Richards, Guardado, and Manolev

The rumour mill continued today when Villa were linked with yet another four players. I’m going to go through each player and give you my opinion on weather or not they could make the grade at Villa Park.

Sky Sports are reporting Manchester City defender Micah Richards is being linked with Villa, along with a host of other clubs including Spurs and Arsenal. Richards is a player I admire immensly and would welcome any move for the young defender. His past season or two he seem’s to of fell out of favour at Eastlands but just like Richard Dunne I think he’s a player who needs a fresh start at a new club with new management.

Radio Cadena Ser are claiming that Villa are to do battle with Blackburn over the possible signing of winger Andres Guardado of Deportivo La Coruna. I’m not going to make up some rubbish and say I know a lot about this player apart from he’s decent on Football Manager. Having taken a look at his wikipedia page, he’s only 23 and has already nearly clocked up half a century of apperances for his country.

The Mail are reporting that we are interested in Stanislav Manolev and will have to fight of competition from Manchester City for the Bulgarian full back. He has apparently taken Dutch football by storm since his £3million move to PSV last summer and both English clubs are set to pay around double that to bring him to the Premiership.