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Offline fbriai

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Re: Tom Cleverley - Loan Confirmed
« Reply #1410 on: September 04, 2014, 10:14:19 AM »
This is the darkest day in H&V history.

I think that appellation goes to the day of the 'all-over shaving' thread, Ads.

[shudders]

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Re: Tom Cleverley - Loan Confirmed
« Reply #1411 on: September 04, 2014, 10:18:59 AM »

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Re: Tom Cleverley - Loan Confirmed
« Reply #1412 on: September 04, 2014, 10:56:57 AM »
Dear H&V

I apologise if anyone was offended by me starting all this

Yours insincerely

Ulysses Karl Redsox

(Actually I'm more ashamed of missing the 'Little Wonder' pun. In my defence, all my puns came from memory and Bowie's last decent album was 'Scary Monsters')



I take issue with that last statement and am forced to offer you Outside, you Heathen.

Who'd have thought 24 Hours... ago that the punathon would still be carrying on The Next Day? I'll stop now.

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Re: Tom Cleverley - Loan Confirmed
« Reply #1413 on: September 04, 2014, 11:10:52 AM »
Apparently the game he's really looking forward to is Albion away in December.  He's reported to have possibly said..."I really like playing in local Derbys and our game with our neighbours in December is when I intend to make the Black Country Rock."


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Re: Tom Cleverley - Loan Confirmed
« Reply #1414 on: September 04, 2014, 11:29:18 AM »
Apparently the game he's really looking forward to is Albion away in December.  He's reported to have possibly said..."I really like playing in local Derbys and our game with our neighbours in December is when I intend to make the Black Country Rock."



After All he might enjoy playing in front of All The Madmen and decide to stay at the Villa for Five Years. Thus joining The Supermen of Villa history.

............ Hello, my names UK Redsox and I'm a punaholic.


Please can a Mod re-lock this thread now and save us from ourselves.

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Re: Tom Cleverley - Loan Confirmed
« Reply #1415 on: September 04, 2014, 05:32:07 PM »
Good article in Telegraph reporting that his agent was acting like a grade A Tosser.

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Re: Tom Cleverley - Loan Confirmed
« Reply #1416 on: September 04, 2014, 06:21:30 PM »
Got a link?

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Re: Tom Cleverley - Loan Confirmed
« Reply #1417 on: September 04, 2014, 06:24:57 PM »

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Re: Tom Cleverley - Loan Confirmed
« Reply #1418 on: September 04, 2014, 06:46:24 PM »
Are we sure we signed Cleverley,
the pictures look like Wieman, I'm going to struggle telling them apart with my eyesight

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Re: Tom Cleverley - Loan Confirmed
« Reply #1419 on: September 04, 2014, 09:52:14 PM »
That article does bring to light a different perspective on what took place at the deadline. However it still begs the question, wouldn't the client have been fully informed of the actions of his agent? I can't believe that the agent had acted independently as much of a clock he appears to be.

Anyway, it's done now so let's hope he proves on the pitch why coming to Villa was such an easy decision.

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Re: Tom Cleverley - Loan Confirmed
« Reply #1420 on: September 04, 2014, 10:25:12 PM »
I don't know if this has already been said somewhere but I heard the agent on talksport about mid afternoon on deadline day.

He said that Hull, Villa & Everton were all in with a chance of signing Cleverley, it was just going to be down to which one of them was prepared to dig deepest to lure him with the most money.

In itself that is probably pretty crass in its directness but it was particularly the way he said it that made him sound like a total arse.

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Re: Tom Cleverley - Loan Confirmed
« Reply #1421 on: September 04, 2014, 10:26:08 PM »
I don't know if this has already been said somewhere but I heard the agent on talksport about mid afternoon on deadline day.

He said that Hull, Villa & Everton were all in with a chance of signing Cleverley, it was just going to be down to which one of them was prepared to dig deepest to lure him with the most money.

In itself that is probably pretty crass in its directness but it was particularly the way he said it that made him sound like a total arse.

Crikey, that's pretty straight up about it all. How classless.

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Re: Tom Cleverley - Loan Confirmed
« Reply #1422 on: September 04, 2014, 11:25:26 PM »
Even more surprising given everything we have experienced of late that he ended up with us.

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Re: Tom Cleverley - Loan Confirmed
« Reply #1423 on: September 04, 2014, 11:39:01 PM »
Does literally every thread now have to end in a self effacing "oh look at us" we're so self demeaning but jovial, realistically and comfortably positioned no marks and happy in our own skin , red cafe, rawk, even TBAR, cone look at us, laugh with us, together, hahaha.

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Re: Tom Cleverley - Loan Confirmed
« Reply #1424 on: September 04, 2014, 11:48:04 PM »
Does literally every thread now have to end in a self effacing "oh look at us" we're so self demeaning but jovial, realistically and comfortably positioned no marks and happy in our own skin , red cafe, rawk, even TBAR, cone look at us, laugh with us, together, hahaha.

Not really but given everything we've experienced on H&V of late I'm amazed that we ended up keeping you.

 


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