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

[Mazrim]

There will have to be some emergency Zs flown in, along with some apostrophes.

[CJ]

Apologies for maybe going over old news, but does anyone know how much Wigan paid for N'Zogbia when he signed there?

Not 100% certain, but I think £3.5m

According to Wikipedia (I know) it was £6m

[Toronto Villa]

Pleased to hear a fee has been agreed but I think I'll hold fire on celebrating until the personal terms are agreed......always worry about agents (& Whelan) trying to keep an auction going until last minute.

Whelan has just been quoted as saying he wants the deal done ASAP so hopefully this isn't the case.He must know that no other clubs are seriously interested

He's know all along that nobody else is interested, or at least had the cash to put in a proper bid. This is the way it was going to go all along. We had to move a little so did Whelan. He was doing the best for his club, we were doing the best for ours. It will work out well for both of us in the end.

[Holy Trinity]

I'd say personal terms will just be a formality!

kendrick reckons he's going to sign a 5 year deal so im guessing we have held preliminaries with him over the phone, medical 2moz ITSOTP by the weekend

[Duncan Shaw]

Will they fly him out to HK?

[Ger Regan]

I'd say personal terms will just be a formality!

Were you not adamant that this wasn't going to happen, or have I missed out on the sarcasm in your post?

[Toronto Villa]

There will have to be some emergency Zs flown in, along with some apostrophes.

we can't have had many players with the letter Z in their name. I would imagine when the club shop has ordered a set of letters, the Z's never got used. Probably a whole pile of them sitting in a dust covered box somewhere. Apostrophes might be an issue mind you.

[Brend'Watkins]

Will this be our first ever apostrophized player?

I think so.

Frank O'Donnell, Allan O'Neill.

They're not really apostrophes!

I think you're right.  They are possibly just the English equivalent to the original Gaelic.

[Concrete John]

Will they fly him out to HK?

Even if they do, he won't be able to play as he hasn't got a work permit.

[Legion]

O is a word all by itself, signifying "grandson" when attached to a grandfather's name or trade. The apostrophe that usually follows the O actually comes from a misunderstanding by English-speaking clerks in Elizabethan time, who interpreted it as a form of the word "of."

[VillaAlways]

Will they fly him out to HK?

Even if they do, he won't be able to play as he hasn't got a work permit.

He'll make his debut at Derby I'd expect.Which I've got tickets for

[London Villan]

Parker next please! And maybe a centre half.

[Maradona10]

Cracking deal if and when it's sealed. I've never been one to fall for the hype of Downing and to get a player at less than half his price is excellent. We need someone in the midfield with a bit of bite and i'd say we have a very good first 11.

[QBVILLA]

I'd like to see us go in for Palacios now as the midfield enforcer

[Concrete John]

I'd like to see us go in for Palacios now as the midfield enforcer

If Parker goes to Spurs, that might be a possibility.