Guzan deal breaks down

I have to say i am glad because i want us to sign carson he deserves to be signed and for once i want to see villa pay over the odds for a player it might learn martin then that these day u HAVE TO pay over the odds for players

I'm a little surprised they denied the work permit, since Guzan seems to be the U.S. national team backup right now.
Well, we'll see what happens.

I really doubt MON was after this guy to replace Carson, more likely to replace whiney Sorenson. Pretty crappy though considering their are plenty of none internationals or players with less international caps playing in this country.

Mars1er! Defoe is good but hasn't got the drive, I hope he isnt signed

Guzan would've been the third keeper after Sorenson finds a pub league that will take him.

Hahaha. Sorenson gets so much flack, probably better than Taylor on his day but at least Taylor doesn't moan! He has played 2nd best for most of his career yet he remains professional and focused.

Glad MON and all looked at him professionally and saw that work permit problem ages ago! MON either has to spend his own money on transfers or it's money from a charity for the terminally ill, cause that's the only reason I can think of for lack of signings.

and got to thinking, what is so good about Randy Lerner? Sure he hasn't done a Gillette and Hicks but absence of failure means success? MON is the reason for success..
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and got to thinking, what is so good about Randy Lerner? Sure he hasn't done a Gillette and Hicks but absence of failure means success? MON is the reason for success..
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Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill could be set to secure a deal to sign Tottenham Hotspur striker Darren Bent on loan for the remainder of the season.

Sources suggest that O'Neill is looking to boost Villa's options up front and is currently in London trying to tie up a deal to take the £16.5 million striker to Villa Park with a view to a permanent move in the summer.

Bent has scored just 5 goals in 20 appearances since his summer switch from Charlton Athletic and boss Juande Ramos is believed to be prepared to cut their losses on the striker.

If we get Darren Bent 5 goals in 20 games on loan I will put bricks through all of my windows

Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill could be set to secure a deal to sign Tottenham Hotspur striker Darren Bent on loan for the remainder of the season.

Sources suggest that O'Neill is looking to boost Villa's options up front and is currently in London trying to tie up a deal to take the £16.5 million striker to Villa Park with a view to a permanent move in the summer.

Bent has scored just 5 goals in 20 appearances since his summer switch from Charlton Athletic and boss Juande Ramos is believed to be prepared to cut their losses on the striker.

taglor, oh my god hahaha that made my day.

I don't know why I bother looking at the official villa site.
BREAKING NEWS; The England squad announced around 7 hours ago is still our top story, despite it being the last day of the transfer window and thousands of Villa fans eagerly awaiting some bloody news!

summit must be hapnin at the villa cus we havnt heard from ne1 at villa talking bout the england boys, my prediction is oniell is locked in transfer talks. doug ellis is live on sky sports wheres every1 else?

we already have 2 players on loan so we cant sign bent on loan

If the club really didn't have the money and were honest about it I would understand things a little better but when your owner's name is only ever used with the prefix billionaire owner you can't help but have high aspirations of signings.

y waste his time tryin 2 buy another keeper. just saw deadly doug on sky, he said mon isnt finished in window yet.. i hope that means he has pulled his finger out nd is gettin us 3 "quality" players that we need..with teams around us strenghtin we need em badly

Jesus christ how high are peoples expectations, Darren Bent was quality at Charlton for a few years before being sold for 16 plus million. A loan deal is win win if we can get him.

MON cant win, he signs a squad player in Harewood, gets grief off people, tries to sign a quality, proven striker and gets grief of everyone!!!

Good luck MON

Steven Davis didnt last long at Fulham, been shiped off to Rangers on loan.

Its a very quiet transfer deadline day, the whole window has been rather quiet as well which is bad for us. We have a small squad and need to bring in some players but other clubs arent going to sell quality players unless they can get replacements and with very little movement happening everywhere can hardly blame MoN for not bringing in more players as clubs just arent selling :(

they should buy him a burkha, pretend he is from pakistan or iraq and then he'll be allowed into england, wots wrong wiv this f*****g country, theres 2 big issue sellers on my road, both from poland, they aint working yet they are allowed in our country so why cant someone who ISNT going to litter our streets and make us all feel guilty for living in our own country, having a job and being able to afford stuff other than a crap magazine be allowed in our country??? shit england!! id prefer carson but still, its principle....

mickey86...i had similar thoughts a few hours ago when i first heard about the work permit being turned down. I didn't comment for fear of being called racist but you are right.
Throw in the fact that America are England's allies in war and peace and then tell me why an american professional person cannot come to our country when he has earned himself an important job and well paid job. Tax etc on his high wages would be contributing to the economy etc.
Had he been an immigrant from a country where Brits are hated, he would have probably been welcomed with a house and loads of benefits.
Shockin innit. This country isn't just going to the dogs...it's already gone !

Anyway, moan over and sorry about the politics. Come on MON, give us something to be happy about before midnight.
By the way...is that true that you can't have more than two players on loan and we already have Carson and Curtis? Not even loan players coming then?

