The January 2015 Transfer Rumour Thread

[ROBBO]

It's funny how time can gloss over the past, i remember posters on here calling Barry fat arse, lard arse and too slow to catch a cold i wouldn't have used those words myself but i probably had a dig myself, thats when we had a Billionaire owner who was willing to splash the cash though, how times have changed eh.

[Dave]

Milner ran his nuts off for Villa, and as midlanders we love hard working players. Barry was classy. Both deserve respect for coming from a time when we were good to watch and competitive, comparable with some of the better teams around us. Not the shower of shit we are currently served.

Milner couldn't wait to get out of the door. Never understood the love-in for him on here.

That doesn't make him "snide" though. Man City made an acceptable bid for him, he then chose to accept their contract offer. It's no different to nearly every transfer, including the ones that we make.

It does in comparison to Barry. At least he was upfront in wanting to leave and explained it to the fans. Which obviously backfired somewhat but at least he thought the fans were owed an explanation. Milner on the other hand never once opened his mouth and couldn't wait to get out of the door. Yet one comes back and is applauded, the other is greeted with disdain.
I'll never understand some football fans.

Does that mean then that any player who is transferred without announcing his intention to leave in advance is being "snide"? Because that's an awful lot of players who are being underhand if so.

Personally I have no axe to grind with either player. Both left for more money and better prospects after Villa had agreed to sell them and both found what they were looking for.

[Tom_Mc9?]

To be honest, who can blame either player? They left to get trophies and more wages. Both succeeded and we went backwards.

[saunders_heroes]

Milner ran his nuts off for Villa, and as midlanders we love hard working players. Barry was classy. Both deserve respect for coming from a time when we were good to watch and competitive, comparable with some of the better teams around us. Not the shower of shit we are currently served.

Milner couldn't wait to get out of the door. Never understood the love-in for him on here.

That doesn't make him "snide" though. Man City made an acceptable bid for him, he then chose to accept their contract offer. It's no different to nearly every transfer, including the ones that we make.

It does in comparison to Barry. At least he was upfront in wanting to leave and explained it to the fans. Which obviously backfired somewhat but at least he thought the fans were owed an explanation. Milner on the other hand never once opened his mouth and couldn't wait to get out of the door. Yet one comes back and is applauded, the other is greeted with disdain.
I'll never understand some football fans.

Does that mean then that any player who is transferred without announcing his intention to leave in advance is being "snide"? Because that's an awful lot of players who are being underhand if so.

Personally I have no axe to grind with either player. Both left for more money and better prospects after Villa had agreed to sell them and both found what they were looking for.

I remember Milner outside Bodymoor Heath being asked by a journalist if he was leaving and he said something along the lines of "I'm just looking forward to the next game" bullshit. Yes, snide might be pushing it a bit, but compared to Barry (which happens a lot with Villa fans) his departure was cloak and dagger while Barry was up front about it. For me Barry showed much more class than Milner ever did.
Barry gave 11 years to this club while Milner just passed through, yet you'd think it was the messiah returning whenever Milner lines up against us at Villa Park.

[Des Little]

I used to know a bloke whose wife left him, and he used to get every single conversation around to his ex wife.  To say he was a bore is an understatement.  This thread is pretty much the same, but with Barry/Milner in place of that lad's wife.  Let's move on folks for heaven's sake.     

[Smoke]

Barry didn't Give shit,

for the majority of those 11 years no other team wanted him, yet EVERY time another team showed any interest he wanted to go.

Fuck Gareth Barry, he was here for a long time, we won fuck all and did pretty much fuck all in that time. He's no Hero.

[saunders_heroes]

Barry didn't Give shit,

for the majority of those 11 years no other team wanted him, yet EVERY time another team showed any interest he wanted to go.

Fuck Gareth Barry, he was here for a long time, we won fuck all and did pretty much fuck all in that time. He's no Hero.

Cobblers.

[Smoke]

No, I don't think Northampton town were in for him, but if they were, he'd have wanted to go.

The prick. 

[Ads]

I don't seem to recall Barry coming out an announcing he was going to leave us for Man City, the underhand snide.

[aj2k77]

Milner was pretty good but we only got 2 years out of him. Barry, tarnished a bit by the transfer requests, was it two or three? I'll save my hero worshipping for Tony Daley!

[richard moore]

I used to know a bloke whose wife left him, and he used to get every single conversation around to his ex wife.  To say he was a bore is an understatement.  This thread is pretty much the same, but with Barry/Milner in place of that lad's wife.  Let's move on folks for heaven's sake.     

Very good point. Sadly, it's probably a symptom of just how little the current set up and players stimulate our interest. If we were top 6 and flying high and playing great football, Barry and Milner wouldn't be on our minds at all. We'll soon end like Blackpool and Preston fans harping back to the good old days of fifty years ago. And when we get relegated and draw a Premier League club in the third round of the cup, they will show grainy footage of Gary Shaw and Peter Withe scoring great goals for us in front of a packed Holte End with some suitably appropriate music in the background like 'Memories' or 'Those were the days my friend..'

[passitsideways]

It's not that bad, at least compared to this board's position on old pubehead

[Ads]

What was the difference between Villa accepting a £12 million bid for Barry from Man City, him privately agreeing terms and signing for them and Aston Villa accepting a deal worth £26 million for Milner from Man City, him privately agreeing terms and signing for them? Why is Milner more a snide than Barry?

[saunders_heroes]

What was the difference between Villa accepting a £12 million bid for Barry from Man City, him privately agreeing terms and signing for them and Aston Villa accepting a deal worth £26 million for Milner from Man City, him privately agreeing terms and signing for them? Why is Milner more a snide than Barry?

Because Barry was on record saying he wanted to leave and told the fans so. However much it backfired at least he had the decency to say he wanted out, and after 11 years at one club I don't begrudge him.

[Ads]

What was the difference between Villa accepting a £12 million bid for Barry from Man City, him privately agreeing terms and signing for them and Aston Villa accepting a deal worth £26 million for Milner from Man City, him privately agreeing terms and signing for them? Why is Milner more a snide than Barry?

Because Barry was on record saying he wanted to leave and told the fans so. However much it backfired at least he had the decency to say he wanted out, and after 11 years at one club I don't begrudge him.

I don't follow your logic. A player who handed in a trasnfer request under Gregory, who was off to Portsmouth until O'Neill came in and who pissed and moaned in the press about how much he wanted to play for Liverpool, having gone behind our backs with his best buddy Gerrard and Benitez (who was also gobbing off at the time) is somehow more snidey that Milner?

If Barry had not had the whole Liverpool come and get me plea and had just left quietly, as he did, for Man City, then at the time, I would have thought him less of a snide.