Ticket For Schalke said:Lee the Blue said:The best thing about this transfer going through, and it will go through, is that all the Villa fans will disappear back to their own forums.
We had 4 weeks of Evertonians on here last July/August arguing "he wont go, we will stand firm etc etc" on Lescott and it appears we now have the same thing with Milner.
End of the day Villa need this cash, and the deal will get done, prob for around £25m - personally I dont rate Milner that highly and am not too fussed if he signs or not, but the jungle drums indicate the end is nigh with Milner not featuring in Villa pre-season games and City pretty much mute on the subject, which tends to indicate we are pressing on with it.
Every club "needs cash" but villa are in a healthy position imo.
Ticket For Schalke said:Bart said:I love how you are so dreamy. We don't have to sell Milner, and we won't unless it's a good offer. And our £ 30 Mill valuation according to the tabloids is obviously isn't exactly what we expect is it. You don't enter negotiations with the price you have in mind, you enter with a much higher price. I'd say we are prepared to sell Milner for £ 20 Million, but since you started bidding like you did it's clear that Lerner sees this as an excellent opportunity for a very good deal. So when you bid £ 20, we push for 30, you give us 25 its just very very good business by Lerner.
I don't really care either way. Milner is ace and I'd love to keep him, but for those money we can improve from what we have now. But I guarantee you Lerner is nobody's woman when it comes to business, he is quite cynical and brilliant about it.
As for MON's comments its simply old news this summer. He has several times admitted that Lerner is doing negotiations this summer with some other American. Normally MON has had 100% control over this stuff, but it looks like Lerner decided to step in after what he saw take place last summer.
tbf mate Randy fell on his fortune, met his dad Al a few times top fella, General C is a much better business man, Russ Appleton is a top man also, is he a director still?
Lee the Blue said:The best thing about this transfer going through, and it will go through, is that all the Villa fans will disappear back to their own forums.
We had 4 weeks of Evertonians on here last July/August arguing "he wont go, we will stand firm etc etc" on Lescott and it appears we now have the same thing with Milner.
End of the day Villa need this cash, and the deal will get done, prob for around £25m - personally I dont rate Milner that highly and am not too fussed if he signs or not, but the jungle drums indicate the end is nigh with Milner not featuring in Villa pre-season games and City pretty much mute on the subject, which tends to indicate we are pressing on with it.
malkie said:From Sporting Life transfer centre:
1348: Villa nut 'Cool Hand' Luke Daw reckons he has the inside track at Villa Park. "I've got news on James Milner. A £21m fee has been agreed plus Stephen Ireland. You heard it here first." That flies in the face of what MON was saying this morning, but we'll see.
This lad got any form anyone know?malkie said:From Sporting Life transfer centre:
1348: Villa nut 'Cool Hand' Luke Daw reckons he has the inside track at Villa Park. "I've got news on James Milner. A £21m fee has been agreed plus Stephen Ireland. You heard it here first." That flies in the face of what MON was saying this morning, but we'll see.
malkie said:From Sporting Life transfer centre:
1348: Villa nut 'Cool Hand' Luke Daw reckons he has the inside track at Villa Park. "I've got news on James Milner. A £21m fee has been agreed plus Stephen Ireland. You heard it here first." That flies in the face of what MON was saying this morning, but we'll see.
charliebigspuds said:malkie said:From Sporting Life transfer centre:
1348: Villa nut 'Cool Hand' Luke Daw reckons he has the inside track at Villa Park. "I've got news on James Milner. A £21m fee has been agreed plus Stephen Ireland. You heard it here first." That flies in the face of what MON was saying this morning, but we'll see.
£21m + Ireland is too much IMO, Ireland would be valued at £8m minimum, think we're being shafted here, if Ireland is involved it should be no more than £15m cash, I understand why players we try to sign are over-valued but why are our players so much under-valued?
Not so. They posted a large pre-tax loss last financial year (£46m off the top of my head).Ticket For Schalke said:Every club "needs cash" but villa are in a healthy position imo.