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Wrestle each other to the ground? Sounds hilarious! Haha, can't stop laughing at the thought of this, Mo'n just on a press interview- "I can't remember being on the ground wrestling with him" looks like he battered him tbh. Reo Coker isn't back in training till Monday! I don't mean to make a vaguely racist, sweeping generalisation **, but I've met plenty of people from Northern Ireland, and every single one of them has been hard as fucking nails and with a very, very short fuse. ** obviously, that disclaimer means that's exactly what i am about to do.

Yakubu, Fellaini, and the Russian have cost at least 35 million British pounds sterling by themselves. He's had funds. Net spend is about £4m a year iirc. I think over the last couple of years we've broke roughly even. He's had fuck all funds from our awful board. Moyes's record is very, very good indeed. MON could do with taking a leaf out of his book. Spending 2004 - 9, unformatted columns are purchased, sold, net, per season. <pre> 1 Manchester City £292,750,000 £72,900,000 £219,850,000 £36,641,667 2 Chelsea £267,950,000 £123,300,000 £144,650,000 £24,108,333 3 Liverpool £247,730,000 £134,080,000 £113,650,000 £18,941,667 4 Aston Villa £131,200,000 £37,255,000 £93,945,000 £15,657,500 5 Tottenham £249,000,000 £163,550,000 £85,450,000 £14,241,667 6 Sunderland £154,080,000 £88,900,000 £65,180,000 £10,863,333 9 Manchester United £188,650,000 £161,050,000 £27,600,000 £4,600,000 7 Everton £102,100,500 £78,200,000 £23,900,500 £3,983,417 8 West Ham £94,145,000 £71,325,000 £22,820,000 £3,803,333 10 Newcastle £120,750,000 £106,400,000 £14,350,000 £2,391,667 12 Middlesbrough £62,200,000 £54,500,000 £7,700,000 £1,283,333 11 Blackburn Rovers £49,052,000 £57,290,000 -£8,238,000 -£1,373,000 13 Portsmouth £92,200,000 £107,240,000 -£15,040,000 -£2,506,667 14 Arsenal £112,050,000 £138,320,000 -£26,270,000 -£4,378,333 Leeds United £5,900,000 £13,050,000 -£7,150,000 -£1,191,667 </pre>

Reo-Coker sent home after having a brawl on the training pitch with MON. I reckon MON will want him out the way asap, could be worth a loan deal.

True enough. I don't see what he does for us given the way we play, but I can see what he does for England. The fact is that Milner is pretty much universally rated by Villa fans and by the England manager, hence my puzzlement at "hur hur, Albrighton can't be much cop if he's being kept out of the team by James Milner", which seems a twisted logic.

So, to summarise, you're writing off a young player, on the basis that he's being kept out of our team by another young player, who was also widely written off here, but has since gone on to be a full international and lauded by Fabio Capello. There's the irony. I also thought he did well for you for decent spells, too, but hey-ho, it doesn't really matter, I'm interested in what he does for us, and so far it must have been half decent for him to get a full call up.

The irony in having a sneer at a player when, actually, he is highly valued by Capello, and turns out he was so when you had him yourself the year before (and were largely slagging him off at the time). I think that shows the folly of your post suggesting that yes, a young player must be not up to much, what with him being kept out of our team by a player the manager of England rates very highly indeed, and who a lot of people here didnt think was good enough for you when you had him, either.

He's 19, going on loan to Forest and is being kept out the Villa team by James Milner. I bet he won't be that good. James "Recently picked, and played, by Capello" Milner, that one? Also known as James "The future of England, says Fabio Capello" Milner? The lad might as well give up now and see if he can get a job at Gamestation or somewhere, then. Capello said that about Milner? I've highlighted the line below, too, for irony.

Is Harry Forrester not doing much yet? Seems to have dipped in visibility recently. Rumours last year of him becoming a bit of a Billy Big Bollocks and liking the booze a little too much.

True. But he's been excellent for us for a long while up until that match, so I'll forgive him a poor game.

He's 19, going on loan to Forest and is being kept out the Villa team by James Milner. I bet he won't be that good. James "Recently picked, and played, by Capello" Milner, that one? Also known as James "The future of England, says Fabio Capello" Milner? The lad might as well give up now and see if he can get a job at Gamestation or somewhere, then.

Marc Albrighton on loan to Forest. He's going to be quality, that boy.

