we have also recouped a lot this summer through selling many of our players. We need a new keeper desperately and also need a right back, a left back for cover, another striker and a right midfielder. We should offer the £9-10 million that Hearts are asking for Gordon and we should move for Defoe as he is a lethal finisher. If Spurs want the reported £10 million pounds for him then we should pay it. Hoyte would be a great buy at £2.5 million and we also need a left back either for the first team or cover for Bouma. Why not move for Shorey who I imagine would be available for under £5 million. SWP would also be a great addition to our squad giving pace and quality down the right wing as well as the left with Young. SWP has a reported price tag of £10 million. So if we got all of those players we would have to cough up roughly £37 million bringing our total summer spending to nearly £50 million. Ok its a lot of money to spend but we have already brought in roughly £8 million with the many departures. Plus we need to spend this money if we are to match are ambitions of getting into Europe. Martin O'Neill today spoke of wanting to be able to rotate his squad next season but with the numbers we have at the moment we just about have enough players to complete a match day squad so in my opinion the mentioned transfers are a must but we have to move quickly if we are to get them.

We dont need another left back if bouma gets injured barry can drop back into that position or o hallaron can come in and play there pleanty of cover there for that spot i would say as for defoe i cant see it happening but why not try and sign Klaas Jan Huntelaar who has been great for ajax since his been there i also doubt M.O.N would be in the hunt for him but i reakon he would be a great signing and get us pleanty of goals

av33 that goal is a screamer mate shame he wasnt in a villa shirt lol

i realy dont think mon will sign many more players apart from a couple of defenders & a back up goaly. i also think we should give a chance 2 the players we have who knows moore could be the next defoe young the next wright philips etc..if we buy these players we will never know

also no chance on carson or foster unless they are loans

Id like us to get wright-phillps tho and play him and young the way ferguson plays ronaldo and giggs keep changing em from left to right ronaldo and giggs do it so well and i think wright -phillps and young could do it just as good

Getting Huntelaar is a dream. It won't happen.

SWP may happen. I had worried that, if Robben leaves for Real Madrid, Chelsea would hestitate to part with SWP. But it sounds as though Chelsea will sign Drenthe if Robben leaves.

what about christian wilhelmsson can play on both wings already mates with melberg

bring bak angel quality goal against celtic lol

just heard roy keane is not willing to increase 5mill offer for gordon! We should put a bid in !!!

Jasskelinan will be our keeper next season! I have a pretty good contact and it may not go through for a while but i have been informed personal terms have already been agreed between the 2 parties.

What's delaying the transfer then tone. Jaaskelinen would be a great signing but I would personally prefer Gordon as he is much younger however Jussi will be a good bit cheaper and if that means there is the possibility to sign more players then Jussi is probably the better option however I don't think that money should come into play but MO'N seems to think otherwise.

He's signing for Liverpool