UP THE VILLA ;)

the country is a bloody disgrace!! i was worried about being called a racist aswell AV33 but o well, wot we have said is all true!! im not sure about the 2 loans idea, but that is the case on championship manager so it has to be true lol.

to be honest, not too fussed about the keeper. we already hav taylor n wud rather hav carson permanently.

Getting a little impatient now...there's not even a sniff of activity with less than two hours to go.
Does anybody know anything or heard any rumours ?
Even those young lads from Leicester and Palace sound interesting at the moment !
UP THE VILLA...COME ON MARTIN...WE'RE STILL WAITING !! ;)

Just got this from the FA website rules and regulations regarding the registration of players.


A player may only be registered for one club at a time.
Players may be registered for a maximum of three clubs during the period from 1 July
until 30 June of the following year. During this period, the player is only eligible to play
in Official Matches for two clubs.

It looks like because, Scott Carson played games for Liverpool and Curtis for West Brom, we would not be allowed to have any more players on loan until the summer.
Therefore, it looks like anyone who MON does bring in will be on a permanent deal.

UP THE VILLA ;)

right im gonna take a dump and then head to bed. if i wake up in the mornin n we've not signed anyone, il take a deep breath maintain a stiff upper lip and keep the faith. if we have signed sum players..........................

I've got that loan stuff all wrong haven't I?

apparently liverpool are signing quarasme while we will be signing chimbonda and a strkier, but i have not yet been told who

Don't think the Chimbonda thing looks likely now.
One hour to go, Spurs have just signed Gilberto from Hertha Berlin (another defender)...but they've let Stalteri and Anthony Gardner go out on loan.
Thought there may be something in it with MON reported to be in London. Also, Defoe has had a medical for Pompey and just waiting to finalise deal according to Setanta.
COME ON MARTIN ;)

i'm not so sure anything is going to happen

i mean, if the manager is only after players that want to play with him - surely he could have sorted that out earlier today, or yesterday even .. why leave it to the last minute?

Alright AV33..
Curtis is from a championship club, so are we allowed one more on loan..??

just read on another site celtic keen to offload hesselink.....celtic mon=hesselink?

Hi jaf
I think i've got it embarrassingly wrong regarding the loan signings.
The bit of info i got from the FA site is concerning the amount of clubs the players are allowed to play for in a season.
I still don't know how many loan players a club are allowed to have at any one time.
Anyone else know...just interested cos' if there isn't a limit, why are we not even getting some loan signings?
Notice Routledge only given a short deal ?

Haven't seen much of the Hasselink bloke but you always hear of him scoring for Celtic.
I like this rumour...perfect back up to Carew (especially if Marlon goes to Forest as suggested on the forum just now!)

COME ON MON !!!! ;) ;)

I'm typically the optimist and have also given MoN the benefit of the doubt but now is the time to start asking questions. No recognised right back at the end of the summer... no recognised rightback at the end of the winter transfer day.. "we have the smallest squad" "we will look to do a wee bit of strengthening". Do we really have the financial backing? What happens to the £5m from Cahill? Does anyone within the club seriously believe we can maintain our league position with the current squad?

villa fans, do not go to bed and any1 who has criticised the club and MON prepare to eat your words. iv just been informed of some VERY exciting developments that will be announced imminently.

Jaysis I'm like a kid headin ta bed on christmas eve ! hopin ta wake up early and santa's signed us a big surprise!!! :P

VillaPD....PLEASE PLEASE BE RIGHT !!!
Any clues ??

COME ON MON ;)

im under the impression its a RB, and although id thought all along it was chimbonda, apparently not-hes off to newcastle, alves to middlesbrough and downing to tottenham. i gather we are signing a RB and definately one more, maybe two.

Stearman*

So what if we dont sign any new players we have enough to cover all positions till end of the season when we can invest in the right players. Why panic buy and upset the harmony of the dressing room.
Its time for people to wake up. Were fifth in the table.

VILLA TILL I DIE, I'M VILLA TILL I DIE,
I KNOW I AM, I'M SURE I AM, I'M VILLA TILL I DIE

Well i have some action here.... Its On Canal ...!

Plus....!!

But for how long an we stay fifth if we bring nobody in?
We have four or five players on the verge of suspension on four yellow cards, our best four reserves out on loan and Gary Cahill gone. Not to mention possible injuries (we've been so lucky so far)
I hope you're right.
UP THE VILLA ;)

As skysports have just said the Shaun Maloney deal wasnt announced until 01:20 last year, so just because midnight is upon us doesnt mean nobody has signed

do they have to announce new signins at midnight or can i go to bed ,,,,, I'm tired >:(

unbelievable, NOBODY!!!

VillaPD...What happened ?
Can i go to bed now ?

Panic buy? we have had a year for the scouts with their unparalleled skill and guile to find more than routledge I hope!

