The Milner Novela... Final episode page 296

[Toronto Villa]

I will never slag him off or boo him, he has not done a 'Barry' the club announced this in the right professional way

At least Barry gave us his best years.Milner has 1 good season in the middle and fucks off.What James has done is in a lot off ways worse.

Barry handled his exit very badly indeed. I just think Milner's got way ahead of himself here and has been reading the headlines about him a little too much.

[bertlambshank]

I will never slag him off or boo him, he has not done a 'Barry' the club announced this in the right professional way

At least Barry gave us his best years.Milner has 1 good season in the middle and fucks off.What James has done is in a lot off ways worse.

Barry handled his exit very badly indeed. I just think Milner's got way ahead of himself here and has been reading the headlines about him a little too much.

Nah,Steve Hodge all over again.

[gervilla]

Thats football folks. Unless we are winning trophies our best players are always going to be off once a bigger club with wads of cash and better prospects af silverware come knocking. I hate it but its just a fact of life.
Do you think Yorke or Platt regret leaving us......I dont think so.
Its one of the drawbacks of being a Villa fan....but I wouldnt change it for the world.
There will be more Milners, Bozzies, Platts ,Yorkes & Barrys who outgrow our little pond. Get used to it.
Villa till I die......Shame it doesn't apply to the players.( Except Heskey)

[Clampy]

It's all about the price now: get £25-30m and I'm relaxed.
Then give it to someone who knows how to spend it ...








... I see a flaw in my logic!

Let's be fair for a second. If you're happy at getting £25-30m for Milner, then maybe a bit of credit for the manager who was brave enough to buy him when he was vastly over-priced in the first place is due.

[Chris Harte]

Y'know, now that O'Neill has said that Milner wants to leave the club I just feel nothing. No anger, no sadness.

I've seen it happen too often in the past. McMahon, Cowans, Hodge (yes, a Judas, but our best player at the time), Platt, Yorke, Barry and now Milner. And so the list continues. Its happened all before, and it will happen again.

All I can think is "so what."

[curiousorange]

Within two weeks of the season starting Milner will be forgotten. That's why I'm not too bothered provided we come out of it with the best deal we can scalp them for.

[Clampy]

Y'know, now that O'Neill has said that Milner wants to leave the club I just feel nothing. No anger, no sadness.

I've seen it happen too often in the past. McMahon, Cowans, Hodge (yes, a Judas, but our best player at the time), Platt, Yorke, Barry and now Milner. And so the list continues. Its happened all before, and it will happen again.

All I can think is "so what."

It's no surprise anymore is it?

You can understand why Platt and Yorke went, Barry also to an extent, even if he did make an arse of himself trying to get away. Milner though has only been here 5 minutes and a bit of loyalty would'nt have gone amiss.

[Toronto Villa]

Y'know, now that O'Neill has said that Milner wants to leave the club I just feel nothing. No anger, no sadness.

I've seen it happen too often in the past. McMahon, Cowans, Hodge (yes, a Judas, but our best player at the time), Platt, Yorke, Barry and now Milner. And so the list continues. Its happened all before, and it will happen again.

All I can think is "so what."

It's no surprise anymore is it?

You can understand why Platt and Yorke went, Barry also to an extent, even if he did make an arse of himself trying to get away. Milner though has only been here 5 minutes and a bit of loyalty would'nt have gone amiss.

He's gone from being a very average wide player, to a very good PL level central midfielder. Not world class, not even great in my opinion. I look at players like Gerrard or Lampard as great PL players. The way I look at this now, if we get close to £30m, even £25m, then we'll have done very well indeed.

I really just want this over and done with now.

[Dave Cooper please]

Mate, the only thing you need to worry about is changing your user name. The manager will sort it, besides half the players you mention are gash anyway earning upwards of 30k a week we need to get shot of them

The manager you think will sort it is the bloke who signed all these gash players on upwards of 30K a week!

Personally I'm not convinced.

[1_Pablo_Angel]

Anyone posted the Guardian article yet?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/22/manchester-city-james-milner-aston-villa

Tempted to believe it tbh. Milner doesn't seem the type. MON is getting a bit of a reputation for pissing players off.

[pauliewalnuts]

Anyone posted the Guardian article yet?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/22/manchester-city-james-milner-aston-villa

Tempted to believe it tbh. Milner doesn't seem the type. MON is getting a bit of a reputation for pissing players off.

If that is true, then it really is pretty fucking disgraceful.

[stevenjos]

Anyone posted the Guardian article yet?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/22/manchester-city-james-milner-aston-villa

Tempted to believe it tbh. Milner doesn't seem the type. MON is getting a bit of a reputation for pissing players off.

If that is true, then it really is pretty fucking disgraceful.

Now whot believe. Martin fell out with several players o'neill - whom needs cash to bring in some more people for the bench.

Or James wouldn't comment Milner.

Fuck off MON is my reply

[eastie]

Interesting article, wouldn't surprise me if o neill has tried to manipulate the story to suit himself , his man management again has to be questioned, several players have had disagreements with him and he seems a bit prickly to say the least.

[Slaphead]

Anyone posted the Guardian article yet?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/22/manchester-city-james-milner-aston-villa

Tempted to believe it tbh. Milner doesn't seem the type. MON is getting a bit of a reputation for pissing players off.

If that is true, then it really is pretty fucking disgraceful.

Now whot believe. Martin fell out with several players o'neill - whom needs cash to bring in some more people for the bench.

Or James wouldn't comment Milner.

Fuck off MON is my reply

MON is getting a reputation for pissing off his players. Milner has been a model pro throughout his career so if form has anything to go by then we can see what is what.

Milner has not spoke public about his desire to leave so far as far as I am aware?

[1_Pablo_Angel]

There was another thing in the Guardian a week ago saying that Milner was apparently a bit confused by the lack of a new contract offer, which MON had previously said would be forthcoming.

So either that writer is great mates with Milner's agent, and Milner's not the man all previous actions in his career have led us to believe him to be, or MON really has been a twat about this. I'm fast reaching the point where I might have had enough of him. If Keane is our big Summer signing after this...