Thursday, 26 January 2012 11:50
You know this, but I'm writing it again; I'm a football fan first and Aston Villa is my team. I'm getting that out of the way, because I'm reluctantly supporting Cardiff in the final of the League Cup. I am also reluctantly writing that I was happy that Liverpool went through last night.
It isn't that I dislike Manchester City any less than I dislike Liverpool - it is just so annoying that they've gone and bought success and we haven't. In the case of Liverpool - it is just fun to watch that once great club competing for the League Cup.
Which is why I want to see Cardiff win - it would be the icing on the cake for me.
Gabby and Gardner
I'm mentioning these two today because both are getting a bit of exposure and I see no reason why I shouldn't further it - seeing as I've got something to say about both of them.
To start with, Gardner and the manager has said something along the lines of 'him running through brick walls for Aston Villa' and while I didn't know that, I do know he is going to be a fantastic player for us given the games and time to develop. I'm a big fan of Gardner and he should be given the opportunities.
But this manager talks a lot of blarney - so it doesn't matter what he says. Actions and all that.
Now to Gabby and I've seen he has come in for a bit of stick in the comments and I'm not sure why it started, but I will say this; he isn't a striker that is going to get you 20 goals a season - but I'd have him on the left side of midfield over Ashley Young and that I believe is where he will flourish.
He has speed and can easily get past the full back and we've seen this season that he knows how to find a player. I'd even go so far as to say that this season has been the best he has had for us, if you count just those games where he has played on the left.
I've brought up Gabby because he has said something about going nowhere - just like he did last year and the year before and just like he will next year too and you know what, I don't mind that - let him - especially if he keeps playing like he does on the left.
He is no out and out striker - but he is Aston Villa and he looks good on the left - better than N'Zogbia anyway, but meant in the nicest possible way, he was a waste of £10mn from day one.
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Albri-12
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... Gardner said in an interview for villa after Wolves that is all he wants to do is play for villa weather its youth, reserves or first team. The lad is a villa fan and he will be a top player im sure. I think AM thinks he's a right mid though, when he isn't really Gabby, we all know hes villa for villa. he was talking about Bent and didn't say anything like he will stay, or he's happy. just said pool will be looking for a top striker and Bent is one. Sounds like he could be off. Another day with no transfer link. wonder when we are going to get the Winger we really need and the CB we really need |
ML
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... The irony of a Villa fan calling Liverpool a "once great club" cant be lost on any football fan, surely? Since Aston Villa last won a major trophy (not including the Carling Cup, considering youre mocking it so much here) Liverpool have won 5 league titles, 2 European Cups, 5 FA Cups and a UEFA Cup. Villa havnt won a bean at all since the league cup win in 1996, in that time Liverpool have won a European Cup, a UEFA Cup, 2 FA Cups and 2 League Cups. We have played in 2 European Cup Finals in the past 6 years alone, more than Villa have in their entire history. I think you get the point. I see Villa dropping into the Championship within the next couple of seasons. |
oldnick
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... Albri we have been told by Mcleish that he don't envisage any signings in this window. I don't understand why people are clinging onto things that were just not going to get. |
Jeddy
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... I don't think your on your own Damian, anyone that isn't a Liverpool fan will want Cardiff to win. I don't know why Gabby has been getting so much stick either, I actually think he's having one of his best seasons and Young leaving was probably thes best thing that could of happened for him. Gabby isn't going to get you 20 goals a season, but he will get 10, and if you get a left winger that gives you that return, plus assists, he'll have better stats than most left sided players in the prem. What's more important is making sure that we find someone who can play alongside Bent, someone who can also get 10-15 goals a season and also link the midfield. Bent will stay on the shoulder of defenders all day long and we need a central outlet. Keane is perfect for this role, but he's old and only here for 2 months. I strongly suspect that is the area we will strengthen in the summer, until then I'd like to see Bannan given a chance. Gardner looks really exciting. His enthusiasm when we won against Wolves made me proud to be a Villa fan again. His reaction at the final whistle put a massive smile on my face. I wonder, with his big brother being homesick, whether or not he'll be coming to back. I'm not sure if we need him, but we might be able to get a player swap on the cards and possibly ditch JC. Food for thought.... |
Robbie
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... ML, I thought the same thing when I read that, it made me cringe a little, because it just made me think how much we'd be buzzing if we had got to the League Cup final again, especially against Cardiff with every chance of actually winning it. We are a once great club, and at the moment, we're nowhere near Liverpool. It seems as though Liverpool are back on the rise, even if it is quite a slow rise. But as for Villa, we had our upward curve a couple of years ago, we peaked at number 6 and couldn't do what Spurs are doing now. Now we're left making ill thought out quips about how s**t Liverpool are and heading towards either a relegation battle or a mid-table mediocrity berth. |
