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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Chipsticks on November 13, 2012, 05:38:35 PM
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Aston Villa have beaten a number of clubs to the signature of Swedish teenager Khalid Abdo.
The likes of Fulham and Hamburg have been chasing Abdo, but Villa have agreed a deal for the 16-year-old.
Abdo came to Villa's attention after impressing for Swedish Second Division outfit Larje-Angered and he is relishing the chance of joining the Premier League club.
"Back in September I found out that Aston Villa wanted to recruit me," Abdo told fotbolltransfers.com. "I'm happy, it feels good.
"I will play with the U18 team but hope to move up to the reserves as soon as possible. I feel I can handle the pace here so I want to take the step from U18 to reserves within a year.
"Aston Villa graduate often players for the first team. Their academy is the best of those I was with. I feel that I can best develop here.
"The goal is to step up to the first team and then maybe move on to a bigger club."
I know nothing about him but his comments about moving on to a bigger club really grinds my gears.
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Not an ideal introduction but he's aiming for the top, which is what you would hope for.
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But naive of the kid to make a statement like that,I suppose a few players think like that but not the sort of comment to make public when just starting at a new club.
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Let'sjust put it down to being lost in translation.
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Benteke said something similar in the Belguim press shortly before signing for us.
Hopefully in the near future we'll be so good we'll be looking to replace them with better players.
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So he wants to play for Barcelona and he hasn't been media trained. I reckon a lot of players that sign for us think the same but don't say it out loud, not because they are smarter but because their agent has drilled into them what to say to the press.
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It's an idiotic thing to say but I guess if you're a 16 year old Swede you will only have the last few years as a reference point (which haven't exactly been the best).
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I will be delighted if he can earn a big money move to Barcelona after a decade of brilliant football for Aston Villa. This means he is doing well.
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don't like that one bit, and it's typical of modern day football that at such an early age they're thinking of the big move and big money.
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Good luck to the kid. Not the brightest thing to say, but it's worth remembering how many dumbass things we all said at 16.
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At seventeen Raheem Sterling is after 50,000 a week. At seventeen I was just grateful to have a job!
How the world has changed.
I hate kids like these two. Master Abdo is a prospective Charlie Big Potatoes. Still he was impressed by our Academy.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the kid's ambitious and wants to reach the top of the game, but to say that of your new employers just after signing a contract is disrespectful to the club and us as the fans that support it.
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At seventeen Raheem Sterling is after 50,000 a week ...
This season's media gigolo.
He may as well punt for as much as he can get in the EPL trough; everyone else is (more fool the suckers for paying out).
And we tacitly endorse it by showing unnatural loyalty to a sport that is sadly corrupt from within.
Grumpy Old Man, signing off.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the kid's ambitious and wants to reach the top of the game, but to say that of your new employers just after signing a contract is disrespectful to the club and us as the fans that support it.
I suppose he has to ask why he's not at Manchester United/Barcelona/Real Madrid's academies if he's so desperate to fuck off there.
Stupid thing to say, but whatever.
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i thought this thread was about trying to get that guy deported?? ;)
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i thought this thread was about trying to get that guy deported?? ;)
Don't worry , heskey has gone ! Shipped off to Aussie.
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Said it before, I don't care if we have player join looking for a big move to someone else, to earn it they'll have to play well for us, which is as much to our benefit as theirs. If he proves good enough to sign for Real or Barca then great, it means we'll have had a very good player for a couple of years.
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Bigger clubs are available, greater ones are not.
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Why dont we cancel his contract and then tell him to do one(as they say in Liverpool) We might get the respect we deserve from the other clubs . Or at least get him to apologise to the club and supporters in the club programme......and not bloody twitter!
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Said it before, I don't care if we have player join looking for a big move to someone else, to earn it they'll have to play well for us, which is as much to our benefit as theirs. If he proves good enough to sign for Real or Barca then great, it means we'll have had a very good player for a couple of years.
I'm sure many players think the same and want to play as high as possible but there's a difference between thinking of it as a stepping stone and actually saying it .
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Said it before, I don't care if we have player join looking for a big move to someone else, to earn it they'll have to play well for us, which is as much to our benefit as theirs. If he proves good enough to sign for Real or Barca then great, it means we'll have had a very good player for a couple of years.
You're absolutely right, and I totally agree with what you say. However there's still the childish, spiteful side of me thinking "Why wait, Khalid? Fuck off now if you feel like that."