I don't rate him, but he's not garbage. That's far too simple a response. He's no world beater at Premier League level. He's not good enough for us, if we're (supposed to be) a top six team. However, he definitely has something. 1 league start, 28 sub appearances (and MON doesnt do subs before 75 mins, so that means no playing time), 5 goals. Use a popular internet video sharing site to search for his goal at Reading, or his overhead kick at Anfield away and you will see he's capable of scoring goals. He did very well at West Ham, too. I think his main issue is that he is a confidence player, and he was never going to get confidence playing for us when he just comes off the bench once in a while. He's also one of those strikers who, when he has to think about what he is going to do, invariably arses it up (Agbonlahor is the same), but if he doesn't have time to think and acts instinctively, he does much better. Like I say, not good enough for where we are / want to be, but I will bet you what you like, given a decent run of games in the championship, he will score goals. I think it'd be a shrewd move for you.

I know. See he tried to create a new full back shortage by offloading Shorey (who has done well of late) to Portsmouth today.

I don't disagree. I'm just reacting to the usual spectacle of Spurs fans spending the entire window travelling the internet, convincing other clubs fans that they're going to sign every man and his uncle (Robben? Van Der Vaart? Wasn't Levy in Madrid to bring those two back) and subtly criticising everyone else's. Judging on the way these things generally tend to turn out, do they ever learn? Incidentally, forget names like Robben, what happened to Ashley Young going there? And what about Fabian "him and his dad are guests of Spurs at Wembley today, done deal" Delph? Thank fuck the window is closed, even if only so we don't have to put up with that delusional crap any more.

Fourth choice centre back behind Davies, Cuellar and Dunne? Who is Everton's fourth choice centre back? Or Spurs's? As if he'd go to be fourth choice centre back. Wasn't he first choice at West Ham? Well, we've got Cuellar, Davies, Dunne and Collins. Collins is the cheapest and Cuellar and Davies currently have the shirts.

Errm, show me the stunning feat of logic that lead you to arrive at that conclusion? Mind you, I suppose you could always play one of your 14,000 right backs there. Incidentally, a quick glance at mancityfans.net shows a slightly different opinion of Dunne to that expressed by your good self.

Aston Villa = England B Team o'neill has spent over 130 million on a team that doesn't include 1 class player imo, (ashley young is overated massively imo) Well, if you think James Collins is going to be getting in the England B team anytime soon, i can suggest a rather large geographical reason he won't. MON's transfer activity is bewildering, but Ashley Young and John Carew are class players by any definition. He can also point to the consecutive top six finishes as evidence that, whatever it is that goes through his slightly odd head, it works. Aye, i think though, and i think from your previous posts you would agree, that if he sometimes brought a few players from abroad you could be REALLY challenging for top 4 and even better than you did last season! Yes, I absolutely agree.

Fourth choice centre back behind Davies, Cuellar and Dunne? Who is Everton's fourth choice centre back? Or Spurs's? King, Woodgate, Bassong, Dawson........so Dawson. I rest my case. And as the first two on that list spend a month on the physio table every time someone so much as sneezes on them, you could probably do with a few more just in case. Incidentally, word has it that Harry tried to hijack the Dunne deal this afternoon.

Fourth choice centre back behind Davies, Cuellar and Dunne? Who is Everton's fourth choice centre back? Or Spurs's?

Aston Villa = England B Team o'neill has spent over 130 million on a team that doesn't include 1 class player imo, (ashley young is overated massively imo) Well, if you think James Collins is going to be getting in the England B team anytime soon, i can suggest a rather large geographical reason he won't. MON's transfer activity is bewildering, but Ashley Young and John Carew are class players by any definition. He can also point to the consecutive top six finishes as evidence that, whatever it is that goes through his slightly odd head, it works.

I dunno, Davies - Cuellar - Collins - Dunne, that's decent depth I suppose. Still not particularly elated, but as I said above, what can you do?

who was the lad who set up nile for a couple in the england games? i can't think of his name Delfouneso Would have liked him to go on loan somewhere.

MON is unbelievably frustrating in the transfer market, both in terms of the types of player he buys and how late he leaves it to buy them. The thing is, since being here, he's taken a team which was destined for surefire relegation, and which he only had time to add one player to before the window closed, and which went through a takeover at the same time, and got it to finish 11th. He then got us sixth, twice. Don't get me wrong, I - and lots of other Villa fans - moan and moan and moan about his signings, he is so frustrating, but he can point at the league finishes, and there's pretty much no answer to that. I don't care if he signs Fatty Bojangles, the right back for the Dog and Duck Sunday morning team, so long as he gets them playing decent football at home, thats the most important thing for me this season.

Curtis Davies is there only CB atm isn't he? edit: Cuellar too. If they play him at CB.. which they should.. Davies and Cuellar at CB, but Davies's shoulder has popped out three times this season (and preseason) and needs an operation, apparently.

The Guardian (which is pretty much always spot on with Villa news, i think MON and Kevin McCarra are mates) reported at 2 that Dunne had already signed. Meh.