Robbie Keane - loan now confirmed

[QBVILLA]

Well he is not as old as I thought. Before we were linked with him I thought he must be around 34 or 35. But at 31  I can not believe the above statement that his legs have gone?
I have already said I like him, but what he will be like now Iv'e no idea but I do hope QBVilla you are mistaken on his general fitness as this will be a mistake.

The fact he is 31 is irrelevant.Shevchenko joined Chelsea at 29 and he'd lost it.Fowler was on the wane from 26 as well.The fact Redknapp paid £12m to bring him back from Liverpool then loaned him out months later to Celtic then West Ham is for me a telling fact.A few seasons back Keane was a top player but going on what i saw of him at West Ham, my opinion is that he's gone.Hopefully i'll be proved wrong and he can recapture the form he displayed a few seasons back as we'll have a real player on our hands.Time will tell.

[pedro25]

He's a clever player, should be on the same wavelength as Ireland, would be interesting to see how they play together and with Bannan, N'Zogbia, Gabby, Marc and Bent, we now have 6 genuine alternatives for the front 4 positions, all of which offer something a bit different.

[JUAN PABLO]

I think he will be alright for us after a couple of month's , when hes settled down

[not3bad]

I hate all the pointing and poxy goal celebrations he does

The more I see him do that in a Villa shirt the less it will annoy me.

[Vanilla]

I wouldn't mind if it were a cheap gamble. However hearing quotes of £500,000 - £1 million in costs just for two months is making me very wary, especially as it is in a position that isn't in dire need of strengthening (Bent is still a top class finisher if he gets the ball in the right areas).

Listening to the manager when talking of being unable to pursue 'other' targets until the summer makes me think the signing of Keane is just an attempt at a 'cheap' morale booster to appeal to the masses.

[Villanation]

The thing is has he come out yet and said he as always been a life long supporter of Aston Villa, if not that will happen, he does with everybody.

[dave.woodhall]

I wouldn't mind if it were a cheap gamble. However hearing quotes of £500,000 - £1 million in costs just for two months is making me very wary, especially as it is in a position that isn't in dire need of strengthening (Bent is still a top class finisher if he gets the ball in the right areas).

Listening to the manager when talking of being unable to pursue 'other' targets until the summer makes me think the signing of Keane is just an attempt at a 'cheap' morale booster to appeal to the masses.

Nobody has mentioned anything like £1 million, and nobody is suggesting it's to appeal to any masses.

[Vanilla]

I wouldn't mind if it were a cheap gamble. However hearing quotes of £500,000 - £1 million in costs just for two months is making me very wary, especially as it is in a position that isn't in dire need of strengthening (Bent is still a top class finisher if he gets the ball in the right areas).

Listening to the manager when talking of being unable to pursue 'other' targets until the summer makes me think the signing of Keane is just an attempt at a 'cheap' morale booster to appeal to the masses.

Nobody has mentioned anything like £1 million, and nobody is suggesting it's to appeal to any masses.

The Daily Mirror reported on Monday in the match report of the Bristol Rovers game, that it could cost as much as £1 million.

If it is not to appeal to the masses, why not concentrate our efforts on midfield player who can effectively support the team in a number of areas on the pitch at least until the end of the season? 

 

[Merv]

Listening to the manager when talking of being unable to pursue 'other' targets until the summer makes me think the signing of Keane is just an attempt at a 'cheap' morale booster to appeal to the masses.

It makes me think that, if he's unable to pursue other targets at this time, this is the only sort of deal McLeish can do in January. And there are a few clubs around doing exactly the same, getting in short-term morale boosters.

The flipside is, we don't do something like this, another club snap up Keane, he gets a couple of goals in his loan spell, and we all groan that we should have done it....

[Clampy]

I wouldn't mind if it were a cheap gamble. However hearing quotes of £500,000 - £1 million in costs just for two months is making me very wary, especially as it is in a position that isn't in dire need of strengthening (Bent is still a top class finisher if he gets the ball in the right areas).

Listening to the manager when talking of being unable to pursue 'other' targets until the summer makes me think the signing of Keane is just an attempt at a 'cheap' morale booster to appeal to the masses.

Nobody has mentioned anything like £1 million, and nobody is suggesting it's to appeal to any masses.

The Daily Mirror reported on Monday in the match report of the Bristol Rovers game, that it could cost as much as £1 million.

   

Oh well case closed then, it must be £1m.

[dave.woodhall]

Is that the same Mirror who said Bent had signed for Liverpool?

[Concrete John]

I wouldn't mind if it were a cheap gamble. However hearing quotes of £500,000 - £1 million in costs just for two months is making me very wary, especially as it is in a position that isn't in dire need of strengthening (Bent is still a top class finisher if he gets the ball in the right areas).

Listening to the manager when talking of being unable to pursue 'other' targets until the summer makes me think the signing of Keane is just an attempt at a 'cheap' morale booster to appeal to the masses.

Nobody has mentioned anything like £1 million, and nobody is suggesting it's to appeal to any masses.

The Daily Mirror reported on Monday in the match report of the Bristol Rovers game, that it could cost as much as £1 million.

If it is not to appeal to the masses, why not concentrate our efforts on midfield player who can effectively support the team in a number of areas on the pitch at least until the end of the season?

I'd believe what i read in the Beano more than I would the Mirror.

And I can hardly see it as 'appealling to the masses' when the majority of fans seem luke warm to the idea at best.

[saunders_heroes]

I don't understand why everyone's so against this deal. Yeah he's past his best but he's still good for a couple of months, and I'm positive he's a better bet on the bench than Emile Heskey would be. He's hardly gonna break the bank either. And since when have we ever believed any of the nonsense printed in the Mirror?

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

Is that the same Mirror who said Bent had signed for Liverpool?

I remember the Mirror back page showing that we had signed David Speedie. Ah, those were the days.

[Villanation]

I don't understand why everyone's so against this deal. Yeah he's past his best but he's still good for a couple of months, and I'm positive he's a better bet on the bench than Emile Heskey would be. He's hardly gonna break the bank either. And since when have we ever believed any of the nonsense printed in the Mirror?

I think it has as much to do with the fact that he'll just about have enough time to have a sh1t and a shave and he'll be back in LA before you know it.