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taleofbluehalves
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No! Keep up fella. Different type of player.
Cityisland
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Cant wait to hear the song about this.
Stephenhakin
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Spot on mate
@BluePhil8
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Talk shite talking about it now.
93.20aguerooooo
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I did. Still standing by the 5.30 announcement but less confident of that
93.20aguerooooo
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His rag mate haha
The papers are actually claiming that he didn't turn up for the first medical last Saturday, he apparently thought about the move overnight on Friday and decided to stay at villa.
Dribble
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I shit you not!!! Not based on anything I'd heard or owt, but I had this funny fucking feeling that we'd not heard the last of this when he changed his mind.
It sounds like he originally had a last minute wobble, but when he's had time to reconsider whilst not under pressure he's realised that he's passing up the opportunity of a lifetime and unlike Rodwell, Sinclair and Richards etc we actually would have bought him to play him.
We're still feeling the unwanted effects from the players we had to sign immediately post the takeover who became surplus to requirements once the quality of our squad improved. The disastrous summer of 2012 did little to help the spin that Manchester City would signal the death knell to any English player too and was a mistake we're obviously unlikely to repeat again.
If we pull this off, I hope other English players will realise, if you're good enough, you'll play. Players like James Milner were invaluable to us for their versatility and he was a top class professional who I was gutted to see go, BUT the problem for Milner is that he wasn't the best player we had in any position (albeit I thought he was our best option on the left in the absence of a decent wide-man) so second choice utility man was about as good as he was ever going to be.
This will be great if we pull it off and may also see a parting of the ways with Fernando to balance the books which I could live with tbh.....
It sounds like he originally had a last minute wobble, but when he's had time to reconsider whilst not under pressure he's realised that he's passing up the opportunity of a lifetime and unlike Rodwell, Sinclair and Richards etc we actually would have bought him to play him.
We're still feeling the unwanted effects from the players we had to sign immediately post the takeover who became surplus to requirements once the quality of our squad improved. The disastrous summer of 2012 did little to help the spin that Manchester City would signal the death knell to any English player too and was a mistake we're obviously unlikely to repeat again.
If we pull this off, I hope other English players will realise, if you're good enough, you'll play. Players like James Milner were invaluable to us for their versatility and he was a top class professional who I was gutted to see go, BUT the problem for Milner is that he wasn't the best player we had in any position (albeit I thought he was our best option on the left in the absence of a decent wide-man) so second choice utility man was about as good as he was ever going to be.
This will be great if we pull it off and may also see a parting of the ways with Fernando to balance the books which I could live with tbh.....
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