The Milner Novela... Final episode page 296

[SoccerHQ]

The trouble is if we keep Milner and he dosen't sign a new deal, we'll probably arrive at the same situation next summer.

We'll have just missed out on the top 4 as we haven't improved enough other areas of the team and he'll want to go and with one year left on his deal, we'll struggle to get 15m + for him.

So it's a case of hoping he stays and inspires us to get top 4 against losing 10m from his valuation.

Personally if he stays I'd get him to sign another deal with the clause he can go next summer if we don't make top 4/win a trophy and someone bids 25m for him.

[eastie]

If a player wants to go and would rather be elsewhere then I'd rather have people who are committed to playing for Aston villa, if he signed a new contract then great but we have to accept that he hasn't and take the money and move on.

We will only keep our top players when we start winning things and get into the top 4 - in many ways it's a catch 22 situation but players hold the upper hand these days.

[Clampy]

If a player wants to go and would rather be elsewhere then I'd rather have people who are committed to playing for Aston villa, if he signed a new contract then great but we have to accept that he hasn't and take the money and move on.

I agree. If he has turned down a new contract (and we don't know that he has yet) then let him go and try and get as much as we can.

We survived when Platty, Yorke and Barry went. We will again.

[Greg N'Ash]

we survived, yes.  thought we were aiming higher than that nowadays

[eastie]

WOuld you want a player at the club who wants to be elsewhere? Remember the yorke  scenario?

If James wants to go and expresses that then I'd rather cash in and move on with players that are desperate to play for Aston villa.

[Greg N'Ash]

WOuld you want a player at the club who wants to be elsewhere? Remember the yorke  scenario?

If James wants to go and expresses that then I'd rather cash in and move on with players that are desperate to play for Aston villa.

barry did ok and whatever goes for milner goes for the rest of the squad. there is NO-ONE at villa park who won't be tempted if a big offer comes in, so its not really desperate to play for villa. i get the feeling and i'm not talking just about you here, but a lot of people seem to be already spending the milner money in their heads

[eastie]

I've resigned myself to the feeling that he will go and I just hope the money is well spent, as you know Greg,I want keane , ireland and Richards and that money would help rebuilding , but the important thing is how mon spends it and sometimes that worries me.

[john e]

56

[MoetVillan]

is it really that many times?  Id got it to 52

[eastie]

Harsh, my friends ha ha!

Either way let's hope if it happens it's fast because we don't want it dragging on all summer- we need to know what we have  to spend .

[supertom]

I wouldn't want the Barry scenario again. He was half cocked in his final season. Never put 100% in. Milner may be different, but in all honesty, up until the agent business, we all thought Barry was one of the decent sorts, a player without ego, not just a money grubbing whore.

Milner has a touch of the goody goody boyscout about him, but it may turn out he's no different than the rest. I wouldn't take that chance. If he asks to leave, let him go, and get top dollar.

No player should be bigger than the club. Carrying Barry as we did for that final year didn't help us in any way. In fact it may have been a hinderance in the final furlong when we were pushing for 4th. Had we taken the 18 million that summer, that could have been 2 decent players wanting and willing to give us 100%, as opposed to only taking 12 million a year later and getting very little out of Barry in his final year.

[TaxDodger]

Had we taken the 18 million that summer, that could have been 2 decent players wanting and willing to give us 100%, as opposed to only taking 12 million a year later and getting very little out of Barry in his final year.

I thought the whole point was that Liverpool didn't have the 18 million we asked for?

[Mazrim]

Had we taken the 18 million that summer, that could have been 2 decent players wanting and willing to give us 100%, as opposed to only taking 12 million a year later and getting very little out of Barry in his final year.

I thought the whole point was that Liverpool didn't have the 18 million we asked for?

They offered nowhere near it at any point. All they offered was firstly some players we didn't want and then a little bit of cash and some players we didn't want.

[MoetVillan]

Maz, and that was AFTER they unsettled our player, promised much, delivered nothing.  And then suddenly had all that money for Keane, which makes me think they were not going to spend close to the 18 mil talked about.  Luckliy the Keane signing was great for them (?), they lost Alonso and have now been surpassed by the mighty Villans.

[SPENTFORCE]

30m or he's staying

And that'll all be very nice and what not, But who are we going to buy of a similar class to replace him in the heart of our side ?

I've heard all the claims there are tons of players. But very few names

Who?

And don't say Ireland!. He's nothing like Milner in style so we'd need a Milner alongside him too