.vogra
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... Can't really argue with what ML has say to be fair. Might as well give L'pool the trophy now becasue Cardiff have'nt a pray of beating them. |
villamonkii
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... I hate to break this to you guys, but unless you go back to the victorian era, we have never been truly 'great' team - we have been a reasonably good team who happened to have 2 fantastic years, where we won the league and then european cup. In the 90's we did ok, and won the 3rd most sought after competition twice. We were great once, yes. But this was in the days of woolen football shirts and compulsory moustaches. I think a lot of us vila fans have a superiority complex, based probably on being the biggest and most successful team in our region. Let's hope we can hang on to that small crumb of comfort against the likes of stoke and baggies in the foreseable future, eh? |
VTID
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... I watched the next gen game last night and was very impressed with the whole teams commitment. I hope the 1st team defenders were there to see how comfortable the youngsters were on the ball and how it is possible to play the ball out from defense. Gardner is definately one to nuture and bring through and will become a regular for sure. Gabby is having one of his best seasons and i have been impressed that he can deliver balls in with his left. He does have a tendancy to be reactive rather than proactive with his movement off the ball, but he will track back to help out and will put a shift in for the cause. He worked well with Carew as a second striker, but is not the most confident in one on one situations. I will always support the home grown players and especially players that support Villa and hate to see them getting a hard time from supposed loyal, true villa fans. |
vivavilla
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... Nobody takes the League Cup seriously. Anybody who says they'd rather win the League Cup than finish in the top four, I'm sorry but I think you're living 20 years in the past. The League Cup has become nothing more than an annoyance to most teams - even mid-table and relegation teams rest players for it now because it gets in the way of important fixtures. Even when we got to the final, although it was nice, I still couldn't shift the thought that it's only the League Cup. It means nothing to me to win a trophy that nobody really cares about. Really, all this "medal to look back on yadda yadda" is garbage, if I want something pointless to remember my career by I'll just keep an old pair of socks. Nobody is going to care who won the League Cup in 2008. It's a competition that needs to be scrapped, one domestic cup competition is plenty enough. This isn't a dig at Liverpool fans. If I wanted to have a dig at them it would be much easier, I'd just laugh at the fact they seem to think winning this three-handled symbol of mediocrity would make 2011/12 a successful season, blissfully overlooking the fact their manager is out of his depth and pissed millions upon millions of pounds up the wall on bang average players, and that had any of their rivals spent the same amount of money they'd easily be challenging for the title. But I'm not going to do that. |
John R Bates
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... AAAH... THe Clash, Joe Strummer great, The Dogs in the 80s, Bit like the Villa ! |
whynot
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... has anyone heard this story :- news coming out of villa park, aston villa are going to sign ruud van nistelrooy till the end of the season also late bid for agent ridgewell from small heath also swap deal on the cards before the end of the window james collins plus cash for scott dann of blackburn |
b6villa
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... It's just nice to hear when a player comes out and says, no matter what I'm not leaving the club, gabby is villa boy, he is one of us, if he wasn't playing he would be in the holte end with most of us, I can't believe the amount of stick he was getting on here, he has been far 1 of our best players and no 1 player will have a good game every game |
VillaNick
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... Scott Dann won't go anywhere because no one really knows what's happening with sulky Chris Samba. Would take either over Collins though. |
b6villa
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... vivavilla well said, it's what's happening at present counts and at the moment we are not doing to well, but with Liverpool spending all that cash, they should be up there challenging for the league, or atleast bringing the top four, even with winning the league cup this season will be classed as a failure for liverpool |
John Salter
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... ML -- What are you doing on here? Shouldn't you be out burgling houses or shouting racist abuse at people? Personally I can't stand Liverpoo or the Mercenaries but out of the two I'm glad the thieves won it I suppose but hopefully Cardiff will win the final! |
Agrotis
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... ML If Villa are a big club, then Liverpool are massive. Until we are able to match what they have achieved, and a lot of that was when football was fair, then we just hold on their coat tails. Its scary just to think, that a club of that status, is now finding hard to keep up without money. This league is fcuked, and i hate everything the premier league has become. If they are finding it difficult, what chance do we have? Its about time that the majority of clubs begin to get together, and say b****x to the league. I mean, whats the point? |
