The Milner Novela... Final episode page 296

[eastie]

Ireland and keane are what we need definately in my view.

[Percy McCarthy]

The trouble is that Milner is worth more to us than to any other club.  The only club that might pay what we want is Man City and it appears that they may not go that high.

We have to be careful that we are not forced to sell him for less than he is worth to us.

I think the previous poster is correct in saying that nothing is happening because Milner is away on holiday after the world cup.  It does not matter how much the media want a story, MON is the type of manager that appears to respect a players privacy and his time away from the club.  Just hope Milner sees it this way.

It appears that our owner has seen sense and insisted that the manager sells first. We're starting to see how wise MON's transfers are.....£2m for Sidwell. At least Fulham see his true value.

Oh sorry I forget he signed Ashley Young so all his other transfers are fine......... ;)

Yes, thank God he signed Young so we're covered for all the other shit he's bought, like Milner, Warnock, Carew, Collins, Dunne, Friedel, Petrov, Cuellar and Delph.

[TimTheVillain]

Ireland and keane are what we need definately in my view.

Love those 2, plus a quality right back a top notch striker.

I think  we will see some movement on the Milner siutuation this week.

[TheSandman]

Rubbish Chris, Risso is spot on here. Ireland is just the player we need and a player who is perfect to work with our current manager. Robbie Keane, Stephen Ireland and £10m in the bank is IMO an amazing deal for Villa. With £25m in the bank no club will let their player go unless they rinse us for a top top price.

Its' not rubbish, he is border line mental and his inconsistency is the reason he's for sale.

If we tried to play a midfield of Petrov and Ireland we'd be lucky to get in the top half, he's got ability but is not a replacement for Milner.

And this lad was the model of psychological stability

There's a reason a midfield of Petrov and Ireland would not do well and it is not Ireland. It is the manager who would persist playing the pair in a two rather than having a midfield three or who does not realise that Petrov lacks the legs and energy to play in a two as we saw time and again last season.

Stephen Ireland is definitely what we need and if we have an upgrade on Petrov to play next to him so much the better.

[Ads]

I like these future criticisms of O’Neill. I’m going to give it a go.

Taking Delph off in 70th minute is the reason we’ve lost two FA Cup semi-finals in a row.

 Its hella fun!

[eastie]

Having read petrovs book it seems he had problems with lasting the pace even at Celtic- stamina seems to be a weakness of his , but surely mon must have known this anyway as petrov mentioned mon talking to him about at Celtic.

The book is going for about a quid now on amazon entitled stan, very good read too, amazed to read his wedding was televised live in Bulgaria where he is an absolute superstar.

[TheSandman]

I should clarify my point by saying it's a future and hypothetical criticism. As I think if we do sign Ireland Martin might go for a three as he'll see that too.

I'm just disagreeing with Chris's vision where we play a two of Ireland and Petrov and it gets overrun as it is not certain we will play a two.


I'm really disappointed that we lost that goal in the Europa final. I know we won the game but if Martin had the decency to play someone more solid than Luke Young at right back say Cuellar we wouldn't have lost that goal.

Hey you're right. It is fun!

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I think he plans to play a three. Petrov, Delph and Ireland perhaps? That's quite a lot of mobility in there, with Petrov's metronomic style clipping of passes to claret & blue shirts, coupled with Delph’s “fucking ‘av this soft lad!” approach to tackling.

Not bad. We’d need more cover though in there.

[TheSandman]

Yeah that's what I was thinking.

With Delph's injury I hope we'll sign a new Defensive midfielder and then gradually phase Delph in to play in Petrov's place.

I'm not sure but I think Stan's contract runs out at the end of next season so I reckon he might go back to Celtic then.

[PaulWinch again]

I think Delph will become a top class player for us, but i'd want him in a midfield three. That would give him more licence.

[SoccerHQ]

Rubbish Chris, Risso is spot on here. Ireland is just the player we need and a player who is perfect to work with our current manager. Robbie Keane, Stephen Ireland and £10m in the bank is IMO an amazing deal for Villa. With £25m in the bank no club will let their player go unless they rinse us for a top top price.

Its' not rubbish, he is border line mental and his inconsistency is the reason he's for sale.

If we tried to play a midfield of Petrov and Ireland we'd be lucky to get in the top half, he's got ability but is not a replacement for Milner.

Ah good old dinosaur 4-4-2.

That's why you play Ireland in a free role in a 4-2-3-1.

[eastie]

Delph petrov and Ireland in the middle would be very good in my opinion, also let's vary it a bit and not play with 2 wingers all the time- for a start they get drained as they are constantly playing week in and week out and also central midfield gets overun , sure use 2 wingers sometimes but let's have a variation in our tactics and formations!

[boboonthecorner]

The trouble is that Milner is worth more to us than to any other club.  The only club that might pay what we want is Man City and it appears that they may not go that high.

We have to be careful that we are not forced to sell him for less than he is worth to us.

I think the previous poster is correct in saying that nothing is happening because Milner is away on holiday after the world cup.  It does not matter how much the media want a story, MON is the type of manager that appears to respect a players privacy and his time away from the club.  Just hope Milner sees it this way.

It appears that our owner has seen sense and insisted that the manager sells first. We're starting to see how wise MON's transfers are.....£2m for Sidwell. At least Fulham see his true value.

Oh sorry I forget he signed Ashley Young so all his other transfers are fine......... ;)

Yes, thank God he signed Young so we're covered for all the other shit he's bought, like Milner, Warnock, Carew, Collins, Dunne, Friedel, Petrov, Cuellar and Delph.

Heskey,Harewood,Davies,Sidwell,Routledge,Shorey,Luke Young,NRC. £40m+

Then again this has all been argued before............

[olaftab]

I like these future criticisms of O’Neill. I’m going to give it a go.

Taking Delph off in 70th minute is the reason we’ve lost two FA Cup semi-finals in a row.

 Its hella fun!

I think you could be right however remember Delph has not played many games since his return from injury  and  we should have defended  the corner better when Ridgwell headed  in the winner for Blues. <ouch>

[Risso]

Rubbish Chris, Risso is spot on here. Ireland is just the player we need and a player who is perfect to work with our current manager. Robbie Keane, Stephen Ireland and £10m in the bank is IMO an amazing deal for Villa. With £25m in the bank no club will let their player go unless they rinse us for a top top price.

Its' not rubbish, he is border line mental and his inconsistency is the reason he's for sale.

If we tried to play a midfield of Petrov and Ireland we'd be lucky to get in the top half, he's got ability but is not a replacement for Milner.

"Borderline mental"?  What a horrible phrase, and it's not true anyway.  Other than a penchant for tasteless cars and that nonsense about his hair and dead grandmas, I've not heard much about him to come to that over the top conclusion.  It's not as if he's a psycho like Joey Barton.  The reason he's up for sale is that Man City are a complete circus with a million attacking players.  There are always going to be good players to be had from them, such as when Dunne was considered surplus to requirements last season.