Damocles

You're a relegation threatened club who has just sold their best player and a team that has won 2 titles in 4 years has just put in for him. If you think this is about money then you're just not paying attention. I'm not "here just to cause trouble". I've been a member here for 6 years, I thought I'd come over and have a look at what Villa fans were saying about this and apparently pointing out that a player moving from a relegation threatened team to a team winning trophies and in the CL might actually be a bit more then money motivated is apparently now trolling behaviour. Not something that almost every football fan in the world accepts, including when it happened to us, on here this counts as trolling. Thats because this is a site for villa fans, specifically this is a section for villa fans. Villa fans discussing villa players and when a fan from another club comes on the thread to talk about the potential or not for a villa player to be moving and in doing that expresses an opinion which is the polar opposite to the one being given, it can be considered trolling or have you not been paying attention? So you mean you're trying to formulate an echo chamber?

You're a relegation threatened club who has just sold their best player and a team that has won 2 titles in 4 years has just put in for him. If you think this is about money then you're just not paying attention. I'm not "here just to cause trouble". I've been a member here for 6 years, I thought I'd come over and have a look at what Villa fans were saying about this and apparently pointing out that a player moving from a relegation threatened team to a team winning trophies and in the CL might actually be a bit more then money motivated is apparently now trolling behaviour. Not something that almost every football fan in the world accepts, including when it happened to us, on here this counts as trolling. Delph last week - rejects mcfc Delph today - signs for mcfc What did mcfc win in the space of 6 days? Nothing but nobody here or on BM knows what the story is yet nor what happened in terms of the second turn, so we don't know why he did it. But boiling doiwn his attraction to City as purely financially based is idiotic

You're a relegation threatened club who has just sold their best player and a team that has won 2 titles in 4 years has just put in for him. If you think this is about money then you're just not paying attention. id saying considering all the loyalty statements and then last week saying hes staying...if he does got City hes another money grabbing England international for man city to ruin 50k to stay villa captain or 70k to sit on the bench and chat to nasri dzeko bony Just like Milner and Barry were never going to play and were money grabbing international to be ruined by City? Both now have Premier League winners and FA Cup winners medals, and both played in the Nou Camp and Bernabau with Milner excelling away in Munich. I wish people would ruin me like that.

You're a relegation threatened club who has just sold their best player and a team that has won 2 titles in 4 years has just put in for him. If you think this is about money then you're just not paying attention. I'm not "here just to cause trouble". I've been a member here for 6 years, I thought I'd come over and have a look at what Villa fans were saying about this and apparently pointing out that a player moving from a relegation threatened team to a team winning trophies and in the CL might actually be a bit more then money motivated is apparently now trolling behaviour. Not something that almost every football fan in the world accepts, including when it happened to us, on here this counts as trolling.

You're a relegation threatened club who has just sold their best player and a team that has won 2 titles in 4 years has just put in for him. If you think this is about money then you're just not paying attention.

Not only is the picture 100% NOT a fake who anybody with even the slightest knowledge of photo manipulation could tell you I'm a graphic designer It's fake you tart I can't wait until he's announced later.

Put 100 quid on it with me? Is this open to anyone?

Not only is the picture 100% NOT a fake who anybody with even the slightest knowledge of photo manipulation could tell you, I genuinely believes that you were trolling with your "I'll change the guys pants colour so it's fake" until just now. This deal is on and it will be finalised today. Shirt on the website, official announcement finalised.

Indeed. The first ten pages of this thread are hilarious. Apparently, Tevez is overrated, Mancini will drop Barry and then get sacked at the end of last season. Ok, I'm finished now, after the stick we got here, it had to be done

Just to make you all aware that 9/11WasAnInsideJob is a user who is banned from Bluemoon. Just like here, he was on BM and representing himself as a City fan. He's also a Holocaust denier, and generally a troll. Not a nice guy to have around your forums guys.

Not really, I got bored of trying to argue on a logical level, so thought I'd throw out a thinly veiled insult for a change. Anyway, we at BM do moderate very loosely and it is a purposeful decision, we like the anarchy of it all. We get idiots, geniuses and everywhere in between. I would argue the opposite; I think we overpaid for Milner certainly but not for Barry. He's been a lynchpin in our team since arriving. He's one of those players who doesn't look like he is doing much, but seems to do very simple jobs better than anyone else we have. Milner's played CM for the last few games and has done well. He was put on the wing because Kolarov was injured and we needed someone who could cover Zab defensively, which Milner did well.

Boo hoo. Go have a look at your own back garden ie Blue Moon before insulting anyone elses intelligence. If you don't like it then disable your account or something. I have to laugh at your absolute arrogance - coming onto another clubs forum with your condescending tripe. I like how you think that "scousers" is a synonym for "stupid". Speaking of laughing, how's that whole "we'll finish above you" stuff that your guys were coming out with on BM working out for you?

