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Offline martin

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Cahill - revisited
« on: June 18, 2011, 03:01:02 PM »
Excuse the precision, or lack of it, in the chronology, but generally speaking there was  an ex-Villa manager who woke up one morning and thought to himself, "You know, that Gary Cahill, he ain't up to much. What I'll do is I'll stick him in the stiffs, hope that some Championship club will come in and take him off our hands on loan, and spend  10 million pounds on West Brom's central defender to replace him.

At that time - and at any number of times subsequent to this mistake - there were  significant numbers of H&V contributors who thought that this was a sound piece of business and that Cahill was overrated. I wasn't among them; most sane people weren't.

If you were among the insane, here is your chance to repent...


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Online spangley1812

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Re: Cahill - revisited
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2011, 03:14:18 PM »
You forgot to add the bit where Cahill went to MON and said I want a transfer......I dont want to wait for my chance to play for Aston Villa anymore
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Offline olofmilosevic

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Re: Cahill - revisited
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2011, 03:17:27 PM »
NOT  TRUE! Cahill wanted to stay at villa!!!!!!!
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Fuck off not another bloody Cahill thread
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2011, 03:18:40 PM »
Aaaaaaaaaaaaagh!
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Online spangley1812

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Re: Cahill - revisited
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2011, 03:19:35 PM »
Quote from: olofmilosevic on June 18, 2011, 03:17:27 PM
NOT  TRUE! Cahill wanted to stay at villa!!!!!!!
why did he sign for Bolton then.............
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Offline martin

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Re: Cahill - revisited
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2011, 03:22:45 PM »
Quote from: cdvillafan on June 18, 2011, 03:18:40 PM
Aaaaaaaaaaaaagh!

Sorry cdvillain, I really should stay in more. Humour me...
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Offline KRS

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Re: Cahill - revisited
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2011, 03:28:00 PM »
I'd take Cahill over Dann/Johnson any day of the week.
Coyle has pretty much said he's up for sale at the right price.
Dont suppose we managed to put in a first refusal clause in his sell on contract did we?
May attract interest from Spurs, Liverpool or Arsenal.
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Re: Cahill - revisited
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2011, 03:40:07 PM »
Because he was off the pitch receiving treatment.
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Offline David_Nab

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Re: Cahill - revisited
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2011, 03:43:02 PM »
Thats the past what I think is more important now is did we insert a sell on fee clause !! A slice of a £15mil plus transfer fee would come in handy.

Looking back frankly it seems like short term thinking his sale and in hindsight he turned out to be a  better  player than Davies ,Collins and maybe even Dunn.But at the time £5mil didn't seem to bad a price ...
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Offline eamonn

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Re: Cahill - revisited
« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2011, 03:43:10 PM »
Well this rears its' head in most other topics so why not let it have its' own thread?
Not that it's got 'owt to do with the price of fish these days.
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Offline K3Villa

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Re: Cahill - revisited
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2011, 03:43:27 PM »
Quote from: Chris Smith on June 18, 2011, 03:40:07 PM
Because he was off the pitch receiving treatment.

Very good.
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Offline hilts_coolerking

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Re: Cahill - revisited
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2011, 03:50:29 PM »
This is one of those subjects you're not supposed to bring up because it doesn't reflect well on O'Neill, cf. Moscow / Heskey / Harewood etc.
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Offline TimTheVillain

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Re: Cahill - revisited
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2011, 03:53:02 PM »
He'll be at the Arse....
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Offline ozzjim

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Re: Cahill - revisited
« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2011, 04:08:38 PM »
Was one of the most inept bits of business we have done.

McLeish was desperate to get him to the sty too.
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Offline villa1

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Re: Cahill - revisited
« Reply #14 on: June 18, 2011, 04:14:54 PM »
Quote from: olofmilosevic on June 18, 2011, 03:17:27 PM
NOT  TRUE! Cahill wanted to stay at villa!!!!!!!

How do you know? I was always under the impression that he wasn't willing to wait for his chance and wanted to go.
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