Thursday's busy Villa news day

125/1 with totesport, 150/1 with VCbet, Bluesquare, Paddy Power, 888 and Ladbrokes.

Skybet have us 100/1 on the League, 25/1 FA cup, 20/1 Carling cup and 10/1 top 4 finish.

Its Porto in the friendly.

Just had email regarding Farfan to Villa in an 8 mil deal.

Is he a 20 goals a season man? not yet, but in time. Could do job on right wing whilst his raw? Takes a mean Free Kick.

Also linked to another watford youth player. O'neill must watch em quite a bit livin down south!!!)

Has Barry Gareth gone yet!?

Were getting some great press at the min regarding the acorns sponsorship. Good to see. Club have been tight lipped but I have it on goog account that an official announcement will come next week when we unveil a player or two and the new top/s.

Happy days and fourth place are coming.

Up The Villa!

Any link for the Richard Dunne ermm .. link ??

I dont know much, well anything about that Micheal Lumb, but i would take Shorey and Dunne anyday. They are great players in my eyes and with MON wanting to rotate a bit more next season they will fantastic for Villa. Shorey could even keep Bouma on the bench he can play that good, and i think everyone would love to see Laursen and Dunne as our 1st choice centre backs.

I think you are a bit harsh on Knight on the whole he has been very good for us he had a little bad patch when he came back from injury but so did Barry

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He is strong and suprisingly rapid! ... Dunne and Laursen would be a great partnership!

Hossam Ghaly has claimed that Blackburn Rovers are trying to sign him. As he is a right winger, could this possibly mean Bentley being available? Please, please please !!!!!

theprimeminister, did u see the odds on us winning the uefa cup? i know its a bit premature because we're not even in the competition yet but i do fancy us doing the business.

Dunne is excellent - has been Man City player of the year last 4 seasons.

I have been told that Bentley is going to Liverpool

Most the players we are linked with have been relegated ohh great news NOT

How about signing some fresh young spanish pourtugese brazilan lads

Shame we wont be able to compete with the top 4 next season especialy if the rumoured players is true

villa_tommy, no odds on UEFA available yet.

K4AVFC are u ben cus my m8 ben says it is him. not on the subject tho.
Up The Villa :P

Dunne is an excellent defender and quite frankly I am shocked he is only on 28,000 a week. he is very highly thought of but the Arsenal have been sniffing around him of late and he would prob fancy a move there also. He's worth the money, no doubting that and with his extra strength and bulk in defense, we could easily replace Mellberg and have a very positive season next year.

Shorey, while not being world class, would be a good signing. English too. Dunne is an excellent player - sign him up MON!

Villa_Rules, if we don't increase our squad with players we won't be able to compete in all the competitions. Some of these players would do the business in the UEFA Cup, League Cup and FA Cup (as long as we don't get Man Yoo again...)

They aren't necessarily needed for the week-in week-out league fixtures.

Get Richard Dunne, perfect signing for Villa, would be a great start to the summer activity. :) Laursen and Dunne and Curtis Davies, with Zat knight hopefully not being needed too much. A top class right back and top class keeper and possibly a winger are next essentials on the list. Get those positions right and then start buffering the squad.

we could try nd sign......
dunne
henry
barnes
oshea
chimbonda
bullard
alex
swp
d.bent
lumby
lahm
d.nugent
sagnol
sidwell
guzan
jussi jaiskalianan
ben foster

^^^ asking neva hurt any1 did it????

nd let go......
berger
mellberg
routledge
l.moore
carson
sorenson


KEEP BARRY!!!!!!!

wb to that sum1??!!

Hopefully if we play porto quaresma will catch the eye of martin o neill and he will then put in a 20 Million bid for him in my eyes he would be worth every penny of 20 million

Anyways being realistic it wont happen the day i see martin speand 15 Million on a player is the day i will start to belive we are really really aiming for the top 4 because at the moment im not convinced we are i just think its more villa typical talk and more lies and again another way of makeing us all go and buy a season ticket blag blag blag just like last time

Dont be suprised if we only sing 4 players this comming transfer window

oh ye of little faith.