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Bigger clubs are available, greater ones are not.
Well said. I'd also say 'richer'.
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What position does he play?
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Said it before, I don't care if we have player join looking for a big move to someone else, to earn it they'll have to play well for us, which is as much to our benefit as theirs. If he proves good enough to sign for Real or Barca then great, it means we'll have had a very good player for a couple of years.
I'm sure many players think the same and want to play as high as possible but there's a difference between thinking of it as a stepping stone and actually saying it .
I guess I don't care enough, personally I'd rather someone come along and say "if things go my way you're a stepping stone" than do a downing and commit to the club then fuck off a few weeks later.
Football in general could do with more people being honest instead of the formulated media trained none responses most of them give. Football has enough Lineker/shearer/owen non-entities for my liking.
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Perhaps we could ask Olaf to have a quiet word in his immature ear. He would put him straight.
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What position does he play?
All I've found after a bit of digging around in the depths of the internet is 'midfielder', but from the way people are talking about him I wouldn't be surprised if he was an attacking one.
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As Pete said earlier, I'd hope it was lost in translation. I assume English is not his first language. It wasn't the brightest thing to say and he's only a youngster but surely he could have been better advised. Anyway, if he turns out to be that good, then maybe he can propel us further forwards and can then go for silly money.
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Cheers Chip.
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Didn't the club say we were going for the 'Ajax model' which is bringing in young players and selling them on for a massive profit anyway? Maybe this is exactly what we want?
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It's the things kids say, Didn't Bannan put on one of the media sites that Birmingham was a shithole? As for leaving to a bigger club, he's done it to his first club, he'll probably do it to us, it's where we are in the food chain at the moment.
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It's the things kids say, Didn't Bannan put on one of the media sites that Birmingham was a shithole? As for leaving to a bigger club, he's done it to his first club, he'll probably do it to us, it's where we are in the food chain at the moment.
Think it was Ireland who said that unless bannan did as well?
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All the hallmarks of a modern footballer... Idiot.
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Football in general could do with more people being honest instead of the formulated media trained none responses most of them give. Football has enough Lineker/shearer/owen non-entities for my liking.
Where's the opportunity for us to have hope though? We all know, and hardly ever say, what our position is in reality. I'm not sure I like being reminded of it in such stark terms.
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He's 16, he's talking in a foreign language and some of you want him hanged for one over-excitable comment.
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He's 16, he's talking in a foreign language and some of you want him hanged for one over-excitable comment.
I don't, I just find it kind of depressing. Modern football, etc.
I bet he was caught in mistranslation though, it's very easy to do.
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It's the things kids say, Didn't Bannan put on one of the media sites that Birmingham was a shithole? As for leaving to a bigger club, he's done it to his first club, he'll probably do it to us, it's where we are in the food chain at the moment.
Think it was Ireland who said that unless bannan did as well?
Wasn't it when the General posted on here and he had a word in someones ear to give Barry a bollocking after it was raised as a problem.
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He's 16, he's talking in a foreign language and some of you want him hanged for one over-excitable comment.
Nobody wants him hanged, I was just pointing out how it's a shame that this is the main ambition of a lot of young footballers and hoped to start some discussion off that.
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He's 16, he's talking in a foreign language and some of you want him hanged for one over-excitable comment.
Come on dave, if anything the comment you have just made is over- excitable, nobody wants him hanged .
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It's the things kids say, Didn't Bannan put on one of the media sites that Birmingham was a shithole? As for leaving to a bigger club, he's done it to his first club, he'll probably do it to us, it's where we are in the food chain at the moment.
Think it was Ireland who said that unless bannan did as well?
Wasn't it when the General posted on here and he had a word in someones ear to give Barry a bollocking after it was raised as a problem.
Ireland did an article in a national paper saying virtually the same thing about Birmingham while he was on loan at Newcastle, which caused a great deal of criticism on here at the time.
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He's 16, he's talking in a foreign language and some of you want him hanged for one over-excitable comment.
Come on dave, if anything the comment you have just made is over- excitable, nobody wants him hanged .
Yes, "Fuck off now if he wants to" and "cancel his contract and tell him to do one" are real terms of endearment.
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Snotty little mollusc. A bit of National Service would sort him out.
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He's 16, he's talking in a foreign language and some of you want him hanged for one over-excitable comment.
Come on dave, if anything the comment you have just made is over- excitable, nobody wants him hanged .