Albri-12
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... I still hope we get a new CM in cus we need one. Clark should be first team CB, and Gardner and Bannan should be first team cm. we dont have many options there. Stan is getting old, Clark and Herd aren't cm's. Jenas is out for the season and Delph wants to stay at leeds so we do need one. Keane will be gone soon as well. we have a very weak squad |
Albri-12
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... G. Gardner was almost in tears in his interview after last night. The kid loves villa |
xandeh
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... I'm not sure exactly how true this is, but a guy I got speaking to last night is convinced Gardner has a stipulation in his contract meaning clubs arent even allowed to bid for him for a minimum of four years? Can anyone shed any light on that? I honestly don't know what everyones problem with Man City is, who cares whether they're "buying" success that's all Utd and Liverpool have ever done, they were just the big boys once upon a time and now suddenly they're not. I'd rather Man City win the quadruple than Utd or Liverpool win a thing. As for Gabby I think he does a decent job on the wing, but I wouldn't agree it's his best position, he always looks brightest when he plays as a lone striker, but you can blame/thank MON for that. |
Tim Irish Villian
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... I agree with you 100% on Gabby, I can't understand why people want him out. Every season Gabby seems to start well and fade off in the second half..and maybe this is happening again this year but any talk of him leaving should be quashed straight away. The guy lives for Villa...he is one of the quickest players in the Premiership and has shown this year that he does have some footballing ability. While I don't really see or want Gabby to be guaranteed a starting position every week because i believe we are stronger without him I think he is a great squad member to have. The more Villa through and through players in the squad the better for me... hard work and a bit of honesty goes a long way to earning a bit of luck and success. I'm a rugby fan also and my local team is Munster, we have never had the best team in Europe but have been the most dominant club in Europe over the past 12-15years bar none. This is down to having heart, hard work and honesty...ask anybody and they'll tell you the same. I for one am very excited about Aston Villa in the long run, I would love for us to bring through quality players who have been at Villa for their childhoods and then have a handfull of big signings to bring it all together. For me the problem at Villa is players like Petrov.. while I don't mean to have a go at him I just can't understand why he starts every game for us for the past 5 years. It's in his position I think we need to spend big money. I'd love to see a villa team looking like this in the near future. Given Lichaj Clarke CB RB CM Bannan/Ireland Gardner Albrighton LAM Bent If we signed big in those position and not just good players but players to suit that formation... defenders who can pass the ball, a centre mid like Tiote and a left mid like Ashley Young was I reckon we would be a great team..and certainly one I would be proud of rather than the usual b****x of getting annoyed with...Hutton, Collins, Dunne, Warnock, petrov, Heskey etc. Football isn't the hardest thing in the wrold to understand...play positive, work hard and be honest with yourself and you will be successful, take a look at Swansea... oh and I for one would certainly take 7th for the next few years if we played decent ball! UTV |
John Salter
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... xandeh - You cannot compare the success of Liverpool and Man Utd and the way Mercenary City are trying to buy success. The only club that even comes close is Chelsea. Clubs like those are ruining football. Man Utd and Liverpool weren't robbing other teams of their better players in the 70's 80's or 90's, they only got a couple of players in each window. Look at how many players Mercenary City have bought and even let go in recent seasons, Bellamy for one and he came back to bite them last night, which was great. And no, I wouldn't want Villa to be like Mercenary City before someone says it's jealousy. They are parasites feeding off other clubs and trying to buy success which is wrong. |
villa1
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... hate it when villa fans mock the league cup. we were all ecstatic when we got to the final a few years ago. |
Nike
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... I think being a villa fan you have to be a football fan first Did anybody see the article about the browns Tony Grossi who works for the browns wrote on his twitter account about randy "He is a pathetic figure, the most irrelevant billionaire in the world. I could not put it much better myself |
villa1
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... xandeh. man u and liverpool have earned the right to buy there success as they were already successful before they started splashing the cash. to an extent, chelsea were quite succesful before abramovich took over. but man city, they havent done anything to deserve what they are getting now, they were in the 3rd division just over 10 years ago, had never finished in the top 8 until the last 4 years and now they are being given the opportunity to buy there success. |
Albri-12