I Just think we're trying to make 5th ours then push for 4th or higher. Remember we've only had one good season and being honest i can't see us taking 4th for a good couple of years yet. so if we can establish ourselves as the 5th place team then we can edge on i'll be happy with that next year.

dunne would be a great signing that could make barry consider staying. MON needs to be active before the euros cause thats when all the young players will go up in price. >:(

I am quite excited at the prospect of new signings, I am also, though, a Villa fan and know that what we want/need is not what we get.
Though I have supported since 72 and have experienced great highs,and I have been scarred by the numerous lows. I don't mind admitting I am scared, scared that I will allow myself too much expectation only to have it cruelly dashed; again!
I want to believe that MON will spend BIG money on quality players, but, that we will end up relying on players like Dunne as our big summer signings.
It concerns me that once again we are going to lose one of our star players just when they can do a job for us, to a team that we could have turned over (twice).
Please MON let me be wrong!!!!

RSamVillaFan dont get to excited i learnt that in the last 2 transfer windows

Luke, I don't understand your first sentence.

"If thought that we'd been linked with every player to have kicked a ball in the last 5 years then think again."

Wise words of wisdom?

@Arrlui

I think the word 'you' is missing and it should read "If you thought that we'd....."
It's a hard code to crack I know, but I hope that helped you out.

I understand not paying over the odds for players- or being linked with the likes of Sidwell, Shorey, Hoyte instead of bigger players.

However if rumours are to be believed (such as on Goal) that we are offering Barry 70, 000 pounds a week to stay at Villa, it will be very surprising if bigger name players, than the ones weve been linked to in the Premiership, arent joining the club.

Ive just heard a rumour from a cockney friend of mine that MON was at Chelsea the other day discussing Sidwell and Anelka I think he would a good signing Anelka.like I said it was only a rumour,so I dont know how true it is.

keef - hoassm ghalys NOT a winger.
villa_tommy - u seriously think we're gonna win the uefa cup? have you seen who's in it? valencia, sevilla, benfica, udinese and this little italian team called milan. we are NOT going to win the uefa cup, although obv i hope we give it a damn good shot

play porto get Ricardo Quaresma and Lucho Gonzalez they are both class.... Quaresma better than Ronaldo!! ;) :P

Wonder what time Sidwell will sign today??

Cause we were guarenteed it by the papers earlier in the week, haha!

Would like to see Robbo, Dunne, Sidwell and Anelka sign for Villa. Maybe even Shorey so he can challenge Bouma.

Lurman - The teams you mentioned have not come up against our mighty pace. Those lazy Italians and Spanish wont know what hit them, with the likes of Young and Gabby :P

Dunne and Laursen would make a good pairing. Perhaps not the most exciting signing, but he's smart and very steady, nice and strong.

Oi oi lads first time writting and its mr. Dunne that has me typing . Most of you if not all you are seriously underating mr. dunne . Have you ever watched Ireland play he gets M.O.T.M every game he marks international class players out of the game while being helped by some twit like andy o'brien, if he was english we would'nt afford Dunne. BUY HIM MON he'l be player of the season next year.I love the villa and I love birmingham as a city and I love a birmingham girl, but english footie fans under -rate all Irish players, Robbie Keane would be england's number one striker if he had a english passport. Please give Dunne the respect he deserves . Living legend in my eyes

UTV

I can give you a bit of information on Michael Lumb, as he plays for my team here in Denmark (where he's been a starter since he was 17), and is strongly rumored to be heading for Aston Villa (he's also linked with Ajax, Hamburger SV, Udinese and West Ham) for around 2,5 - 3 mio £.

He's a 20-year old left back, with great technique (used to be a winger), and is widely regarded as the most talented left back in Denmark. He's mentally very strong and ambitious - he does extra training with an athletics coach to change his running style (he has been dubbed "The penguin" by fans due to his lack of arm movement) so he can become faster (and he is already pretty fast) - and i can honestly say he has not played a poor game all season despite his young age. In a recent match in the league he complettely shut down Libor Sionko, who's a starter for the Czech national team.

He has just been voted "player of the year" by the club and is also mentioned in a couple of newspapers as a reserve on the "squad of the season", despite being part of a team battling relegation all season (and surviving).

So a major talent IMO. Obviously he's not going to be an immediate reinforcement for you, but if he keeps developing as he has the last couple of seasons, he should emerge as one of the better left backs in the premiership within a season or two.