Yes, "Fuck off now if he wants to" and "cancel his contract and tell him to do one" are real terms of endearment.
Hang on, I qualified that statement.
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It's not so much this player saying that which gets on my tits, it is the sense of entitlement and arrogance of a lot of young footballers that gets on my tits.
I think he'll almost certainly have a harsh awakening when he comes here into the Academy and realises it's not quite as easy to just move into the first team. Even if this isn't a "bigger club".
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Not the smartest thing to say, but he's a young kid and currently the reality is Villa aren't seen as a huge club. However if he produces what he's been talking about, then he may help propel Villa back up to the top and if not then he goes to Real Madrid for a lot of money. Good luck to him.
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Agree with Mr Woodhall.. some snotty 16 year old is the least of our problems.
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He is already too old to beat Jimmy Browns record for youngest debut.
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I think we're being a bit sensitive here, why should a swedish kid have any allegiance to villa. He's just ambitious and it's probably quite hard to express that desire in a second language other than saying he wants to play at the highest level he can.
Let's concentrate on the positives, he's chosen our academy because he thinks it's the best. Let's hope all of the top youngsters think the same and soon enough the jump from Villa to Man U will not be so big.
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There does seem to be little point in getting narked over a kid who may or may not make it. Don't get me wrong he might be sensational, but by the same token, he might just as easily be the next Nii Lamptey or Freddy Adu.
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Try and get into the reserves first mate, then we'll see if you're up to playing for the best club in the Universe.
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I want players who want to play at the highest level possible.
If they are all *THAT* good, they'll get there with Villa. Win-win.
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His comments aside,does anyone know what player he resembles who's playing today?
If he makes the first team in four years time,his quote won't seem so important.
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It's not so much this player saying that which gets on my tits, it is the sense of entitlement and arrogance of a lot of young footballers that gets on my tits.
I think he'll almost certainly have a harsh awakening when he comes here into the Academy and realises it's not quite as easy to just move into the first team. Even if this isn't a "bigger club".
Succeed or fail, he'll probably be driving a Merc Amg within a year.
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Lads he is 16 ? He could of been in the inbetweeners !!! If he is any good we will benefit immensely. Game over !!
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Abdo - Aston Villa, love it or leave it!
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Khalid Abdo? Doesn't sound Swedish. Then again neither does Ibrahimovic. Hopefully he can do a Zlatan for us.
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Khalid Abdo? Doesn't sound Swedish. Then again neither does Ibrahimovic. Hopefully he can do a Zlatan for us.
Gabriel Agbonlahor isn't really a traditional British name either.
Anyway, this whole thing is a load of nonsense. Young professional footballer wants to play for as big a club as he can and earn as much money as he can. What a shock.
Which members of our playing staff for the last decade have been any different?
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Don't care what he said. If he ends up being as good as he thinks he can be he'll be a star for us and that in turn would change his perspective on everything. One has to remember that for the last 16 years we've done the square root of fuck all as a club and kids of that age, and especially ones from abroad really don't know much or anything about our standing in the game. If at the end of the day he moves on for a royal fee then our academy will have done it's job in developing the player. Not every player will stay at the club anyway, so who cares what he says at 16.
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Aston Villa have beaten a number of clubs to the signature of Swedish teenager Khalid Abdo.
The likes of Fulham and Hamburg have been chasing Abdo, but Villa have agreed a deal for the 16-year-old.
Abdo came to Villa's attention after impressing for Swedish Second Division outfit Larje-Angered and he is relishing the chance of joining the Premier League club.
"Back in September I found out that Aston Villa wanted to recruit me," Abdo told fotbolltransfers.com. "I'm happy, it feels good.
"I will play with the U18 team but hope to move up to the reserves as soon as possible. I feel I can handle the pace here so I want to take the step from U18 to reserves within a year.
"Aston Villa graduate often players for the first team. Their academy is the best of those I was with. I feel that I can best develop here.
"The goal is to step up to the first team and then maybe move on to a bigger club."
I know nothing about him but his comments about moving on to a bigger club really grinds my gears.
Quit grindin yer gears
It's hurtin me ears
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Don't care what he said. If he ends up being as good as he thinks he can be he'll be a star for us and that in turn would change his perspective on everything. One has to remember that for the last 16 years we've done the square root of fuck all as a club and kids of that age, and especially ones from abroad really don't know much or anything about our standing in the game. If at the end of the day he moves on for a royal fee then our academy will have done it's job in developing the player. Not every player will stay at the club anyway, so who cares what he says at 16.
