Round up: Sorensen a doubt, new defender, Holte Hotel and not much else

So is everyone still patient with nothing going on??

where are all the signings we thought we were going to get?

Another mid table season on the cards it seems - everyone ready for a spanking by Liverpool

Two weeks to kick off & not 1 fit right back i just don't get it??????????????????????

Cant believe how bored I am with this pre-season compared to the hope and excitment I felt at the end of last season, its been a real let down.
No news of any signings, we face Liverpool a week Saturday with no recognised RB, a second choice keeper (who I would like to see recapture his Arsenal form but I doubt this) and a squad woefully lacking depth should we get any injuries.
not happy !! :'(

I honestly think we are no better off squad wise than we were last season, therefore i don't believe we are going to do much better than maybe 8th or 9th. I'm a little disappointed with the lack of transfer activity when we were supposedly promised a number of class signings, but then again i suppose us villa fans will have to grin and bare it whilst the top four pull even further away, Liverpool were head & shoulders above us even before they spent a further £50 million, with funds raised & with what we have purchased already we have probably spent £5 million.

Do all you season ticket holders feel mugged or do you believe in what MON is building!

Can't wait for the new season to start & think Young, NRC & Moore are going to be Villas star men for the season.

Right we play pool a week on saturday thats 11 days to sign a RB just be patient he wouldn't be saying we need players if we weren't going to sign any. i trust RL & MON to come good for villa.

Our midfiled and front line is absolutely fine!!!!

We do need a right back and goalie tho! Not long left and that is annoying as new signings take time to settle in!

Has anyone got any good rumour sites, i always check football-rumours.com and the BBC and SKY websites but could do with something else to look at.

Try sporting life

I saw the goals from the the games on tour after watching the link someone provided and i thought we did really well, we looked dangerous and Moores finishing was really good. Ashleys goal was an absolute belter and now im really looking forward to going to the Inter game at the weekend to see how the likes of Moore,Gabby,Young and Reo-Coker cope with some of those players, could be a really good confidence builder for the boys.

P.S ( Me and the girls got some of the season tickets in the north stand lower and i was wondering if anyone has watched a game from there before. Were on the back row central to the goal )

We have the smallest squad by far - total 20 players it was that went on tour!!! I have seen a stat that that is the joint smallest squad potentially ever to start a premiership season. And that includes kids Ohallaran, steiber and osborne. It is all very well saying our midfield and attack is fine but what happens when 3 or 4 of them are injured which will happen at some point. It happened last year and that is why we had such a bad middle of the season. Even MON admitted the problem was lack of numbers/depth so why have we reduced the size of the squad so much?
The players should be in by now to gel before the season starts. Cant see us finishing higher than last season at the moment.

I have watched a game from the north lower, it was a few seasons back when we played Nk vartex in the inter toto cup...they could only muster an amazing 5 fans so villa had the north lower. they are decent seats, i sat quiet near the front and really liked how close i was to the players. i was about 13 at the time and ever since then ive had a season ticket...so it couldnt of been a bad experience!

Really professional the way we have left signings until last minute, if we are lucky the players that we keep being promised will come might get to know each others names before kick off. OK I'm being negative but apart from a mickey mouse cup we won 13 years ago and a shocking fa cup final what have Villa given me back for so much time, money and emotion? All of the players passing through those doors in that time have been paid ridiculous amounts of money including agents and businessmen, so many have got rich on the back of fans by providing us with what? All I am asking for are a couple of exciting signings for repayment, if the players give their all that's fine you can't ask for more and this is a new start so lets just see, but a one sided relationship can only go on for so long. Yes it was the old regime that traded Villa as a business, investing just enough to ensure premiership survival and a constant income but not enough to win things but by chance, BUT I need more from the new owners to really believe, not MON he is great and will do what he can, it's just not positive enough when watching so called lesser teams investing and buying players. I hope I eat my words and will gladly admit to being a negative whinger, but I DO believe that after such an amount of time with no return it is within my expectations to reach for the stars.

Lichaj was the Parade U.S. Defender of the Year last year: LINK

Looks like another excellent value signing from O'Neill

Hi, great website, but I was wondering would be possible for a "Villa in the papers" post every now and again, with links to articles on Villa? I almost missed Martin O Neill's interview in The Sunday Times there at the weekend.
Just a suggestion.

to be honest i still think 2 playes are definatley needed in the starting 11, if we are goin to have a chance of tryin to get into europe- wich are a gk, and a rb.

gk- carson IMO -5M

rb- lucas neil IMO - 5.5M

CARSON,NEIL,MELLBERG,LAURSEN,BOUMA,YOUNG,PETROV,REO-COKER,
BARRY[C],AGBONLAHOR/L.MOORE,CAREW. 4-4-2.

