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Sounds like a bargain for Rovers. Think Reo_Coker would be great for them.

Where is Agbonlahor? Injured?

Welcome back, its been a long time :winkold:

He is not on a free. Has atleast two more years on his contract with Lyon.

Random suggestion that has been discussed here over the years - Kim Källström. The swedish media thinks Lyon is trying to offload him to trim their wage bill, he has been offered to Galatasaray for only a small transfer fee something like 5 millon euros. But Källström do not want to go there. I belive english clubs would be able to afford his wage. Do I want him at Villa? Don´t think so. Great left foot, pretty good work rate, but slow, a bit like Barry I suppose. I wouldnt cry if we were in for him, but I wouldnt be excited eighter....

Could be a bargain. Impressed last season in Pompey and the WC.

IIRC Piquinnone was voted the worst signing in the french league the season he signed for Lyon, his attitude apparently stinks.

Manuel Fernandes is a good CM, wouldnt mind us take a punt on him. Hammers seem certain they will sign Loic Remy, thats odd. He is a good player, could be at a better team than West Ham. Will Mancini be able to get Man City play as a team? Unit them as a group? Mourinho would have, Mancini I´m not so sure...

Lovely, I like it!

Wasnt MM telling us we were in for Cole in January? Hmmm, the plot thickens...

Yes, I would.

I think people can dream on if they think De Jong will be part of the deal, hes had a ok WC and would not be short of suitors if he were up to grabs. IF we sell Milner I think it would be a cash only deal, we then do some other deals with City signing some of their (not wanted) players, ex Ireland and Onuoha in another cash deal late on in the window...

We will be fine. Great deal for us if true. Cant see any other club pay us 28 million for him. Best thing about doing business with Man City is that you get paid upfront (if rumours are true...). We will be able to replace Milner, maybe not with a better player but we will be better as a team.

I think we´ll have to face it, Milner will leave. Just hope we can milk them for as much as we can. Whatever we may think and hope, Man City will be up there in the title race next season IMO, Aston Villa will not. That and a much higher wage from city, he is gone....

Is Connor Wickham good? I have never seen him, playing in the championship aged 17, must be a talent. Anyone seen him play?

Oh I thought this was the transfer speculation thread, I guess I´m wrong this seems to be "the for or against Bent thread...."

This! Win-Win as I see it. But lets face it, 30 million would allow us to kick on and buy three good players. Milner is replacable. If 30 million was on the table we would be stupid not to take it IMO. Although I wouldnt be sad if Milner stays...

I wouldnt mind Altidore, I think he will be a good player in the future.

Eduardo, no thanks for me. I think he is useless, overrated player.

Looks like a fake to me.

Top scorer? No thanks. Doesn't have to start all the time but a good asset from the bench. Wasting yer time mate, the Carew haters will not change their minds I don't hate Carew. He was one of my favourite Villa players especially in the 07-08 season., I just happen to think the way we want to play and the style of our midfielders and team don't now suit his style of play and he holds his back and doesn't fit into the team as well as he used too as well as his level of his consistancy has dropped over the past years. Don't think he's the same since that back injury last year. He's not going to get any better and the team has averaged more goals, conceded less, and won more points per minute/match with him OUT the team than him in the team despite the fact the games Carew played in, 15 of them were against mid-table and lower teams, and without Carew, only 9 games against teams in mid-table or lower. I'm sorry but he simply isn't good enough anymore for where we want to be. 9 premiership goals from open play too. Hardly the goalscoring ability some people make out. Come on then, give your insightful view. I don't think in the whole time I've posted on the site, you say anything worth reading football wise. You laugh at that post, yet you have no opinion yourself. What are you laughing at? The facts the team does better without Carew? Although It's not my cup of tea, I could accept Carew as a 3rd/4th choice striker, I don't think he's awful but I think the quicker we move away from the type of players like Carew, the better. Hanky, although you say you don't think selling half of our strike force is a good idea, well 3 of our 4 defenders for 80% of the season were brand new. For half of the season, Milner played central midfield and the inclusion of Downing meant 1/2 the midfield was different to recent years and I thought our biggest problem was upfront, creating chances, linking play and obviously scoring goals. On one hand you had Heskey who can link the play nicely when he is on form but won't score many goals. On the other you have Carew who on his day will score goals but struggles to link the play. Both on their day are useless. Both are inconsistant. Consistant strikers for me are vital because as a midfielder, you want to know you can rely on a striker. If for example Downing plays a ball into the striker, Milner wants to know that the striker is able to either hold it up, find his run or turn and create something themselves. If midfielders look to join up with the strikers but the striker isn't consistantly holding the ball then obviously the midfielders have gone forward allowing space for opponents on the counter and then next time we get it, the midfielders won't want to get forward and support striker in fear of striker wasting possesion and being forced to get back quickly.That's one of the reasons, I don't like Carew too much because he isn't reliable in keeping the ball while Agbonlahor who is as strong as he is isn't going to hold the ball up 9 times out of 10. Meaning if a team cuts out the supply to our wingers, then it means our whole attack is basically nullified because when the ball goes into Carew, it's going to just bounce straight back off him. So if we are going to get a big man, at least get someone who is extremely reliable in what he does. (Hence why Heskey is so well liked, and if you watch him, does do this job very well usually) It's easy to say "He scores goals" but if a striker is also losing the ball regularly and not helping the team in retaining possesion, so will the opposition score more goals as easily proved. Also with Carew, when he doesn't play, you aren't losing goals because other players score more goals again as proven. Great post, you talk alot of sense!! Totally agree.

Win win situation for me! A. We got to keep a really good player. B. We will get an awful lot of money for him so we can maybe buy 2-3 really good players... We cant lose in this one.

Probably closer to 500. :?

I´m undecided. If Jimmy stays fine, we´ll have a great player on our hands. If Jimmy leaves fine, then we´ll have 25-30 million for buying 2-3 potential great players. Win win situation for me.

Jenas is a CM.