Transfer Speculation / Gossip

[Toronto Villa]

watch them crash and burn

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/11068678/Radamel-Falcao-to-earn-265000-per-week-as-Manchester-United-pay-24-million-for-season-long-loan.html

fingers crossed

Whys it a coup when its costing them nearly 350,000 a week

it's absolutely not a coup but that's how it's going to be spun. It's a mental deal. They looked utterly hideous at the back ohm Saturday against the mighty Burnley. I might even enjoy seeing what the likes of Chelsea, Liverpool or Man City might do to this lot.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

"Agent Edward  ‏@Agent_Edward  · 1m 
Aston Villa are upset with Tom Cleverley. The club feel he has mislead them & now miss out on other targets."

As much as you can criticise Cleverley, this is a very, very silly strategy from Villa. Maybe we shouldn't have gone for him with about two days of the window to go?

Should imagine we were in for him long before two days ago...

[ozzjim]

"Agent Edward  ‏@Agent_Edward  · 1m 
Aston Villa are upset with Tom Cleverley. The club feel he has mislead them & now miss out on other targets."

As much as you can criticise Cleverley, this is a very, very silly strategy from Villa. Maybe we shouldn't have gone for him with about two days of the window to go?

If he had said yes, yes, deal, strung it out and then pulled at the last second though, Villa are hardly going to do the same thing Leicester did to McArthur to someone else as a back up. Difficult one, and maybe Cleverley only came available in the last few days. We should have had loan market offers in, but I can see how if he dicked us about completely it could have screwed other targets up.

[Tony Erdington]

"Agent Edward  ‏@Agent_Edward  · 1m 
Aston Villa are upset with Tom Cleverley. The club feel he has mislead them & now miss out on other targets."

As much as you can criticise Cleverley, this is a very, very silly strategy from Villa. Maybe we shouldn't have gone for him with about two days of the window to go?

with all due respect, isn't that a tactic ellis used to use, offer a certain amount knowing part of the deal was unacceptable, so he could say , well we tried.

just a theory

[Clampy]

"Agent Edward  ‏@Agent_Edward  · 1m 
Aston Villa are upset with Tom Cleverley. The club feel he has mislead them & now miss out on other targets."

As much as you can criticise Cleverley, this is a very, very silly strategy from Villa. Maybe we shouldn't have gone for him with about two days of the window to go?

That rarely happens with a transfer that size. There's a chance we've been trying to do a deal for a while.

[john2710]

If Utd want the fecker off their books, they needed to reduce the price or Cleverley needed to reduce his demands to get a deal done. As things stand they'll get nothing & Cleverley will be scratching his arse for 9 months.

[curiousorange]

"Agent Edward  ‏@Agent_Edward  · 1m 
Aston Villa are upset with Tom Cleverley. The club feel he has mislead them & now miss out on other targets."

As much as you can criticise Cleverley, this is a very, very silly strategy from Villa. Maybe we shouldn't have gone for him with about two days of the window to go?

Should imagine we were in for him long before two days ago...

Well, possibly. I don't want to be someone who thinks we do things at the last minute, but I truly don't believe we've been after him all summer only to fail at the last moment. I think Lambert's probably been holding back what's left of his budget, had a target in mind that he'd go for should nothing arise, then Cleverley became an option, and ultimately missed out on both. Not necessarily Lambert's fault, but very risky.

[JUAN PABLO]

"Agent Edward  ‏@Agent_Edward  · 1m 
Aston Villa are upset with Tom Cleverley. The club feel he has mislead them & now miss out on other targets."

As much as you can criticise Cleverley, this is a very, very silly strategy from Villa. Maybe we shouldn't have gone for him with about two days of the window to go?

Should imagine we were in for him long before two days ago...

If I was villa , I wouldn't even mention that

[Des Little]

Cleverley is shit. I'm glad he's gone elsewhere, however we should know better than to be had on like this, if indeed it is the case.

[JUAN PABLO]

If Utd want the fecker off their books, they needed to reduce the price or Cleverley needed to reduce his demands to get a deal done. As things stand they'll get nothing & Cleverley will be scratching his arse for 9 months.

Agree

[JUAN PABLO]

No deal for cleverly

[JUAN PABLO]

Everton I mean

[damon loves JT]

I'm certain we matched his Man U salary and offered him first team football and a chance to rebuild his career.

If that's not enough for him, then he has no idea

[LeeB]

Fuck 'em all.

Up the Villa.

[phantom limb]

It sounds like it's stalled with the player himself, apparently Everton won't pay the wages he's asking for either.