These rumours just can’t be avoided – No, no please god no to this one!

May 20, 2009 by Martin Banks · 3 Comments
Filed under: Aston Villa, Transfer News 
robert huth

Robert Huth - not on my wish list

I don’t wanna be doing transfer rumours every day. I love doing them and reading them and hearing your opinions on what a player could do for us. But there are so many at the minute that it is going to turn into an obssession and get boring if I do it every day.

One I couldn’t ignore though was Footy Latest’s linking of us with Robert Huth. I hope to god it’s not true. Huth was linked with us (and I believe nearly came to us) back in the O’Leary days. When our ambitions were so much lower and a player like Huth was about the right standard. But as a Laursen replacement, I would be bitterly disappointed. It would be a huge step down for us as a club and would show low ambitions.

It’s no doubt made up and probably based on about as much evidence as; O’Neill looked at him during the Boro game. But he is not what we are looking for. We are after a player who is well above the class of the current crop of centre backs and who will raise them to his level. In fact I might  campaign to make genetic modifications legal and then we can clone Laursen but with new legs! Who will sign my petition? Come on, get your biros out.