The curse of the Milner Transfer.
I was thinking much the same, and the second time think managers having a paddy at great deals.
Milner for Gutierez + 12.5mil or so, fantastic deal, a year or two at Villa and sell him on for around 15mil profit? Another fantastic deal, sometimes managers think they are more than they are, and so do fans.
I keep hearing about how owners should stay out of it and let managers do what they want, managers are just that, employed to do whatever the owners want frankly, of course they are free to leave(seemingly more so than players, yet contracts be damned for managers?) if they don't like whats going on.
Villa will be MUCH better off with 30mil, or 20ish + ireland, especially as they are quite noticeably lacking in the midfield creativity department and Milner is so massively over rated, 7 league goals, I'd take Ireland for the central role any day.
WHich Young are you all talking about aswell, I assume Luke Young, but maybe could understand if Ashley was being sold out from under him aswell.
But what does O'neill think, that Villa can really challenge for the title if just spending beyond their means, a sane manager should expect them to make money when they can, and only an insane manager wouldn't take up selling players for massively inflated wages when given the chance. I mean Wenger may not have wanted Toure anymore, but he wanted to keep Ade but 30mil for a player whose worth 10mil at best, you just have to be stupid to ignore that, as a manager I'd take 35mil over Ade, 20mil + for Milner lets you get a, better player, or a couple of better players, where is the issue?
In Youngs case, probably isn't worth much but honestly a team going for 4th should be looking for someone better anyway.
Downing and Young on the wings, Milner got pushed more infield when Downing got fit, where frankly, he's not as good, and they can get a significantly more promising central midfielder plus a huge wad of cash.
He's retarded to leave for those reasons. If he wants the challenge of a tougher team, getting a bottom 6 to top half of the table, thats fine, or manage in another league, or take on a bigger club thats all fine, but quitting over selling Milner, is just retarded.
....really shocked by this..i wonder who there going to get in as all the decent managers are taken now eg Hughes,Hodgson....I though Villa were going to really well this year eg 5th/6th....
