Karim El Ahmadi CONFIRMED (Reply #278)

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

No idea about who you are and what you're like - but the manager wants you, so that'll do for me. Welcome aboard and I hope to be suitably impressed!

[Monty]

A deep-lying midfielder whose biggest asset is his ball-retention? Lambo's instincts and priorities are very encouraging indeed.

[Chipsticks]

Exciting times. I haven't had this sense of optimism about an upcoming season since the start of the MON era.

[Diablo]

Considering he gave away his rights for the Clash's 4th album so it could be affordable

Was "Should I Stay or Should I Go" on the 4th album?  If he didn't own the rights he couldn't have stopped them from using it in an advert.

That would have explained it perfectly but the 4th album was Sandinista (where he gave away his rights) - Should I Stay Or Should I Go was from the 5th album Combat Rock. Gonna check out (http://www.strummerville.com/) to see if I can become any the wiser.

[Diablo]

Joe didn't seem to mind when 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go' went to number 1 on the back of an advert. And he was alive then.

Shit! I totally forgot about that advert. Interesting Punk outlook to let your track be used by such a big American corporation like Levis. I always thought you could block the use of a song you'd written for an advert  if it went against your artistic integrity (beliefs)? Considering he gave away his rights for the Clash's 4th album so it could be affordable and supported the Rock Against the Rich Class War Anarchist gigs I'm pretty shocked lol

I wouldn't have put it past Joe Strummer to have used the money from the advert for the good of other people. Check out the Strummerville website (http://www.strummerville.com/) to see what they do.

Thanks for the link :-)

[Clampy]

Don't know anything about him but welcome aboard Karim!

[silhillvilla]

I haven't got a clue about this player yet for some reason I'm delighted

[Simba]

Very easy to become over optimistic and not manage the expectations I guess. But players like this are a bloody good sign of intent. Especially after signings like Hutton.

It will be good to see some footy down the Villa again. Oh, and hear some new chants!

[Toronto Villa]

What's completely ace is that we have signed two players that the media naturally wouldn't have linked us with. That is, has been or never were domestic players. I'm sure Lambert will look to this market for players but I expect they will be mainly up and coming players that are different to the dreary bollocks that we are normally expected to sign. Both of the players we have signed so far come with good reputations for the type of football we want to see. Very encouraging indeed.

[Brend'Watkins]

I never knew he existed before we were linked to him.  All I knew of him since then is he plays in the Dutch League and he's 27.  This lead me to believe that he's one that has slipped the net or, he's Mr Average.  Now we've signed him I have looked further and from the you tube montages it looks like we may well have a good player.  I know these clips can be misleading but it looks like we have a box to box worker who can pass.  We've needed that for a while.

[olaftab]

Karim will rise to the top with Villa.

[Brend'Watkins]

Karim will rise to the top with Villa.

Karim can also go off.

[TopDeck113]

The sort of signing that fills me with optimism.  Not a mega load of money, but a player who looks like he'll strive to achieve in the PL. 

[l_mckay]

Never really heard off him before,but his comments earlier sound very promising. look forward to seeing what he can do now.

[silhillvilla]

To put into perspective, this time a year ago we had an awful manager signing bloody Jermaine Jenas
Lambert has already done more good work in 2 weeks than the last manager