Villa vs Sunderland – Is Kenwyne Jones playing against his team-mates-to-be?

January 16, 2009 by Martin Banks · Leave a Comment
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02With Kenwyne Jones being one of the main links to Villa during the transfer window (although it seems Spurs are determined to outbid us), how will he feel about facing us on Saturday? The tall striker had been linked with a £5m move and now a vastly improved £12m bid from Villa, a rumour which O’Neill hasn’t denied, but at the same time he hasn’t confirmed it either.

That’s the thing with MON, he’s very cagey about transfers. He doesn’t admit to anything in press conferences, so us Villa fans are left murmuring about the rumours we’ve heard in papers or on websites or down Honest Joe’s Cafe. Maybe he’s pondering a move for teenage whiz-kid Masal Bugduv! Bugduv is believed to be the next big thing, taking the world of Fantasy Football to new realms.

The game

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Transfer Gossip – lap it up, what there is of it anyway

January 13, 2009 by Martin Banks · 2 Comments
Filed under: Aston Villa, Transfer News 

Transfer gossip13 days into the transfer window and so far it’s been a low key affair for Villa, despite being linked with about 2,000 players during December. With the way the papers were talking before Christmas, I was expecting it to be standing room only at Villa Park by now and for Randy Lerner to be filing for bankruptcy. But it turns out you can’t always trust the rumours you read… who knew?!

Emile Heskey was a major rumour for us, but now looks more likely to make Liverpool his destination if he moves away from the JJB. The England striker has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity of late, despite his game not really changing all that much. He’s playing a little better, but he’s always been a good player, people just never seemed to want to believe it before.

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Transfer Gossip 6 Jan 09

January 6, 2009 by Martin Banks · Leave a Comment
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Transfer gossipJanuary’s here, it’s a new year and we’re all back at work, we’re all still writing ‘08′ when we date anything and we’re all gonna have a birthday in 09 and get a year older. But on the bright side; January’s here, the transfer window is open!! Yes, it’s fun time in the football world, when speculation, rumours and sometimes just plain made up lies are everywhere, linking Ronaldo to Man City, Kaka to Man City and err… well just lots of people to Man City really.

They may be the new media darlings, and they would go and do it the season we break into the top four and steal our limelight, but there’s still a few new buzzes coming out each day about the Mighty Villans Read more