The Milner Novela... Final episode page 296

[LeeB]

Villa would be stupid to sell at £30m.

If Kaka is worth £100m to Man City then Milner is worth at least half that.

Erm, I think not.  Sorry.

You've never apologized for thinking before, why start now?

It's not about what he's achieved - to answer the subsequent poster - it's about what he will achieve at a bigger club. He has the potential to captain his country one day, and at 24 Man City would be paying as much for his potential as for what he has already 'achieved'.

We should be looking for £40m+ in today's market. That's what David Villa cost. He hardly changed the world playing for Valencia. And this is bottomless-fortune Manchester City we're talking about.

Quite right too.

[pedro25]

I agree he's worth about £25mill, but we should be looking for a serious mark up on this to sell to Man City, probably £40mill plus.  His worth to them is more than just his playing ability, to take the best player away from a direct competitor means they will pay above his actual worth.  Same with Lescott last summer, worth around £15mill, but they paid nearly another 10 on top.

[MoetVillan]

Lescott, honestly worth 15million?  Uvavu

[pedro25]

Yes I think he would have been last summer, definitely not now.  We took Davies with no international experience from the Campionship for £9mill, whilst Lescott was helping Everton finish top 5 for the 2nd consecutive yr and firmly in the England squad.

[mshurst]

If Man City want Milner then they should be prepared to pay through the nose for him.

If O'Neill were to understand how Man City work then he should turn round and tell them to pay at least £40m, or f*** off.

They've got the money. They want the players. They can pay it. It's not like all their previously purchased players were worth what they paid.

As pedro was saying: Lescott is worth £15m. They paid £25m purely because they knew it was too good to turn down. So Villa need to put their foot down and say "No. We make the offer. You accept." and slap £40m on him.

[eastie]

If city go to £28m we should take it and move on and spend the money on 2 or 3 decent players-hopefully Ireland will be one, city are not going to pay £40m for milner and he's worth nowhere near that, if we asked for that there would be no deal and in a year with his contract in it's last year the price would drop hugely.

If milner wants to sign a new contract now , then ok but I don't think he will and don't begrudge him a move , the platt money helped us rebuild and so can this.

[LeeB]

If city go to £28m we should take it and move on and spend the money on 2 or 3 decent players-hopefully Ireland will be one, city are not going to pay £40m for milner and he's worth nowhere near that, if we asked for that there would be no deal and in a year with his contract in it's last year the price would drop hugely.

If milner wants to sign a new contract now , then ok but I don't think he will and don't begrudge him a move , the platt money helped us rebuild and so can this.

As I've said before, it was a different game when Platt was sold, the distribution of players was much more even. If you had money, you could spend it. Nowdays, unless you can offer Champions League football most players will turn their nose up.

[eastie]

£28m if spent well should be enough to get 2 or even 3 very good players in -let's hope o neill has his Ashley young and milner specs on and not his sidwell and knight specs!

[LeeB]

£28m if spent well should be enough to get 2 or even 3 very good players in -let's hope o neill has his Ashley young and milner specs on and not his sidwell and knight specs!

Who then? £28m over three players is less £10m each. Steven Fletcher will set you back over £7m.

[eastie]

£28m if spent well should be enough to get 2 or even 3 very good players in -let's hope o neill has his Ashley young and milner specs on and not his sidwell and knight specs!

Who then? £28m over three players is less £10m each. Steven Fletcher will set you back over £7m.

Stephen Ireland, robbie keane and Micah Richards.

Then any money we have originally plus other sales
should see us enough to get 2 or 3 more in .

[LeeB]

£28m if spent well should be enough to get 2 or even 3 very good players in -let's hope o neill has his Ashley young and milner specs on and not his sidwell and knight specs!

Who then? £28m over three players is less £10m each. Steven Fletcher will set you back over £7m.

Stephen Ireland, robbie keane and Micah Richards.

Then any money we have originally plus other sales
should see us enough to get 2 or 3 more in .

And the wage bill? Estimates I've read suggest the likes of Ireland and Richards are on near £80k a week. I'd imagine Keane's on a decent screw. They're hardly likely to take a huge pay cut to move to us are they?

[BannedUserIAT]

So are we to assume that Villa have NOT given Man City permission to talk to Milner?

If so, does anyone believe that Man City actually haven't been in touch? Wasn't Barry jetted out to Brunei on the quiet when he was still under contract?

Anyway, as many have said, Milner is probably worth around 25 million quid. If he was on the market. He's not. So they're gonna have to pay more.

If an estate agent knocks on your door telling you that someone very very wealthy just has to have your house, are you going to sell it for fair market value? I think not.

[pablopicasso_10]

some wanker manc tosser wrote on that odious little clubs vital football page,

"Manchester City's summer transfer target, James Milner talks to the official FA.com website and in doing so answers fans questions submitted via Facebook.

The current Aston Villa and England midfielder looks relaxed in front of the camera, something he'll be doing quite a lot of if and when Villa finally realise they can't keep hold of one of their prize assets."

makes you sick that these ****** got lucky with a ridiculously rich owner...

would love it if he got bored and they got stuck with their wage bill and nothing to work with but their crap reputatuon and that bellend garry cook...

[SPENTFORCE]

We must keep him, and until James himself shows any signs of not being happy at Villa (which he hasnt) then all is well.

[eastie]

I think milner will want to go , he can probably treble his wages and join a team with multi millions to spend , who I believe will much closer to the top next season now that Hughes has gone.

I would imagine keane, Ireland and Richards would all be prepared to take a wage cut to get regular 1st team football., and all 3 would get into our 1st team.They would all get a cut of the fee as they haven't asked for transfers and I'm sure they would see villa as an attractive deal.