My head is well and truly in the shed!!! :D

Sean Scannell and Miguel have apparently signed, and also a forward but i havent been told who yet

BLOKE ON SKY JUST SAID VILLA HAVE NOT SIGNED ANYONE ELSE

VillaPD...there was a post earlier today about Miguel coming but then it became apparent that any deal had fallen through !
Keep us posted if you know somethin mate. Ta

UP THE VILLA ;)

VillaPD...can i ask how reliable your information is?
Or is it a wind up?
UP THE VILLA

i have a friend who works with/for an agent (Mark or Martin Curits, i forget) and he has been texting me telling me this. checked the villa site, sky sports, bbc and valencia site and theres no mention of it, so not sure what to think. hes assured me its a done deal though. if it is bolox then i apologise, but i really hope its true

At least the official Villa site keeps us real fans staying up late informed, so nice to think that they care

the official site is that up to date the breaking news is still probably anouncing the signing of merson!

Thanks VillaPD
Thought you'd been pulling me leg !
Please keep us posted.
UP THE VILLA

no mate, this is what iv been told. im as anxious (and increasingly doubtful) as you to hear something official. if we havent signed any1 ill be gutted. after all, weve had 3-4months to prepare for jan and if in that time the only player we identified was wayne routledge then weve got problems. and if he was the only 1, he should have been signed at the start of jan to give him an extra month with us, and potentially 3 games to improve his fitness.

I've been checking the internet whilst watching sky sports news, no doubt I'm not the only one.

I am well disappointed with the last month. I don't believe that there is not one single player that couldn't secure our team in case of injuries. I wasn't expecting much, I'm happy with what MON's done with villa's 1st team, but it takes more than 11 good players to challenge for Europe.

Gutted.

Faith in MON? it's not 1:20 yet

im gutted too. and i think this utterly shit january (to put it lightly) could come back to haunt the club. there is a real good feel factor around VP at the mo, but this could seriously get the fans down. and if we miss out on europe there will definately be a lot of disgruntled fans. we have a rich owner who supposedly wants us challenging at the top, a brilliant manager who wants to restore former glories and all we do is sign wayne routledge for 1.25m. why arent we trying to improve the team and the squad. the players are out there, so why arent we after them

iv had more than enough, so going to go to bed and hope that when i get up MON will have me eating humble pie with the announcement of some much needed additions.

heres to hoping. night all. UTV

I bet you there'll be at least one signing that will be announced over the course of the night.

VillaPD - i think your mate was pulling your leg :(

I bet you there'll be at least one signing that will be announced over the course of the night.

VillaPD - i think your mate was pulling your leg :(

You wait until tomorrow then when the rest wake up to hear we haven't got anyone in.
Should be entertaining !

Routledge to score on Sun!!

I feel like a kids who has got no presents on christmas morning, and has been handed a bowl of cabbage soup.

O Neill might learn to keep his mouth shut about signings, getting thousands of peoples hopes up by saying we are going to add to the squad and then not being a good enough negotiator to get the signatures.

This has been a disastorous transfer window, abosolutely disastorous. We still have no right back and our makeshift right back's head is already in an another country. This season is going to come crashing down.

We are a selling club its offical especialy after signing one player

We sold more than we brought in this season other clubs get called selling clubs for that so we have to be the same cant be diffrent cause were called aston villa

For once and possibly once only, I agree with Taglor, what have we done, we shoud of been looking at 4/5 players and we get 1, it's not good enough to be honest, we needed more to protect our position in the league, just feel let down.

Thanks Pongo I appreciate it. European opportunity has just slipped away, maybe now people might see MON as a man and not a demi-god. Really bad, it even seems that signing Routledge was just to piss us off even more, just think of all those school lads that feel so let down and can only wonder at other teams, no wonder 99% of people support man utd at least they get something back

the good news is everton and man city havent improved neither have liverpool or blackburn, its all well and good moaning about lack of transfers but realistically we are in 5th and none of the teams around have brought in either

Very, very dissapointed!

I have to agree with whoever said about the work permit thing, surely that could have been identified earlier, or was it a last second panic buy? So our whole scouting network came up with wayne and that keeper? Good work lads, here, have another couple of grand!

Why do we actually need another keeper for that matter? And why does the official site have to rub it in that he aint coming??? WE KNEW 6 HOURS AGO YOU FUCKWITTS!!! JUST LIKE WE KNOW JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING TO DO WITH OUR CLUB BEFORE THOSE WANKERS ANNOUNCE IT!!!

Well, once again we all feel more than a little down about our transfer dealings or lack of! Is it time to get someone in who can deal with these things in a professional manner? And actually action things? A director of football or whatever they are called? I dont really know what they do, or what Fitzgeralds role was but fuckin hell, do we need a kick up the arse from somewhere! Every team around us has streanthened their already sizeable squads... unfortunately ours remains the same - the smallest in the prem, and without a RB.

Oh well, prepare to do all this again come the summer!

What a shame. Move on please.

1981 we won the league with a squad of 14. We can still make it into europe. I think its wrong to have ago at the club for not signing anyone. None of us know wat was going on behind the scenes. I'm sure we went for players but either they didn't want to come or we couldn't agree fees or wages. Just because we have a rich owner doesn't mean we should be pandering to players demands. I still have faith that we will get into europe. We have 5 players in the england squad and thats amazing, so its not like we have a s#?t team. We have the quality to do and i believe we will.