Despite being 12 weeks till the window re-opens, transfer rumours are already rife

By: Martini Extra Dry | October 16th, 2008

The summer months are spent in frantically trying to get hold of as many new signings as possible before the window shuts and you find yourself stuck with your ‘lot’ until January. It causes many teams to overspend and overcompensate in fear of an injury leaving you bollocksed through till Christmas.

Villa are a decent example, we signed Steve Sidwell this summer, as a direct replacement for the apparently exiting Gareth Barry. Liverpool never ended up snatching Bazza, but Martin O’Neill couldn’t take that chance because of the transfer window and had to replace the man before he had even left. If Liverpool had stalled and stalled and then eventually snapped up the Bazman on deadine day, Villa could’ve found themselves short staffed in the middle of the park for half the season.

Eliminate the transfer window and this kind of thing won’t happen anymore.

Also, Villa spent a lot of time in dealings with Liverpool which resulted in nothing, when we could’ve been concentrating on the signing of Kevin Doyle, a keen target of ours. In the end time ran out and the Doyle deal never happened, but now it is looking like January will bring New Year cheer for Villa’s forward line.

The rumourmill is already in full swing now, depsite the transfer window not opening until 12 weeks today and the suggestions are that Harewood is leaving Villa Park in a £3.5m deal that will take him to Premiership new boys Stoke City and Reading will lose their star striker Kevin Doyle in favour of a claret and blue life for the Irishman.

Its a shame for Marlon Harewood, I ike him and I think that if we’d stayed the quality we were when we signed him (hovering around towards the top of the bottom half) he could’ve fit in well with us, but we have improved drasticaly in the last couple of years and it’s kind of left him behind. However it was pleasing to know when Harewood joined that he wanted to “make the club as big as it’s err… as big as his ear… big hair… as big as it is”. Apparently.

In his place would come Reading’s leading scorer who will hopefully be happy to swap his position as Reading’s biggest hero for Villa’s subs bench. He might get in the team after a while, form depending, but he definitely won’t stroll into the side. Not without an injury to Big John or Gabby.

Keep watching this space for anymore rumours that are abound and opinion on what they can bring to the team.