Young completes Man Utd move

[TheSandman]

Phil Jones had a lot more time left on his contract.

[Dante Lavelli]

Phil Jones had a lot more time left on his contract.

And arguably his career too.

[GJH]

Funny how he has had 3 or 4 good games for England and all of a sudden he's a world class player!

Let him go to Man Utd for £18m, good business. See how long he lasts playing for fergie when he keeps throwing is arms in the air when he plays a shit ball and hitting corners out for throw ins!

Villa fans will agree that the last 2 years he has been a shadow of his former self and to double our investment must be a good thing.

You cant knock a player for moving to Utd and good luck to him. I just hope he remembers how we have helped is career.

[Dave]

See how long he lasts playing for fergie when he keeps throwing is arms in the air when he plays a shit ball and hitting corners out for throw ins!

Presumably you've not seen much of Nani?

[midnite]

I think he'll be a great player for united. He'll be kept on a much tighter leash then here. Fergie will bring out the best in him and he won't be able to walk around the place like the Billy big bollocks he can here. Fergie will make him raise his game and i think he will. He'll be a brilliant signing for them. I think we pandered to is every whim too much here and it effected him in a negative way. He wont have the luxury at united.
Good luck to him. Ash has given us some fond memories over the years. I will be sad to see him go but the best for both the club and the player he needs to move on.

[RogerS]

Let's just sell the fuckin ponce and move on.

Could well have been a quote lifted from the Minutes of the last Villa Board Meeting

[Lizz]

Apparently Ashley's getting married this weekend, in Hertfordshire. Neither here nor there regarding the move, but thought it's just about worth mentioning.

[Des Little]

Nothing but thanks to Ash for all of his work here, we loved him and he repaid us with some magic moments.  However I wish they would get a fcuking move on and get him gone so we can start spending the money (as and when we get the manager sorted of course)

[RunRickyRun]

Funny how he has had 3 or 4 good games for England and all of a sudden he's a world class player!

Let him go to Man Utd for £18m, good business. See how long he lasts playing for fergie when he keeps throwing is arms in the air when he plays a shit ball and hitting corners out for throw ins!

Villa fans will agree that the last 2 years he has been a shadow of his former self and to double our investment must be a good thing.

Or more likely, he'll continue the good form he has shown for us and, as a consequence of playing for one of the sky 4, media pundits will be falling over themselves to laud him and Fergie's judgement in buying him.

[andrew08]

So on the day that the Wigan owner says how good it is to deal with Aston Villa as we do things the right way, the nations premier sports TV channel reports  Man u are talking to A Y's representatives.

No comment has been made how this is against the rules, no discussion on how many points  they should be deducted or how much we can sue Man U for.

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

I'm assuming a fee has been agreed then if Young's representitives are speaking to Man Utd?

[Dave]

Not necessarily.

We can give permission for someone to speak to our players without agreeing a fee beforehand. As I assume will have happened here.

[andrew08]

Really. Why have a contract then. We can 'force' him to stay in theory untill we are compensated. Or compensation/transfer fee has been agreed. We had this issue with Barry and Liverpool before I cant believe we'd fall for it again.

[Dave]

Really. Why have a contract then.

Because he still can't move there until we agree a fee.

But if we give him permission to go and decide personal terms before agreeing the fee what's the harm? It hardly matters which way round it's done as long as we're happy with that. We've done several times before in the past.

[andrew08]

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Really. Why have a contract then.

Because he still can't move there until we agree a fee.

But if we give him permission to go and decide personal terms before agreeing the fee what's the harm? It hardly matters which way round it's done as long as we're happy with that. We've done several times before in the past.

Mmmm ok, didn't realise that.