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... apparently collins has has been allowed to speak to BBurn. If we could get someone decent in then its good for us. Scott Dann maybe. Not ridgewell |
Marion
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... Nike, He's not even a Billionaire now. The financial crash / divorce wiped millions off his wealth. He's only worth about 840 million now quite poor really from where he once was. |
ordinaryjoe
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... OK, feel a bit relieved today...yesterday there were several spiteful postings calling some of our plyers very rude names and generally slagging them off. Just cant understand that mentality. Today we get some real gem postings, and even a 'pool fan - but at least he wasnt very rude and didnt need a lot of ****s ! (and he actually makes a fair point) Favorite quote of the day: We were great once, yes. But this was in the days of woolen football shirts and compulsory moustaches. |
Albri-12
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... QPR in for Moses, Piennar, Rodelega and Onuaha already signed  Another club who will be ahead of us  |
PRICEMUNDO
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... For all the support i have for Gardner, McLeish's comments about wanting to nurture and help him develop as a player concern me. With our current brand of football and with McLeish in charge i can't see him reaching his full potential. For all his floors Houllier would have been the man for that, getting him to try and play actual football as apposed to building his neck muscles up watching the ball soar over his head from the back. |
true villan
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... houllier was a great prospect interms of building again after all that was lost, did somebody say gabs never got on with g.h? what does that say about him as a professional i dont think gabs will ever be a decent player once he loses a yard or two of his pace.... we should try to get as much from him interms of cash as possible gabby out |
yorkeman
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... It is true gabby hates G.h gabby is one of these street guy gangster wannabees with hes chavvy brummy gangster prats the guy is nothing like what you see of him in the interviews ... thinks hes a rapper turned pimp funny though true villain does speak the truth gabby is a s**t player overall and should be cashed in on while we still can |
xandeh
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... Yeah right all those who say they wouldnt want the Man City style success and 'aren't jealous' of them, I'm sure there were City fans out there who felt exactly the same when they got took over, but if we went out and started signing quality players, winning games and trophies, qualifying for the champions league and being top of the premiership, you'd all be going crazy. Face it as much as it pains me to say it, football is all about money, the more your team has, the better you'll be, it might not be an instant process and players will take time to gel but eventually you will be the best. There's no point trying to be a football martyr these days, sustainable wage budgets and sell to buy policies wont win you a thing any more, you either compete or battle it out with the other 12 or so teams to stay up. Every year we fail to compete financially is another year further we fall behind the top 4. |
ordinaryjoe
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... there is someone posting on here as a "true villan" but can't stop slagging Gabby off - are you really "true" ?? personally I am very weary of reading these postings. I enjoy the arguments that go on these pages, but I cannot see the point of constantly repeating the same same same ............. |
b6villa
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... yorkeman true villan you two must be in the same room, smoking the same stuff, if we did cash in gabby who would you replace him who is better, and would they want to come to the villa. The money would go straight into randy's pocket, and finaly if we did get a replacement how do you know they would do better than gabby, look what happened when we bought n'zog, it's not if we have loads of money to play with |
GabbyisNOTmylovechild
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... Hmmmmmm I wonder, Albri, yorkeman and t**t villan all appear at the same time and all are anti Gabby.......Could they be one and the same???? Check the IP Damo! |
Maindog
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... true villan....has Gabby had a go on your missus or something? Why suddenly the hatred for him, when he is going through his best season? Makes no logical sense what so ever to suddenly start all this utter garbage. |
ordinaryjoe
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... prediction: there will be response soon from one of these anti-Gabby team and it will be very foul-mouthed and abusive, and no doubt we who dont enjoy reading their constant slagging will be called all sorts of names and accused as not true fans |
Maindog
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... Its quite sad how True Villan has made a fake account so it looks like somebody is agreeing with his stupid bulls**t. Very sad. |
TrueVillan
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... ordinaryjoe /b6villa He is called true villian, and ain't me! copied my name and now getting it slandered! So when ya slag him off, use his spelling, which for Villa is wrong! we are the Villans! |
ordinaryjoe
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... TrueVillan The name comes up on my screen as true villanand that is cut and paste - it seems spelt just the same as you. Anyway, you know who I meant and no offence meant. Damian: why are you letting people pinch other people's screen names?? |
b6villa
