The Milner Novela... Final episode page 296

[JUAN PABLO]

...and  Onuoha can play LB I think..  In fact RB and CB too . You can probably sell Davies/Beye  then too , to get more funds..

[JJ-AV]

Hleb and Flamini for a combined third of what we'd get for Milner is a no brainer. They're both superior players (albeit in differing positions).

Just shows how quickly football can change, and how players stock can fall so quickly.

[TheSandman]

Hleb and Flamini for a combined third of what we'd get for Milner is a no brainer. They're both superior players (albeit in differing positions).

Just shows how quickly football can change, and how players stock can fall so quickly.

A bit of time on someone's bench can fuck anyone's career and reputation up and that is sadly the case for those two. In fact I bet Milner will move somewhere on the cheap in two or three years after a season on the City bench.

[JUAN PABLO]

I would love Hieb. But I think Ireland will come to Villa and we need a Flamini type.    I cant see MON buying Hieb too but what a squad If he did..

[nechells]

The thing is they have to name a squad of 25 for the prem inc 8 hoe grown players. They are going to have players who can't kick a ball for them unless they start to offload. Or is that what the Elite blah blah force is for?

 If I was one of those players I'd just stay and keep earning £80-100K Per week

Of course you would & so would I

Poor old James Milner seems to be getting slaughtered on here & elsewhere for wanting to do the very same though.

[TheSandman]

I agree to a point if I'm honest. It's slightly different as he's a regular starter at a club where he's earning a fair old wedge. There is a decision to be made where you choose to earn some more money but play less. In the case of Lescott he must feel very bitter as his head was turned and now he's not wanted.

In fact this might be what boils the piss of so many on here. We have a player who must surely know he'll eventually be cast aside and play less first team football than if he stayed at Villa. He'll probably justify it by saying he wants to win medals or play CL football like Barry did rather than being honest and saying the 100% pay rise was why he did it.

I think the main reason many on here are unhappy is that players are divorced from our reality. We all work for our money and for many it won't be enough to do what we all want. We scrimp and save some of this money to buy a season ticket or to pay for a long trip down spending a weekend watching our team. The players we watch however get paid far more than than we dream of and don't know our reality of trying to get by, paying bills and basic needs. Milner gets £45K per week. That's what? £2.5million per year pre tax which is more money than we can dream of and here we have a player who thinks that's not good enough who wants to leave the club that means so much to us all for double the money. Isn't £2.5million enough?

To compound this all some of us (mistakenly it transpires) thought he was different. Possibly because he looks like a WW2 soldier through back or an extra from a Hovis advert. Yet, for him our club is not good enough and the vast pay packet he receives isn't enough.

If I was a player I'd choose not to move to City ultimately for footballing reasons even though by my own admission I'd wrestle my own granmother for a load of money, a sack of French porn and an amusing clock but I understand if Lescott stays and bleeds them dry due to being bitter.

[Dave]

I agree to a point if I'm honest. It's slightly different as he's a regular starter at a club where he's earning a fair old wedge. There is a decision to be made where you choose to earn some more money but play less. In the case of Lescott he must feel very bitter as his head was turned and now he's not wanted.

I'd expect Lescott to be first choice at Man City next season. There don't seem to be many stories of them trying to buy many more centre-halves.

[PaulTheVillan]

Just had a tweet from @VillaNews saying it's 'SPECULATION' Done deal. Cash + Ireland.

[TheSandman]

I agree to a point if I'm honest. It's slightly different as he's a regular starter at a club where he's earning a fair old wedge. There is a decision to be made where you choose to earn some more money but play less. In the case of Lescott he must feel very bitter as his head was turned and now he's not wanted.

I'd expect Lescott to be first choice at Man City next season. There don't seem to be many stories of them trying to buy many more centre-halves.

Boateng? Also linked with Kjaer and a few others.

Anyway my point remains regardless of it's Joleon Lescott, Gareth Barry, Nigel De Jong, Wayne Bridge or whoever.

There will be players in that squad who will be cast aside as they can only have a 25 man squad and need a certain number of these to be younger players and doubtlessly some of them might struggle to find a new club and be tempted to do a Winston Bogarde on their fat contract.

[PaulWinch again]

Just had a tweet from @VillaNews saying it's 'SPECULATION' Done deal. Cash + Ireland.

I'd hope that's true, Ireland would be ideal and has the craft we need. Although I wouldn't want him and Petrov as a midfield two, we'd have to have someone to do the leg work.

[PaulTheVillan]

Just had a tweet from @VillaNews saying it's 'SPECULATION' Done deal. Cash + Ireland.

I'd hope that's true, Ireland would be ideal and has the craft we need. Although I wouldn't want him and Petrov as a midfield two, we'd have to have someone to do the leg work.

Agreed.

Petrov NRC and Ireland.

Delph in for NRC when back fit.

That would work.

[PaulWinch again]

Yeah I agree, that would have a good balance to it. Hope it's true.

[dave.woodhall]

Just had a tweet from @VillaNews saying it's 'SPECULATION' Done deal. Cash + Ireland.

Must be true then.

[PaulTheVillan]

Just had a tweet from @VillaNews saying it's 'SPECULATION' Done deal. Cash + Ireland.

Must be true then.

You think?

I don't.

[olaftab]

Can I just say that Milner isn't going any where. 14 August v West Ham no. 8 shirt  will say MILNER.