Gary Gardner - including loan to Coventry

[Shrek]

Exactly, we are a selling club now

[AV82EC]

I see the misery arses are out again.  Shoody makes some good positive comments abt the one massive positive abt our club at the moment and the doom and gloom merchants piss on his bonfire. More power to your elbow Shoody.

[Neil Hawkes]

The advantage we have always had with our youngsters is they have either stayed with us through thick & thin, or left the club on OUR terms.
Selling club my arse, we're the same as everyone else, ex Man City.

[Rigadon]

The advantage we have always had with our youngsters is they have either stayed with us through thick & thin, or left the club on OUR terms.
Selling club my arse, we're the same as everyone else, ex Man City.

Bang on.  Although even Man City can't keep Tevez 'happy'. 

[mal]

Hmm. Vassell went for £2M. For an established - at the time - England international although we know he never played again. Meanwhile at the same time  Dean Ashton went for  £3m; Robbie Savage £3m; Simon Davies £4m; Craig Bellamy £5m; James Beattie £6m; Peter Crouch £7m. On our terms? Seems to me someone is always getting a bargain...

[pablopicasso_10]

i am excited about some of our youngsters...

grealish, graham, robinson, gardner, johnson, are all exciting prospects...

the usual disclaimer about youngsters potentially going either way is added...

[Shoody]

The problem is how many of those who really make the big time with us in future years will stay at the club , or will they be sold to boost the coffers?

Sure, some will get sold. It's important for the board to learn to keep a player over the next few years because hopefully we're going to have a bunch of players we need to keep. Yeah one or two may get sold. If they get sold, so be it. It's either because they aren't good enough or they are so good Manchester/London wants them. Yeah we desperately need to keep them but I would rather lose a player for £20-£30m that we have produced ourselves than a player come in for 2 years do okay and sell on for an £8m profit. Atleast this way it shows our academy is producing top quality players.

Grealish' brother has said how much Grealish wants to play for Villa though and I think he's a Villa fan. As is Gardner (so he says). Albrighton, obviously, is. Apparently Graham is a Utd fan though. But 3/4 Villa fans in the lineup is always going to help keep them.

[Somniloquism]

Caught the goal earlier. Late run into the box, anticipating a cross from the right and a fine, brave header meeting the ball on the run just ahead of the defender.

Yep he was definitely making sure he was going to win that ball when he made the run into the box. Definitely future captain material if the rest of the game matches. Now he just has to get a fucking scary face ready for the pre match video boards.

[Witton Warrior]

Watching him against Ajax and then his performance for CC I hope it is OK to have a little positive vibe running round?

Would love him and Bannan/Herd/Albrighton to do well -

[taylorsworkrate]

Can we have him back and offer them Delph on loan?

[Legion]

Throw Heskey and Hutton in aswell.

[taylorsworkrate]

Throw Heskey and Hutton in aswell.

Don't think Coventry are that stupid.

[Ad@m]

Throw Heskey and Hutton in aswell.

Are we still talking about Coventry or the Birmingham Canal?!

[Louzie0]

Spoke to a friend who went to the game and was impressed with gardner although he said his arrival has led to even more vitriolic and abusive anti villa songs from the cov fans-not quite sure what gary makes of that , but he will have to get used to it for a few weeks.

If they were still singing when he scored, I wonder if GG savoured the irony?

[Mister E]

Spoke to a friend who went to the game and was impressed with gardner although he said his arrival has led to even more vitriolic and abusive anti villa songs from the cov fans-not quite sure what gary makes of that , but he will have to get used to it for a few weeks.

If they were still singing when he scored, I wonder if GG savoured the irony?

It'll make him even more appreciative of us when he returns to VP and starts in the first team. :-)