SUBS-SORENSEN,CAHILL,GARDNER,MALONEY,HAREWOOD/MOORE/AGBONLAHOR.

that would be a quality 16 and i would be happy with that!!!

UP THE VILLA!!!!!!!

Like i said before, maybe next season is gonna be the season we make our mark as opposed to this season.

I can see us bringin in a RB and a CH, not to sure about the keeper situation at the minute.

I think if we can have a good run up to january we will again strengthen we 2 or 3 new signings.

sorry johnny, but why would luca neill come to us?

He just signed for west ham and is on about 70,000 a week.

IMO he is not worth it anyway and is a scumbag, so no thanks!

sorry for being negative but does anyone else get the feeling we're gonna get left behind?? there's reports that west ham are lining up a double swoop for smith and gudjohnsen , we on the other hand have just signed some 18 year old with a broken foot???

We do need a RB & a goalkeeper. Doesnt the transfer window close August 31st? so MON has another month. I know the season starts on the 11th so we possibly wont have all our signings for the openining match but id rather MON made clever buys rather than Panic buys.

Johnny i would love to see Carson come to Villa but i dont think Liverpool would want to sell him. If we did get him i would be more than happy.

Lucas Neill i dont think would come. WHU are paying him high wages (over 60grand if you believe the papers) and i dont think he is the sort of player we should break our wage structure for. He picked money over chance of success. Id rather MON went abroad for a RB as any in the PL will be overpriced.

im startin to get abit worried now as we have brought 2 new players in and the season starts in just over a week. the midfield n strikers look good, were lookin very threatening going forward but we dont have any cover if anythin happens to them and our defense we need to build on we dont even have a full back four or any cover, if we go into the season like this we will prob b ok untill we start pickin up injuries and suspensions then we are really going to struggle

Ive seen alot of people drafting there villa team to start the season, and most are missing out one important player - Gabby Agbonlahor. He is our main man, possibly our most valuable player and he will be our main man this year. Yes Luke Moore is looking terrific which is good news for all villans, however i do believe our team should be based around Gabby.

i think our team should b based around gabby, moore n young they r gonna b 2 of our biggest players this season n they r all young still aswel

question is 4-3-3 or 4-4-2?

If you go 4-3-3, it'll probably be reo barry petrov with Carew up top and Aggy, Moore or Young off him.

If you go 4-4-2 it'll probably be reo barry with Aggy on right and young on left with carew and moore up front.

Another question, who would you drop Petrov, Moore, Aggy or Young?

Then again with our lack of numbers defensively it could be
3-4-3 or 3-3-4.

I would love to see peoples response and see if they think the same as me.

One last point, they say we've not signed many players, granted first team has been slow but they have been snapping up future prospects two Austrians, one Finish, One American and Young Harry Forrester from Watford, RL and MON have always said they have a 5-year plan, not 2 or 3, so don't be disappointed our time is comming guys.

Gabby has to play upfront, he looks so much more comfortable and dangerous than when he was on the wing.

Young looked very comfortable and very threatening on the wing in the U21 championships.

Our team is very much based on raw pace.

Looking around the premiership this year, many defences including ours lacks real pace.

In Barry, Petrov, and Reo Coker we have creative players that can take advantage of the speed within the team.

I am very optomistic at the thought of seeing alot of goals for the boys in claret and blue.

at johnny you have gabby twice m8

i no i being negative but everyone am signing the players we been linked too and flowershopboy is right everyone signing good defenders and players and we sign broken foot people so but i want us to sign someone now getting so angry >:(

Good to see spurs sign another great player Boateng, we are trailing away so badly

have you seen Boetang play?

Yah, wie fiel bitte das bundesliga, wahre liebe! Boateng bitte shun

lol spot on not much at all going on hopefully tho some more transfer activity this week if not im sure we will at least a couple of players next week now that we are back from the tour

If not any players then we will have to make our own storys up again for a while longer

Just want kick off now fvck the transfers i just wonna watch a premership match........

DID I MISS SOMETHING.....!

