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

[maidstonevillain]

i like him

Wouldn't go that far. Begrudging respect maybe. Same as I had for Doug. "Old school" chairman.

[ozzjim]

I think he can set whatever price he wants, and having seen us rake in 37 million for Downing and Young, has raised the price to 10 million. For me it is a bargain, and we should just pay it, sort it and get him in on a 5 year deal so in 2 years when he has been brilliant, we can take a big profit.

[LeeB]

Whelan is a huge, massive arse, but why should he make it easy for us?

Because he runs poxy Wigan, and he's dealing with Aston Villa.

Or because he might well end up with fuck all at the end of it, something a club with their budget could ill afford.

Again, Whelan isn't a nice bloke at all, but he's a far, far shrewder business man than Randy, and just like we shouldn't just let our best players go when bigger clubs come calling, I don't imagine he wants to do the same.

The first part of my reply was slightly tongue in cheek, the second part which I've put back in for you I thought was the really Whelans problem, something that undermines his stance.

My take is that he knows were the only serious bidder, and we're cash rich and he wants his slice. He may think that given the situation down here the fans may get restless if he goes public and drags it out, thus forcing us to pay his demands.

It wont work, he'll blink first because he'll not risk losing that money.

[D.boy]

All those screaming pay it etc.... what if the player wants more than the alleged £50K/week or as mentioned elsewhere is holding out for another club to come in (Sunderland)? I would rather we signed a player that wants to play for this club than another mercenary who will bugger off again.

[Toronto Villa]

Whelan's an arrogant cock. Imagine the uproar had Doug changed Villa Park to the DE Stadium like wiley old Dave has done up at Wigan. He likes the 15 minutes he gets to thump his chest taking on one of the big boys. We'll get our man. He knows it.

[Greg N'Ash]

All those screaming pay it etc.... what if the player wants more than the alleged £50K/week or as mentioned elsewhere is holding out for another club to come in (Sunderland)? I would rather we signed a player that wants to play for this club than another mercenary who will bugger off again.

yep. a lot of its desperation for a signing. He's not that good and seems to have an erm ireland-esque personality. Id call whelan's bluff and see if he gets a better offer. If Sunderland come in and he signs for them then that tells you all you need to know really.

[hawkeye]

That Sunderland is a more attractive proposition than Villa? Yeh i get that

[Greg N'Ash]

well they sell Bent and Henderson and get it all to spend. We sell Young and Downing and get 10m to spend. Put like that you couldn't blame him.

[Karl Bridges]

Express

CHARLES N’ZOGBIA TELLS WIGAN: I MUST GO



Charles N'Zogbia has told Wigan he wants to leave for Aston Villa

Saturday July 23,2011
By John Wragg



CHARLES N’ZOGBIA has told Wigan he has been at the club long enough and wants to leave for Aston Villa.

French winger N’Zogbia denied he will go on strike to force a move but said: “It has been two and a half years. I have given enough.”

Villa thought they had met Wigan’s £9million asking price only to be told it had gone up and there is now a stand-off between the clubs.

“If they want any more it is for the club to decide. It is not for me to demand a transfer,” said N’Zogbia, who did not join his team-mates on Wigan’s pre-season trip to Austria yesterday.

“Me, strike? Not at all. Come and see me at Wigan, you will see that I train every day.

“There was an offer from Villa, which Wigan refused. I have not been offered a contract extension by the club.”

Wigan chairman Dave Whelan said: “Charles is a great lad. If we do lose him, and we may well do, because he has expressed a desire to move, we will miss him enormously.

“For £10million he is an absolute snip, if Stewart Downing can change hands for £20million I don’t know what Charles is worth. He is the fastest, most direct wide player in the Premier League and I have always asked for £10m and hopefully we will get it.

“I would love to keep him, but everything being as it is we have to be sensible. Villa are not the sole bidders, there are another couple of clubs who are desperate to sign him. It depends how much they can pay up front, because we have got to re-spend that £10m this season just to replace Charles.”

Villa manager Alex McLeish, who was close to signing N’Zogbia for Birmingham last season until there was a dispute over wages, is adamant Villa cannot go into the new season with only the inexperienced Marc Albrighton as a winger after the £36m sales of Ashley Young and Downing.

[Dante Lavelli]

Arguably we could do with two wingers. I'd bid £5m for Hoilet as he's in the last year of his contract so Blackburn may be forced to sell cheaply.

Give it a few weeks then bid £7m for Nzogbia at the end of the window.

[eamonn]

I wonder who our ''alternatives'' are. If it were O'Neill I imagine we'd be honing in on Jerome Thomas or Aidan McGeadie for £14m or something. I have a bit more faith in McLeish.

[Toronto Villa]

I think McGeady would be a good signing at the right price. He's got excellent footwork and he's still young so he'd develop and work on the other aspects of his game. I don't want him instead of N'Zogbia, I'd like both. Plus, I want to us to sign McGeady because it will cause some people to go mental on here who have such strong opinions of him without ever really having seen him play, but none more so than cb who's bigoted head I expect to see explode with bits found as far afield as East Anglia, Cumbria and Hampshire.

[KevinGage]

I think McGeady would be a good signing at the right price. He's got excellent footwork and he's still young so he'd develop and work on the other aspects of his game. I don't want him instead of N'Zogbia, I'd like both. Plus, I want to us to sign McGeady because it will cause some people to go mental on here who have such strong opinions of him without ever really having seen him play, but none more so than cb who's bigoted head I expect to see explode with bits found as far afield as East Anglia, Cumbria and Hampshire.

He has quick feet, TV. But that's about it.

He over elaborates, step over after stepover or trying to beat the man twice before putting in a decent delivery or taking a shot. Fine if he did the first part and still managed the second. But in this case, the first usually prevents the second.

I was genuinely surprised that we were so interested in him last year, with three decent wingers already on the books.  Now that we only have one, I'd still rather see him go elsewhere.

[ozzjim]

I actually agree that for the right money McGeady would be a really good addition, but it would be as well as NZogbia, not instead for me. We need 3 wingers, and Albrighton, McGeady and NZogbia would give a really good mix. If we could get him on loan for the season with a view to buying him, then great.

[Risso]

Whelan's an arrogant cock. Imagine the uproar had Doug changed Villa Park to the DE Stadium like wiley old Dave has done up at Wigan. He likes the 15 minutes he gets to thump his chest taking on one of the big boys. We'll get our man. He knows it.

Bit of a difference in that the JJB was named after his company in the first place.