Con Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Don't worry guys - if he's any good, Arsenal will take him off our hands for £300k at the age of 16 Like Samir Carruthers? Carruthers was poached by Arsenal from Cambridge Utd aged 12. Crowley was in the Aston Villa academy from about age 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevangrealish Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Thought Abdo was a winger ? Anyway seems like a decent signing. If we could sign one like this every two years or so its bound to be helpful for the future. Seems to me we are heading in this direction of looking abroad for players, as Crowley seems to be a sore point with Bryan Jones. Maybe but of course players with great potential abroad will be hard to find given the other amount of scouts out there. Hopefully we keep it up and not lose out to other clubs like arsenal then ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted March 3, 2014 Share Posted March 3, 2014 Nice one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 "Benfica, Ajax and clubs from Italy all wanted to sign him, as well as swedish champions Malmö FF, but Villa was the best choice". Nice to hear the lad wanted to come to us rather than to one of those other teams. The Norse could be strong once again at Villa Park in the coming years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 "Benfica, Ajax and clubs from Italy all wanted to sign him, as well as swedish champions Malmö FF, but Villa was the best choice". Nice to hear the lad wanted to come to us rather than to one of those other teams. The Norse could be strong once again at Villa Park in the coming years. firstly he won't be Norse because he's from Sweden and "Norse" refers to the Norwegians. second, Khalili is a name from the middle east so he won't be a viking. I wonder if he is related to ex-Swedish U21 Imad Khalili, who currently plays for Al-Shabab? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imad_Khalili Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isa Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I think John just meant Norse as in Scandinavian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 he's not Scandinavian in a meaningful sense as a native, or of Scandinavian descent. he is Swedish because that's the political community where he was born. none of this matters. just making the point that he won't add a Nordic look or physical presence to the team in the way of Olaf Mellberg. I'm sure he'll make the team better but he won't make the team more Norse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovers13 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 He's Swedish. This is so pedantic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packoman Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 This Norse is making me hoarse.... of course,We'll soon be the force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 First passing accuracy, then gay footballers, now Norse origins. You have to ask yourself Con. Does it really matter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isa Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 (edited) he's not Scandinavian in a meaningful sense as a native, or of Scandinavian descent. Yes but then Delph isn't English in the sense that he is of Anglo-Saxon descent. I very much doubt anybody, after reading Khalili's name, believed he was Nordic in appearence anyway. Edited March 4, 2014 by Isa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 sounds promising Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Con Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 he's not Scandinavian in a meaningful sense as a native, or of Scandinavian descent. Yes but then Delph isn't English in the sense that he is of Anglo-Saxon descent. I very much doubt anybody, after reading Khalili's name, believed he was Nordic in appearence anyway. I don't disagree that Khalili is Swedish. problem is there is no such thing as the English, outside the national football team. that's where English nationality begins and ends. the term "Celtic" is equivalent to "Scandinavian." Ikechi Anya plays for the Scottish national team but nobody would say he was Celtic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovers13 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Pedantic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Must be such a lonely existence for you Con, being so much more intelligent than everybody else. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srsmithusa Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 I'm an Alabamian, but I was born a Texan, and raised both Floridan and Hoosier. In case anybody is wondering. Oh, and I'm Villan, which is really the point on a forum like this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avflife Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 You do make me laugh Con. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodigan Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 heaven forbid someone tries to force a star wars pun into proceedings.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 wow. very impressive lad. Said he wants to play in the premier league with Aston Villa. Was his dream to play alongside Benteke and Hutton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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