I totally forgot who played for Villa TBH... I forgot Downing was on the pitch as well.
It was only when I checked the internet I realised they had put a young lad up against Carroll as well. Face palm!
We've been here before though, haven't we? He seems perpetually about to move to a German club.
I think we're now at the stage where nobody in the media knows anything and they're just rewriting the same stuff.
The criticism of him when he joined was always totally wrong IMO, he was never 'bad' and joined the club as a young foreign player at a terrible time under a shite manager who was replaced by a worse one.
If the Fer rumours are true then it's probably OK not to get BA really.
Fer seems to be more the like the kind of player we are looking at right now, one who would fit into the team ethos rather than potentially disrupt it.
I'd still be very happy with getting him mind.
Just had a vision of him dialling a number to complete the transfer and then keeling over before he can answer, whilst a voice cries "hello? hello! HELLO!" on the end of the phone.
It would've been like the scene in Alan Partridge where the BBC guy dies before he signs off on the second series.