NeilS

Not that I've seen. That is nothing though, the season under Ramos when they nearly went down he vanished for about 3 months. It's classic Spurs fan behaviour. I used to get no end of grief during the mid to late 80's from my Spurs supporting school friends. They went very quiet in the early 90's when we gave them a few 5 goal poundings. One even disowned Spurs and said he no longer supported them after the 5-2 win at WHL. That is why I hate Spurs with such a passion. Most Spurs fans are quiet most of the time, but a slight hint of success and they're the cockiest bunch you'll ever find!

I see he has only recently signed a 1 year player coaching deal with MK Dons, he may choose to join up with us at the end of the season when his contract expires.

The usual route is to speak to manager you want, see if they're interested. Give them the nod, they quit their job out of the blue, then get employed within a week. Managers old team claim tapping up, new team say proove it. Manager then gets Judas taunts thrown at him whenever his teams turns up to play his previous club. That is how the football world works imo.

I fall into the happy category. I think he'll do alright here, I'm not 100% sure whether he'll attain the top 4 position that we crave as it is harder now than it was 6 years ago, but he has as good a chance as many of the candidates listed. It will be interesting to see a bit more invention in the transfer market. Hopefully he can unearth the next Zidane for us, and by that I don't mean the Togolese Zidane.

If by failures you mean winning trophies. Then yes none of Jol, Moyes and Hughes have had the same amount of failures as Houllier.

I agree, I don't recall Villa ever hiring a manager in the past who has won as much silverware in their career. Fingers crossed that he may add to that tally in his time here.

I'm confused by this statement. Didn't Lippi win the World Cup with Italy?

youve shown ur true colours there mate. Whooooooooooooah there matey boy. Season ticket holder since 1983 Have you ? if so you may remember the next quote "Joining Villa was the biggest mistake of my career" by A Mr A. Curbishley True colours - what a f...ing cheek ! I was there when we got relegated against Norwich (or was it Wednesday the week after - cant remember now) , I was standing at Swindon when we nearly had another Hillsborough (well first as it hadnt happened yet) , I was with us when Jo venglos couldn't understand us, I have been there through a fecking lot of thin. maybe, I've just had enough of spending £850 on ST's, £40 per fortnight on petrol, £20 per fortnight on food / drink, around £200 on cup tickets (plus the fuel) , plus around £600 a yera on away trips and the rest ! Put it this way , when you went 25yrs without missing a home game, 9 years without missing a domestic away game, and 4 yrs without missing a Euro away game. THEN FECKING SHOW YOUR TRUE COLOURS Twonk That's hilarious. I hope we appoint Curbishley just to see your reaction. It could be worse.... they could appoint Steve Hodge

I'm sure MON thinks he timed it perfectly. Exactly - deliberately leaving when we had no other options to fall back on. In any other line of work if you leave without giving your notice period its a serious disciplinary issue. Can you be sacked for doing so? :? I guess the only option is to seek compensation from MON for not giving proper notice. If the boot was on the other foot MON would want compensating if he was sacked without a years notice as stipulated in his contract. I doubt that Randy will follow this route though as it doesn't help our current predicament.

Let me guess..... you don't want Klinsmann, you haven't forgiven him for his headbutt attack on Bosnich's knee all those years ago?

If you mean regarding the cost cutting, and managing within our means, then I think we're in the same boat as 18 of the other 20 Premiership teams. Only Man City and Chelsea have any money it seems.

Last seen making dodgy adverts (for Mars) about believing England would win the World Cup.

Just read that. Anyone who knows how much it's worth? Or if FIAT will be on the back as is shown on the OS? I don't think having a sponsor on the back of the shirt would be allowed in the Premiership. I think they have done that just for show. They will take over from Seat, which means they will have their name plastered about the ground, on the board behind the MotD interview spot, and in the match day programmes etc.

One of the things that annoys me most about this Milner situation is, that only about 6-8 months ago Milner was singing MON and Villa's praises. He was basically saying how playing for a settled club with a settled manager, not a manager conveyor belt like at Newcastle, was improving his game. Now 6 months down the line, Man City wave a wad of cash at him and those thoughts leave his mind, the manager conveyor belt won't be a problem for him anymore, because let's face it Mancini will probably be fired by Christmas if they don't look like getting Champs League. Footballers eh, imo you can't believe a word that comes out of their mouths.

This is exactly what I said to my Wife. Also if they were going to fix it, they would not break the record by over a second.

Exactly, it is what MM hinted at a few weeks back. Milner is now trying to cover himself in my opinion. I'd like to add that we owe no favours to Man City, especially after they mucked us about with the Richard Dunne transfer last summer.

This in a big way. Bring in a **** salary cap FFS. Lots of team sports around the world have. No, the Sky 4 and FA wouldn't allow it. Bad for the Asian market. Sadly that is true. The only way to make the league competitive again is cap squad size and salaries for the squads, which will level the playing field in an instant. Won't happen though as the big 4 will threaten breakaway league.

This is how I see it. We've lost better players in the past, we'll move on and another player will become fans favourite. If we can get £25-£30m then it will be great business for the club and allow us to build again. I just hope we don't waste £8-£10m of our Milner funds on Scott Parker. I'm hoping that is a diversionary tactic while we line up bigger targets.

I was thinking the same, he has been involved in a lot of the summer promo stuff. I hope he doesn't leave, though you can never be certain.

He has and we were. We'll soon find out if there was anything to it. I personally think Frey will be Arsenal bound... Me too, although I did see that Arsenal were linked with a bid for Schwarzer of Fulham a couple of days ago so you never know.

That was shocking. Truely shocking. Amazed Sky were not allowed this World Cup at all. Obviously the games needed to be available terrestrially, but I'd have thought SKY would have tried harder to get the games aswell as BBC/ITV. I guess FIFA want all of the games available to everyone to watch. Otherwise Sky would have blown all other bids out of the water. I kind of agree with that view, as it is unfair to not have World Cup games available to everyone in the world with a TV.

eh? Well I saw it It is true, I heard on ITV HD channel the coverage cut out. The mother in law was complaining about that. Hehehe.

I remember watching the Liverpool v Everton cup match a year or so ago. last minute of extra time, ITV blunder into an ad break only to return back to the match to see Everton players rolling on the floor celebrating the last minute winner. After that the option of the BBC is the only one for me.

24million? Would you accept? As unwilling sellers then I'd accept no less than what we originally asked. Otherwise we're being bullied into selling our best players. I also say no to deals involving add ons. They have just agreed to pay a player over £200k per week for 5 years, they can pay us up front in my opinion.

To be fair I think some people are being a bit picky. You could put a negative spin on most businesses looking to sponsor shirts in the Prem. AIG bailed out by US taxpayers, Mansion - Online gambling addicts, Carlsberg - encouraging binge drinking etc. We have had far worse sponsorship deals over the years. We should be happy that we're not sponsored by Cows or 32Red anymore! If they just go with the FxPro logo as shown on the Virgin F1 Car, and pay us plenty of cash to do so, I will be happy.