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Bring back alan wright,ray houghton,dalian akitinson,dean saunders,shaun teale,tony daily, mark bosnich :D even stan the man collymore lol and also get M.O.N back in his playing boots

gd idea if they fit in a football shirt lol ;D

I think we all missed the signing of Forlan steve m.

Would you be willing to pay £9 million for Curtis Davies?

The Spanish outfit had been on the lookout for a new centre forward following the sale of Diego Forlan to Aston Villa and they have pulled off a notable coup by fending off rival interest to sign Rossi.

????? thats a bad mistake

forlan has gone somewhere..... but where?

"Rossi will help fill the void left by the departure of Diego Forlan at Villarreal next season." that was on sky sports website

Forlan is at Athletico Madrid. Replacement for Torres!

oh so hes defo not on his way to the villa. i think someone has got there paper talk all muddled up

to be honest i think luke moore will do better than gabby this season. i actually think scotty carson has a good chance of coming as it will help is england chances, and it will be hard to dislodge pepe reina, so thats not to ridiculous.

i only said lucas neil because he is a quality player and a MON type of player, in the way he is rough and aggressive which could be only good for our defence and would add extra leadership at the back.

but it think bosingwa would be a more probable signing for the RB role

CARSON,BOSINGWA,MELLBERG,LAURSEN,BOUMA,YOUNG,PETROV,REO-COKER,
BARRY[C],L.MOORE,CAREW. 4-4-2

SUBS- SORENSEN,CAHILL,GARDNER/BERGER,MALONEY/HAREWOOD,AGBONLAHOR.

i think moore will be our best striker next season he is on fire!!
and a better finisher than gabby, and his oveall play is better, gabby or moore???? moore gets my vote

UP THE VILLA!!!!!!

this transfer window is goin so slow, ill be glad when its next sat so i can finally watch some football. no transer activity or even rumours is startin to bore me now

I like both Moore and Gabby but Gabby gets my vote!

Thought i would check who has spent more than us so far this transfer window- Man U about 50m ,Liverpool about 50m ,Spurs about 30m ,West Ham about 25m ,Pompey about 22m ,Fulam about 18m ,Chelsea about 15m ,Arsenal about 15m ,Sunderland about 15m ,VILLA 12M. Thats nine but we havent finished yet i dont think as much money is being splahed as we all thought would be. I still expect us to spend another 15-20m before the window closes.

i doubt we will b spendin much more money, the longer it goes without hearing any transfer news or rumours the more its getting me down. i was well pleased the start of the new transfer window thought we would b gettin players in but its not really happened yet. i thought villa this season would b on the way to challengin for that european spot but the way things r goin its just gonna b another 12th/11th finish, i hate to b negative but all the teams around us have improved n got stronger n we have just moved down the peckin order, it could all change in a few days tho the transfer window is open another month this is just how i look at it now.

jonny_1991 i cant see why you would have gabby on the bench.

No disrespect but im glad ur not the manager

I woul much rather see gabby and young on the wings cause of thee pace and keep interchanging them through the game just like ronaldo and giggs do and how duff did wih robben

Looks like Man City are about to sign 3 players in a day, that will be 7 in a few weeks that the Swede has been in charge!
We have had a years notice to start getting our targets in and we get 2!!
So I agree, very quiet on the Villa front at the minute.
I will be far happier when this window shuts now, I keep thinking we will be getting some decent players in today, then tomorrow and it never happens. Getting bored, just want to watch some football at VP.

hi im new to all this football on web watchin thing can anybody give me some advice on where i can watch the villa stoke game please?

Luke Moore gets my vote anyday he will do better than gabby this season coming :)

It's quite annoying to once again read so much negativity from fellow Villa fans. Do we really want to justify o'leary's (fickle) comments? Why not show a bit more faith instead of comparing us with other so called big spenders such as West Ham e.t.c. I personally would'nt want any of the signings that they have made. How is it that people (fans) have suddenly become experts in the transfer market? Come on, lets wait and see what happens between now and the end of the month before we judge MON!

I think its clear Gabby Agbonlahor has to start for us he is possibly our best player and biggest threat.

Also Agbonlahor is a striker and looks alot more dangerous upfront, was it 5 in 5 last games of the season when he was playing upfront?

You have to play your best players in there best most dangerous position, for Gabby thats up top.

Ashley Young adapts very well to the wing and looks more comfortable on either, and also very threatening.

to kayarcee
While Lichaj was Defender of the year, did you notice who was overall Player of the Year ?
It was Jozy Altidore...JPA's strike partner at Red Bulls. I put something on here last week just wondering if he may be on his way to us seeing as JPA seemed to leave for free.
Any ideas anyone ? Just a thought.
UP THE VILLA ;)

Altidore has taken a bit of a back seat since JPA joined however, which shows he maybe isnt quite up to Villa park scratch.

