Silent_Bob Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Eastwood and Savage has something in common then? I wouldn't rule out Eastwood choosing Blackburn ahead of us, if they are after him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloBarnesi Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Lets just get DISTAN from city, that will sort out defence for the time being, especially when Laursen returns as well. Then lets get a right winger (SWP would be fantastic) of some standard, call back hendrie and let him play left wing and let Barry play left back. And then throw some serious money at a striker. Let Hendrie play left wing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 I wondered about that slight bit of craziness. Surely if we're after a decent left-winger (one of which we already have) then we will buy one, we won't let a player who can barely get into the squad play as first choice, out of position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David-Copenhagen Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Lets just get DISTAN from city, that will sort out defence for the time being, especially when Laursen returns as well. Then lets get a right winger (SWP would be fantastic) of some standard, call back hendrie and let him play left wing and let Barry play left back. And then throw some serious money at a striker. Let Hendrie play left wing? Sure he did that for JG when we were top of the league, so I think that is an option we should try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloBarnesi Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Its not an option I like tbh. If people want a left back because Bouma and Samuel aren’t up to it, lets bring one in; or move Barry back and get a left winger. Hendrie is not the future; he’s the last resort Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkr Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 One thing I do know about Eastwood is that he lives on a caravan site, where he's lived all his life, and doesn't really want to move, so that sort of limits him to moving to London clubs (it's over in Essex somewhere). From what I've seen of him he's ok, not amazing. So he is a pikey??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villab0y Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 GGGYYYYYYYIIIIIIIIPPPPPOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David-Copenhagen Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Its not an option I like tbh. If people want a left back because Bouma and Samuel aren’t up to it, lets bring one in; or move Barry back and get a left winger. Hendrie is not the future; he’s the last resort I agree this is not optimal, but everything is not going to be sorted in this window, so we will need to be smart and maybe rethink a bit. We def. need a CD and Distan seems to be a perfect fit. And we need a right winger and a striker more than an replacement for left wing - and I really think that Lee could do a job for us there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam100 Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 why do we definatly need a centre back when we have 4 already and 3 full backs who can happily slot in a to centre back no problem? we should only get a centre back when other positions have been covered IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jez Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Storey-Moore priceless to Villa Dec 21 2006 By Ged Scott Manchester United will head to Villa Park on Saturday with Rio Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney, the two most expensive signings between British clubs, in their ranks. Their combined transfer fees — £56 million — represent almost as much money as Randy Lerner needed to spend to buy Aston Villa in September. It is an illustration of the gulf between the elite of the Premiership and the also-rans like Aston Villa. But, as Villa supporters wait to see the amount of money Lerner makes available to Martin O'Neill next month, they might remember that, in chief scout Ian Storey-Moore, they have a man who was once hot property himself. Storey-Moore was the Rooney of his day, the second-most expensive footballer in the country, with the obligatory Seventies haircut and sideburns. The morning he signed for United from Nottingham Forest for £200,000 in March 1972, it was only after a blaze of publicity that would have sent football's modern-day media organisations into meltdown. The Suffolk-born winger had earned himself a fine reputation at Forest, scoring 105 goals in 235 league appearances. He was set to sign for Frank O'Farrell at Old Trafford when Brian Clough, then the Derby County manager, tried to gazump the United manager. Clough even paraded his "capture" on the pitch before a Derby home match, thinking he had secured the transfer. Storey-Moore now says that this was a classic case of jumping the gun. "Back in those days, you did what Cloughie told you," Storey-Moore said. "I had been given permission to talk to Derby County. And, when I made my appearance on the pitch that day, I just assumed that the deal had been done. "But Forest had a chairman, Tony Woods, who was not a great fan of Cloughie's and he would never have allowed me to go to Derby. So I ended up going to United instead, as originally planned." It was a United side in need of rebuilding. By signing for £200,000, Storey-Moore was an instant hit, scoring five goals in his first 11 games at the end of the 1971-72 season. He missed out on a medal as the title went to Clough and Co. at the Baseball