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... yorkeman true villan both you must be in the same room you bumboys, you both must be w**king over this |
Agrotis
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...It is true gabby hates G.h gabby is one of these street guy gangster wannabees with hes chavvy brummy gangster prats the guy is nothing like what you see of him in the interviews ... thinks hes a rapper turned pimp funny though true villain does speak the truth gabby is a s**t player overall and should be cashed in on while we still can 12 toed chavie small heath c**t alert  (Waiting for the threatening, agressive reply  ) |
TrueVillan
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... Also Damian, when are you going to stop the work around of swearing,its a F ucking disgrace and the T wats that do it need to stop spreading their 5hit on this site! I shall keep swearing until you close the other 2 true villan accounts! |
Agrotis
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...small heath my arse Once a lulu, always a lulu  Please girls, if your going to hit us with something, then do it with agent Mcf**k. Just stop pretending your Villa, when its clear to all that your just the result of some test tube experiment that went terribly wrong Do your head ladies still hide in tescoes? |
Villa since 1958
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... OK Damien - enough already. Ban those two, they're making the blog not worth reading. |
Amo
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... Lmaoo I think AM Has some inside help with these two lol Btw I'm from australia and me (villa fan) and mate( a arsenal fan) r flying up in march for da game vs arsenal Any tips?? Neva been to England b4 |
GabbyisNOTmylovechild
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... Oh dear i can see mommy and daddy taking your computer off you if you keep misbehaving. for your information i am definitely male and a corporal in 42 commando royal marines. I have served many tours and would love to strap yorke(man) and true bellend to the front of a jackal on my next tour. Grow up you silly silly boys. |
Pate
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... I agree this blog is definitely heading for the gutter with some of the comments that are posted. |
VillaNick
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... I've seen that local sources have uncovered that the Villa marketing have been using viral vidz to boost season ticket sales last year! According to the reporter, Liverpool bought downing on the strength of DJ Stewy chipping balls into wheely bins! It's probaly a bit over the top, maybe they are the same team that made the same player holding a Liverpool scarf with Andy Carroll? All a bit weird for me. |
b6villa
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... Sry about my last two comments, but when them two idiots come on our blog talking s**t about our team I had to comment. We all know what's happening at the villa, cutting costs, balancing the books, no investment on players, but there is nothing we can do apart from support the team and if your a true villa fan your not going to stop, we know we have got a manager we don't want but again there is nothing we can do, and maybe with our support the team will do much better. If we are doing that it don't give others the chance to come on here to chat s**t |
VTID
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... If we do not give these brainless adolescents the ammo to fire back and just ignore them they might go back to their sandpits and carry on playing with their Barbie dolls. The majority of us on here are true Villa supporters and will be there for the team regardless of who is running us. We accept what we have to deal with and just like to come on here and discuss the situation with other like minded people and its good to know that we see and agree on most things that are happening to our beloved team. I can assume that most of us have above average intelligence to not allow the odd retard to spoil what we read on here. |
dazvilla
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... priceless ha ha ha !!!!! Liverpool owners tricked into buying Stewart Downing from Aston Villa for £20 million by fake skills video Liverpool's American chairman Tom Werner was sold into buying Stewart Downing for £20 million by a fake promotional video showing the winger expertly kicking balls with pinpoint accuracy into bins at Aston Villa's training ground. |
DanWilson82
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...Liverpool's American chairman Tom Werner was sold into buying Stewart Downing for £20 million by a fake promotional video showing the winger expertly kicking balls with pinpoint accuracy into bins at Aston Villa's training ground. Maybe the guys who made it could whip something up featuring old Emile. I'd take 15 million Kenny, thanks. |
vivavilla
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... I find it very ironic that people accuse Man City of damaging the league with the way they have bought success - yet on the pitch they produce easily the most attractive style of football any Premier League team has managed in years and are a joy to watch. In this instance I think it's a great thing to have happened. |
ftkevs
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...priceless ha ha ha !!!!! A bit like we were tricked into buying a season ticket to watch football |
bobvillian
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... "vivavilla" So you think it is good for the game that players are getting 150-250thousand a week!!Plus the greedy agents getting massive money.Never has the game got poorer with clubs on the fringe of going bust but your Man city keep paying these outragous wages!!We are on the fringe of meltdown with Sky controlling what we see and when we see games. |