Man, Altidore is only 17: of course he backs up Angel. He was one of the best players at the Under-20s World Cup. Is that not up to our standards?

And, obviously, Altidore can't move overseas till he turns 18.

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Check out Altidore's two goals against Brazil in the Under 20s. He doesn't do much for the second, but you need to see Adu juggle on the sidelines past two defenders.

We'll be fortunate to be on Altidore's radar when he turns 18. You'd be nuts to think otherwise. He was one of the best, if not the best, pure strikers at the Under-20s.
Unfortunately, I doubt that he'll come here.

And, by the way, the Parade awards that Altidore and Lichaj won are given only to high-school players.

I gaurantee Altidore will not move to a big club for any kind of big money. There are much better young talents over here, like 15yr old Harry Forrester we have recently signed.

Im 17 and i was playing conference football with Tamworth last year. Im injured now with cruciate ligament but i am going out to U.S.A next year. Its gonna be so easy the standard is garbage.

Say's you who was playing conference football hmmm lol But anyway on to more important things. Ridgewell to blues in the next 24hrs why are we selling and not buying ? i wholely trust MON but i'm beginning to doubt the clubs dealings. then i see Man city sign 3 in a day Newcastle are in talks with smith, west ham with dyer, Why aren't villa in talks with anyone? Why do we always have a no talk of signings policy when us Villa fans want to at least hear 1 or 2 players we're actively chasing! Oh and Watford have had bid for Bouazza from an unnamed Premiership Club Please god don't let it be us. I just hope we move to secure players this week or early next before the 11th!

i think the offer for bouazza is from fulham well from what ive read but yeah where are the signings, you see teams like west ham, newcastle, man city who have all made decent signings they are 3 teams we are goin to b ahead of us in the league unless things change, i think we are building for the future with the signings we have made like reo coker n not just splashin the cash on big wages like west ham seem to b doin but we need more players, we seem to be sellin n not buyin n we already have 1 of the smallest squads in the prem

sorry 17 and playing in the conference, yeah think thats pretty good.

Its clear Chrisodon doesnt really know alot about football and im guessin has never played the game before.

See thats were it shows you're not a good player if you're 17 and only playing for tamworth. you'd clearly struggle any higher hence why you want to go to a so called "garbage" standard of football. Why not stay here with tamworth in a league which you obviously think is better than the MLS ? And to make the assumption that i've never played football before is a stupid one, 1 i used to play football with Luke & Stefan Moore 2 on several occasions i was told i was just as good and that i should try to break into football as there isn't alot of good english RB's up and coming in this country, And 3 i never got into professional football because i broke the 3rd toe and 3rd metatarsil that required a year to heal and when it did i required a futher operation to place 3 metal rods in the toe and metatarsil and shave the bone, which took another year. So the result of that was i can't run properly cause the toe doesn't bend upwards.

How old are you and whats your name? cause i was at villa, I was at Tamworth on loan from Walsall thanks. Ive been out 4 months now with cruciate ligament damage. And when Burton toured America at the end of last season they beat chicago and dc extremely comfortably. MLS is possibly a similar standard to the conference. You dont half talk some sh*t mate lol. I dont believe you for a second because your views on football are just very very amateur and steriotypical.

So how many 17 year olds break through into the first team in conference league 2 league 1 championship or premiership? very few.

Lol right MLS is the same standard as conference? then why would Angel really lower his standards of competition and still only manage 9 goals, Need i mention Beckham? Have you not noticed more americans are in the premiership than ever before? Then theres Freddie Adu i've no doubt he'll go to a bigger european club than benfica in the future. And as far as talking shit i'd say you're a pro at that despite being only 17 so congrats you're a pro at one thing, maybe you should stick to that cause the way you talk about yourself and football is a joke. Why would you to go to the MLS if you've been with Villa and now Walsall? oh and the mighty conference team tamworth lol

Im not going to the MLS, you obviously have no idea how football works in america. You dont join clubs as youngsters and theres not different leagues. Its all done in states and univeristies. Im going to university to both broaden my sport science studies and further my football career. So yes parts of the MLS is extremely similar to conference football. Mate do your homework before trying to upstage me on a subject i am very knowledgable about.