The Milner Novela... Final episode page 296

[willywombat]

If you'd have said to me 2 months ago that on our terms we could swap Milner for Ireland, I probably would have.

The only thing now is it makes us look like a selling club if we let him go. And it's not good for us to be losing our best players.

£10million to bring in a forward and Onuoha would get me over that though.

Yep that would make for another season of thrilling football at Villa Park. Why does everybody think signing Man Citys rejects is a good thing for our team? Onuha, just what we need another centre half playing as a full back. Irelands a decent enough player but we need a hell of a lot more than him to improve upon last season.

I fully agree, we should be signing Christiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Wesley Snejider instead. I reckon a Bid for Wayne Rooney might just work too :)

[TopDeck113]

Or words to that effect in his pigeon English

Oh dear: wrong homophone... BE will get in a right flap when he reads that.

[boboonthecorner]

Why does everybody think signing Man Citys rejects is a good thing for our team?

I know what you mean Richard Dunne has been a disaster.

Dunne been solid enough. Great start but faded as the season went on although that is probably due to the fact that our manager decided to stick with Collins when he was off form rather than giving somebody else a chance.

Solid, the typical MON signing, nothing spectacular just reliable.

[Chris Smith]

Why does everybody think signing Man Citys rejects is a good thing for our team?

I know what you mean Richard Dunne has been a disaster.

Dunne been solid enough. Great start but faded as the season went on although that is probably due to the fact that our manager decided to stick with Collins when he was off form rather than giving somebody else a chance.

Solid, the typical MON signing, nothing spectacular just reliable.

You do know we're talking about Richard Dunne who plays for Aston Villa don't you? The one voted by his fellow professional in the PFA team of the year. Only the description you've given seems to relate to another player entirely.

[paul_e]

I love the way some peopleon here twist anything to suit their argument, surely "nothing spectacular just reliable." is pretty much a perfec description of what you want in a central defender.

Signing outcasts from Man city is nothing to complain about, they've gone down the silly route of signing players on reputation not ability and are going to be dumping players who are just as good because they're not high profile enough.  You can't compare them to any properly run normal club, it's like Real Madrid last summer who signed Kaka and Benzema for around 80m to replace Sneijder and Huntelaar who they sold for 25m, is there really over 50m in difference there.

[boboonthecorner]

Why does everybody think signing Man Citys rejects is a good thing for our team?

I know what you mean Richard Dunne has been a disaster.

Dunne been solid enough. Great start but faded as the season went on although that is probably due to the fact that our manager decided to stick with Collins when he was off form rather than giving somebody else a chance.

Solid, the typical MON signing, nothing spectacular just reliable.

You do know we're talking about Richard Dunne who plays for Aston Villa don't you? The one voted by his fellow professional in the PFA team of the year. Only the description you've given seems to relate to another player entirely.

Yeah thats the one. As I said he faded due to the fact that he didn't have a partner at centre half for the second half of the season.

[Mazrim]

Absolute cobblers.

[boboonthecorner]

Absolute cobblers.

Yawn......

[Mazrim]

Absolute cobblers.

Yawn......

Irony......

[boboonthecorner]

Absolute cobblers.

Yawn......

Irony......

Touche........

[Legion]

Why does everybody think signing Man Citys rejects is a good thing for our team?

I know what you mean Richard Dunne has been a disaster.

Dunne been solid enough. Great start but faded as the season went on although that is probably due to the fact that our manager decided to stick with Collins when he was off form rather than giving somebody else a chance.

Solid, the typical MON signing, nothing spectacular just reliable.

You do know we're talking about Richard Dunne who plays for Aston Villa don't you? The one voted by his fellow professional in the PFA team of the year. Only the description you've given seems to relate to another player entirely.

Perhaps it's this Dunn?

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Why does everybody think signing Man Citys rejects is a good thing for our team?

I know what you mean Richard Dunne has been a disaster.

Dunne been solid enough. Great start but faded as the season went on although that is probably due to the fact that our manager decided to stick with Collins when he was off form rather than giving somebody else a chance.

Solid, the typical MON signing, nothing spectacular just reliable.

You do know we're talking about Richard Dunne who plays for Aston Villa don't you? The one voted by his fellow professional in the PFA team of the year. Only the description you've given seems to relate to another player entirely.

Yeah thats the one. As I said he faded due to the fact that he didn't have a partner at centre half for the second half of the season.

Well, there's your somewhat interesting theory or there's the fact that he was struggling with an achilles injury from March onwards*.

You decide.

*whether he should have been playing on when CB was somewhere we had decent cover for is another matter.

[gerags]

I had a text off a mate late yesterday afternoon from a mate in Leeds who was drinking with Milner.

She quizzed him for me and said he was very coy about the whole affair.

[berneboy]

Or words to that effect in his pigeon English

Getting that exclusive is quite a coo for the site.

It's a feather in our nest.

We're homing in on the truth.

Sorry to spoil the fun but I thought it was PIDGIN English!

[Jimbo]

She quizzed him for me and said he was very coy about the whole affair.

Sounds like a load of carp to me.