Aston Villa sign Charles N'Zogbia (Reply#1151)

[john2710]

If there were any other teams bidding or he had 3 years left on his contract I could understand the rush. Whelan has already been quote as saying N'Zogbia will be sold this summer.

They need the money, we want the player. We have several other options they appear to have two, sell to us or keep him. I can't see him signing a new contract. Lets see who's breaks first, my bet is a compromise of £9.5m or £9m plus £1m add-ons.

If we offered £10m without question I think Whelan would then ask for £12m.

[Dave]

Yea and how wrong is that, merceneries every one of them.

So just to clarify, they're bastards if they want to leave during their contracts and they're bastards if they complete their contractual obligations in full?

They can't really win, can they?

[Chris Smith]

It could be tgat Wigan are trying to piss off CNZ so that he hands in a transfer request.

[N'Rexy]

Lots of people sayin that wigan have accepted a bid of 10m from us in the last hour or so.  'Crosses fingers'

[KRS]

What people?

[VillaAlways]

What people?

Twitter no doubt

[Villa'Zawg]

If there were any other teams bidding or he had 3 years left on his contract I could understand the rush. Whelan has already been quote as saying N'Zogbia will be sold this summer.

They need the money, we want the player. We have several other options they appear to have two, sell to us or keep him. I can't see him signing a new contract. Lets see who's breaks first, my bet is a compromise of £9.5m or £9m plus £1m add-ons.

If we offered £10m without question I think Whelan would then ask for £12m

This story suggests it may be slightly more complicated.

NZogbia to go on strike - Clicky

[Greg N'Ash]

Great. Just what we need another pain in the arse in the dressing room. Apologies to him if he's just got bad press but he seems a bit of a prick frankly.

[tarzansbrother]

Great. Just what we need another pain in the arse in the dressing room. Apologies to him if he's just got bad press but he seems a bit of a prick frankly.

Whelan is the prick. £9m was the fee he set now trying to get a higher price. We set a fee of £20m for downing and he was sold

[Greg N'Ash]

Sorry but when players start going on strike like they're on 200 quid a week my sympathy disappears completely. If any of our players did the same i'd fuck them off straight away.

[tarzansbrother]

Sorry but when players start going on strike like they're on 200 quid a week my sympathy disappears completely. If any of our players did the same i'd fuck them off straight away.

You would be fucking off every footballer then. Even Fabregas has told Arsenal to get Fucked to make his move happen. Modern football now

[Greg N'Ash]

N'zogbia will be sold whatever happens. throwing your toys out the pram and refusing to train is just pointless and pathetic and isn't going to help us much when we get a player who's miles behind everyone else in fitness

[pauliewalnuts]

The thing is, football is all about hypocrisy.

We got all self righteous about Downing handing in a transfer request because he wanted to leave for Liverpool, yet now, we'll mostly pretend N'Zogbia is only going on strike because Wigan have betrayed him somewhat.

[Greg N'Ash]

The thing is, football is all about hypocrisy.

We got all self righteous about Downing handing in a transfer request because he wanted to leave for Liverpool, yet now, we'll mostly pretend N'Zogbia is only going on strike because Wigan have betrayed him somewhat.

True. I think its degrees of arseholeness (new word alert). Downing made it pretty clear he wanted to jump ship but if we'd said "no you can't", i'd like to think he wouldn't have gone on strike

[PeterWithe]

I'm quite enamored by the thought of Zogbia sitting outside Wigans training ground throwing half enders at his team mates cars and screaming 'SCABS!!' though the electric windows of his Ferrari.