The Milner Novela... Final episode page 296

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I think if we get our hands on Ireland and then a quality defensive minded player like Flamini, then we’ll have improved on Milner, increased the quality and depth of the squad, while still having something like £25-30 million left over from the transfer/sponsorship/Milner money to go on other quality additions.

Hence why I’m excited, as I think we’d be more likely to qualify for the CL or win a trophy than we were at the start of last season.

“As the chairman mentioned, maybe it is a case of probably having to sell to buy. That is something I’m delving into at the moment,” he said.

And?

[achilles]

It's a times like this I think football is just complete fucking bollocks.

Everyone knew it was going to happen but it still leaves a sour taste in the mouth! It won't be long before I walk away from watching football for good.

[Greg N'Ash]

if MON said that, then i'm not surprised he wants to cash in. How skint are we?

[The Man With A Stick]

I'm excited as long as we don't piss it up the wall on dross like Jenas, the man who's middle name might as well be "Average".

[TheSandman]

I think if we get our hands on Ireland and then a quality defensive minded player like Flamini, then we’ll have improved on Milner, increased the quality and depth of the squad, while still having something like £25-30 million left over from the transfer/sponsorship/Milner money to go on other quality additions.

Hence why I’m excited, as I think we’d be more likely to qualify for the CL or win a trophy than we were at the start of last season.

“As the chairman mentioned, maybe it is a case of probably having to sell to buy. That is something I’m delving into at the moment,” he said.

Your point being?

We can buy Ireland, Keane and Flamini and still have change from the money we will make for Milner. Sell a few of the unwanted others and that's another few million in the pot to strengthen in the full back positions.

We sell; We buy. A sell to buy policy in it's purest form.

I still think we have some extra money though even then.

[Chris Smith]

Really though, what is the fucking point?

The point is we come out better off. Then we go and win something, or try.

Do we, though?

Replacing our better players takes energy and effort, when we should be replacing the not-so-good players to kick on.

In an ideal world, yes.

We have to deal with the reality and Man City have changed the landscape completely and it is just impossible to compete with what they can offer. Not just the wages but the other players they can sign to play alongside (or watch from the bench). We just have to make sure we get the best deal we can and move on, feeling sorry for ourselves won't get us anywhere.

We lost Barry last year and followed it up with a decent season and I'm fairly confident that we won't miss Milner unduly if we can use the money to add 2 or 3 new players of our own.

[TopDeck113]

As has been said, it is now just about how much we get for him.

I'm not sad, just resigned to the whole bollocks that is modern football and the people that own, manage or play it.  Amongst other things, I wish these players would hand in transfer requests - I can't stomach the fact that because they do all but to get a move, they leave with a wheelbarrow full of "loyalty" payments.

I was saying to a colleague - ironically a Citeh fan - during the World Cup,  I sometimes wish that if I could change anything about my life, it would be when I was seven years old and pestering my dad to take me down the Villa, that he'd turned round and told me, no, that it was a squalid business that I'd waste years of my time and thousands of my pounds following.

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I think if we get our hands on Ireland and then a quality defensive minded player like Flamini, then we’ll have improved on Milner, increased the quality and depth of the squad, while still having something like £25-30 million left over from the transfer/sponsorship/Milner money to go on other quality additions.

Hence why I’m excited, as I think we’d be more likely to qualify for the CL or win a trophy than we were at the start of last season.

“As the chairman mentioned, maybe it is a case of probably having to sell to buy. That is something I’m delving into at the moment,” he said.

And?

If we are sell to buy, Ireland & Flamini will cost the best part of £15m. Leaving only £10m for other additions not £25-30m.

I think the sponsorship money may be allocated to our high wage bill.

[boboonthecorner]

Really though, what is the fucking point?

The point is we come out better off. Then we go and win something, or try.

Do we, though?

Replacing our better players takes energy and effort, when we should be replacing the not-so-good players to kick on.

In an ideal world, yes.

We have to deal with the reality and Man City have changed the landscape completely and it is just impossible to compete with what they can offer. Not just the wages but the other players they can sign to play alongside (or watch from the bench). We just have to make sure we get the best deal we can and move on, feeling sorry for ourselves won't get us anywhere.

We lost Barry last year and followed it up with a decent season and I'm fairly confident that we won't miss Milner unduly if we can use the money to add 2 or 3 new players of our own.

Completely agree, get rid of the ungrateful, no shouldered, overrated , ratfaced gimp while we can still get decent money :)

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I think if we get our hands on Ireland and then a quality defensive minded player like Flamini, then we’ll have improved on Milner, increased the quality and depth of the squad, while still having something like £25-30 million left over from the transfer/sponsorship/Milner money to go on other quality additions.

Hence why I’m excited, as I think we’d be more likely to qualify for the CL or win a trophy than we were at the start of last season.

“As the chairman mentioned, maybe it is a case of probably having to sell to buy. That is something I’m delving into at the moment,” he said.

Your point being?

We can buy Ireland, Keane and Flamini and still have change from the money we will make for Milner. Sell a few of the unwanted others and that's another few million in the pot to strengthen in the full back positions.

We sell; We buy. A sell to buy policy in it's purest form.

I still think we have some extra money though even then.

The probem is no one is beating down our door for Shorey, Davies, Young, Beye etc

[PaulTheVillan]

Dunne is talking as if he's already left.

I like it.

[boboonthecorner]

It's a shame that our manager seems to prefer english players because there isn't one single player in that England squad that I would rush out and buy if I had City's millions.

Fuck the national team and sign players that are going to win the club trophies.

[dean saunders left boot]

Right well at least now we know he wants to leave, stops all the rumours, we can look in doing a deal with city, get a couple of players out of them and a decent sum of money to invest elsewhere. If a player isn't committed to the club then why have him here. He's done great stuff for us over the last couple of years, but he's obviously decided that the grass is greener (or to be precise cities billions) on the other side, and if he wants to be a part of that then let it be.

As for being a sell to buy club, i'd rather that than be a team who throw shit loads of money at anything with legs, and run the high risk of it eventually blowing up in our faces in the shape of massive debts

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I think if we get our hands on Ireland and then a quality defensive minded player like Flamini, then we’ll have improved on Milner, increased the quality and depth of the squad, while still having something like £25-30 million left over from the transfer/sponsorship/Milner money to go on other quality additions.

Hence why I’m excited, as I think we’d be more likely to qualify for the CL or win a trophy than we were at the start of last season.

“As the chairman mentioned, maybe it is a case of probably having to sell to buy. That is something I’m delving into at the moment,” he said.

And?

If we are sell to buy, Ireland & Flamini will cost the best part of £15m. Leaving only £10m for other additions not £25-30m.

I think the sponsorship money may be allocated to our high wage bill.

I interpret as O’Neill having to clear the decks of the players who don’t feature but are on incredibly good wages.

I think there is probably a pot of something like £15 million, with sponsorship money of £6.6 million either included in it or not. Couple this with Milner money and whatever we can get for some of our dead wood, then I can see us having around £40 million plus to spend.

[Villa'Zawg]

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“As the chairman mentioned, maybe it is a case of probably having to sell to buy. That is something I’m delving into at the moment,” he said.

is that from the same interview or is it an old quote?