Cook was also behind the Tevez poster, which cost about £1000 and garnered world wide media coverage, mostly positive. I'd say that was pretty good marketing. Not sure how our 3rd in command is responsible for the Hughes situation, but fair enough.

Yes, I do. Balo and Mancini are like Hughes and Bellamy; they are a package deal. Unfortunately for Balo, he has been pre-judged by people and everything that he does is now proof that he is a word removed, whether or not anybody bothered to question it. Example, the Boateng fight, I see that this picture wasn't posted: http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_sow_experts__15/ept_sports_sow_experts-539955017-1291409490.jpg?ymSxuLED3R6phW9. Or this one, shot a bit later: http://images.sportinglife.com/10/12/330/Jerome-Boateng-Mario-Balotelli_2537276.jpg I don't mind people slagging us off for the shit that we have done wrong. We could have handled the Lescott transfer better, we could have handled the Hughes sacking better. We've made mistakes as have every club, us more than usual because we are in a period of rapid transition. City employ a large number of people, with about 100 of them being football staff in some way, shape or form. I just don't think that slagging off an entire club, especially one who has just been honoured in the 2018 bid by putting our youth development and community programs in front of the entire word, is particularly fair. I don't expect praise, and no matter what some people will hate you for their own reasons; my annoyance comes from the fact that 75% of posts on this thread aren't 'fair'. Say what you want about Villa fans, but during my visits here around the time of the Barry transfer, you guys were mostly fair. Even during the Milner transfer, you guys had an air of logic behind the criticisms, but now it's just spun into a mess of bitterness which is frustrating. I visit here every week or so just to have a nosey on what you guys are doing, and all over the forum this seems to be occurring, not just in threads abut City. Oh, and you guys really dislike Cook, which is part funny and part stupid. Say what you want about him, but not only is he a nice guy in person, he's also extremely good at his job.

Villa used to have a sense of humour and a fun attitude. After reading through this thread, all I see are bitter and inaccurate rants about how we're all bastards and Villa are a shining light in the darkness of modern football with a massive history and a real classy club. This is basically scouserism, without the victim complex.

You know, I should really stop defending Villa fans to others. You guys are rapidly becoming scousers.

Reading this thread is like reading Bluemoon a year or so ago, with the same opinions on Ireland being trotted out. The fact is, Ireland can play in a small patch of the pitch just behind and to the right of the striker. Even then, he blows hot and cold. Ireland had his best ever time at City when he had the flair of Robinho to play off of, without this he mostly looks lost. Also, don't talk about his fishtank, he's a sensitive lad on that issue.

I know it's Talksport but...... He's a mercenary because he wants to play football rather than sitting on the bench?

The one thing that the history of football has shown, is that there is always something 'ruining the game', usually concerning money. You can go all the way back to the 19th century and 'shamatuerism' and hear the exact same arguments that we hear today. The fact remains that as long as people will pay money to watch football, either by going to the ground or by buying a Sky TV subscription, the money will continue. It isn't necessarily a bad thing either. Look at the standard of English football pre Sky and post Sky, look at the increased crowds as the game's appeal was broadened from the traditional working class roots (obviously, post Taylor report for comparison), look at the variety of football games we get to watch now - Brazilian, Argentinian, Spanish, Italian, German, Scottish, English, Japanese and Australian leagues are easily found to watch and any fan of football as a game should appreciate watching different styles and different players. The problem seems to be that many fans become disillusioned as they were under an impression that some players were somehow loyal to their clubs in front of themselves. I can only really think of Le Tissier who ever put the well being of a club in front of his own ability to win trophies and earn money; something which has left him with nothing to show for his two decades of football as one of the league's talented players, apart from a highlight reel, a few sparse caps and worship from Southampton fans.

Attitude problem there? I know for a fact Spuds have been in talks with you over him, suck my fat one! Utter fabrication according to the man himself.

I wasn't getting on my high horse about anything; as I've said in the past, this type of thing just seems to be all over football and it isn't worth getting upset about. If Ireland sees himself having a better future at City and Spurs pay our asking price, then more power to him. He's done a great job for us in the past, and I hope he does again the future

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6289893,00.html Hehe, Harry up to his old tricks again.

We could well have asked for 24 million. As far as we have seen, Man City have only made on bid, which was 20 million. You can be pretty sure if they made another, they would let Sky Sports know about it. And you'd be pretty wrong.

Yeah, but it's not Citeh's garden; they just waited for a gardner to finish putting time, effort, and money into growing and nurturing his plot then 1 week before the Chelsea Flower Show offered him an obscene amount of money for it. Considering it's a memorial garden planted, cared for and maintained by the fans from scratch in respect to a dead player, I can't help but feeling that this joke was in a bit poor taste. Fixed that for you.