Supervillan78

At £3m Hutton could be a bit of a bargain, and at 26 he's certainly got time on his side.

I like Nzogbia, good player, very useful. Still going to miss Ash though.

N'Zogbia = average mid table signing. He's been a consistently average preformer that will help us maintain our midtable status, BUT, instead of being 6th with Ashley Young under MON, we'll be a little worse off with N'Zogbia under McCleish.

McCleish I beg you to look further afield then these slightly below average mid table players. Europe is a big continent lets look there!!

Total rubbish.

At times he was devastating last season. Perfect option to replace young.

Great pace, good skills and can rip the back of the net out with some great shooting. Any bad points....of course which player doesnt but he improves all the time.

Yeah he has the stroppy git label, and it's all his own fault. But he's knuckled down, got regular football at wigan and is ready for the next step.

We are that step. Think he'll thrive here.

+1

In any case, I don't think McLeish has the connections or knowledge of Europe to find any real gems.

How did you come to that conclusion?

Because he bought Zigic for £6M?

If it's tru they want £8M, then I really hope we look elsewhere.

Why the **** we have anything to do with these cheating shysters is beyond me.

Just wish a big hole would open up and swallow that prostitute of a club, and its name banished from the english language.

**** em

Thing is, you can almost get a decent side from their cast offs alone...

Given, Bridge (I know), Lescott, Onuoha, SWP(see Bridge), Milner, Johnson, Santa Cruz, Adebayor.

I'd take the majority of those, maybe not Bridge or SWP but the rest are decent enough.

He has to hand in transfer request according to Daily Mail which he effectively withdraws his right to a slice of a fee.

So it seems Downing's just another Barry then. Great!

Isn't this thread supposed to be about Downing?

The whole main forum may aswell be renamed the "**** off ginger bollocks and randy, come back jimmy 'i got an fa cup medal' milner"

Sounds like a catchy title.

I don't think Downing will go this season but next. Same situation to Barry and Young.

We keep hold of them for as long as possible, hope they change their minds, if not sell them at a profit with one year left on their contract.

I'm off to bed now to cry into my pillow! :yawn: :cry:

I think the whole blackout thing, was to disguise the fact that we had already been in contact with Mcleish whilst he was still under contract at BCFC, and yes I think he was 'tapped up'.

Hoping we can get copies of the PR scripts released. Would be nice to see what the club have prepared and what former managers and players they have on board to spread the good feeling to fool those who think its all good.

I think Mortimer will be one, an ex player or member of staff from Rangers, Bannan could be one, Agbonlahor another.

Oh and Randy has a Villa tattoo SO ALL IS **** OK.

I really don't care how they try and gloss over it, this is a shit appointment. As my dad says "you can't polish a turd!"

My point is, they are so predictable and will be rolling out the players, ex players and so on. Oh and Randy has a tattoo etc, the usual.

Sickening isn't it. I really hope this falls through at the 11Th hour.

Hoping we can get copies of the PR scripts released. Would be nice to see what the club have prepared and what former managers and players they have on board to spread the good feeling to fool those who think its all good.

I think Mortimer will be one, an ex player or member of staff from Rangers, Bannan could be one, Agbonlahor another.

Oh and Randy has a Villa tattoo SO ALL IS **** OK.

I really don't care how they try and gloss over it, this is a shit appointment. As my dad says "you can't polish a turd!"

Confused Strong hunch or have you herd a whisper ?

I'd heard rumours before hand yes..... but since this all blew up.. from Villa side No not really.

People who were formally connected to the club I can tell you are absolutely in shock at all this I can tell you.

It's radio silence at VP as MM posted... Facebook post on protest page - rumour staff have had to sign non disclosure contracts

not to name the manager... admittedly that was a FB rumour

now that makes NO sense if true..if it's McCleish because the world & her aunty expect us to be sign him IMMINENTLY...

There's so many things that simply don't add up as I've posted about before...... so yes the more I think about the whole affair, the more I get a strong hunch things are maybe not what they seem....

Maybe I'm totally wrong and if I am we'll just have to accept it all & get on with things cos there's not much we can do about it...

But put it this way... I honestly hand on heart wouldn't be surprised if there's a twist to the ending to put it mildly...

The only twist is on the knife that Randy stuck into our backs!

I think someone mentioned this slight observation earlier.....

How the heck can AVFC pay £2M compensation to BCFC for someone

who is to quote the only official OS statement on all this a "free agent"????!!

The whole thing stinks

Why didn't we just pay compensation for Hughes!

Factually Mick McCarthy is a better Premiership manager than McLeish

how do you work that one out?

More Premier league experience .

Has managed to stay up two season in a row on lesser resources than McLeish.

Whats his best position?

How many relegations has he endured?

At least Mick's team actually try to play football.

He's getting nothing from me. I can just see it now Seb Larsen and David Bentley on the wings to replace Young and Downing!

Will someone just **** shoot me now.

I support Villa, not Mcleish. The board aren't stupid, they know we'll just except his appointment and....WE'RE PAYING HIS WAGES!!!(£3m a yr apparently)

WHo would thought few weeks back wed be looking at appointing McLeish

ooof

Still cant get my head around it - so many reasons why it doesnt make sense

There is brave decisions ...then there is stupid ones

This is a stupid one IMO!

I'm actually looking forward to seeing our new formation of 9,0,1 next season.

If we get someone like Wigan or Blackburn 1st home game i think only about 25k will turn up

I think a lot will depend on our pre-season (which will be played out to empty stadiums).

If we play some decent football people might come round. If we play Mcleish football, 25k is being generous.

More like 2-5K!

It would be ironic if Mclaren brought Forest up and passed Villa going the other way under mcleish.

It would be a **** disaster!

I don't think I can support McLeish as manager.

Neither can I, in fact I'm thinking of just boycotting next season altogether!

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Aston-Villa-Birmingham-news-Alex-McLeish-accepts-Villa-job-during-meeting-as-owner-Randy-Lerners-house-article747888.html

sad news if it true

The really sad part is we may have to pay £5.4m for that prick!

**** OFF MCLEISH!

The Mirror are saying we turned down Sanchez Flores

If that's true, then that rates as one of the biggest **** ups of all time...........and we get Mcleish brilliant!

If the guy wants to stick his head into an oven that's fine, but I want call it ballsy I'd call it stupidity!

If we are stupid enough to offer him the job, I hope he has the sense to turn it down. Because despite what we say, we wont really give him time will we, the first set of bad results and we'd be on his back faster than a horny toad!

If this really does happen and AM is given the job.. then can we at least hope we put him on a 6 month rolling contract so we can get rid of the fool at Christmas without another pay out

Even that's six months to long!

I honestly hope the board see sense and don't appoint McLeish. This whole saga is an embarrassment of monumental proportions and one from which the club the may never fully recover.

You can't stir up a hornets nest and not expect to get stung!

I don't want Mcleish .......................but if he declines it - or the board change there mind ....................where on earth do we go from here ?

Mark Hughes?