Yeah, the only tenuous link to past Villa success he could possibly have is that he may have been conceived on an IKEA futon on a night we were maintaining our steady progress towards the 1996 Coca Cola Cup final.
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I thought this thread was about Khalid Abdullah the owner of Frankel. At long last an owner with a bob or two I thought but alas it is all about tomorrow's Stefan Moore.
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Law of averages says he won't even make it with us, let alone a 'big club.'
I think he's getting a tad ahead of himself.
Over excitable kid, nothing to get het up about.
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Hopefully he's another player we can make a big profit on.
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He's 16, he's talking in a foreign language and some of you want him hanged for one over-excitable comment.
Come on dave, if anything the comment you have just made is over- excitable, nobody wants him hanged .
Yes, "Fuck off now if he wants to" and "cancel his contract and tell him to do one" are real terms of endearment.
But Dave Im not endeared to him at all. Hes Swedish and no doubt speaks excellent English as most swedes do.
Im just totally fed up of money grabbing young kids and their agents. They sicken me!
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Profit,really? I suppose that is where we are are, rather than looking at new players who we can build a team with for success, it's about how much money we can make out of them?
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Give the guy a chance, he's 16 and made a bit of a silly statement. That's all, if he's a success for us then brilliant.
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Maybe he'll fall in love with the club after a short while and will go on to have 15 very successful years here.
As it is at the moment there's more chance that he wont make it than he will become the superstar he thinks he might become.
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Law of averages says he won't even make it with us, let alone a 'big club.'
I think he's getting a tad ahead of himself.
Over excitable kid, nothing to get het up about.
Indeed Mark. If he's good enough to have broken through into the first team in 4 or 5 years time, then we can remind him of his remarks.
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I seem to recall Bannan saying something similar on a social media sites a few years back? Can't remember precisely what though. It's just an ill-advised quote but its probably standard fare amongst young footballers with dreams of playing at the very top.
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He can say that all he likes for me - if we ever see him take the pitch in a first team match then he's put the hard yards in, unlike so many next big things. And if a 'bigger' club come calling, he'll have done enough for us already.
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Plays for a club called Larje Angered it would appear but I cannot identify him from You Tube uploads for his club. Has anyone found a picture of him or footage of him playing.
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Plays for a club called Larje Angered it would appear but I cannot identify him from You Tube uploads for his club. Has anyone found a picture of him or footage of him playing.
At 16 has he played for their 1st team yet? At least our European scouts seem to be working hard to find young talent.
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It's not so much this player saying that which gets on my tits, it is the sense of entitlement and arrogance of a lot of young footballers that gets on my tits.
I think he'll almost certainly have a harsh awakening when he comes here into the Academy and realises it's not quite as easy to just move into the first team. Even if this isn't a "bigger club".
Succeed or fail, he'll probably be driving a Merc Amg within a year.
I remember seeing Darren Byfield driving a very expensive motor when he was still in our youth team.It struck me then as very wrong that a kid should have access to the finance required to buy such a vehicle
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My sister worked for Hunters estate agents, and asked me if the Villa had a player called Samuel. I said I thought so, the name was familiar although he hadn't played in the first team and I wasn't sure as I wasn't much of reserve watcher in those days. She said he'd been in to ask about houses in the £250k-range. They sent him to look at a few but none were suitable as he needed a double-garage. He ended up paying £300k for one. That would have been over ten years ago I would have thought.
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hang him
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He has a lot to prove to progress at Villa. Meanwhile hopefully someone will be having a quiet word in his shell like and a qualification will be forthcoming.
He knows how to make a splash though, I'll give him that!
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My sister worked for Hunters estate agents, and asked me if the Villa had a player called Samuel. I said I thought so, the name was familiar although he hadn't played in the first team and I wasn't sure as I wasn't much of reserve watcher in those days. She said he'd been in to ask about houses in the £250k-range. They sent him to look at a few but none were suitable as he needed a double-garage. He ended up paying £300k for one. That would have been over ten years ago I would have thought.
Did you see him when he was on MTV Cribs?
Cringefest doesn't quite explain how cringey it was.
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My sister worked for Hunters estate agents, and asked me if the Villa had a player called Samuel. I said I thought so, the name was familiar although he hadn't played in the first team and I wasn't sure as I wasn't much of reserve watcher in those days. She said he'd been in to ask about houses in the £250k-range. They sent him to look at a few but none were suitable as he needed a double-garage. He ended up paying £300k for one. That would have been over ten years ago I would have thought.