Ground. By the end of the season after, just as Britain was facing a three-day week and power cuts, Storey-Moore's own career was plunged into darkness when he was forced, at the age of 28, to give up the game. But this good-natured, softly-spoken North Midlander, now 61, is not the sort to harbour feelings of bitterness. "That Derby side had some great players," he said. "Roy McFarland, Colin Todd, John O'Hare, Kevin Hector. But, if I'd signed, Cloughie would probably have just stuck me in the reserves. "And, in any case, I went on to play with George Best, Denis Law and Bobby Charlton at United. And, although it was a side that was starting to grow old and needed changing, who knows what would have happened if I hadn't got injured." The same knee injury that had wrecked his England career later ended his playing career altogether. It was during his Forest career that he earned his solitary England cap, in January 1970, in a 0-0 draw against Holland at Wembley. So impressive was his performance that he was picked in Sir Alf Ramsey's preliminary squad for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. His image was one of those struck as part of Esso's World Cup coin collection. He was told he would play in the next match, against Belgium in Brussels in February, but the weekend the squad was picked, he suffered a medial knee ligament injury playing against Manchester City. It was a the same injury that finished him in 1973. Through a brief spell as manager with Burton Albion, via a long spell back at Forest, first coaching the Academy kids and then ten years as chief scout, his experience has not been wasted. O'Neill, on taking over as manager of Villa last August, realised how useful Storey-Moore's experience would be. When O'Neill was given the job, with no time to make any impact on the August transfer window, he was only able to sign Stilyan Petrov. But the first target for Storey-Moore was to help O'Neill plan for January. And, despite having spent a busy autumn travelling both home and abroad, Storey-Moore says that the impact O'Neill has already had on the Villa players has tempered the need to make too many changes. "It's important not to make panic buys," he said. "The summer is the best time to buy, especially foreign players, when you've more of a chance to bed them in properly and give them time to bring their families over here and settle. "But, while there are one or two irons in the fire, and it's no secret that we'll be trying to do something next month, all I know is that if the right player is not available at the right price, we won't just buying players for the sake of it." Clicky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablopicasso Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 thats good news... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 We def. need a CD and Distan seems to be a perfect fit. And we need a right winger and a striker more than an replacement for left wing - and I really think that Lee could do a job for us there. As has been said, we have 3 decent centre halves fit and several full backs who can play there. And a striker who has played there with some success. And our current player of the season so far is our left winger. For the moment I think we're ok to leave Lee where he is. Or on the bench at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncy_chris Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 My January wish list Martin: Baines Someone good at right back??? Muntari SWP / Jesus Navas Pazzini / Keane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condimentalist Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 My January wish list Martin: Baines Someone good at right back??? Muntari SWP / Jesus Navas Pazzini / Keane It doesn't sound as if we'll be signing too many overseas players next month (read ISM article) so you might have to wait until the summer for you're Muntari's, Navas' and Pazzini's. Probably sensible I guess. I'm with you that there is some quality overseas to be tapped into but it seems like January we'll be purchasing from the championship and if we're lucky, premiership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 I'm with you that there is some quality overseas to be tapped into but it seems like January we'll be purchasing from the championship and if we're lucky, premiership. And Celtic, obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condimentalist Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 I'm with you that there is some quality overseas to be tapped into but it seems like January we'll be purchasing from the championship and if we're lucky, premiership. And Celtic, obviously. Obviously, that goes without saying :winkold: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanky Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 I don't a Distin as high as some people do but that's just my opinion on him. I would say we needed a RB, a winger of sorts and a striker. Perhaps a LB as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnePablo Posted December 21, 2006 Author Share Posted December 21, 2006 gareth bale please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncy_chris Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 According to SS, the agent of Jesus Navas and Antonio Puerta has said that there have been bid(s) for his players. It would make my Christmas if it turned out we were after Navas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Who's Navas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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