January 2015 transfer window ( No GIFs allowed )(Nor fish puns ffs)

deipnosophist · January 17, 2015

Morning lads, any transfer news?

ijjysmith · January 17, 2015

Robertor said:
Assist stats are so misleading, much more important who assists the assister in my opinion, if that makes sense.

Nah makes sense. Especially at an Elche who aren't all that.

EddyKent · January 17, 2015

Imagine the fume if Mirallas leaves and Bobby replaces him with Charles N'Zogbia then.

FTY · January 17, 2015

ijjysmith said:
Last season at Elche- 29 starts. 2 Assists.

Ross Barkley's assists for last season?

marty mcfly · January 17, 2015

ijjysmith said:
Horrible thought but does make sort of sense.

I think I just don't get why Villa?

He has friends there plus he has probably been told he'll be the main man. He was played at the top of the diamond and everything went through him.

marty mcfly · January 17, 2015

Adversus said:
He has friends there plus he has probably been told he'll be the main man. He was played at the top of the diamond and everything went through him.

In a way it's nice to see a young player force a move rather than waste his talent sitting on the bench.

AaronTheBlue · January 17, 2015

never seen gil play but pienaar made a living off of 'assisting the assister' so those stats can be misleading but hey ho.

ijjysmith · January 17, 2015

FTY said:
Ross Barkley's assists for last season?

Yeah but he's awful.

ijjysmith · January 17, 2015

Adversus said:
He has friends there plus he has probably been told he'll be the main man. He was played at the top of the diamond and everything went through him.

I'm starting to get fuming we didn't get him.

Who is his Villa mate?

hetion · January 17, 2015

Martinez was specifically quoted as wanting a Pienaar replacement at the end of the last window.

Either Gil isn't that player, or we're after someone better.

toffeejack · January 17, 2015

FTY said:
Ross Barkley's assists for last season?

they put it as 0 or 1, but he got fouled for both baines free kicks away at WHU, that's definitely assists imo.

marty mcfly · January 17, 2015

ijjysmith said:
I'm starting to get fuming we didn't get him.

Who is his Villa mate?

One he played with at Elche and another at Valencia. The commentators mentioned them during the game.

LouReedwalkonthewildside · January 17, 2015

Not being funny, but Gil has played 30 mins of prem football, think it's a tad too early to go into meltdown about why didn't we get him.

ijjysmith · January 17, 2015

Adversus said:
One he played with at Elche and another at Valencia. The commentators mentioned them during the game.

Ah Carlos Sanchez. Makes a bit more sense now.

marty mcfly · January 17, 2015

hetion said:
Martinez was specifically quoted as wanting a Pienaar replacement at the end of the last window.

Either Gil isn't that player, or we're after someone better.

It's the position/player we need most and Gil had been approached by us this time last season so unless he decided Cleverly in the summer is the better option I really can't understand it. If he does think Cleverly is the better option it really makes me question Roberto's judgement. I didn't know about the buy back so maybe he refused for that reason.

An attacking 4 of Lukaku, Gil, Barkley and Deulofeu would have sorted us for the next 5 years. They would have given us the perfect balance too. Oh I am mad.