Pires - 'I may retire at the end of the season'

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Salifou is the Villa version of that bloke who snuck onto the pitch in a Man U kit to have his picture taken with the team before the Champions League final.  I'm sure everybody looks at him at and wonders who he is, but he's got a Villa kit on so it must be OK.

It's truly incredible, almost on a par with the fake Weah cousin incident with Southampton, except they never gave him a 3 year contract.

Salifou has trousered upwards of £1.5m from us. Criminal.

[Bad English]

He nearly got shot though. I bet they were too scared to boot him out or sell him after that.

[Greg N'Ash]

still compared to what we're likely to lose on the likes of Ireland in wages and transfer fee's i guess Salifou is the least of our problems

[Bad English]

bloke who snuck onto the

Very disappointing shift into American English.

CAMPS! (CAMpaign for the Preterite/Past Participle form Sneaked)

[sonlyme]

If Pires does go and Salifou stays this fella said he'd like a trial?

[hawkeye]

He nearly got shot though. I bet they were too scared to boot him out or sell him after that.

I know he is slow, but this sounds a bit drastic. can they not find a nice field near the Loire to let him trot around in his dotage.

[olaftab]

May?

[hawkeye]

Wll Mr Pires you can retire now for all i care, we have sent a better player than you out on loan so you can put your lazy french arse on the bench, if you had any feeling what so ever for our club, you wouldnt be off talkiing to the press about your retirement plans, you would be putting all your efforts and energy supporting your team mates towards getting the few wins we need to stay in this division. You are another sponger taking a salary because we have a dopy manager that just happens to come from the same country as you.

[ozzjim]

Pires in an interview with the telegraph today clearly likes the Villa and wants us to do well. He was the heartbeat of our best win since the opening day against Blackburn, and IMO should have started the Wolves game, and ditto should start the Newcastle one. He says he wants to be a coach and knows his role is to help the young players with their game. Gets far too much unfair stick for me.

[brian green]

Darren I love the way you dove in there to protect the part of our mother tongue which is the principle of the protection of the past participle.

[alanclare]

I thought he already had retired!

So did I.

[Arsey]

That is an article from 2007.

[Holtenderinthesky]

Total non story.  Don't most people in the UK retire at his age?    

[TheSandman]

Wll Mr Pires you can retire now for all i care, we have sent a better player than you out on loan so you can put your lazy french arse on the bench, if you had any feeling what so ever for our club, you wouldnt be off talkiing to the press about your retirement plans, you would be putting all your efforts and energy supporting your team mates towards getting the few wins we need to stay in this division. You are another sponger taking a salary because we have a dopy manager that just happens to come from the same country as you.

Charming.

[VillaAlways]

Nice positive article here

http://http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/8422321/Robert-Pires-defends-Gerard-Houllier-and-promises-that-Aston-Villa-will-not-be-relegated.html