rob_h
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... vivavilla. you also have to wonder how many on here would complain if villa were signing such players and spending the money man city are |
rob_h
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... as for damians pop at Nzogbia.. damian i could dig up an old post of you saying we overpayed for milner. that he is not worth £10mn quid.... before going to to play for man city and challenge for the premier league and sold for £25mn. funnily enough he said the same about downing. and he was sold for double bubble. as for the doom and gloom.... damian was posting doom and gloom when we were top 6 and consistently doing well. even when we were 4th and really pressing he had nothing positive to say i am afraid this blog will always be doom and gloom. |
LukeD
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... This nugget head is brilliant.. His pathetic attempt at spelling outlines his complete retarded nature enough but the fact he is now slagging off bootnecks is moronic. If you knew anything about marines you'd know we enjoy shoving things up our own arses and trying to offend us in that manner simply won't work. Infact the only thing we like more is shoving things up each others arses and dropping oxygen thieves like yourself. You my friend are the highlight of my day. Please spout some more bulls**t for me to laugh at. |
LukeD
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... One last thing true villain/yorkeman/retard your right to freedom of speech that you question Damien on is faught for and upheld by the very bloke your slagging off. Grow a spine. |
John Salter
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... vivavilla - Some people are prostitutes but it doesn't make it right! Maybe your one of those who would flog themselves for money, some of us have more morals! Manchester City and clubs like them are a disease to football. |
clarkeyc
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... truevillan you sir are a bellend, i've never seen yakubu dempsey, or fletcher mug of Vidic like Gabby does everytime we play united. He is a class act, i cant deny fletcher yakubu and dempsey would add to the villa squad and strngthen areas where we are week, but gabby is an entirely different player with electrifying pace and a decent right peg, I dont think their is a single club in the league that wouldnt benefit from Agbonglahor in there squad. |
Albri-12
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...Gardner eyes brother's return Maybe Gardner might be coming then. 2 brothers in CM maybe |
vivavilla
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..."vivavilla" So you think it is good for the game that players are getting 150-250thousand a week!!Plus the greedy agents getting massive money.Never has the game got poorer with clubs on the fringe of going bust but your Man city keep paying these outragous wages!!We are on the fringe of meltdown with Sky controlling what we see and when we see games. You make it sound like they're doing something wrong. They aren't, any club is allowed to have as much investment pumped into it as its owners can afford. If you want to protest against it then be my guest, because it's not going to change. I enjoy the product City have built over the past few years because it's entertaining. Football hasn't been very entertaining for a while so I welcome it. vivavilla - Some people are prostitutes but it doesn't make it right! Maybe your one of those who would flog themselves for money, some of us have more morals! Manchester City and clubs like them are a disease to football. I'd think about making a comparison that actually makes sense. This doesn't. |
VTID
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... All I would like to see is a team trying their hardest like the youngsters did the other night, playing entertaining football. It doesn't always require money to do this, look at Swansea and Norwich? With the right manager and the right tactics in place i for one would pay to watch. |
Damian
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... rob I challenge you to find that post. And this site won't always be doom and gloom .. It wasn't last season, but so many forget that or decide not to What you will find if you look for that post is me saying Milner was not a 12MN winger .. That was always my point and I stand by it |
windofchange
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... We are all guilty of over egging the pudding when we are doing well and doom and gloom when we are not. But we from time to time should take a rain check because as we have seen so often with other clubs as well as our own we should be careful what we wish for. |
Damian
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... joevilla sorry about the earlier comments but it is sometimes just best to let whoever it is have their fun because they are quite blatantly just spamming and doing it to create a negative feel on and about the site they eventually start to run out of IP numbers or we get to see a range - then we can block that range and make an official abuse report with their ISP .. sorry again - but you have to wonder why they are doing it with such persistence. |
villa1
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... not sure if this has been posted yet but funniest story ever!! http://www.birminghammail.net/...-30207316/ maybe we can convince them that cueller is worth £20million because he can kick a ball at a tractor from 100 yards out and break it. or west ham can convince them that john carew can hit blinking villa park sign on the stadium roof and fix it. |
Albri-12
