Stephen Ireland - Clean Slate?

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

I reckon if he's ready to knuckle down and work for the club he's gonna have a great season and terrorize defences all year.

Make that a truly massive "IF"!
Hope it happens for him and for us!

[VillaAlways]

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[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Want to be optimistic. So lets get him fit and playing in pre-season games and see what happens .........

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Whilst I partly blame Richard Dunne for being a bad influence on Ireland, I'm wondering what kind of positive influence Shay Given will have on him, assuming he's heading to B6 next week. By all accounts, a model pro. We can but dream.

[oldtimernow]

The prodigal son or the returnee from the funny farm?

[oldtimernow]

If he does come good for us, how long do you think he'll stick around?

Longer or shorter than some others?

[Rip Van We Go Again]

If he does come good for us, how long do you think he'll stick around?

Longer or shorter than some others?

Depends how tightly they tie his strait jacket up.

[l_mckay]

hopefully he will put the effort in this pre season and find some form,he is a quality player on his day!

[spangley1812]

If he does come good for us, how long do you think he'll stick around?

Longer or shorter than some others?

Well if he plays to his potential we would get £10+ for him at the present moment after last season we would struggle to get £3m for him

[Karl Bridges]

Should have posted in here instead of the transfer thread. Matt Kendrick has Tweeted about an interview he's done with Stephen Ireland saying that he is determined to be a success at Villa. I really hope it works out, he could be a seriously good player if he gets his game face on.

[TimTheVillain]

Should have posted in here instead of the transfer thread. Matt Kendrick has Tweeted about an interview he's done with Stephen Ireland saying that he is determined to be a success at Villa. I really hope it works out, he could be a seriously good player if he gets his game face on.

Read that - it's written up in the Mondays news I think.

[Toronto Villa]

If he does come good for us, how long do you think he'll stick around?

Longer or shorter than some others?

Well if he plays to his potential we would get £10+ for him at the present moment after last season we would struggle to get £3m for him

The thing is given the investment and the contract he's on it makes much more sense for the club to try and get him back into the fold and being productive again. The one thing very much working in McLeish's favour is that he had no previous with any of these players so he can speak to them without bias. He'll tell Ireland and Warnock that he's in this together with them, that as manager he wants to prove a lot of people wrong and that they can help each other do this.

[Nev]

Should have posted in here instead of the transfer thread. Matt Kendrick has Tweeted about an interview he's done with Stephen Ireland saying that he is determined to be a success at Villa. I really hope it works out, he could be a seriously good player if he gets his game face on.

Deja Vu.


We should've signed him instead.

[spangley1812]

If he does come good for us, how long do you think he'll stick around?

Longer or shorter than some others?

Well if he plays to his potential we would get £10+ for him at the present moment after last season we would struggle to get £3m for him

The thing is given the investment and the contract he's on it makes much more sense for the club to try and get him back into the fold and being productive again. The one thing very much working in McLeish's favour is that he had no previous with any of these players so he can speak to them without bias. He'll tell Ireland and Warnock that he's in this together with them, that as manager he wants to prove a lot of people wrong and that they can help each other do this.

I agree 100% Toronto if McLeish can get Ireland/Warnock playing again then it will be like having 2 new players in the squad

[PaulTheVillan]

Ireland & Warnock are now at a point where they might not get a better chance to be playing top flight football at a big club.

If either of them fuck this up then they'll be on the slide somewhere shit like Wigan or Stoke.