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I think there ws an awful lot going on with Djembe Djembe off the pitch that had an influence on his time at Villa.

Van Basten was the best striker in the world during his pre injury AC Milan days, Denis could never claim that.

22. hopefully a few more next season

Thats what i call a tackle!!!

Great intercption by collins

Perfect stream and villa talk, occassionlay checking grimsby's score on bbc

Thee possible rail replacement buses that people are mentioning what line are these from? If im getting the train up from Northampton into New Street then onto Aston will the second part be a bus journey tomorrow?

No, don't think so, the work is on the track in the south of the city so the new street to villa stretch should still be by train, i hope!

Excellent, thanks mate

Just checked. Trains are 1004 and 1104 from Bescot to Witton, 13 min journey. 1426 out of Witton back, 14 min journey. Aston is 3 mins different.

There are no additional "Football Specials" on Sunday btw.

The London Midland website says there is!

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All the above is true Glaston

It's not though.

Glaston's figures are based on the meejia's gross figures. It does not take into account signing on fees, loyalty bonuses , structure of repayments, agent fees, sell on clauses (Diarra!), accrued wages (etc)

Take Michael Turner. He was reportedly sold for 7 million, yet Hull only received 2.5 million net.

I doubt the final profit on these 4 transfers would be anywhere near 40 million net.

I'm sure the agents fees in any of Harry's transfers wouldn't have been too high, I'd imagine he would only deal with the most honest and respectful of gentlemen, knowing his role as the protector of young children's ears and the one last crusador against the vindictive taxman.

How dare HM Custom and Excise take issue with an undeclared 6 figure payment! Don't they know who he is! Thats an insignificant amount to him so it should all be forgotten about!

If that was what I'd said, then I'd agree with you. But sadly for you I didn't say that it should be forgotten about.

Instead I said that the motivation for Harry to dupe the taxman of 40k is pretty hard to fathom when the guy is a multi-millionare and earns 40k every 3 or 4 days. In other words, I'm suggesting that the charge may a face-saving crock of shit to try and justify months of investigation, and I won't be surprised if Harry wins the case.

PS. 40k is 5 figures, not 6

Ps, i said that it was a six figure payment (£180,850), that is six figures not 5. 40k is the amount of tax due, understand?

As for the need for him to conseal the money, it isn't hard to fathom - greed.

All the above is true Glaston and no manager can ever be responsible (alone) for the financial situation at a club. He is though in part responsible especially when it comes to issues such as the contracts he deemed acceptable for players he signed like the rumoured wages paid to Utaka.

Given that Redknapp's honesty is currently in question and subject to legal proceedings I would say fresh doubts may be reasonable in relation to some of his decisions, for instance the large wages given to Bosman signing Hermann Hreidarsson.

Canny football boss Harry Redknapp and his wife made a £450,000 profit in 10 months by selling a luxury home to one of his new signings.

Portsmouth manager Harry, 59, and Sandra paid £2.4million for the five-bedroom seaside home, which has a swimming pool and cinema, in October 2006.

The mock-Tudor mansion, registered in Sandra's name, was then sold for £2.85million to Pompey's Icelandic defender Hermann Hreidarsson in August just after he signed from Charlton.

Yesterday local estate agent Robert Dunford said the 19 per cent profit in 10 months was extremely healthy. He added: "From October 2006 to the summer of 2007 I would say there was a rise of about eight per cent, an uplift of about £200,000 on a £2.4million property. So to make £450,000 over the same period is very good." Hermann's new home is in Branksome Park, Poole, Dorset, which is fast becoming a footballers' paradise.

Team-mates Pedro Mendes, Sylvan Distin and Sulley Muntari all have homes in the area.

Harry and Sandra live nearby in a £10million harbour-side mansion.

Sandra yesterday said she did not know much about the house sale, adding: "I really don't know, I leave all that sort of thing to Harry. But it is nobody's business."

Hermann's agent Olafur Gardarsson said: "He looked at many houses and bought this one weeks or months after he had signed for Portsmouth.

"It was more or less a coincidence the house belonged to Harry.

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So I think its fair to say he isn't responsible for the position Portsmouth find themselves in but to say there troubles have "very little to do with Harry" is also not quite accurate either.

So Harry makes a 19% profit on a house sale in 10 months during a property boom era. Plenty of people have done that, or better than that, depending on how much of a bargain price they paid for the property in the first place, but apparently in Harry's case it's a criminal offence.

Nor is it unusual pay a large wage to a player signed on a Bosman, first because there is no additional transfer expense (fee) involved and nor thus does the player get a cut of any transfer fee (because there is none) as they otherwise would do if they hadn't officially requested a transfer amd were still under contract.