Did you see him when he was on MTV Cribs?
Cringefest doesn't quite explain how cringey it was.
It also appeared to simultaneously coincide with a massive loss of form thereafter.
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Yes. He coulda been a contender.
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Hope he is as good as he thinks he is .If so we will have a decent player Randy can make a profit on.
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Enjoy them while they're here and hope the profit we make on them is well invested. That's the way it goes nowadays. Of course they do have to prove they are that good first.
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Must say i'm massively impressed at how mature a lot of the posters must have been when they were 16 as it seems they didn't say something stupid and/or naive at that age.
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Must say i'm massively impressed at how mature a lot of the posters must have been when they were 16 as it seems they didn't say something stupid and/or naive at that age.
A lot more mature than some others may I suggest.
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Must say i'm massively impressed at how mature a lot of the posters must have been when they were 16 as it seems they didn't say something stupid and/or naive at that age.
A lot more mature than some others may I suggest.
Meaning?
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Jesus I wih I'd not bothered reading this thread. We've just signed a promising 16 year old for fuck all. A player who has had a trial at Chelsea and is apparently well thought of across Europe, one might expect people to be happy. Never fucking satisfied...
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I seem to recall Bannan saying something similar on a social media sites a few years back? Can't remember precisely what though. It's just an ill-advised quote but its probably standard fare amongst young footballers with dreams of playing at the very top.
Bannan Tweeted that Birmingham was a 'shithole' as I recall.
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Did you see him when he was on MTV Cribs?
Cringefest doesn't quite explain how cringey it was.
JLS's crib made Stephen Ireland's place look a shrine to understated minimalism.
He had a bar in the obligatory snooker room called "sweetboy" (his nickname) but the funniest thing was the cupboard he had built to keep his caps in. Not his England caps (you could have stored those in a small envelope) but for his baseball caps.
And wasn't the house called Park Villa?
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Out of interest, does anyone know how much it costs to put a young player through the academy each year?
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Must say i'm massively impressed at how mature a lot of the posters must have been when they were 16 as it seems they didn't say something stupid and/or naive at that age.
Indeed, it's a slightly ill advised comment that's all.
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Lets hope that Khalid settles down and proves to be as good a signing as our previous swede mellberg was, if so it will be very good business.
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I thought that Khalid was only 14 or 15, if he has turned 16 its only recently. He has played a couple of games whilst on trial with us for our U16s where he looked to be in a different class to the other players of both teams. He plays as an attacking midfielder and is very good technically. He was being scouted by Chelsea and one of the Manchester clubs when on trial with us but the Academy recruitment team pulled out all the stops to get him signed.
At his age he is quite rightly going to be dreaming of winning things with the biggest clubs in the world but he and his parents made the decision to join us based on the academy set up which I believe in the recent audit was scored as the best academy in the premier league.
CHICO - As regards how much it costs - a newly signed scholar (he will be one of the youngest full time players at the academy) will be on around £150 per week. Plus the club pay around the same to a family for his bed and board in digs and obviously the cost of his coaching / running of Bodymoor.
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I thought that Khalid was only 14 or 15, if he has turned 16 its only recently. He has played a couple of games whilst on trial with us for our U16s where he looked to be in a different class to the other players of both teams. He plays as an attacking midfielder and is very good technically. He was being scouted by Chelsea and one of the Manchester clubs when on trial with us but the Academy recruitment team pulled out all the stops to get him signed.
At his age he is quite rightly going to be dreaming of winning things with the biggest clubs in the world but he and his parents made the decision to join us based on the academy set up which I believe in the recent audit was scored as the best academy in the premier league.
CHICO - As regards how much it costs - a newly signed scholar (he will be one of the youngest full time players at the academy) will be on around £150 per week. Plus the club pay around the same to a family for his bed and board in digs and obviously the cost of his coaching / running of Bodymoor.
Very informative post- welcome !
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Yes, thankyou. Very interesting to get the full lowdown on these lads. As someone said earlier, let's hope he follows in Olof's footsteps and if he does, his name will be up there with the other top players who have worn the claret and blue.
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I seem to recall Bannan saying something similar on a social media sites a few years back? Can't remember precisely what though. It's just an ill-advised quote but its probably standard fare amongst young footballers with dreams of playing at the very top.
