Summer time. Same old story. Welcome to Britain. A couple of months of patchy sunshine, ice creams and a new found appreciation of cider. It won’t last. The shite weather will soon return, the ice creams will disappear and people will realise that pear Kopparberg is actually pretty rank.

Summer brings the same old routine. World Cup years are generally my favourite. I was lucky enough to pootle round South Africa this June watching some jumpers for goalpost action. It really is the hope that kills us. Always will be. Could this year be our turn? Could it? Maybe? Surely? It’s got to be?!

I've just got a feeling that this one could happen very soon. Luke Young wants out; he doesn't like the retro football from O'Neill and when you talk publicly against the manager, you do it in the knowledge that your days will then be numbered.

All things point to Liverpool but to be more precise, to Roy Hodgson, who was rumoured to be interested in the player when at Fulham.

You can order the new kit from tomorrow and it will be delivered just in time for Christmas. I'm not joking - you are going to have to wait and I don't have the dates in front of me but it is the end of September. Want my advice - wait until Christmas when they reduce the price.

I know some are going to get a little annoyed with the release date of the kit but it really isn't anything to lose any sleep over although seeing as the shirt will not be available for the full season - I'd be a little hesitant in paying the full price.

It really is all a bit tedious now. James Milner is off; we know this. The manager told us he wants to go and we have already had one bid in from Manchester City and you never sell on the first offer.

But now there are rumours that Webcam is off or might be sold by the owner, despite him saying, only a few days ago, that he was happy. But then, some get flustered because there is another rumour that O'Neill will leave if Webcam is sold. It must all be true.

If ever you wanted proof that a player wanted out of a football club - Luke Young gave it to us in May when he spoke about feeling cheated.

For the life of me, I don't know why he wasn't played every week in his best position but I am also at a loss as to what Martin O'Neill wants from a player - mostly because Luke Young seems to offer it based on how we play.

This whole James Milner saga is starting to get extremely boring now. Just before the World Cup we were told that talks were positive but yesterday we were told that the player intimated he would like to leave in that exact same conversation. Does it add up to you?

Then we have General PR, Krulak if you want, publishing figures about the net spend of our club over the past two years, when that information isn't publicly available. That isn't so surprising - the PR department should know this information, but he then starts quoting figures from other clubs, also for the last two years, claiming as fact, net spend figures for the likes of Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Spurs and Everton.

Martin O’Neill has revealed that James Milner wants to leave and play for Manchester City, at the same time, earning himself a silly amount of money for keeping the bench warm.

Having played with Nigel Reo-Coker, Habib Beye and Luke Young this year, he has seen how lucrative going to a bigger club can be and he wants to cash in.

I have been following this blog for a couple of years but have never submitted a post before today and I'm sending this in because there is an important point I feel is being missed in the discussions during this particular transfer window.

From the start of next season, Premier League clubs will be limited to a squad of 25 players. So, criticism of the Villa squad, based on comparisons with other clubs who have used close to or more than 30 players a season, becomes irrelevant. From now on, no team can use that many players. It no longer matters that we don't have 30 "senior" players ourselves.

There is a huge reason why this rumour of us wanting to pay £10mn for a winger who has only ever played in Scotland isn't true and if you haven't figured it out from this opening paragraph, I will explain.

You do not play £10mn for any player from Scotland. It is like finding a player from the Championship and paying £10mn - it just doesn't happen and for good reasons.