Time to map out a plan for Villa's future
- Says blogger Matthew Turvey
Today’s transfer rumours – Feb 25
Monday 25th February 2008, 8:43AM GMT.
All the latest transfer gossip on Wolves, Albion, Villa, Walsall and Blues – plus the best national tales.
WOLVES
INS: Wolves are one of four Championship clubs chasing Boro winger Adam Johnson on loan.
VILLA
INS: Scott Carson is waiting to decide between Liverpool and Villa on his future.
ALBION
INS: Kim Do Heon is keen on a long term deal at The Hawthorns.
OUTS: Albion will release striker Craig Beattie after signing Luke Moore, according to one report.
BLUES
Quiet at Blues today.
WALSALL
INS: Former Villa striker Stefan Moore is on trial at Walsall.
NATIONAL
Charlton boss Alan Pardew wants Chelsea’s Scott Sinclair on loan.
Lomana LuaLua, currently at Greek side Olympiakos, has told Kevin Keegan he wants to return to Newcastle.
We have scoured the back pages and the internet to bring you the latest gossip.
You have read ours now add your own rumours.
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adam johnson is good but he left winger
jarvis not going to be fit soon? as jarvis could play on right but we really seen best of him since playing on the left
maybe loaning a right winger?
routledge of villa must be needing games
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Release Craig Beattie!?!? Can you really see Peace sanctioning a £1.25m fee in the summer, then paying £3.5m for his replacement and letting him go!!!! You’ve got to be joking!! With Jezza’s record in outgoing transfers I’d expect him to get some mug to pay at least £1.5m (tho I do think Beattie could be good for us given a chance!)
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Good result last weekend,even without Kites & Jarvo.Any news on Hennessey?
On a serious note,lets spare a thought for the Arsenal player,Eduardo.In my 50 years of watching the beautiful game,this was the ugliest injury I’ve had the misfortune to have seen.It’s going to be a long road back, but lets wish him (& Gazza)a full & speedy recovery!
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I hope this doesn’t mean Jarvis is out long term or even worse, is going to be dropped down the pecking order. Jarvis has been one of the highlights in an otherwise disappointing season.
As for loan of a right winger to cover Kightly (Gobern looks like he’s out for the season), well that would make more sense but what about Elliot Bennett? He’s done well on loan and on his couple of appearances in the cup earlier in the season. Surely we should give our own youngsters a chance to show what they can achieve? That policy worked well for us last season. I’m sad that MM has not tried it again this year.
I think that the loan of a Prem class centre back would be more useful to us considering the problems we’ve had here in the last month or so.
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I think if you read between the lines that wolves are after another winger, that means Kightly is going to be out for a considerable lenght of time!
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Kent (3), i think it was the third worst in history, David Bust (cov), Luke Nallis (villa) then Eduardo. Looked an ordinary tackle until they slowed it down, yuk!
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5. Your more than likely right with that, With our luck with injuries, Kites won’t make it back. Even though he’s meant to be in light training this week.
Spose we’ll have to wait and see.
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This seems to happen all the time! Matt Murray being one example. Wolves make out the injury is just a precaution & then it turns out to be a lenghty lay-off. Hope this isnt the case with Jarvis & Kites.
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Surprised McCarthy isn’t going in for Kuqi, we could do with another striker!
What is the collective noun for Donkeys?
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Good win for the wolves,if we keep it up we can still get into the run for premiership.
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9 – he went for kuqi in the august window didnt he remember
kyle looks better than kuqi lets start chant now
one kevin kyle
theres only one kevin kyle ;-)
2 – i think wba will look to offload him to someone like hearts for 500k or hibs etc.. i personally dont rate him and you dont really need him now to be fair mcdonald looks to be gaining confidence on loan and looks v.sharp. didnt rate him but maybe with mcdonald it was a confidence matter
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9 abdonwolf:-
a pace of donkeys
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Having bought Michael Kightly and Matthew Jarvis, together with Lewis Gobern being here too, Mick had clearly stated his intention to make wing play a strong feature of his style.
With all three missing, and most of the season at least two have been out, others have needed to uncomfortably fill the void.
There is now a need to use te 93 day loan rule to bring in another player. Adam Johnson and Wayne Routledge are good shouts, but Scott Sinclair would be my first choice, if available.
Keep the Faith
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We have a rubbish striker….that cant score goals and we want someone to take him off our hands………..
Come on wolves u know ur gonna try and sign him at some point!
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baggie_kez:
Hartson gone on hunger strike then?
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Adam Johnston is a pretty bril small left winger who scores goals. Has always played well for Boro and loan out teams Leeds and Watford. Only being kept out by form of Stuart Downing. Get him in!!! We’ll only ever afford him as a loanee — but if it gets us in the play-offs — job almost done!!!
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kent wolf
he doesn;t play for us anymore….we let him go and he retired mate keep up!
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I know, WBA couldn’t afford his food bill!
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