Bannan Tweeted that Birmingham was a 'shithole' as I recall.
If I remember rightly, his Facebook (or even Myspace it was that far back) said something like "Birmingham's a shithole but at least they pay me to be here" or similar. It got brought up in the General's thread, he was made to delete it and fined.
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I seem to recall Bannan saying something similar on a social media sites a few years back? Can't remember precisely what though. It's just an ill-advised quote but its probably standard fare amongst young footballers with dreams of playing at the very top.
Bannan Tweeted that Birmingham was a 'shithole' as I recall.
If I remember rightly, his Facebook (or even Myspace it was that far back) said something like "Birmingham's a shithole but at least they pay me to be here" or similar. It got brought up in the General's thread, he was made to delete it and fined.
Ireland wasn't quite as critical -
Ireland continued to live in Manchester after joining Villa and he added: 'Houllier asked me to come and live in Birmingham because it was taking me 75 minutes to come to training. But there were 15 players in the same position as me. Some came from London and took more than two hours, but he only asked me to move.
'For a start, Birmingham is a c**p city and I wasn't going to make the effort, especially as I wasn't playing. Might as well be in Manchester if I had to stay home on match days.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1362891/Birmingham-c-p-city-Houllier-didnt-want-Stephen-Ireland-reveals-Aston-Villa-hell.html#ixzz2CDhk037i
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16? Bloody hell thats like 25 in Lambert years. Lets get him in the first team :)
Seriously, happy about the signing. Looks like a good bet. Couldnt give a toss about his comments, he is 16 ffs. Boys say daft things, no big deal.
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I seem to recall Bannan saying something similar on a social media sites a few years back? Can't remember precisely what though. It's just an ill-advised quote but its probably standard fare amongst young footballers with dreams of playing at the very top.
Bannan Tweeted that Birmingham was a 'shithole' as I recall.
If I remember rightly, his Facebook (or even Myspace it was that far back) said something like "Birmingham's a shithole but at least they pay me to be here" or similar. It got brought up in the General's thread, he was made to delete it and fined.
Is it me or is it Bannans bodyshape?. He looks as if he should be working harder on improving his physical conditioning.
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Ireland And Bannan should worry less about where they live and more about being an underachiever and simply not good enough respectively.
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Quite
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They relatively achieved and were good enough the last two games.
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So, we're now chewing over a quote Bannan made a few years ago (as a teenager?) and something Ireland said during the time Houllier had banished from him the first team and he wasn't even involved on match day?
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Bannan Tweeted that Birmingham was a 'shithole' as I recall
Makes me laugh - a kid from Glasgow calling Brum a shithole.
Nearly as funny as 2000 Villa fans singing "Fulham's a shithole, I wanna go home" where must these fans live if it's posher than Fulham?
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So, we're now chewing over a quote Bannan made a few years ago (as a teenager?) and something Ireland said during the time Houllier had banished from him the first team and he wasn't even involved on match day?
Being a Teenager or being out of favour with the first team doesn't justify them saying that Birmingham is 'crap' or a 'shithole.'
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That's right. Birmingham is as beautiful as Florence and as vibrant as Tokyo. If some teenagers are fooled by its surface greyness then they should be killed, or even egged.
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Whatever your age, slagging off the the city where you play your football is pretty stupid whatever way you look at it. As is stating you want a move to a bigger club before you have even pulled on the shirt of the club you've just signed for.
Both sum up modern day footballers, their lack of real life experience and general stupidity.
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That's right. Birmingham is as beautiful as Florence and as vibrant as Tokyo. If some teenagers are fooled by its surface greyness then they should be killed, or even egged.
I have to disagree with you on a couple of points. Birmingham is a bit more beautiful than Florence and slightly more vibrant than Tokyo. Otherwise, yes, teenagers dissing Birmingham should be killed.
Save the eggs for some of the cities many Michelin Starred restaurants on the Brindley Riviera, Cote de Sparkbrook or Place de la Martineau.
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Indeed, was it Plato's Republic that was played out on the hallowed forecourt of Digbeth Coach Station?
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Indeed all the world is a stage and Digbeth Coach Station is but the stage hands latrine.
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Yep, and Kojak has never described Glasgow as "My kinda town"
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He would have if he were a skaghead, chomping a deep fried mars bar, out of his box on buckie.
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He's 16, he's talking in a foreign language and some of you want him hanged for one over-excitable comment.
