Downing off to Red Scouse?

[Bad English]

What's French for 'FUCK OFF' ?

Most would say "Va te faire enculer !". You can get the same effect with "Va te faire mettre !" or even, "Kenny,  tu peux me pomper le nœud !"

Crikey, they have a few ways of saying it !!

To be fair, the last one was "Kenny, you may polish my helmet"

[Bad English]

I'm still at school. Never been allowed to leave.

I meant I left Grimshaw in 1984 so I can't help LV with his RRRs. ;-)

[Ross]

Sky Sports News reporting that sources 'close to the player' say that there is a genuine interest in the player from Liverpool.  Hope it is just an agent doing his job i.e. looking to get a new contract from Villa as opposed to Downing starting to pack his bags.

We shouldn't sell a major player until the summer.  Let's get Bent, Adam with a couple of others and see if we can't break into the top 8 by the end of the season - it might help to pursuade a couple of the doubters.

[phindogask]

i personally wouldnt be bothered if downing left...

i think he could be replaced quite easily, and i dont like the way that he shirks out of challenges... dont get me wrong, i think he has improved this season, however, if we sold him for 15 plus million, then we could replace him quite easily...

i would be more upset if albrighton left...

My thoughts entirely

Downing yesterday was back to his old poncy self. Bottling challenges and fannying about instead of getting the ball into the box quickly. Can't play on the right as he continually cuts in so has to play wide left or nowhere.

If we had a bid of 10 million I'd fuck him off

Well said mate......

[Phil from the upper holte]

Sky Sports News reporting that sources 'close to the player' say that there is a genuine interest in the player from Liverpool.  Hope it is just an agent doing his job i.e. looking to get a new contract from Villa as opposed to Downing starting to pack his bags.

We shouldn't sell a major player until the summer.  Let's get Bent, Adam with a couple of others and see if we can't break into the top 8 by the end of the season - it might help to pursuade a couple of the doubters.

We've brought Makoun and hopefully will be signing Bent, Last thing we want to do is sell one of our better performers

[not3bad]

i personally wouldnt be bothered if downing left...

i think he could be replaced quite easily, and i dont like the way that he shirks out of challenges... dont get me wrong, i think he has improved this season, however, if we sold him for 15 plus million, then we could replace him quite easily...

i would be more upset if albrighton left...

My thoughts entirely

Downing yesterday was back to his old poncy self. Bottling challenges and fannying about instead of getting the ball into the box quickly. Can't play on the right as he continually cuts in so has to play wide left or nowhere.

If we had a bid of 10 million I'd fuck him off

Well said mate......

Taking a loss of £2 miilion on what we paid for him is well said?  Shit said more like.

[hawkeye]

Great if Downing goes, my bet is he is off to Sunderland

[Dave]

i personally wouldnt be bothered if downing left...

i think he could be replaced quite easily, and i dont like the way that he shirks out of challenges... dont get me wrong, i think he has improved this season, however, if we sold him for 15 plus million, then we could replace him quite easily...

i would be more upset if albrighton left...

My thoughts entirely

Downing yesterday was back to his old poncy self. Bottling challenges and fannying about instead of getting the ball into the box quickly. Can't play on the right as he continually cuts in so has to play wide left or nowhere.

If we had a bid of 10 million I'd fuck him off

Well said mate......

Taking a loss of £2 miilion on what we paid for him is well said?  Shit said more like.

£10m is what we paid for him.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Downing is not that good a player, so if we can get good money for him, sell him.

A.Young and Albrighton down the wings will supply the strikers.

Downing makes Ireland look like Andy Townsend when it comes to putting effort into a tackle. I wouldn't mind if he had the ability of, for example, a Merson where you didn't mind him not tackling because you knew he could win you the match at any point. Downing can't do that.

[Dave]

Downing makes Ireland look like Andy Townsend when it comes to putting effort into a tackle

Wingers aren't in the team to make tackles.

When they try to, more often than not they end up giving away stupid free kicks and penalties.

See Albrighton, M

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Sky Sports News reporting that sources 'close to the player' say that there is a genuine interest in the player from Liverpool.  Hope it is just an agent doing his job i.e. looking to get a new contract from Villa as opposed to Downing starting to pack his bags.

We shouldn't sell a major player until the summer.  Let's get Bent, Adam with a couple of others and see if we can't break into the top 8 by the end of the season - it might help to pursuade a couple of the doubters.

We've brought Makoun and hopefully will be signing Bent, Last thing we want to do is sell one of our better performers

Better performers? Really? I've been to every home game this season and can confidently say one of our better performers he is not.

[Dave]

Sky Sports News reporting that sources 'close to the player' say that there is a genuine interest in the player from Liverpool.  Hope it is just an agent doing his job i.e. looking to get a new contract from Villa as opposed to Downing starting to pack his bags.

We shouldn't sell a major player until the summer.  Let's get Bent, Adam with a couple of others and see if we can't break into the top 8 by the end of the season - it might help to pursuade a couple of the doubters.

We've brought Makoun and hopefully will be signing Bent, Last thing we want to do is sell one of our better performers

Better performers? Really? I've been to every home game this season and can confidently say one of our better performers he is not.

Is he not our top-scorer? Very few players have been overly impressive this season but Downing is one of the better ones. He wouldn't be our top scorer if he weren't.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Downing makes Ireland look like Andy Townsend when it comes to putting effort into a tackle

Wingers aren't in the team to make tackles.

When they try to, more often than not they end up giving away stupid free kicks and penalties.

See Albrighton, M

See A.Young. Tracks back well and doesn't give too many fouls away, certainly not in stupid places. Albrighton is young and will learn, but I'd still rather him put the effort in.

And if Downing is a winger then NRC is a right-back. Wingers aren't that slow and unskillful.

[Bad English]

Pipped me to it Dave. He's as bad as Emule when it comes to scoring for us.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Sky Sports News reporting that sources 'close to the player' say that there is a genuine interest in the player from Liverpool.  Hope it is just an agent doing his job i.e. looking to get a new contract from Villa as opposed to Downing starting to pack his bags.

We shouldn't sell a major player until the summer.  Let's get Bent, Adam with a couple of others and see if we can't break into the top 8 by the end of the season - it might help to pursuade a couple of the doubters.

We've brought Makoun and hopefully will be signing Bent, Last thing we want to do is sell one of our better performers

Better performers? Really? I've been to every home game this season and can confidently say one of our better performers he is not.

Is he not our top-scorer? Very few players have been overly impressive this season but Downing is one of the better ones. He wouldn't be our top scorer if he weren't.

It's not exactly hard to be our top goalscorer. Andy Cole was regularly top scorer (or one of), but he wasn't all that great a player.