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... So Shane Lowry is going, Fonz and Delph have gone. Didn't all these have high hopes ??? We dont develop the youngsters very well really. We have one with huge potential but always waste it. It will happen with Bannan, Clark, Wieman etc |
Albri-12
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... Like Hogg, didn't nothing wrong last season and hes gone. Bannan isn't really young any more and he wont stick around if he isn't playing. Remember these 2 against Man y last season ?? I cant see Lichaj making it even though when hes played hes been good, same with Baker. Go back a few years ago, Steven Davies was a bright prospect, as was Ridgwell, now they have gone. if we used these guys better, im sure they would have been good for us |
Albri-12
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... We talk alot about how good our youth development is but really only Gabby has made it.( Alot more have left then made it ) Albri not far behind. Then Clark, Bannan and Gardner by far out most talented players. Will we do the same with them as everyone else. Build them up and then in a few years let them go |
ordinaryjoe
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... well observed Albri-12 said: Like Hogg, didn't nothing wrong last season and hes gone We could fill probably quite a massive list of youngsters we have sarted to get excited about and then thye never seem to break through. Considering the "quality" of some of the more senior players we have had to suffer watching it really makes you wonder. Maybe the managers really do know better, and can see that these guys are not goinf to make it. Or - maybe not! It all seems such a waste and it is not even as if we ever sell them off for anything like reasonable money. |
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... It's not often a Villa plater makes headline news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...m-16759752 |
Maindog
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...So Shane Lowry is going, Fonz and Delph have gone. Lowry is clearly not good enough, thats why he is playing for Milwall now. The other two are on loan, a huge part of developing young players who need to get experience. You are the biggest hypocrite on here saying our youth need to be given a chance and then you bang on about how we should buy every single player you have probably brought on Championship Manager. The Fonze clearly has a chip on his shoulder, hence why 4 different managers have looked past him in the last few seasons. All of our other young players who look like they are the real deal are a big part of our squad this season? How can you possibly say they are not being given a chance? Clark has played a handfull of games in a row now, Albrighton has started a few and came on in pretty much all our games this year. Herd was a starter before he got injured, the same goes for Delph. Gardener was given his full debut last week. The only player who seems to be getting over looked a little is Bannan. If a player is good enough, no matter how daft McLeish is, he will play them. |
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... With four days to go in the transfer window,why have we STILL not signed any players when the team is s**t and in danger of relegation,and,as i've said a million times before,there is still £20m left over from summer transfers?What's the problem?I'll never understand it.If Lerner can't be arsed,be fair to the fans and sell NOW to someone who can.What a thick,tight fisted arsehole!!!!If he can't or won't run Villa properly,he should never have bought the club,he's inflicting nothing but endless misery on the fans.What an absolute joke.If this p***k is worth £700m or so,what's the problem?Sack Mcf**kwit and give a decent manager serious money to spend.Oh dear,it's January 27th,too late.OK.,a relegation battle again it is then!!!!! |
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... so no transfers happening. we ar gunna be stuck with the same s**t apart from bannan, albri, clark ireland and gardner. keane will be gone soon. heskey will be back. gabby and warnock will keep playing. QPR will get stronger. sunderland already have. swansea and norwich are good sides. |
Albri-12
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... what about the summer ?? again there will be massive overhaul of our squad and very little money to replace them |
davo13
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... How many youngsters that villa have released have gone on to be established premiership players? Can't think of many if any. Maybe we have to accept that we produce a lot of young players but not of any great quality? |
Albri-12
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... heskey isn't going until the summer MON says Gardner isn't leaving. We cant even get a villa reject back, its that bad |
Raz
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... Dunno why you had a pop at nzog? He started to perform well in te last few games... Why keep having a pop at the price tag? It's not our money, he's our player and all he's missing is one goal and then all of a sudden he will be gods gift to wingers!! I actually think he was a great buy and will improve over time. I've defo been impressed last few games he played before injury. Also, Gardner talking about his bros return to villa isn't a bad thing.... Petrov isn't getting any younger and could be a perfect replacement.... Also bros know how to play together, they will have been doing it since they were toddlers!! UTV! |
DaveJ
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... frem - would you want him back anyway? One - he's no better than players we already have and two - he well and truly burnt his bridges when he left. |
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