RHM

[paul_e]

So you start by drawing attention to posters attaching a huge amount of assumptions and then finish with a huge assumption?

yep, my problem isn't with making assumptions, it's with assuming that all the problems are about money and coming from the player.

[brian green]

All I want to see is a consistently astute attitude by the club towards money.  Just like I thought a new contract for Gardner probably made good business sense, it would make good business sense to retain a young player we have developed rather than let him walk away as a free agent.  The sum that has to be done is which is better business for the club, to sign a thirty something year old from the bench of a struggling Premiership side for £5 million or pay £5 in wages to a young player with infinitely more sell on value.  To me it is a no brainer.

[papa lazarou]

Why we're talking about rugs I have no ikea

Unfortunately, punathons are an underlaying irritation on this site.

[Hairbandinho]

He can f off, as can any other 'local lad' who is either taking us for a ride,is not good enough or has an inflated ego.See Gabby,Gardner,RHM. Just leave then if you think you are bigger than Villa. Villa will still exist long after your careers have washed up at Rotherham and Grimsby, fools.

Too many people with rose tinted glasses on here just because they are 'local lads' they get a free pass.

Later RHM and don't forget to thank villa for the huge money we have no doubt poured into you via the youth system when you are a superstar in the mighty Scottish league.

[oldtimernow]

Any ideas as to who his agent is?

Does he have similar history in his other dealings?

[Rigadon]

Yes, he is that good. Twenty times the player Gabby Agbonlahor is who is probably on fifty times his wages.

20 times better than a player who has played 300 games for the first team under various mangers? Gabbys shit attitude aside that seems a stretch based on no real evidence.

[VinnieChase84]

Same situation as Jerome Sinclair when he was at Liverpool. He was a much better propspect than RHM. Moves to Watford and hardly been seen since. The way Bruce is handling this is spot on. The offer is on the table and he prospect to play is available too. He probably would have started on Sunday.
RHM won't even play for a club as big as us ever again is my prediction. Probably end up at Bolton in a few years

[brian green]

I factored into my multiplicant of Gabby's relative worth compared with Rushian Hepburn-Murphy the fact that RHM has not neglected his training, pigged out on junk food, pissed away fortunes in casinos and was proudly photographed doing so, been all over the tabloids with his eyes rolled back into his skull, partied with slappers a roomful at a time, been the subject of paternity suits, been the star of the francophobe Secret Santa we enjoyed so much or called the fans "haterz".   I think my mathematics flatter Gabby if anything.

[Bestmate]

I factored into my multiplicant of Gabby's relative worth compared with Rushian Hepburn-Murphy the fact that RHM has not neglected his training, pigged out on junk food, pissed away fortunes in casinos and was proudly photographed doing so, been all over the tabloids with his eyes rolled back into his skull, partied with slappers a roomful at a time, been the subject of paternity suits, been the star of the francophobe Secret Santa we enjoyed so much or called the fans "haterz".   I think my mathematics flatter Gabby if anything.

RHM would have done disturbingly well to achieve all that  by the  age of 18!

[Chris Jameson]

Any ideas as to who his agent is?

Does he have similar history in his other dealings?

My guess is Agbonlahor is his agent, it's the only explanation for him being anywhere near the first team squad as Bruce is trying to keep him onside to get his client to sign the contract. Is he actually any good? I remember people raving about Gary Gardner and he looks pretty bloody useless to these untrained eyes.

[Rigadon]

Haha! That did make me chuckle.  I suppose my reaction to your original post was that if this man-child isn't signing a contract because people in the background are telling him that he's 20 times the player Gabby is, it might be part of the problem.  In truth he/we will be lucky if he's as good as a player Gabby was in hi prime.  Any more than that will be unknown from our academy.

[Dave]

So you start by drawing attention to posters attaching a huge amount of assumptions and then finish with a huge assumption?

yep, my problem isn't with making assumptions, it's with assuming that all the problems are about money and coming from the player.

I agree. If he's swapping our reserves for theirs then fair enough.

But if say, Rangers have said "we'll match whatever money Villa have offered but we'll put you straight into the first team from day one", then I don't really see what he's got to lose by going there and playing.

[cdbearsfan]

He'd be mental to turn us down for Zombie Rangers. If he's going to go, so be it. I'd have liked to have seen him involved more by now but there's no point in planning for the future if he's not going to be part of it. Decent decision by Bruce.

do one you Smelltic fan WATP

"Smelltic" doesn't really work for a derogatory nickname for Clyde, mate.

[Boz]

Sounds as though the offer from Rangers is lucrative or another club is sniffing around.

His agent more like advising him scenting commission from a transfer

[peter w]

So you start by drawing attention to posters attaching a huge amount of assumptions and then finish with a huge assumption?

yep, my problem isn't with making assumptions, it's with assuming that all the problems are about money and coming from the player.

So assumptions are okay as long as they're yours? Wha' everrrrrrhhhhhhhhhh