The Milner Novela... Final episode page 296

[TheSandman]

If mon offered £16m for Carlton cole then I'd be mortified , that along with the £15m down the pan on heskey would be the final straw!

If he did that I can offer you a personal guarantee that the front page of every newspaper will be:

'VILLA MANAGER TORTURED AND SLAIN BY IRATE SCOTSMAN'

Mortified does not begin to describe how angry I'd be. Incandescent sounds more like it.

[KevinGage]

Some ITK (so they say) about Milner & Ireland

Hhhmmmmm

£16m for Carlton Cole, in what world would that happen?

If that were to happen some much needed (and perhaps long overdue) Quality Control would need to kick in.

Namely, the General at Bodymoor Heath welcoming our returning hero and MON with a sub machine gun and a few Molotov cocktails. It's your round, and all that.

[NorthYvillan]

that along with the £15m down the pan on heskey would be the final straw!

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Heskey was £3,500,000 - wasted money I agree - not £15,000,000. If MON had spent £15m on Heskey then I would have lead the calls for his removal - and a check on his mental health.

[Chris Jameson]

Its Ianrobos blog. he runs the forum there as well. Nice chap!

Teh only thing I know about him involves a prostitute.

He may also be teh same bloke who thinks we're all '******'. If it's a different Ianrobo then maybe he is a nice chap but if it's teh one I suspect it is then he's a fucking idiot.

[pauliewalnuts]

that along with the £15m down the pan on heskey would be the final straw!

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Heskey was £3,500,000 - wasted money I agree - not £15,000,000. If MON had spent £15m on Heskey then I would have lead the calls for his removal - and a check on his mental health.

He means total cost.

3.5m fee
3.5 years @ 60k a week = 10m ish
NI on top of that = 1mish
plus signing on fees etc etc.

Not far short of a 15m commitment to a player at the end of his career, who can now sit out that contract and coin it in, if he wants.

And that is the utter, utter madness of signing any 31 year old on a contract that long, for anything like that money. Then throw in the fact that he's Heskey.

[TheSandman]

that along with the £15m down the pan on heskey would be the final straw!

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Heskey was £3,500,000 - wasted money I agree - not £15,000,000. If MON had spent £15m on Heskey then I would have lead the calls for his removal - and a check on his mental health.

£3.5million + Over £3million annual wages. So if he serves all three years of his contract it will work out at over £12.5million.

It's unutterably terrifying. Think what you could do with the £3million we pay Hesk in wages each year?

[Concrete John]

that along with the £15m down the pan on heskey would be the final straw!

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Heskey was £3,500,000 - wasted money I agree - not £15,000,000. If MON had spent £15m on Heskey then I would have lead the calls for his removal - and a check on his mental health.

They're adding up his wages aswell.  However, if we sell him this summer it will be 18 months of £60k-a-week, so with £3.5m fee a total of around £7.8m.

Still not good business though.

[pauliewalnuts]

^^ which depends on Heskey finding somewhere prepared to pay him that much (highly unlikely), in which case we may end up paying part of his wages even after he's gone.

Paying Heskey to not play for us.

[Concrete John]

Paying Heskey to not play for us.

Has pretty much the same effect as paying him to play for us.

[eastie]

I thought heskey was on a 4 yr contract, or am I mistaken- still if he sees out his contract it's about £15m down the drain on him .

It will be hard to move him on as well as I can't see anyone offering anywhere near £3m in wages to him, and now he's packed in England he can quite easily pick up his money for old rope- hugely depressing thought!

[TonyD]

I think we all know that CC is coming to VP to replace EH.   He is a MON type of player.  When he does join I will switch off the footy news until MON leaves VP.

[dave.woodhall]

I think we all know that CC is coming to VP to replace EH.   He is a MON type of player.  When he does join I will switch off the footy news until MON leaves VP.

100% ITK. LOL.

[Chris Jameson]

^^ which depends on Heskey finding somewhere prepared to pay him that much (highly unlikely), in which case we may end up paying part of his wages even after he's gone.

There must be a club out there that is desperate for an International class 'defensive striker'?

[Ads]

I think we all know that CC is coming to VP to replace EH.   He is a MON type of player.  When he does join I will switch off the footy news until MON leaves VP.

100% ITK. LOL.

lmao, you just pwnd the n00b Dave!!!1

[ronshirt]

Paying Heskey to not play for us.

We've been doing that for 18 months. Another couple of years won't make much difference.

EDIT: John M's already done that riff.