28 minutes ago, PVFC2001 said:

How are you still seriously defending your ridiculous Maja suggestion? 

Cole had 1 season in the championship and was constantly on West Brom’s bench not good enough to play.

Maja hasn’t played lower than the championship since he was 20 years old, played 40 championship games last season, and the season before that scored 12 in 26 in the championship.

Josh Maja and Devante Cole are absolutely not comparable 

 

Josh Maja played 1530 Championship minutes for WBA last season, the equivalent of 17 games total.

He has averaged considerably fewer minutes per season for WBA over the three seasons he has been with them.

Which is why WBA have now released him and why his next contract is very likely to be at a level below Championship, and on a fraction of his wages at WBA.

Once again, Josh Maja is definitely a long shot for Vale, but it costs nothing to ask the question, especially for a player who wouldn't have to move house to play here.

Why don't you share with us your own constructive suggestions for players you think we actually could sign who would make our club better?

Edited May 14May 14 by Alan Vit

Do Alan and Paul come from the Flitcroft school of player recruitment?

I distinctly remember Flitcroft spending an entire window, asking the question of Arsenal to take Mika Bierieth on loan, only for him to leave Arsenal on a loan and £4M later that season. 

But hey, as long as we ask the question, that's success and moving forward, right?

Edit: 

Ah yes, here we go: 

  

On 06/07/2024 at 07:32, valeparklife said:

This was one of the strikers Flitcroft was trying to sign 😅😅😅

Talk about fishing in the wrong pond!

Mika Biereth set for Sturm Graz medical ahead of £4m Arsenal exit

WWW.STANDARD.CO.UK

 

 

Edited May 14May 14 by NW9Valiant

2 hours ago, Hoppers said:

There's some rate crazy @ss kick off times fer sure 

To suit the time zones of the teams playing?

1 hour ago, Alan Vit said:

Just a thought for all of the clever critics.

If it had been suggested at this point last year that Vale would be able to sign Devante Cole from WBA, you would have scoffed.

In fact some of you probably did.

I've already said that Josh Maja is a long shot for Vale, and it is obvious that he is.

But so was Devante Cole, and yet that all changed when he got to late August 2025 and still had no contract offer on the table.

These are the calibre of player we have to be considering, if we want, as a first step, to become an established EFL1 club, competing strongly in the top half of the EFL1 table.

I disagree Alan. We need to target realistic options. In league 1 under Flitcroft we were told we were constantly bidding for players who went to sides in the play offs. 
We need to go for realistic targets rather than wasting time and effort on players we simply won’t get 

59 minutes ago, Alan Vit said:

Josh Maja played 1530 Championship minutes for WBA last season, the equivalent of 17 games total.

He has averaged considerably fewer minutes per season for WBA over the three seasons he has been with them.

Which is why WBA have now released him and why his next contract is very likely to be at a level below Championship, and on a fraction of his wages at WBA.

Once again, Josh Maja is definitely a long shot for Vale, but it costs nothing to ask the question, especially for a player who wouldn't have to move house to play here.

Why don't you share with us your own constructive suggestions for players you think we actually could sign who would make our club better?

I don’t owe you my constructive suggestions, i’m not part of the recruitment team. But i am 100% sure that the recruitment team aren’t looking at Josh Maja 😂😂😂

You can apply the same stupid logic and say it costs nothing to enquire about Haaland. After all, what is there to lose? Ridiculous 

16 minutes ago, PVFC2001 said:

I haven't got any constructive suggestions, I just like criticising other people's efforts while offering nothing at all myself.

There you go, fixed it for you.

45 minutes ago, valiant_593 said:

I disagree Alan. We need to target realistic options. In league 1 under Flitcroft we were told we were constantly bidding for players who went to sides in the play offs. 
We need to go for realistic targets rather than wasting time and effort on players we simply won’t get 

Then please offer your own suggestion of any such realistic target.

Just to reiterate (for everyone, not solely you), this is a transfer rumours and speculation thread.

So I'm speculating.

By all means contradict my suggestions but, if you do, then please try to come up with some better suggestions.

Alan Vit: I will cure cancer in 2 weeks.

OVF posters: Lol, course you will you daft git.

Alan Vit: Can every poster please post a 20,000 word thesis on what plans they have for positive change in modern medicine, and what steps they have taken to cure cancer within a 14 day time frame. Your opinions are worthless otherwise.

Personally, Iv not recently made any progression on a cure for cancer, and im not sure i know 200 words, never mind 20000, but thats not to say iv been wasting my time, no sir, not me.

Just in the last seven days iv read a book with blood mages in it (twelve Kings in Sharakhai) played and finished echoes of the end on pc, taken Mutt Hoppers on multiple walks, and painted the shed - no flies on Hoppers, as they say.

Iv been thinking, in a bid to end the ex player conundrum once and for all,  maybe we should put up a poll of all these ex vale players still kicking the leather, with the winners name being put forward to JB for advanced transfer negotiations - we could make it an annual preseason affair and have another poll for official ovf representation on the negotiations committee for said lucky player 👍 😉 

Edited May 14May 14 by Hoppers

1 hour ago, Mellor! said:

Alan Vit: I will cure cancer in 2 weeks.

OVF posters: Lol, course you will you daft git.

Alan Vit: Can every poster please post a 20,000 word thesis on what plans they have for positive change in modern medicine, and what steps they have taken to cure cancer within a 14 day time frame. Your opinions are worthless otherwise.

It's uncanny.

You have paraphrased what I'm saying with absolute precision.

"It's worth the non-cost of a call to see if Josh Maja might be interested at all." now becomes "Here's my entry for the 2026 Booker Prize for fiction.".

Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, why don't you share with us your own constructive suggestions for players you think we actually could sign who would make our club better?

Anything better to offer?

Anything at all?

17 hours ago, Hoppers said:

Love It BJ 👏

You love a what

10 hours ago, NW9Valiant said:

Christ, why stop there? With that logic, since Joe Gelhardt’s contract is up end of season perhaps we ought to enquire about him. 
 

I’m sure he would jump down two divisions as well. 😂

He could do a job at this level 🙂 

7 hours ago, Brian Johnson said:

I’m looking forward to going to Florida in a couple of weeks and watching him play against England

He will be earning us some money while he is over there as well,so great news

30 minutes ago, Alan Vit said:

It's uncanny.

You have paraphrased what I'm saying with absolute precision.

"It's worth the non-cost of a call to see if Josh Maja might be interested at all." now becomes "Here's my entry for the 2026 Booker Prize for fiction.".

Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, why don't you share with us your own constructive suggestions for players you think we actually could sign who would make our club better?

Anything better to offer?

Anything at all?

Alan every time he responds to someone: 

3 hours ago, Alan Vit said:

Josh Maja played 1530 Championship minutes for WBA last season, the equivalent of 17 games total.

He has averaged considerably fewer minutes per season for WBA over the three seasons he has been with them.

Which is why WBA have now released him and why his next contract is very likely to be at a level below Championship, and on a fraction of his wages at WBA.

Once again, Josh Maja is definitely a long shot for Vale, but it costs nothing to ask the question, especially for a player who wouldn't have to move house to play here.

Why don't you share with us your own constructive suggestions for players you think we actually could sign who would make our club better?

That call does have a cost. It costs time. If we spend time calling the agent of every player around Josh Maja's level/status we may get lucky and one signs. We would however, be short of about 5 players as either there wouldn't be time left to call the agents of all the players who would consider Port Vale not to be beneath them or we would waste all of our time being messed about by Josh Maja etc. and the players would no longer be available when Maja etc turn us down.