darrenm Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Brinkmanship. Unfortunately they probably have the upper hand so we'll need to pay slightly over the odds. Depends how much Lambert wants him. Personally I'd prefer Sneijder but I have my doubts that will happen. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Would'nt be wise to sign him on more than a 2 year contract his like 31 already isn't he! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbie09 Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Hopefully he signs before the deadline required to take part in the Baggies game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillanousOne Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 (edited) in recent seasons we have seen clubs fight back against player power and force their players to stay (including us). so it might play out one of the following: 1) Norwich will either be stubborn and keep him to spite us and the player - (and surely if we were in the same scenario we would applaud Lerner and Lambert for sticking their fingers up at the buying club). They have chosen to respond publically and kick up a fuss as much as possible about Lambert, Steer and Wes - so they clearly love the drama and despise us. 2) They will buy a replacement and sell him, probably at the last minute of the window. 3) Or they they could let the player club relationship deteriorate to the point him staying there is untenable then flog him to Crystal Palace or Stoke just to spite us/him. The only thing that surprises me slightly is that Wes is a fringe player at Norwich, so the equivalent of us getting our knickers in a knot about selling Herd or Sylla to Small Heath - (I guess the sales of Ridge and Craig at a time when perhaps acrimony between the clubs was at a minimum). Edited January 21, 2014 by VillanousOne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Lions_Roar Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Its a strange one as he's not a first choice player so they don't need to hold onto him. You could also argue that they don't need to sell him as they won't get much for him, whether its from us or another club. You could argue its more beneficial for them to keep than potentially boost a rival club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 It genuinely could be that they might want to see if their inevitable new manager wants him, seeing as he is considered one of their better players and their fans are perplexed that he isn't playing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillanousOne Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Its a strange one as he's not a first choice player so they don't need to hold onto him. You could also argue that they don't need to sell him as they won't get much for him, whether its from us or another club. You could argue its more beneficial for them to keep than potentially boost a rival club. true, but surely if he is just a squad player then they'd rather spend his wages on someone they do rate and do play regularly. Having young and upcoming players on the bench is one thing, but a war horse on what must be fairly higher wages for them sitting doing sod all is pretty pointless for them and the player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nabby Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 They are being dicks 1)He has been an unused Sub in League games ,they changed some of team for FA Cup and he was still on the Bench 2)They brought in Gutirez on loan who is now ahead of him. This isn't like us with Benteke saying we don't want to sell our star player this is refusing to even discuss a transfer of a player they don't use who isn't getting any younger. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 If anything his transfer value should be less considering his lack of match practice and fitness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Avenue Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 I don't blame them being difficult with us. We need to leave Norwich alone, or lambert does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Lions_Roar Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Its a strange one as he's not a first choice player so they don't need to hold onto him. You could also argue that they don't need to sell him as they won't get much for him, whether its from us or another club. You could argue its more beneficial for them to keep than potentially boost a rival club. true, but surely if he is just a squad player then they'd rather spend his wages on someone they do rate and do play regularly. Having young and upcoming players on the bench is one thing, but a war horse on what must be fairly higher wages for them sitting doing sod all is pretty pointless for them and the player. Well they don't like us and whether they play him or not is irrelavent, why would they want to seel to us when it would benefit us more than them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 They should be proud that several of their players are good enough to play for a much bigger club. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Looks like Norwich are letting their feelings over Lambert / Villa get in the way of a sensible business decision. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kevangrealish Posted January 21, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2014 So in FM terms we've hit the 'Declare your interest' in this player button ? And now the 'unh' sign has popped up. Click personal and it should say 'Wants to be transfer listed' and 'Wants first team football' We're nearly there ! 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danceoftheshamen Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Yep, player clearly wants out. May be this has been rumbling on longer than we realise hence his omission from the team or it could be they are just trying to force his fee up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa-revolution Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 " He's gonna' be ours, he's gonna' be ours, Wes Hoolahan is gonna' be ours." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Hopefully lambert will just move on to another target and leave them paying the wages on a player they don't even play and if the transfer request stories are true, unhappy and not wanting to be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condimentalist Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 You'd be surprised if this didn't go through now under the circumstances. I wonder if making it all public is to try to get someone else in for him. Partly to start a bidding war (which we probably won't participate in) and partly because they'd just rather sell to someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa-revolution Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 I really don't think it matters if Norwich dig their heels in or attempt to offload him elsewhere because I think Lambo has already tapped him up & he won't want to go anywhere else. No club really want to keep an unhappy player in their ranks because it de-stabilises every thing they are trying to accomplish & has a pernicious effect in the dressing room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 (edited) To be fair there probably isn't a huge cue queue of clubs after him either Edited January 22, 2014 by sne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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