LoughboroughLion

if city offer 30 million or more, we have to accept. as much as i want milner to stay its 30 million. as good as milner is, he isnt a world class player and 30 million is a lot of money and we could easily replace or better milner with the money. anyway i hope milner makes the right decision when it comes to staying or going

Could we?

We could easily replace Milner with the money.

Come on then, name me 3 players we could 'easily' get who are better than Milner and who would realistically join a club with our wage structure and no CL football.

Good luck.

Tick tock, tick tock

I agree with you there, however, remember what everyone was thinking before and after Gareth Barry's sale, it was similar to this, but what does MON go and do, replaces him (not immediately, but still replaces him) with Milner. Life goes on, and IMHO if we can get 35m and Ireland then we should do it. Ireland is a good player and i think we can look to improve via a good goal-scoring striker and an attacking creative midfielder.

Why is nobody mentioning Martin Petrov, free transfer, would be a great rotation player for us.

I'll take all four and **** the 20m, thats the best deal

It may sound stupid, however i have always wondered... What's to stop Man City giving James Milner £8m to buy out his contract and then getting him for free, costing them only 8m?

MILNER OUT - 35m

Fabregas IN - 45m

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10m spent

top four here we comeeeeee

IMO we're in a win win situation.

We either keep a good player or get a ridiculous amount of money for him. What ever happens I don't think we'll suffer from the outcome.

We do suffer if we sell him and buy Bobby Zamora, Mark Noble and Carlton Cole with the money. Which for some reason i can just see happening

In that case then, we will get 25-28m max for him, i don't think that is worth it tbh.

If Man Utd bid 25 million and City bid 30 million, which would you accept. If you wouldn't accept either. Add 20% to each of the bids and ask yourself again.

If that happened, Milner would push for the move to United and we'd take the 25.

Would it then be harsh on Milner for MON to then push for the City move back in order to gain the extra 5m?

Milner straight swap for Tevez, that would be making good out of a bad situation

The only way for me to not get frustrated by this summer window is going to be to pretend i am on football manager and that MON is awesome transfers; so here it goes:

GK: Brad

DF: Warnock, Cuellar, Dunne, Onouha (5m)

MF: Young, Parker (8m) , Ireland (8m) , Milner, Downing

FW: Cardozo (15m)

SUB: Brad, Collins, L.Young, Petrov, NRC, Agbonlahor, Carew

RES: Delph, Fonz, Albirhgton, Bannan, Clark

Sell; Heskey (2m), Gardner Money (3m), Davies (4m), Shorey (2m), Beye (1m)

Spend = 36m

Sell = 12 m

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24m

Firstly, he is very quick, maybe not as quick as Gabby but he has a footballing brain which cannot be taught or developed, he's just born to play football, his movement is outstanding, his first touch is breathtaking, he can do things that no other player can do with a football, Paul Merson said when he was 14 that he will be the best striker in the world and I agree with him.

Are you nursing a semi about this or something, it is ridiculous, i agree with you, he is good. But world class i think not, there is no way in which he can be regarded as world class potential as he has not yet done anything with any absolute quality. Yes, at 19 he has a had a good run in, but ask yourself this question, if MON truly deeply thought this guy could score 20 goals a season, why would he spite himself in such a great way?

We will get £4 Million for Sidwell.

Also why would Wolves buy Doyle for £6.5 Million and then sell him for £7 Million?

Even better then. I take your point, but i wouldn't pay more than £7m for him so if that is the case it's unlikely, however when a player wants to move can a club really hold on to them without their performance dropping?

I'm liking the look of Nedum Onuoha hugely, bright youngish lad with a lot of potential. He said on Soccer AM he wanted to get his club football sorted, so if we offer him week in week out football, i think he's a good bet.

IN; Onuoha (6m), Ireland (6m), Scharner (free), Doyle (7m), Another Striker? (13m)

OUT; Heskey (2m), Harewood (1m), Salifou (free), Shorey (2m), Sidwell (2m)

Net Spend: 25m

Matty Fryatt (a cheaper option than Kevin Doyle and I've always liked the look of him)

I live in leicester so hear about him quite a bit and let me tell you, he issss S H I T E

If for some reason, MON went with Friedal, and it went to penalties, does anyone else think he should swap Guzan to start the penalty shoot out? or would he just be ill prepared having not played the game?

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Who do people intend to replace MON with, as they want him to go? I am very much undecided on the whole 'stay or go', but if i had to choose, Martin Jol would be top of my list...

7th (Chelski, Man Utd, Arsenal, Man City, Liverpool, Everton), but if we get one big injury to one of our 'better' players, i fear we would find ourselves closer to the 10th, 11th mark.

I cant see us doing worse than sixth to be honest because we are already six points ahead of them with easily four winnable games coming up. Having said that, we need to get some good signings and strengthen our squad as well as our first team, getting to at least to the semi finals in the EC which will help players around the world want to come to our club, if we do all this then next season will make the league our oyster.

there are goals, and then there are lucky goals. you don't get a top four spot for only scoring lucky goals.

I'm sorry for any big curtis fans out there, but he has been absolutely poor this season and most of last. 10million is a joke, he just hits the ball up the pitch and dosen't tackle that well either, he's not even good for a back-up.

..and its carew for me, the majority of goals that villa score are down to him, he holds it up to enable everyone else to attack. Look what we have been able to do without him when he's injured, 2 own goals in the last 3 games? greattt.