Birmingham Mail and Villa coverage

[KRS]

Not even sure where to start with that article...completely ignores the years of good service of some of our better players, the fact that a transfer market actually does exist and players are sold for a variety of reasons, and that other clubs also sell their players to clubs in better or worse positions without being branded as "selling clubs".

[Mister E]

Not even sure where to start with that article...completely ignores the years of good service of some of our better players, the fact that a transfer market actually does exist and players are sold for a variety of reasons, and that other clubs also sell their players to clubs in better or worse positions without being branded as "selling clubs".

It's hardly investigative, cutting-edge journalism; just saying what many on here have said in the past.
And are we any different to other clubs, subject to agents, transfer markets and changing management?

[Ger Regan]

Peter Wittingham? Really?

[Exeter 77]

Peter Wittingham? Really?

I thought that. The Peter Whittingham who has had a single relegation season in the top division since he left Villa.

[old man villa fan]

How many of those were bad moves by the club (as the article is trying to imply).  Cahill and possibly Crouch (would have taken a lot of pain before the gain though).

[Toronto Villa]

The other article that was typical form for the Mail was when Richards signed. Instead of just talking about the merits of the player the article instead focused on how his pay compares to the other members of the squad in a shit stirring kind of way. I didn't see any point in it or indeed what it was hoping to achieve which again is par for the course where the Mail is right now covering Villa.

[dave.woodhall]

I don't blame him for writing it - he writes what he's told to write - but with a modicum of research it could have included players such as Danny Blanchflower, George Graham and Martin Keown. Instead, Boaz Myhill and Peter Wittingham makes it look a typical petty Mail anti-Villa spacefiller.

[ktvillan]

Even most of the best of those mentioned weren't actually better after leaving Villa, they simply went on to better things, or were surrounded by better players.  As for including Whittingham and Myhill, that's just desperate.

[KevinGage]

I wake up every day regretting the folly of us letting Peter Whittingham and Boaz Myhill leave.

Though as Myhill ended up at Olbiyun, I can't see how he has ended up going on to bigger and better things.

[PeterWithesShin]

Amazed they missed out Darren Byfield, as he scored loads more after he left than he did with us.

[SoccerHQ]

I don't blame him for writing it - he writes what he's told to write - but with a modicum of research it could have included players such as Danny Blanchflower, George Graham and Martin Keown. Instead, Boaz Myhill and Peter Wittingham makes it look a typical petty Mail anti-Villa spacefiller.

Website's aimed at 20-30 age range so the whole football didn't exist before 1992 comes into play I think with just modern players included.

[garyshawsknee]

Amazed they missed out Darren Byfield, as he scored loads more after he left than he did with us.

And Martin Carruthers !

[tomd2103]

How many of those were bad moves by the club (as the article is trying to imply).  Cahill and possibly Crouch (would have taken a lot of pain before the gain though).

Crouch was a strange one, as he hardly played, then came in and played really well in the League Cup semi-final against Bolton, scored two against Leicester in the next game and was never seen again after that.

[Risso]

Who is that Gregg Evans?  Everything of his that I've had the misfortune to read has just been shockingly poor. He's like a YTS trainee dropped in at the deep end.

[JUAN PABLO]

suprised they missed out sturridge even If he was only here in the academy