Jump to content
Just visiting?

Son Of Wiz

Full Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    51

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Son Of Wiz

    Wes Hoolahan

    in Other Football

    Posted · Edited by Son Of Wiz

     

     

     

    Its okay Gentleman. No need to keep it quiet. I PMd him and told him a fee of 1.7M has been agreed. No paper work yet sorted but verbally agreed. He will sign soon.

    My sauce is 'hot' off the press. ;)

    So we should indeed be expecting Hoolahan to sign shortly? Howcome Norwich changed their minds?

    Have we?

    When? :wacko:

    Ahh Son of Wiz, it seems Norwich have finally succumb to the persuasive skills of Mr Faulkner. It was an inevitability my friend...

     

     

     

     

     

    Maybe so friend, all I know is he trained with the first team yesterday, so it'll be interesting to see if he's in the squad tonight against Newcastle.

    Wes Hoolahan

    in Other Football

    Posted

     

    Its okay Gentleman. No need to keep it quiet. I PMd him and told him a fee of 1.7M has been agreed. No paper work yet sorted but verbally agreed. He will sign soon.

    My sauce is 'hot' off the press. ;)

    So we should indeed be expecting Hoolahan to sign shortly? Howcome Norwich changed their minds?

     

     

    Have we?

     

     

    When? :wacko:

     

    Wes Hoolahan

    in Other Football

    Posted

     

     

    Yet we are supposedly showing being pathetic or showing a small club mentality by refusing to sell you a first team (regularish) player at a knock down price? Can you not see the irony in those claims? Our manager is still on thin ice with our fans at the moment. Selling one of our most popular (and importantly an attacking player with a bit of creativity) players to Lambert for a pittance would be appalling PR for him and its therefore massively naive for anyone your end to think that this approach would ever going to be successful unless you were offering very good money.

     

     

     

    I agree with a lot your post on principal, but Hoolahan has played 9 games this season - 4 of which have been substitute appearances.  I don't know how this fits in with being a "first team player" but I'd assume you won't be getting a transfer fee for him after this window (31 year old, not playing regularly, lack of time on his contract).

     

    What are Norwich honestly holding out for?  You'd almost be better selling him for £750k given the lack of impact he's having on your season.

     

     

     

    iF he set up or scored a goal against us which helped relegate us, quite a lot actually!

    Wes Hoolahan

    in Other Football

    Posted · Edited by Son Of Wiz

     

    The bottom line is we not sell to Villa regardless of the offer, period.

     

     

    Thats from a respected ITK journo M Dennis this morning.

     

     

    This is getting well spiteful now imo. :wacko:

    How does it make you feel?

     

     

    Fed up to be honest mate and sorry for Wes caught up in it, here's that ITK article:

     

     

    xx.gif
    Mick Dennis Lift's the Lid a Little.
     
    Norwich City have complained formally to Aston Villa about their pursuit of Wes Hoolahan – and have received a curt reply.

    The exchange of letters between the two clubs demonstrates the deterioration of relations between them and explains why Norwich, who have rejected a transfer request from Hoolahan, are especially determined not to sell him to Villa.

    Norwich wrote complaining that Villa manager Paul Lambert had publicly extolled Hoolahan’s ability, despite the Norfolk club saying he is not for sale. Villa wrote back merely acknowledging the receipt of the Norwich letter and “noting its contents”.

    The acrimony between the two clubs stems from events after Lambert left Norwich for Villa 19 months ago. There was an escalating series of bad-tempered exchanges between Lambert, people representing him, and Norwich chief executive David McNally and chairman Alan Bowkett.

    There was more bad blood when reserve goalkeeper Jed Steer followed Lambert to Villa Park last summer.

    Then Villa bid £750,000 for Hoolahan at about the time the 31-year-old Republic of Ireland midfielder reported that he had picked up an injury and could not play in the FA Cup third round tie against Fulham. Hoolahan also told Norwich staff, verbally, that he wanted to join Villa.

    Norwich manager Chris Hughton told the Norwich board he wants to keep Hoolahan, who had just forced his way into the first team. So Norwich told the player they had no intention of selling him and refused at first to even talk with Villa about the bid until after a tribunal hearing about goalkeeper Steer. Once that tribunal had made its ruling – that Villa must pay £450,000 immediately and, in theory could hand over up to £1.75m – Norwich rejected the offer for Hoolahan.

    The popular midfielder – the only survivor from the era before Lambert lifted Norwich 54 places in three seasons – reported that he was fit but “not in the right frame of mind” to play. Despite that, Hughton has continued to select him as a sub.

    This week Hoolahan submitted a written transfer request, but insisted: “There has not been any big row or anything.”

