Sometimes a club gets the best years of a player's career and even if they move on to something supposedly bigger and better, they never quite recapture what they had before.
Off topic, but I think you under-estimate MIlner.He has a phenomenal engine, which means he can play as an attacking midfielder and can track back and defend as needed.I think he's wasted at Citeh where the team isn't bonding together quickly.The whole is certainly less than the sum of its parts.
No way would I want him back, too slow and seems to be regressing.
I would have loved to have had him and Delph as our 2 holding midfielders, with 23 attacking midfielders.
Quote from: barrysleftfoot on November 20, 2010, 11:28:29 AM I would have loved to have had him and Delph as our 2 holding midfielders, with 23 attacking midfielders.I'm not sure we'd get away with this!
Delph would be ruined as a player if he were a holding player. He can really attack, also, he can't tackle.
Quote from: TopDeck113 on November 20, 2010, 09:36:26 AMSometimes a club gets the best years of a player's career and even if they move on to something supposedly bigger and better, they never quite recapture what they had before. The same happened to Ugo, Southgate, Bosnich and Platt.Earned shed loads of dosh but they played their best football with us, engineered a move and suddenly they found out that perhaps life at the Villa wasn't as bad as they thought it was.