Given gone?

[supertom]

Wiki says Villa paid £3.5m for him and has appeared 34 times.
The Daily Star say he's on £60k a week (£6.24m in wages over two years), and that he will accept £5m to leave rather the £9m his contract entitles him to.

So if he is kind enough to offer to leave for only £5m he would have cost Villa £14.74m.

He's played 34 games for Villa, which means every appearance will have cost Villa £433,000.

Good business?

About as good as Heskey, who cost us around £1m per goal scored.

Where Emiles concerned that's actually quite a good deal!

[eamonn]

You could possibly argue that he has been worth the money - we could have got relegated were it not for his performance against West Brom. Depends if you think another keeper would have kept a clean sheet in that game. It was a point that kept us up in the end, right? I try to blot out those bad times.

[Ad@m]

Wiki says Villa paid £3.5m for him and has appeared 34 times.
The Daily Star say he's on £60k a week (£6.24m in wages over two years), and that he will accept £5m to leave rather the £9m his contract entitles him to.

So if he is kind enough to offer to leave for only £5m he would have cost Villa £14.74m.

He's played 34 games for Villa, which means every appearance will have cost Villa £433,000.

Good business?

About as good as Heskey, who cost us around £1m per goal scored.

And significantly better value than Habib Beye.

[Steve67]

If Mark Hughes gets the Stoke job, I hope Given goes up there, to replace Mignolet.  If Mignolet gets sold.  The Bluenose they've signed as his replacement is useless.

[villan from luton]

I think you mean Bergovic (sp). Im with you though that Hughes may try and get Given, was supposed to be after him last summer.

[Mazrim]

It's all a misunderstanding. Lambert was shouting give and go, give and go and Shay got the wrong idea.

[Steve67]

I think you mean Bergovic (sp). Im with you though that Hughes may try and get Given, was supposed to be after him last summer.

Sorry, quite right. Mignolet is the Blunderland keeper?  Begovic was supposed to be off to Manu or Arse, I think I read somewhere!

[villan from luton]

I think you mean Bergovic (sp). Im with you though that Hughes may try and get Given, was supposed to be after him last summer.

Sorry, quite right. Mignolet is the Blunderland keeper?  Begovic was supposed to be off to Manu or Arse, I think I read somewhere!

Think Liverpool may also be interested, cant see Man U being an option for him. Think I also read Mignolet was wanted by Arsenal, we are very lucky to have got Guzan back

[Marlon From Bearwood]

Stoke have already signed Butland from Small Heath so I doubt they'd go after another keeper.

As for Mignolet at Sunderland, I've not seen an awful lot of him, however he was absolutely woeful at our place in the 6-1.

[pauliewalnuts]

The one thing that distinguishes Given from the likes of Heskey, Beye and other contract-run-down players is that Given is actually still easily good enough to get a starting berth at another PL club.

[villan from luton]

Given has never said a bad word about the situation or the club also, must have been difficult season for him, but the fact is Guzan was excellent. Fair play to Lambert for having the balls to make the decision

[SoccerHQ]

I said during pre season I thought Guzan would start at West Ham, given Ruddy was the first choice at Norwich Lambert clearly prefers athletic and imposing keepers which Given isn't so I was surprised he started the season as number one. Suppose Lambert didn't want to rock the boat too early but the Everton performance made it a much easier decision.

[paul_e]

I said during pre season I thought Guzan would start at West Ham, given Ruddy was the first choice at Norwich Lambert clearly prefers athletic and imposing keepers which Given isn't so I was surprised he started the season as number one. Suppose Lambert didn't want to rock the boat too early but the Everton performance made it a much easier decision.

Given deserved to be first choice at the start of the season but he was poor against Everton when he didn't look fit, after that I don't think Guzan has ahd a game like that where you'd think he deserved to be dropped.  No ill feeling it's what should happen with goalkeepers, if they're doing the business they keep the shirt.  One of my biggest criticisms of TSM was him dropping Guzan after some very good performances, it wasn't fair and very nearly cost us a top class keeper.

[manic-road]

The Daily Mirror say that Steve Bruce is trying to get Shay Given at Hull.

[Ron Manager]

Shays fee is one million according to the Beeb.