    Norwich rejected the request and have told him again that they do not intend to sell him. That remains the position privately as well as publicly. I understand that the only circumstances in which they might be prepared to part with Hoolahan in this transfer window is if they could sign someone better at his sort of role – operating centrally just behind the main striker. Even then they would want at least £3m for Hoolahan and would still not want Villa to be his destination. They regard Villa as direct rivals in their attempt to secure a fourth successive season in the Premier League.

    In 2009, soon after he had arrived at Norwich , Lambert tried to sell Hoolahan. And, if the Scot had remained in charge at Carrow Road for the summer in which he moved to Villa, he would have sold Grant Holt – the striker with whom he has now been reunited.

    Lambert’s list of players he wanted to move on had already been presented to the Norwich board when he decamped to Villa. Holt was on that list.

    In the event, however, Lambert left and new Norwich manager Chris Hughton gave Holt a new contract. The striker stayed for one season under Hughton in the Premier League before joining Wigan for £2m last summer. After scoring just twice in 19 appearances for Wigan he accepted a loan move to Villa for the rest of the season.

    • Like 1

    Wes Hoolahan

    in Other Football

    Posted

    After everything Lambert did for that club I think it is so sad that they're acting like children.

    No offence Son of Wiz but from a business perspective it only makes sense to sell a 31 year old who isn't getting any game time, any normal club would do it.

    I hope the fans aren't going to turn on Wes for wanting the move either, you can't really blame him considering his current position in the squad.

     

    None taken samjp26, for what little its worth I believe we should sell Wes but I just don't don't think we will now.

    Wes Hoolahan

    in Other Football

    Posted

    I really don't think Norwich are going to sell to us.

     

    It's not only their star manager we poached but we also stole their top young goalkeeping prospect from under their noses and only had to give them a few hundred thousand as 'compensation'.

     

    There is no way they are in the mood to help us out by selling us a player who will fill a position we are desperate for.

     

    According to ITK Journo's down here there isn't a cat in hells chance we'd ever let you have him now, rightly or wrongly there's too much bad blood between Lambert and our board.

     

    Of course sadly, the real loser in all this is Wes.

     

     

    http://www.pinkun.com/norwich-city/paddy_davitt_brinkmanship_is_not_a_winning_formula_in_wes_hoolahan_s_norwich_city_exit_strategy_1_3236241

    Wes Hoolahan

    in Other Football

    Posted

    If it was any other club I think we'd move Wes on, but its not, its Villa and LAMBERT and our board really have a downer on him atm.

     

    Our fans however would probably sell a player who doesn't want to be here. :unsure:

    Wes Hoolahan

    in Other Football

    Posted

    Don't see why Norwich Wouldn't deal with us now.  Things happened in the past but its time to move on, its a mans game and it would be extremely childish of them if they were holding grudges.  I'd also expect that Hoolahan would be keen to join a big club like ours and he would probably enjoy playing for Lambert again so he could help make the deal happen himself.  Get it done Paul

    He is very settled in Norfolk, but like our fans he loved Lambert too.

    Jed Steer

    in Other Football

    Posted

     

    What's the deal with David Mcnally on twitter? His problem with Lambert is pretty pathetic and ridiculous for somebody who holds such a high position at a football club.

     

    Norwich fans call him "McNasty". I gather that is a compliment and an insult. :)

     

     

     

    It is a compliment full stop, David is a hero in this neck of the woods and rightly so. :wub:

    Jed Steer

    in Other Football

    Posted

    Gutted, a top young keeper, better than our young under 21 international Declan Rudd imo, will fit in well with your set up, he was 4th choice here which seems harsh to me.

    Elliott Bennett (Norwich City)

    in Villa Talk

    Posted · Edited by Son Of Wiz

     

    For what little its worth, he's one of my favourite players at City, quick and a great crosser.

     

    But I have no idea whether a transfer is on the cards or not, I would be sad to see him go.

     

    Anthony Pilkington is much better, yeah?

     

     

    Not imo, Pilks often goes missing in a game, when he's good he's very good,  but when he's bad............

     

    Benno on the other hand is more steady, again imo.

    • Like 1

    Paul Lambert

    in Villa Talk

    Posted · Edited by Son Of Wiz

     

    What ever happened to Wiz?

    I do miss Wiz insisting Lambert will dump us after any amount of success. It got me concerned after recent back-to-back wins.

     

     

     

    Ah old Wiz,  a strange chap for sure, well done on your win at our place, now we're left hoping Wigan lose.

     

    I think Paul Lambert will be with you a while yet btw. ;)

×
×
  • Create New...
Â