SGSC Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 I'd rather sign Geremi or Luque. tbh Funny. No really mate, good stuff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 I'd rather sign Geremi or Luque. tbh I'm not sure you're being serious there Shauny lad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 I wonder if Sunderland are shitting themselves over this signing? One over on Sunderland. :frantic: :frantic: :frantic: :frantic: :frantic: :frantic: :frantic: :frantic: :frantic: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan_Taylor Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Pretty exciting signing if he passes the medical. He needs players like Nolan around him to settle in, there was no-one like that at Villa Don't really follow this .... what do you mean by players like that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Happy to give him a shot and hope he can regain his form. Just hope he isn't used to disrupt a system that's been working quite nicely. Needs to play off a striker with Barton and Nolan left where they are. Exactly my thoughts. Obviously it's weird how apathetic i am given his performance the season before last... but Pardew's got no right or reason dismantling the midfield system Hughton built up. It's the most coherent and fluid we've played in years with Tiote, Nolan and Barton in there. It's an ideal opportunity to put Ireland in his, allegedly, favoured position - whilst adding another body to the squad regardless. Generally satisfied with the signing tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 I'm sure Houllier said the other day that he was due back in training next week. It's a knee injury, and that's definitely what he said - now serious. The fact Ireland is up with you lot today must mean our Bradley deal is going through Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley17 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Pretty exciting signing if he passes the medical. He needs players like Nolan around him to settle in, there was no-one like that at Villa Don't really follow this .... what do you mean by players like that? Big fat party animals Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Medical when he's injured and it's only a four month loan seems a bit odd, doesn't it? Eh? People spout this every time an injured played is signed by a club, what do they think a medical is? A fitness test out on the pitch? More that I didn't think it customary to have a medical for a short term loan - in combination with already being injured it struck me as odd. I've been told, though, haven't I? We're still talking about spending hundreds of thousands of pounds mate, of course we're going to see how well he's currently bolted together. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Pretty exciting signing if he passes the medical. He needs players like Nolan around him to settle in, there was no-one like that at Villa Don't really follow this .... what do you mean by players like that? Big fat party animals http://www.1000goals.com/wallpapers3/richard-dunne.jpeg http://theoriginalwinger.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/john-carew.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shaun Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Stephen Ireland is a symbol of all that's wrong with football players today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Dicky Dunne probably used to jip his wig though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 What's your general opinion on him as a player, Brummie? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley17 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Didn't Dunne pin him down whilst his Irish team mates tried to pull off his hairpiece? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley17 Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Stephen Ireland is a symbol of all that's wrong with football players today. Can't wait till his home debut. 50000 cheers when his name's announced and you sitting there going "boooooo bring back Geremi" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Pretty exciting signing if he passes the medical. He needs players like Nolan around him to settle in, there was no-one like that at Villa Don't really follow this .... what do you mean by players like that? Team players, looking after the younger lads. As far as I see it , Villa have a bunch of self-concerned players Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 What's your general opinion on him as a player, Brummie? Very talented lad, but he's utterly wrong in the head. I think taking him away from his comfort zone, what he was used to at City, has just exposed how mental he is. All that bollocks about "ooh, I've got a virus so I can't play" then being spotted out on the piss the same evening got on my tits. For 70k a week, you expect better than that. I hope he turns it around with you, because he's got talent, but thus far, fair play to Houllier for shipping the whingers / malingerers / deadwood out. First Carew, now Ireland, and hopefully Warnock - who apparently whinges and moans so much, and disrupts the squad so badly, he's been training with the reserves for the last two weeks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Stephen Ireland is a symbol of all that's wrong with football players today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Pretty exciting signing if he passes the medical. He needs players like Nolan around him to settle in, there was no-one like that at Villa Don't really follow this .... what do you mean by players like that? Team players, looking after the younger lads. As far as I see it , Villa have a bunch of self-concerned players I don't really see that. Petrov is a wise old midfielder, for example, and also we have a squad full of youngsters, many of whom have played and done very well in the first team, who seem to be exceptionally well adjusted. Ireland is 24, incidentally, he's hardly a teenager. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 We need bodies in midfield. He is body in midfield. Good signing as long as he's not at Alan Smith levels of uselessness. Surely he's not that bad. I'm just concerned that he's coming injured and that he might get a bunch of those "complications" that all of our players tend to pick up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Can't see why he'd replace Barton or Tiote, as they play in different positions. The only player he'd take the place of in CM is Nolan, which I wouldn't be entirely against in games where he appears completely non-existent (like the second game in a week). Generally he's extra cover for the centre, and he can play in his favoured position just off the striker. If he can regain his City form, we're onto a winner. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Well, if he does turn out to be a crackerjack then a loan deal is the sensible option. If he doesn't work out then we can pack him off back to Villa in May. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Having possibly Nolan and Tiote behind him will probably be helpful, I think at Villa he was expected as a central midfielder and wasn't given the freedom in attack that he needs. Obviosly Brummie will know best like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shaun Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Well, if he does turn out to be a crackerjack then a loan deal is the sensible option. If he doesn't work out then we can pack him off back to Villa in May. Carroll or Barton would of knocked him out before May. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BlacknWhiteArmy Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Barton Tiote Nolan Jonas Ireland Carroll* *Ameobi, until Carroll's back. That looks pretty good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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