Philippe Senderos

[Damo70]

We seem to have become the Bermuda Triangle of football.

[Risso]

He's been a smart signing. Compare and contrast if you will to say a £4m Zat Knight.

I bet you that when Senderos eventually leaves us we won't make as much profit on him as we did with Knight.

Edit: In fact, after Milner, Young and Downing would Knight have been O'Neill's most profitable (as in selling him for more than we paid) signing?

If so, that's pretty horrendous.

He probably was.  Hard to believe that people weren't queuing up to pay more than £8m for NRC, Warnock and Curtis Davies, but that's the cruel mistress that we call football.

[Matt Collins]

Didn't we well knight for exactly what we paid for him?

[Dave]

Didn't we well knight for exactly what we paid for him?

It was reported as £3.5m to Fulham and £4.5m from Bolton.

[pauliewalnuts]

He's been a smart signing. Compare and contrast if you will to say a £4m Zat Knight.

I bet you that when Senderos eventually leaves us we won't make as much profit on him as we did with Knight.

Edit: In fact, after Milner, Young and Downing would Knight have been O'Neill's most profitable (as in selling him for more than we paid) signing?

If so, that's pretty horrendous.

Thinking about it, I can barely remember us selling anyone else under MON, other than those four.

Which was a large part of the problem, obviously.

[Villafirst]

Back in training today. VT have a picture of him at Bodymoor. Good news, we need every single experienced player in the run-in.

[brontebilly]

He's been a smart signing. Compare and contrast if you will to say a £4m Zat Knight.

I bet you that when Senderos eventually leaves us we won't make as much profit on him as we did with Knight.

Edit: In fact, after Milner, Young and Downing would Knight have been O'Neill's most profitable (as in selling him for more than we paid) signing?

If so, that's pretty horrendous.

Thinking about it, I can barely remember us selling anyone else under MON, other than those four.

Which was a large part of the problem, obviously.

He sold off the homegrown crew - Cahill, Davis, Moore, Ridgewell, Whittingham, Barry, Gardner

We might have made some money on Maloney too, think we got him on a Bosman

[PeterWithesShin]

We paid for Maloney in January rather than wait until the summer when he'd have been free.

[SoccerHQ]

Back in training today. VT have a picture of him at Bodymoor. Good news, we need every single experienced player in the run-in.

Can't quite believe he's been injurerd this long but yes good to have him back as he was suprisingly solid at the start of the season  alongside Vlaar and given how well Okore and Clark have done we're very strong at CB which we will need to continue to be with Sherwood's offensive tactics in the run in.

[Drummond]

We paid for Maloney in January rather than wait until the summer when he'd have been free.

What a shrewd piece of business that wasn't.

[Percy McCarthy]

We paid for Maloney in January rather than wait until the summer when he'd have been free.

What a shrewd piece of business that wasn't.

We sold him back for double.

[pauliewalnuts]

We paid for Maloney in January rather than wait until the summer when he'd have been free.

What a shrewd piece of business that wasn't.

We sold him back for double.

Where i used to sit in the Upper Trinity, behind us was a row of six or seven blokes who were continually negative - loudly - during matches, but very funny with it. Stuff like, we'd kick off, and on 30 seconds, one of them would shout "come on, Villa, they're all over you!". That sort of thing, enjoyable football, errr, bants.

I remember the very first time Maloney played for us, his first touch pretty much, the ball came to him and he managed to slip or somehow fall over, and one of the blokes behind shouted "what's the matter, the ball too fucking big for you?".

It struck me as funny at the time, but following that, every single time Maloney played for us, and every single time in those appearances he touched the ball, I heard this bloke's loud voice and strong yam yam accent screaming "BALL TOO BIG FOR YOU?"

I liked Maloney, but I was glad when he left.

[Damo70]

I knew a bloke who used to shout "RIMMER"! whenever the ball was in our half. I was never sure whether he was a big fan of the back pass or if he wanted our Jimmy to stop being lazy and get stuck in as a kind of rush goalie.

[dave.woodhall]

I knew a bloke who used to shout "RIMMER"! whenever the ball was in our half. I was never sure whether he was a big fan of the back pass or if he wanted our Jimmy to stop being lazy and get stuck in as a kind of rush goalie.

There's an alternative, but I'm not going to say it.

[Damo70]

I knew a bloke who used to shout "RIMMER"! whenever the ball was in our half. I was never sure whether he was a big fan of the back pass or if he wanted our Jimmy to stop being lazy and get stuck in as a kind of rush goalie.

There's an alternative, but I'm not going to say it.

I know. I nearly posted it.

It involved a back pass(age) pun.