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Watching our friendly with Blackburn, and that Formica bloke playing for them looks very handy

They really are un terrible trouble now. A very real risk of administration by all accounts.

Young went to Man United. If we'd replaced him with a player who was better than him right now, Man United would have bought him in the first place, rather than Young.

Give over man. Are you just going to ignore the players who have come in? People are arguing why we didn't sign Zog and I don't see if we can make all these signings what was stopping Villa? Haven't they sold a shit load of players for big money? If you looked at our forums and what people were saying recently, and still are in some cases, "look at Newcastle, they've got players in, we're doing nothing but get rid of them" was one of the most frequently heard things. Transfer window open = paranoia, delusion, misunderstanding and anger.

Young and Downing sold Friedel, NRC, Carew, and seven other players released.

When he came, I was despondent and convinced we were doomed. Now I think he'll do ok. Did I sound convincing?

Why would they not? Didn't CNZ agree to join Birmingham then ask for another 10k a week at the last moment? Mind you he probably saw some of the drooling retards he'd be playing with and decided he needed extra compensation.

When he came, I was despondent and convinced we were doomed. Now I think he'll do ok.

Manager: "I want this player" Chairman: "How much is he going to cost me?" Manager: "5m" Chairman: "How much does your player want?" Agent: "65k a week, 3.5 years" Chairman: "The player wants a fortune. How much do you want him?" Manager: "I must have him" Chairman to agent: "Ok, you're on" Managers these days have to manage wage bills as well as players. 'Arry goes on about it every day of the week. For some reason, Martin thought he was above such trivialities.

He'd have had a very large input. Don't forget, these Americans arrived here knowing nothing at all about the game and how things work. MON stepped forward, said "I'll do it" and they let him do that. If they hadn't let him do this, they'd have been accused of not backing the manager. Their mistake was to back him so unequivocally. It was only when they'd wised up to a few things that they asked him to work on the wage bill and the selfish cunt threw his toys out the pram at a time designed to cause us the maximum trouble, the vindictive shit.

He is, believe it or not, our top earner. Lerner's right hand man, Krulak, posts on a lot of our forums. His son does, too, and let slip the Heskey nugget. No wonder we can't shift him. See, when outsiders say what a genius O'Neill was, they overlook stuff like the fact he'd never bother scouting players and just throw big transfer fees and stupid wages at UK based players because it was easier. He threw a strop and left because we wouldn't let him throw similar daft money at Robbie Keane (yes, yes) and Aiden McGeady. Ask yourself this. When Heskey rocks up, just about to turn 32, and is given a 3.5 year contract at 65k a week, or when Beye rocks up and gets a three year deal aged 32 on 40k a week, how well was Martin O'Neill managing - key word, "managing" - the club at that point?

Milner fee paid for Bent, apparently. So the £37m (?) for Young and Downing will be helping with this summers spend. That's true. The question still stands though. Can't imagine the wage bill % at those 3 clubs is small either. 88 percent last season. See my post above. This summer we've released Reo-Coker, Carew, Pires, Salifou, Osbourne, Friedel and three others (who I can't recall) - ten players in total. And we still have Beye (40k, another year left) and Heskey (65k, another year left) who we can't shift to save our lives.

Whelan has been telling everyone the fee for the last 2 weeks in the media. The fact it is 9.5 not 10 as it turns out doesn't really make much of a difference.

Bent was bought with the money we got from flogging Milner. I thought Downing was our best player last year and wanted him to stay, but I have to say, Downing out for Given plus N'Zogbia plus 7 million pounds is excellent business. Of the Downing + Young money, that still leaves 23m unspent. We won't be spending anything like that much, though. I'd be surprised if we spent more than another 10. Very surprised. MON left us with a gigantic wage bill and a selection of players doing fuck all, who cost big money (try Heskey, 3.5 year deal for a 32 year old, 65k a week, for instance). We're in a consolidation phase for at least the next season until we get some of this dross off the payroll.

Don't think I'd take that to be honest. Really? Crikey.

Apparently Downing is playing well for Liverpool. cunt

Depends whether we can get a striker in really. Our strike force is Davies, Klasnic and Robbie Blake at the moment! If we do, then we can push for a top-half finish, I reckon. If we don't, then probably lower mid-table. I heard something today about NRC going to you. Any truth in it?

Give over, man. They finished on 62 points. To put that in perspective, Roeder and Souness managed to get us 58. 62 sounds shocking, but it was only 9 points off second. 9 points was also the difference in first and second. I might be mental, but I think Spurs would be a force with Aguero as long as they kept the team they have. Wouldn't win the league but like I said, not far off. Tottenham on top of the league is a very scary tought. So is a society controlled by shape-shifting lizard-weasel hybrid robot overlords, but that's not about to happen, either.

Those Asian fans and all those fake shirts - the main reason why having loads of fans in Singapore matters shit, they're all wearing shitty fakes off market stalls. The tramps I bet not a single fucking one of those camera toting bell ends has ever heard of Perry Groves or Gus Ceasar.

I went to watch us at Walsall today. Despite what the Daily Mail says, there was no snub or anomosity to McLeish whatsoever. Oh, and Stephen Ireland was excellent for 40 minutes ...... then went off injured

Who? Brad Friedel looked average at best lest season, very slow and reactions starting to go. Friedel spent last year veering between being awesome and being an absolute liability. He's rooted to his line these days. If you'd taken a straw poll - and this was certainly the case with the people i talk to who sit near me - of Villa fans at the end of last year, there would have been almost unanimous agreement we needed a new goalkeeper. That's why I was utterly amazed when Spurs gave him a two year contract. Baffling. Surely he isn't going to be your number one, is he? Friedel does not make basic errors and is much more reliable than Gomes. I hope he's our number 1 next season. He's more reliable than Gomes, but then again, so am I. He might not drop clangers, but fucking hell, he's lacklustre for much of the time, and I genuinely can't believe you can't do better than that for your number one.

C'mon Brummie, get off the fence, what do you really think of Fabregas? So swoony!

I don't think he's even on the same planet as those two, to be frank.

Fans describing players as "loyal" for "not asking for a move" when said players have been sat on their arses for a season or two, doing fuck all, and picking up 50k a week for it. Like it's some great test of the human will. I also hate Cesc Fabregas. Everything about him, his weasel fucking face, his stupid hair, his Barcelona thing, and the fact he's nothing like as good as he thinks he is.

Who? Brad Friedel looked average at best lest season, very slow and reactions starting to go. Friedel spent last year veering between being awesome and being an absolute liability. He's rooted to his line these days. If you'd taken a straw poll - and this was certainly the case with the people i talk to who sit near me - of Villa fans at the end of last year, there would have been almost unanimous agreement we needed a new goalkeeper. That's why I was utterly amazed when Spurs gave him a two year contract. Baffling. Surely he isn't going to be your number one, is he?