Carlos Tevez has handed in a transfer request

[Whiney MacWhineface]

The Times seems to think this is all the work of Joorabchian, who's fallen out of favour at City, once more manipulating his pawn Tevez.

[BannedUserIAT]

I'd also hope that we'd retain at least some faith in our academy and in the local lads it's coughed up: players like Agbonlahor and Albrighton. Certainly I'd love to see a mix of the local lads and some international stars. But it would have to be a mix for me to really enjoy it. Otherwise it's soul-less, pointless and empty.

Or for Man City, the likes of say Micah Richards or Joe Hart?

Eh?
Not quite the same is it, Dave.
Gabby and Marc are local lads that have been with Villa since they were only a little more developed than sperm.

Richards is from Leeds and Joe Hart had no connection whatsoever with Manchester until they bought him a few years back. And are either of them Man Citeh fans? Doubt it.

My point being that, a few months ago, many people would have gladly had Tevez in the Villa side than Gabby. Me included. But now look at the ******. He doesn't want to be there. He doesn't want to play for them. He's there for the money. Pure and simple. Actually, it seems he's not just there for the money he's on now but the money he could be on next week if he cries long and hard enough.

Stick what is by modern standards a modest contract in fron tof Gabby and what did he do? He signed the fucker. He's here for life and he'll love every minute of it, too.

There's a certain sense of pride for me that we've got stars in our side that are not only local lads, not only developed by Villa but are Villa fans. Sure, I'd love to have some of the players those pricks have pimped but certainly not a whole team of them and not at the expense of having some playing roots in the City where we're based.

[PeterWithe]

Hart didn't come through their academy, they bought him from Shrewsbury for about a million quid.

[dicedlam]

Football nowadays is eating itself and while you have a grotesque club willing to feed like citeh, the only way to compete is home grown talent.

There's got to be a salary cap introduced at some stage.
 

[PeterWithe]

Reading between the lines Tevez is pissed off with Cook because they didn't qualify for the CL, you'd think that Tevez might be in a better position to influence that than Cook is.

[dcdavecollett]

If only, we'd kept Big Marlon, what a swap deal this could have been!

Okay, okay...

[PaulTheVillan]

Reading between the lines Tevez is pissed off with Cook because they didn't qualify for the CL, you'd think that Tevez might be in a better position to influence that than Cook is.

To be fair, Tevez has been superb since he went there, I don't think he could have done any better. It's the shit around him last season that didn't help.

[cheltenhamlion]

If he really is homesisk then surely he will surface at a club in Argentina.

No, I don't think it will happen either.

[Dante Lavelli]

I reckon Villa should start poaching some of Man City's academy staff as they are pretty much wasting their time despite being pretty good at it.  I'm not advocating replacing anyone at Villa, just expanding our existing excellent team.

If it is our future, our main hope of success then we might as well go large.

[Phil from the upper holte]

He's a bit of a whore really isn't he.

I'd be a whore for £280k per week, what a disgrace

[1958Villan]

And this shit is on a Villa site because......?

It's not exactly like we could afford his wage is it.

[dave.woodhall]

And this shit is on a Villa site because......?

It's not exactly like we could afford his wage is it.

At a guess I'd say it's because people want to talk about it.

[PaulTheVillan]

and we are playing them soon and it could impact on our game.