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You'll be fine, Villa are actually the ones taking this more seriously, Bohs fans won't care. Bohs will play kids, they've a league game tonight and just had a European game on Wednesday. Very definition of a friendly kick about going to happen.

I don't see how him stating his desire to leave to the club in private amounts to disrespect?

Or you could see it as Milner respected the club and fans enough to not discuss it in the press and MON has discussed it which is of no benefit to anyone.

This thread is for questions only not discussion. Good to have you back General, really do think this is a great little thing you do for the fans. Obviously you won't be able to go into too much detail on this but in terms of trimming the wage budget would the feeling be that the total number is too high, or that its too high for the current crop and with sales of players there'd be no problem sustaining the current figure with new additions in place of those moving on?

Chelsea United City Arsenal Liverpool Spurs/Villa Spurs/Villa Everton Can see Spurs slip back down away from it all with a bit of a Champions League hangover. Can see the top 5 being a bit of a distance ahead of us and Spurs.

So his options are continue to be an important player for Villa and maybe win a FA Cup one day or go to City and push himself to his limit retain a first team spot and a chance at winning leagues and European Cups. Even if you take money out its obvious what he should be doing and with the bonus of his money doubling why wouldn't he.

Milner isn't being paid more money to compromise himself at all so that example makes no sense. Hes being paid more to continue doing his job with an even greater chance of success at his job.

I wish people would stop comparing footballers to people with normal jobs. It's nothing like us having a "2.5m signing on fee" dangled in front of us. For the amount of money these guys are on - it's more like the equivalent of dangling £500 in front of us. Is an extra £30k a week really going to make a difference to someone who already earns £50k a week? No. Yes, Houlston, he hasn't left, people are jumping the gun a bit. But I think the point is that if he did leave then he will be leaving for the money and for the POSSIBILITY, and nothing else, of City challenging for greater honours. They don't have the Champions League and they haven't won the Prem. He will be leaving us for a team who will be playing in the exact same competitions as us. So if it happens then it seems he's moving for the money and not much else that is guaranteed. Of course the extra money makes a difference, why only set himself up for life when he work hard for 15 years and make his chidlrens life as comfortable as possible for life too. The vast majority of the population makes career/company changes based on money apart from that small few in a specific job for a pure love of it. No idea why footballers have some sort of moral obligation to care so deeply for the people chanting their name and never leave them behind. I'll still think Milner is great if he goes, lost respect for Barry when he did purely because of the bollocks he talked in the press about going off to play in the Champions Leauge and win things right away.

Can't believe people are even entertaining that idea, why on earth would City give us £20m next year when he'd have 1 year left on his deal. If they don't get him now they'll sign someone else and that'll be that.

Would bite their hands off, having said that I'd jump at £20m and Ireland as I don't rate Onohua at all.

ACtually Rooney was only 27 wasn't he? Makes him 2nd to Rio then

Like Barry did when he wanted to go to Liverpool? It's Man City, there is nothing they can't afford. Rape them. They will pay. If the £28m goes ahead it makes Milner the 3rd most expensive English player ever. We're already raping them.

Or Chelsea weren't willing to pay what City were for him and he was decent enough to us to not demand a move to Chelsea instead of City which would cost us money

Good deal for everyone involved, City get a top midfielder and the money doesn't matter them, Milner gets a decent chance at a title push and almost certain Champions League football and we get an arseload of money that if we spend it wisely can leave us stronger without him. £28m gets you Ireland, Parker and Keane. Throw Ireland and Parker into that midfield with Delph to come back and its fine.

This is without a doubt the strangest argument against O'Neill that keeps coming up. Before we played Chelsea having played most of the season with Cuellar at right back we had THE BEST DEFENCE IN THE LEAGUE. That is to say that our regular back 4 had been the best combination of defenders the league had seen this year. Maybe we should accept that he is infact a quite capable right back, albeit a defensive minded one. Shockingly enough Carlos didn't play that game against Chelsea ( not that I'm blaming Young but it has to be mentioned )

**** hell Ash

Browns better as is Johnson, Richards is a better right back but is an atrocious centre back.