The transfer window closed a week ago and already the Robbie Keane rumour has started up again. While I like the odd rumour, this one is becoming a little tedious.

Yes, I'd love to see Robbie Keane playing for Aston Villa. He's only 26 years old, knows exactly where the goal is and works hard for the team. The only thing I'd be a little worried about it where he's going to fit in and if under the current setup he'd want to come in.

We've now got Carew, Young, Agbonlahor, Moore and Angel all fighting for a starting place and we've also got more youngsters coming through the ranks that may just get given a chance to prove themselves fairly soon.

Would a player like Robbie Keane want to come to Villa not knowing if he's going to start or at least get a place on the bench each week?

This is where my personal speculation comes into play. Let's imagine for a minute that Angel doesn't find his scoring touch again this season or he's not given another proper run in the team as Carew and Young go on a scoring blitz.

His contract, I think, is up in 18 months and his name wasn't mentioned when talking about renewing contracts of players with 18 months left. Angel heads off to the bright lights of the big smoke and Robbie Keane comes to Villa Park. Would it be a fair swap?

I can't see it happening but I seem to remember a rumour that Spurs showed an interest in Angel once and for all I know it could have been Jol.

For the record I also like Angel but the simple truth of the matter is he doesn't look to be in the long term plans of Martin O'Neill so despite my liking of the player I've got to think that this could be part of the current thinking at Villa Park.

There were rumours after all in January suggesting he was offered in swap deals for players. No smoke without fire, usually.

I think ultimately both sets of supporters would be happy with it if it happened, I just wish if it was going to happen it would happen so so this Keane rumour went away, then we could concentrate on getting Defoe. Just in case anyone was wondering, that last bit was a joke.

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stephen ryan said:

someone wants angel yippeee good riddance useless lump i'd say thats a great swap with villa getting 99.999% better end of the deal angel is was and always be a dollop of sh** who was never worth what we paid and in six years you can say the only job hes done is spray sh** around the field

February 07, 2007

Luke said:

I would like Keane to come and he's known not to be happy with the rotation policy at WHL. Spurs are a good club but for some reason find themselves unable to reach the potential they have. For all the money and quality players they have they can never quite break into the level of clubs they should be in. No doubt the Spurs fans will be on shortly to tell us that he'd never leave them to go to a small club like ours that is going nowhere and should be in League One.

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Quiet at the library said:

I'm too sick of these rumours. Keane has started many games at WHL but due to injury recently, Defoe has come in. Its just crappy papers tryinh to make up crappy stories...

February 07, 2007

arkspur said:

Nobody at Spurs wants Angel, thank you. We are all very happy with Keano.

February 07, 2007

yid said:

Yes people. Robbie Keane is really going to leave spurs, a team actually going places,where he is loved(and indeed he loves) for ...aston villa, the perennial mid table team. (apart from the occasional relegation fight.) And do your research clowns, Robbie has suffered more in the past at the hands of the rotation policy, ans still signed a new contract, so why would he be unhappy now when he's the one starts more. Stick to players more in your league, we'll sell you Mido if you want.

February 08, 2007

franglo said:

Tottenham and Aston Villa are similar clubs; good support, strong history, good 'brand' names. Unfortunately both have been mismanged at board level(Ellis at AV and Scholar at THFC).It has taken a couple of attempts, and a lot of patience to turn this board-level management disater around at Spurs, and Villa look as though they are only just getting started down a similar long path after the sale to Lerner. The problem is, it looks like the ship has sailed. Playing catch up to the big four is a frustrating, unrewarding task - they have the best squads/sytems/revenue and management. When it comes down to the playing staff, it is possible to have some successes and in O'Neil and Jol, the two clubs probably have some of the best of what's left to select teams and tactics(although many of us at Spurs are not so certain of the latter point). But swapping players between the two clubs will not move either further forward. Changing shirts may give some players a little short-term impetus, but in the long run they are still the same players. Until and unless the two clubs can attract the type of players who enviously eye a chance to play at Manure, Woolwich Scumbags, Chel$ki or Scouse city, we are both going to be fighting out at as also-rans. Sad for us both and at least a dozen other clubs whose supporters deserve better. Real Villa fans should not want this swap, and I know that no real Spurs fans would.

February 08, 2007

IPBOPMALIK said:

A bit harsh I think Mr.Ryan. Angel and family were treated like s*** when he came to Villa,but,eventually settled and was leading scorer in the prem. He has a fantastic first touch, lays the ball off well, superb in the air, but, has often been let down by s*** support play and other players not being able to read his superior way of thinking during a game. Like he said himself he probably arrived at Villa at the wrong time. I'm not interested in Keane, he'll probably go to Celtic anyway.

February 09, 2007

Daniel O'Donnell said:

I am 12 and am a season ticket holder and i think that although john carew could be a legend to the villa he hasn't enough power in his shots to really cause trouble. ok he did score on his debut against west ham but if u look again at that goal u will realise that the shot required no power whatsoever. and today against reading he haD numerous chances at goal and never really made anything happen when he cou7;ld have scored ~3 goals. so if he dont step it up a gear he is not gonna get much applause

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