Come on dave, if anything the comment you have just made is over- excitable, nobody wants him hanged .
No no we don't want to hang him. We just need similar restrictions to those handed out to Abu Qatada so that he can't move away from Birmingham. With a name like Khalid Abdo that should be no problem!
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Birmingham is a shithole. So what? Go and live in Swindon, see how you like it.
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Yeah - hang him in Swindon I say
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Nah, make him starve to death in the queue for chips at a Swindon game. Cheeky little nerk.
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Yeah - hang him in Swindon I say
From the footplate of Evening Star!
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Must say i'm massively impressed at how mature a lot of the posters must have been when they were 16 as it seems they didn't say something stupid and/or naive at that age.
Too busy masturbating to be honest.
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Too busy masturbating to be honest.
Masturbating? Blimey you are posh.
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Too busy masturbating to be honest.
Masturbating? Blimey you are posh.
Did it in Bournville.
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Too busy masturbating to be honest.
Masturbating? Blimey you are posh.
Did it in Bournville.
I salute you. Beats a sordid wank in Nechells!
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I've a small amount of sympathy for some people growing up in this day and age of t'internet. My employer has a code of conduct which includes words along the lines of all employees are expected to always be ambassadors for the organisation. I know what that means, but some of the younger, more idealistic staff don't.
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However Lizz I find young people now days are much more "on message" than I ever was!
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Well Beneteke throught the club was based in London
CHRISTIAN BENTEKE last night rocked Aston Villa by declaring his dream of playing for Arsenal.
The Belgium striker, 21, has been a hit at Villa since joining for £7million from Genk.
But the summer signing admits he sees the club as a stepping-stone to Arsene Wenger’s Gunners — and that he originally thought Villa were based in LONDON.
Benteke said: “Arsenal are the club I love. I like their philosophy of selecting young players and, besides, they had Thierry Henry.
“For me he is the best player in the world and was my boyhood idol.
“I’m not afraid of making enemies at Villa by saying I love Arsenal.
“One can say worse things. I’m a Villa player for now. They’re the right club at the right time.”
He added: “When I joined Villa I didn’t know where they played. I thought they were a London club!”
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4647131/Christian-Benteke-dreams-of-playing-for-Arsenal.html#ixzz2CLBKlIQe
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I've a small amount of sympathy for some people growing up in this day and age of t'internet. My employer has a code of conduct which includes words along the lines of all employees are expected to always be ambassadors for the organisation. I know what that means, but some of the younger, more idealistic staff don't.
The last time that was said to me I said 'Well you can pay me ambassador's wages then!' as that belongs with all the other contract detritus of history, such as women should wear make up and men should have short hair. I know the Tories are trying to bring it back but slavery went out with the Victorians.
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I've a small amount of sympathy for some people growing up in this day and age of t'internet. My employer has a code of conduct which includes words along the lines of all employees are expected to always be ambassadors for the organisation. I know what that means, but some of the younger, more idealistic staff don't.
The last time that was said to me I said 'Well you can pay me ambassador's wages then!' as that belongs with all the other contract detritus of history, such as women should wear make up and men should have short hair. I know the Tories are trying to bring it back but slavery went out with the Victorians.
"ambassador" might be a strong word, but employers should reasonably expect employees not to slag off the organisation they work for, everything elese being equal; and indeed talk them up if they are doing things well.
Not that either Abdo or Benteke have.
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I've a small amount of sympathy for some people growing up in this day and age of t'internet. My employer has a code of conduct which includes words along the lines of all employees are expected to always be ambassadors for the organisation. I know what that means, but some of the younger, more idealistic staff don't.
The last time that was said to me I said 'Well you can pay me ambassador's wages then!' as that belongs with all the other contract detritus of history, such as women should wear make up and men should have short hair. I know the Tories are trying to bring it back but slavery went out with the Victorians.
"ambassador" might be a strong word, but employers should reasonably expect employees not to slag off the organisation they work for, everything elese being equal; and indeed talk them up if they are doing things well.
Not that either Abdo or Benteke have.
This should really be on the Benteke thread but being as you are giving him grief here..
"Benteke's name is adorning 70 per cent of shirts sold with names on by the club, and he is over the moon with their reaction to him.
"It means a lot to know I have made a good impression with the fans. I couldn't be happier to know they've taken to me," he said.
"It's motivating having thousands watching you and cheering you on at the game.
"But it's even more of a push to know fans from all corners of the world are willing you to do well."