Milner will be a City player by Thursday regardless of wether Ireland pulls his head out of his arse and smells the coffee or not.
Villa are playing a few mind games threatening to play Milner in the UEFA cup, unfortunately for them we are taking a "don't fuck us around" attitude. It is fair to say Lerner is getting pretty pissed with the whole saga as are we.
Ireland should do everybody a favour and take this move while he can but it doensn't look like he is willing to do so. He does however realise now that his City future is non existant and the interest of one or two more "prestigious clubs" than Villa is why he is willing to hold tight.
Oh and Benarbia whoever you told you the deal is dead in the water couldn't be more wrong.