Blue2112 said:Like everyone else that trots out this kind of bullshit i'll ask him one question.
Name one football club in the modern era that could grow organically and manage to hold onto any great young talent and keep away the bigger clubs whilst affording to pay the wages and manouevere themselves into the top 4.
Its impossible and won't ever happen again imho.
You bitter knobhead!!! I had so many things ready to say to you but thankfully the more informed than yourself have already responded to your brain-dead diatribe.
Manchester City didn’t create this status quo, we just played by the rules created by the likes of Villa who used their billionaire benefactors wonga to rip Young from the heart of Watford, Downing from the down & out Boro, Milner from the relegation threatened Geordies & Bent from a struggling Sunderland…. Do I need to go on?
When we bid for Milner it was Villa who quoted a ridiculous price which we were forced to pay & you accuse us of greed & financially doping football? As part of the Milner transaction you received our former player of the year & your current player of the year Stephen Ireland. If it wasn’t for Ireland, Given & Dunne, the relegation places would have already been decided this season.
When O’Neil was buying all the aforementioned players (Young, Downing, Milner etc) you forget that at the other end of the scale was a club with a higher average attendance than you that had no billionaire benefactor & who had an annual transfer budget of £6m, plus whatever could be raised from player sales….. That was back in 2007 & that team was Manchester City & where were you then?
Fast forward to 2012 & now we’ve got a trillionaire benefactor, you want to complain? Sir you are a steaming lump of ill-informed dog-shit of the stenchest order!!!!
The villa fans I work with (2) have offered nothing but good wishes to me this season, they're bitter about their plight but not anti City.Pam said:The likes of Villa are the bitterest of all because it is us and not them and they equate themselves to us in size and history.
Pretty much sums it up for meDribble said:I was shocked when I read this yesterday and responded on his blog as such:-
You bitter knobhead!!! I had so many things ready to say to you but thankfully the more informed than yourself have already responded to your brain-dead diatribe.
Manchester City didn’t create this status quo, we just played by the rules created by the likes of Villa who used their billionaire benefactors wonga to rip Young from the heart of Watford, Downing from the down & out Boro, Milner from the relegation threatened Geordies & Bent from a struggling Sunderland…. Do I need to go on?
When we bid for Milner it was Villa who quoted a ridiculous price which we were forced to pay & you accuse us of greed & financially doping football? As part of the Milner transaction you received our former player of the year & your current player of the year Stephen Ireland. If it wasn’t for Ireland, Given & Dunne, the relegation places would have already been decided this season.
When O’Neil was buying all the aforementioned players (Young, Downing, Milner etc) you forget that at the other end of the scale was a club with a higher average attendance than you that had no billionaire benefactor & who had an annual transfer budget of £6m, plus whatever could be raised from player sales….. That was back in 2007 & that team was Manchester City & where were you then?
Fast forward to 2012 & now we’ve got a trillionaire benefactor, you want to complain? Sir you are a steaming lump of ill-informed dog-shit of the stenchest order!!!!
As an Aston Villa fan, let me use the Villa as an example of how football is supposed to work.