You say "Redknapp's honesty is currently in question and subject to legal proceedings". But in fact he is only facing a charge concerning an alleged 40k in tax evasion - nothing to so with transfers or corruption.

40k is probably what he earns every 3 or 4 days, so the chances of his being concerned to dupe the taxman over such a paltry (for him) amount seem pretty low to me. And this is the best they could come up with following months of (politically-motivated) investigation.

I won't be surprised if the prosecution case collapses under the weight of it's own pompous bollocks.

How dare HM Custom and Excise take issue with an undeclared 6 figure payment! Don't they know who he is! Thats an insignificant amount to him so it should all be forgotten about!

Delusion

Harry would never put a team in financial difficulties, in fact, with his astute transfer knowledge he makes each club rich beyond their wildest dreams.

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Glaston, I think you missed the above question for the billionth time.

As I said above, FROM NOW ON I SHALL NOT BE RESPONDING TO ANY COMMENT OR QUESTION ABOUT ME PERSONALLY.

Let's give this policy a short-hand: Not Relevant or NR for short.

I shall occasionally repeat this 'W U M' as appropriate, until either boredom sets in or postees decide they actually want to talk about football. It's your choice.

How about a new Villatalk policy?

When an opposing fan refuses to enter into a reasonable debate and only comes on to tell us how wonderful everything is in his own team, we ridicule him.

Lets give this policy a short hand: Wind up merchand or W U M for short.

We could occasionally repeat this 'NR' as appropriate, until either boredom sets in or postees decide they actually want to talk in the real world wheere everyones garden is not so rosey.

Well, once again Villa play defence, defence, defence, sit deep ... counter-attack from time to time. It ain't pretty, but it's effective.

And not for the first time this season Spurs batter the opposition goal but can't stick one in.

Spurs were the better team by some margin, dominated possession, had easily the lion's share of attacking play, but Villa defended very well so I can't say you didn't just about deserve to get away with a draw.

Spurs miss Lennon ... need him back pronto.

HOOF!

You can never have to many right backs

Jonathon Woodgate is not made of glass.

Gareth Bale is not a primate

Every Spurs player is a massive success.

When they leave their careers are finsihed

We make a massive profit on every player we buy and sell.

That's a great bit of 'ITK' from Glaston haha.

That is not fair. You need to go easy on him. Afterall he did tell us that SWP was in advanced stages of negotiation with spuds

Oh yeah, how do you think its going? Glaston, when do you expect that deal to be concluded?

Maybe just after Richard Dunne makes his first appearance for them?

Spurs have just tied up a deal for a defensive midfielder - the first fruits of our new partnership arrangement with the Brazilian club Internacional.

His name is Sandro - Brazil's U-20 captain and now recently capped for their senior squad. Not sure of the fee - around 7m maybe, but that figure is yet to be confirmed. He should be at the Lane to watch our game against Wolves.

Of course it remains to be seen how quickly (or not) he is brought into the first team matchday squad and how well he'll adapt to the Prem.

What the feck happened to this then? Them COYS ITKers have a 100%, faultless, perfect record on matters like this I thought.

Maybe he's stuck with 'the real' Tuncay (who we had signed according to them) in the Twilight zone.

I think the answer lies within!

Is any other team doing this?

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Seems a bit on the mean side to me.

Do you expect anything else from them?

We all know that Harry is always very insistent of paying every penny of tax due.

If they have money, they might want to fix the guttering that MOTD had to apologise for as it looked like it was raining.

Small Heath, small time..

Must say Joey, good to have a realistic Spurs fan who admits that not all the players are world class but has at the same time has pride in his team. This thread might be taking a new direction!

I don't care what spurs fans do with their forums. As long as they don't go spouting about their wonderful ITK crap from pathetic sources. Its not hard become a member of COYS and it is a big let down when your there. I was a member for a couple of weeks before Glaston reported me for being a villa fan and got me banned, fairly hypocritical I thought, especially as joined in debate about Spurs players instead of provoking others and trying to claim that Villa were amazing.

This was the email I got:

Someone from an Aston Villa site told the COYS moderating team that you are a villa fan who posts on a Villa board using the name 'largelugs'. Seems that they were embarrased that a Villa fan could be so pathetic as to pretend to be a Spurs fan and they provided some examples of posts there, one of which shows 'largelugs' bragging about being a member of COYS. Hard to believe anyone, even a Villa fan, can have such an insignificant life as to need to do that. In fact, the info from Villa Talk provided email and username details on several others who had decided to do the same thing.

As a result your account, like the others that the tipoffs helped unmask, has been terminated. If you attempt to re-join COYS we will be compelled to send your IP and email details to the authorities. They probably won't do anything about it, but at least they will have your data on file.

Let them carry on their own little secret society!