Go away Golloway

[The Situation]

http://tinyurl.com/Houllier-The-player-snatcher

"They are trying to steal Charlie from me. I’m resigned to losing Charlie, but it should all be done respectfully, not by letting it be known you’ve made this bid or that bid."

 

[Havencheese]

A man who speaks from the heart. Therefore I couldn't give a rat's tossbag about Holloway and his two bob snipes, he's just playing his natural game. That "natural game" is exposing what he really thinks about the situtation in a game where one needs to keeps their cards close to his chest, will lose on most occasions. Let's hope he doesn't muck this one up for us.

A gobshite as passionate as Holloway who speaks from the heart, may know something the rest of us don't.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

From eatsleepfootballwe'realllads.com

HOLLOWAY FURY AS HE THREATENS TO SHOOT OWN FAMILY

Blackpool Manager Ian Holloway last night esculated the row between himself and Gerard Houllier over the ongoing transfer saga of Charlie Adam, by exclaiming ''I'll shoot my family.''

Holloway is in bullish mood and feels he needs to demonstrate his hard and remorseless nature, by emulating the character of Keyser Soze from Hollywood cult movie 'The usual suspects.'

''I mean it'' Holloway wailed in his incest inducing accent


''If Houllier and his club make one more pitiful bid for Charlie Adam, I will personally travel down to Birmingham, grab Houllier by the scruff of the neck, drag him back to my home in Blackpool and then shoot all my family in front of him, not my dog though, I like walking on the beach with him.''

''This is serious, the whole of Blackpool's economy depends on Charlie Adam staying at the club, if he leaves, well, can the last person switch the lights off, this town will be coming like a Ghost Town.''

Holloway previously courted controversy as manager of Leicester City, Burnley manager Owen Coyle put in a bid for then Foxes striker Matty Fryatt, Holloway then claimed that he would
Turn into the liquid terminator from 'Terminator 2' and ruthlessley hunt Coyle down.

Following that outburst, Holloway was sectioned for two months but then recovered suitably well enough to take charge of the Tangerines in 2009.

Friends and family are now fearing that the rarified and highly pressurised world of Premiership football is starting to unhinge him again.

Aston Villa football club have refused to comment.

[eastie]

A profit of 700% is a great deal for Blackpool and the player clearly wants to leave as holloway said 'he can sulk all he likes'- Blackpool would be better to cash in now while they have time to spend the cash in new players-I reckon £4.5m would do it.

[pauliewalnuts]

Holloways last rant makes it clear as day he has to sell.

[TimTheVillain]

Come on down Charlie, how embarrassing it must be playing for such a raving lunatic.

[MoetVillan]

Hang on, Ian states that Villa are disrespectful in the size of their offer for a player he rates "so much higher", yet there is no evidence as he is "only" paid £10000 a week.  I personally could just about make ends meet on that salary, but thats me.  Golloway states he is worth £46 million to Blackpool, so surely he should be working a little harder to keep him.  I think he is spending money he should be spending on Charlies salary on buying an icecream every day. 

[ozzjim]

Holloways last rant makes it clear as day he has to sell.

He will, as soon as someone else makes an offer.

[Merv]

I think what we have here now is a clear case of a manager openly touting his player around. His issue now doesn't appear to be that he wants to keep Adam - it's that he wants us to pay big money for him and seems irked that we paid so much for Bent.

I don't think Villa have commented on Adam for at least a week now. Holloway keeps talking about him all the time now.

[ktvillan]

I can kind of see Holloway's point, the offer is a little derisory given Adam still has 18 months to go and it will serve to unsettle Adam if he is only on 10k a week, knowing he could quadruple that at VIlla.

That said, you can't blame another club or manager for trying to exploit the fact he's only on 10k a week.  That's the way of the football world, and the answer to that one is in Blackpool's hands.  If staying in the PL is worth 46m to them, could they not invest a little of that in upping Charlie boy's wages, subject to them staying up?

Secondly, how else is Houllier supposed to make his interest known other than by making an offer? I thought that was the correct way to go about it, yet Holloway is talking as if Adam has been tapped up for the last 6 months.  If the offer isn't acceptable, turn it down, like O'Neill did when Liverpool bid for Barry.  And shut the fuck up. Simple.

[TimTheVillain]

If Hollowhead is so sure of staying up, why not put Adam on £40k a week now ?

Adam has to hand in a transfer request to get the deal moving.

[ozzjim]

Villa either have to decide they want Adam as a long term player because he fits the style GH wants to adopt and Bent thrives on a good passer behind him in the middle of the park, and if so pay the 6 million ish that it will take, or walk away and go for someone else. Quibbling over 1.5 million or so if Adam is vital to the philosophy that GH is talking about will be as silly as not paying the 500k for Keane all those years ago. Either get it done, or move on now.

Holloway is being a complete dick, but is looking after himself as the manager who has to replace the player.

[TimTheVillain]

Villa either have to decide they want Adam as a long term player because he fits the style GH wants to adopt and Bent thrives on a good passer behind him in the middle of the park, and if so pay the 6 million ish that it will take, or walk away and go for someone else. Quibbling over 1.5 million or so if Adam is vital to the philosophy that GH is talking about will be as silly as not paying the 500k for Keane all those years ago. Either get it done, or move on now.

Holloway is being a complete dick, but is looking after himself as the manager who has to replace the player.

Loan then Barry Bannan again 'til the end of the season.

[The Situation]

I'd actually go a step further and say he's reverse tapping up.

It's clearly obvious, he's enticing us - it's a "come and get him if you dare" plea.

He's probably banging his fists like a Tory boy at an Eton Convention right now screeching in his inbred accent "Why haven't they made another bid?!"

He needs lessons off Harry Redknapp.

[Dave P]

If I was Houllier, I'd wait until the 31st Jan and offer £4m.  If he dont take it, then he wont get that in the Summer and he'll regret not selling him to us.