***Transfer Rumours Thread*** [ALL RUMOUR TOPICS MERGED]

[Slim]

It is kind of an anti-climax signing. All this talk about Gourcuff, Higuian, Torres and Di Maria and our first signing is James Milner. Like ross will tell you(at length) average player playing in a well constructed team, looks better than he is.

[ross.mcfc]

[mcfc1632]

[Niall Quinns Discopants]

[mcfc1632]

The days of having a manager in charge of all aspects has gone - and rightly so - otherwise you would have more Portsmouths.

I would think that:

a) We must believe that our manager has involvement in the slection of players we buy - at the least a power of veto

b) Therefore we must assume that Bob is happy with this transfer

c) People on here put Bob ahead of MON in the manager capability stakes - so we mst be confident that he can get at least as much out of Milner as MON did

I think we should have learned by now that the PL requires a mixture of craft and graft and you cannot have too many 'craft only' players. I think that Milner could be an astute buy (a bit of de jong's effort with more attacking contribution) - but it depends what else happens in the transfer market - e.g. a 'craft midfielder'

[Slim]

[Dameerto]

kin ell it took me two pages to work out what the fek MON was. I feel better for getting that off my chest.

[Ted Hughes]

It was made plain to everyone (ie leaked by the club) that Mancini gave Cook & Marwood a list of players whilst in Abu Dhabi. They are now acting on it.

Mancini tried to sign Gago & Mariga in Jan. Both workhorses with far less attacking talent than Milner.

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[Slim]

[mcfc1632]

[Slim]

[Ted Hughes]

[Slim]

Well today is the day, will Ric go gay for a signing or not....all will be answered in the next 17 hours.

[Slim]

Deluded doesn't even begin to cover it. Clubs take us to ransom over players and Milner wouldn't be worth £15M if it wasn't City coming knocking. Comment that we have made our own bed with concerns to transfer fees, but £25.5M for Tevez and these idiots want £35M for Milner?

http://www.astonvilla.vitalfootball.co. ... ?a=7504509

[Slim]

In terms of crap stories floating around.

AC Milan want Robinho.

Inter want Tevez.

Every man and his dog want Rossi(incl. City)

Newcastle want to loan SWP.

[Ted Hughes]

Wonder if we'll be back in for Buffon again today & whether he'll turn us down flat again or tell us he's interested again.. again?

[Slim]

[avoidconfusion]

Thank god they refused the bid. Now I just hope we won't bid anymore, 20m for Milner was already a joke.

[Ted Hughes]