Gary Gardner - including loan to Coventry

[eastie]

clark and gardner are the 2 jewels in the crown that will be top top players in my opinion ,hopefully with villa!

[PaulWinch again]

Well it'd be nice if Clark got a chance.

[Chris Smith]

To the team selection for home grown players in 4 years time, I would though Bent is young enough to carry on. as he is only 27 and could be playing for Villa in his early 30s.

I'll be surprised if Bent is playing for us in the early part of next year, let alone his early thirties.

So who do you see paying the twenty odd million pounds it would take to persuade us to sell him in January?

[eastie]

To the team selection for home grown players in 4 years time, I would though Bent is young enough to carry on. as he is only 27 and could be playing for Villa in his early 30s.

I'll be surprised if Bent is playing for us in the early part of next year, let alone his early thirties.

So who do you see paying the twenty odd million pounds it would take to persuade us to sell him in January?

Would score goals galore in a team like arsenal!

[pauliewalnuts]

To the team selection for home grown players in 4 years time, I would though Bent is young enough to carry on. as he is only 27 and could be playing for Villa in his early 30s.

I'll be surprised if Bent is playing for us in the early part of next year, let alone his early thirties.

So who do you see paying the twenty odd million pounds it would take to persuade us to sell him in January?

You never know.

He was linked with a move to Turkey which he apparently wanted before he joined us.

You can never assume nobody will buy one of your players, because that's pretty much never the case, but watching him chase down lost causes this season, he can't be very happy.

[not3bad]

To the team selection for home grown players in 4 years time, I would though Bent is young enough to carry on. as he is only 27 and could be playing for Villa in his early 30s.

I'll be surprised if Bent is playing for us in the early part of next year, let alone his early thirties.

So who do you see paying the twenty odd million pounds it would take to persuade us to sell him in January?

Would score goals galore in a team like arsenal!

I don't think Arsenal shell out that kind of money any more.  I don't think they would on Bent anyway.

[Chris Smith]

You said you'd be surprised if he s still here, meaning it likely rather than possible that he will leave.


Even if you accept that we will be willing sellers, which I don't, then I'd be astonished if, in the run up to the Euros, he fucks off to Turkey. I can't think of a club in this country thatcouldd afford the price who would need him at present.

[Clampy]

Whether other clubs can afford him or not, he's our player at the moment and we're wasting what he does best.

[PaulWinch again]

I see Andy Thorn is already talking up his wish to extend Gardner's loan stay.

[N'ZMAV]

Both will get a chance, they're both young, and they both know they'll get a chance.

[Dante Lavelli]

The problem remains, though, if they're really any good, they'll get bought by richer clubs.

For me, that problem is kinda live gravity though.  You can't change it so you may as well live with it and plan for it.  Make sure the best players are on long contracts, like Modric's 5-year deal signed last season.  If they still want to leave then at least the money received is of Milner/Downing proportions rather than Young/Barry levels.  But this income MUST be reinvested.

Dortmund won the league last year and are top again this year using the Ajax route so it's not vital to be "the biggest fish in a small pond" to make it work.

The only viable alternative is to buy good players on credit but I think that there is a greater likelihood that we'd become a Leeds rather than discover the revenue streams to make that route viable.

[Mister E]

Do we know how GG did yesterday?

[spangley1812]

Do we know how GG did yesterday?

He was subbed after 68 mins and Cov went on to lose 2 - 1 away @ Pompey

[Clampy]

Speaking of loans, with Jenas possibly out for the next 3 years, are we able to re-call Jean II??

[Hookeysmith]

Speaking of loans, with Jenas possibly out for the next 3 years, are we able to re-call Jean II??

He was clearly told that with his football brain and eye for a pass he was not wanted here almost straight away when the ginger twat arrived