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IF he goes,which now seems likely. i wonder if there'll be a chorus of "there's only one greedy bastard" on his return. (i'm very pissed off with his behaviour over this even if the outcome-12mill if true- is fantastic for us)

it's an interesting one that, why did the club go public? because they agreed a deal with another player and wanted to force villa to bid for milner against everton uppping the fee... fookim hope so! upping the fee may not matter if the player decides he wants to go to the club that offered the least. then the only decision is for the club to decide wether to accept that offer or not.

has he gone yet ?

not panicing yet but i have the feeling that 1 club out of about 7 will make the tranfers in the next few days that could well set them above the others(ie 5th). hope it's us.

We're just getting pissed up on Monday night to forget our woes and fears. or the foes and wears

The last 72 hours of a transfer window are always when things happen. There are some big deals waiting to go through still, and there will be some which will happen which nobody saw coming. I'm actually going to book Tuesday off work so I can watch the coverage throughout Monday night with a few beers Final word of consolation - you, Villa (paper thin squad), Everton (more than anyone), Spurs (strikers), West Ham (anyone), Blackburn (sold their two best players and not replaced them properly), Portsmouth (spent all their money), City (spending money they dont have) - all in a very similar position going into the last few days of the window. All will become much clearer by Tuesday morning. depends on how much we have to drink as i'm planning on stopping up with a few beers aswell (tuesady is one of my days off next week anyway)

brummie. you know i have stood ground for milner,defending him from many of the attacks on him but even i said" let him go" when £9mill was bandied about.

you don't suppose,if that 12mill is true that villa have been conned by keegan and ashley together ?

open message to james milner....... how's this plan. if you play consistently well for a season we'll give you a contract reflecting that. on the other hand will you agree to a pay cut should you not play consistently well ?

He would gladly take the wages Milner is currently on, as he certainly won't be on anythng close to that. So we could potentially get a player who is clearly better and just as good a pro for less money and less wages, who is also prem experienced. Hopefully this is what we have been working on in the last week with Birmingham. Their signing of Owusu-Abeyie gave me huge hope, and thankfully they are going pretty well at the moment. I think it is a very good possibility, and I would be ecstatic. Milner would be an absolute afterthought if we signed Larsson. i don't think it's clear. Neither do i... Well I hope we sign him. I will be proved right and you will all be proved very wrong. It's a joke to compare the two players, it really is. Have you not seen him play or something? Patience. yes i have seen both players play,and my guess is most prem managers have aswell and most would want milner instead of larsson. Joker. liverpool wanted milner,villa bid at least 8mill....why don't they buy the "superior" larsson for less and on less wages..those mugs eh? the 'such and such a manager bought him therefore he must be good' type argument is almost always terrible and this case is no exception. didn't say "must" be good but used there actions to back up my own eyes.

the biggest problem as i see it is that while no one actually knows whats going on,we try to fill in the gaps as if we did.

just took evens on arsenal to keep a clean sheet against us. pretty sure that'll drop after tonights performance,then trade out.

He would gladly take the wages Milner is currently on, as he certainly won't be on anythng close to that. So we could potentially get a player who is clearly better and just as good a pro for less money and less wages, who is also prem experienced. Hopefully this is what we have been working on in the last week with Birmingham. Their signing of Owusu-Abeyie gave me huge hope, and thankfully they are going pretty well at the moment. I think it is a very good possibility, and I would be ecstatic. Milner would be an absolute afterthought if we signed Larsson. i don't think it's clear. Neither do i... Well I hope we sign him. I will be proved right and you will all be proved very wrong. It's a joke to compare the two players, it really is. Have you not seen him play or something? Patience. yes i have seen both players play,and my guess is most prem managers have aswell and most would want milner instead of larsson. Joker. liverpool wanted milner,villa bid at least 8mill....why don't they buy the "superior" larsson for less and on less wages..those mugs eh?

So the fact he has been here over a year and cost the club close to £10m with him giving us f*** all in return isn't a problem? He has been given another chance(unfortunately) and he has alot of ground to make up, especially with me as i've never rated him highly. He's been not bad on the field compared to the other 4 and with this being his last chance I know for sure he'll take it and play even better. We may even see the Barton of old and even more. Believe in the lad. So many players have failed at our club because we don't give them a chance or enough time. Barton has his problems off the field and is thus affecting him on it. With these hopefully gone forever he can focus on his football. Who are you, his wife? Absolutely no chance of putting faith in someone that prone to violence; he's obviously not right in the head. I'll applaud anyone who scores a goal for NUFC but to ask for people to 'believe in the lad' - well, you go your way and I'll go mine. Well whenever your at a match, and Barton plays, make sure you dont clap him, if he scores a winner against the mackems. make sure you stand/sit still, dont move, dont smile. everyone should support him ffs, who cares what he does off the field? aslong as hes good enough on the pitch i dont care. good job gary glitter isn't a world class centre forward

He would gladly take the wages Milner is currently on, as he certainly won't be on anythng close to that. So we could potentially get a player who is clearly better and just as good a pro for less money and less wages, who is also prem experienced. Hopefully this is what we have been working on in the last week with Birmingham. Their signing of Owusu-Abeyie gave me huge hope, and thankfully they are going pretty well at the moment. I think it is a very good possibility, and I would be ecstatic. Milner would be an absolute afterthought if we signed Larsson. i don't think it's clear. Neither do i... Well I hope we sign him. I will be proved right and you will all be proved very wrong. It's a joke to compare the two players, it really is. Have you not seen him play or something? Patience. yes i have seen both players play,and my guess is most prem managers have aswell and most would want milner instead of larsson.

He would gladly take the wages Milner is currently on, as he certainly won't be on anythng close to that. So we could potentially get a player who is clearly better and just as good a pro for less money and less wages, who is also prem experienced. Hopefully this is what we have been working on in the last week with Birmingham. Their signing of Owusu-Abeyie gave me huge hope, and thankfully they are going pretty well at the moment. I think it is a very good possibility, and I would be ecstatic. Milner would be an absolute afterthought if we signed Larsson. i don't think it's clear.

Probably tomorrow's Mail/Sun. The Milner thing is the obvious one. it's been stated that milner sent his request in on august 20th so i doubt keegan just found out yesterday like some of the press are making out.

wouldn't surprise me at all.

let him go providing we get the supposed going rate £8 to 9 mill and spend it well.

This is what I hope happens all season; ongoing progression. I just love watching the cockney press eat their words and I'm sure we'd all love to feed them it with a huge razor-blade ridden rusty spoon..... the press don't eat their words. if we start doing really well they'll lick our arses like they did with keegan first time round. they'll never admit to being wrong or lying.

form or just last nights performance ?

and drop gutierrez ? move him onto the right. unless he really isn't as good there, in which case zog could still challenge for a cm or rw spot imo. we dont have a shearer or ferdinand any more so wingers that cut in could be more keegan's thing, and more than one of owens headed goals this and last season have come from inswinging crosses. he seems to like them. zog's right foot is also pretty decent, at shooting anyway. n'zogbia hasn't done enough in the past 2 years in either position to consider shifting the team round for him. hope he proves it in the future.

i'd swap a win tonight for a point on saturday.

.....started last week. it was the extra preliminary round. wouldn't it be good if whichever TV station has the rights had to pick a game from that round,show it live,then follow the winner to the next round and show that one live and so on until the final. last week we could have watched odd down fc,St Blazey fc,larkhall athletic or Pagham.

and drop gutierrez ?