sne Posted May 28, 2019 Author Share Posted May 28, 2019 Just now, romavillan said: Milner as DM, could be our Pirlo for a couple of years. There's room for one or two old heads if they are the right ones. Milner still covers miles and miles of grass. And can fill in at LB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyp Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 6 minutes ago, Tomaszk said: Milner deep would be so good. Don't think it's the sort of signing we'll be making though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MaVilla Posted May 28, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted May 28, 2019 (edited) 6 minutes ago, romavillan said: Milner as DM, could be our Pirlo for a couple of years. There's room for one or two old heads if they are the right ones. Milner still covers miles and miles of grass. Get promoted to the premiership after 3 years away and nearly bankrupting the club in to oblivion due to stupid high wages on old players.......and the first thing we do is discuss signing Milner on 120k a week.......and talking about Delph/Benteke...... Never change VT, never change Edited May 28, 2019 by MaVilla 5 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkLillis Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Anyone think that Mark Albrighton might return? At 30 he may just have the right balance of experience and fitness that we need.Seeing as he spends his days off from Leicester watching from the Holte End it could be an easy sell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyp Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 1 minute ago, MarkLillis said: Anyone think that Mark Albrighton might return? At 30 he may just have the right balance of experience and fitness that we need.Seeing as he spends his days off from Leicester watching from the Holte End it could be an easy sell Think we've got to aim higher. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 (edited) 9 minutes ago, MarkLillis said: Anyone think that Mark Albrighton might return? At 30 he may just have the right balance of experience and fitness that we need.Seeing as he spends his days off from Leicester watching from the Holte End it could be an easy sell SiGn AlL ThE oLD PaST iT PlaYeRs oN StuPiD WaGeS oN 5 YeAr CoNtraCts rAtHeR tHaN ScOuT PrOpErLy aNd FiNd oUr OwN GeMs...............gO Go VT RanGerS! Its Like we have never been away from Cookoo Land..........Delph, Milner, Benteke, Albrighton............. Lets put an OAPs annex on the training ground, have an open invite for all over 65s and see which onces we could get on a good 5 year contract to ensure Villa continue where we left off 4 years ago. Never not learn from past mistakes Edited May 28, 2019 by MaVilla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Milner coming back would have a certain poetic justice as we basically fell apart after he left in 2010 until now. Don't see him as a Smith signing though. Would love it- with his condition and fitness he could play for another 5 years yet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Just now, The Fun Factory said: Milner coming back would have a certain poetic justice as we basically fell apart after he left in 2010 until now. Don't see him as a Smith signing though. Would love it- with his condition and fitness he could play for another 5 years yet. Would almost be like having a more mature McGinn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houseoftomorrow Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 (edited) 53 minutes ago, Tomaszk said: Agree with all of that but we're unlikely to bring back all the loans. Mings and El Ghazi hopefully we can get hold of; we're likely to get bummed on the Mings fee. Don't think we've got much of a chance of getting Tammy or Axel back. So keeping just two of the loans our team will be 6 (!) new players. RB, CB, LB, DM, RW, ST. Obviously we could start Taylor and Hourihane, bringing it down to four new players but neither is good enough without plenty of improvement. Agree with this, but I reckon Guilbert will be the man at right back. Wouldn't mind a back up for Jack after watching us play without him for three months. I realize that's probably pretty far down the board, but maybe we can grab a winger capable of moving inside if needed. Since it's been a topic on here for a while, what is the absolute most you would pay for the loan players? Edited May 28, 2019 by Houseoftomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post romavillan Posted May 28, 2019 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted May 28, 2019 11 minutes ago, MaVilla said: Get promoted to the premiership after 3 years away and nearly bankrupting the club in to oblivion due to stupid high wages on old players.......and the first thing we do is discuss signing Milner on 120k a week.......and talking about Delph/Benteke...... Never change VT, never change Delph wouldn't come, Benteke no, Milner though I don't really put that idea in the ridiculous basket? On a free mitigates the wages a bit, relegation clause in his contract to protect against going down and still having to pay top dollar. Why not? Otherwise I both expect and hope we'll be signing sub 26 year old players, with the best value coming from outside the UK. We need a lot of signings, one or two older heads is a good idea IMO. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_Hope Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 I wish people would stop with the let's bring back (insert ex-player here). We need to look forward and build a squad of players that grow in skill, performance and value. And I will happily make a bet that we don't sign any 'last payday journeymen' over the summer. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan4Life Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 (edited) 4 hours ago, KenjiOgiwara said: How can Tshibola be allowed to return to the club? Surely he can be released? He has contract with us until next summer! runs out 30th June 2020 We would have to stump up a fee to pay the remaining time on his contract. Just let Kilmarnock have him again on loan next season and release him in June 2020 or slightly just before then when we announce our retained and released lists. Edited May 28, 2019 by Villan4Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaVilla Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 2 minutes ago, romavillan said: Delph wouldn't come, Benteke no, Milner though I don't really put that idea in the ridiculous basket? On a free mitigates the wages a bit, relegation clause in his contract to protect against going down and still having to pay top dollar. Why not? Otherwise I both expect and hope we'll be signing sub 26 year old players, with the best value coming from outside the UK. We need a lot of signings, one or two older heads is a good idea IMO. Delph probably wouldn't come as you say but also I think it wouldn't be a good idea I don't think he would be well received by a good proportion of the fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_Hope Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Again....I think the days of allowing fit players to run down their contracts are gone....I suspect Tish will be gone in the summer permanently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nigel Posted May 28, 2019 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted May 28, 2019 Purslow has said many times we are looking at bringing in younger players so don't worry about rumours of re-signing any of our old players! First window in a while im genuinely excited about! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dont_do_it_doug. Posted May 28, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted May 28, 2019 The obsession with signing loads of Championship players is a bit weird. There's an entire world out there. I'd be looking over to Eastern Europe. The Slavic nations have been producing top quality technical footballers, with the athleticism to compete in the Premier League since forever yet this still feels like a relatively untapped market. It may be my imagination but it feels like these players often do a stint in Spain or Italy before they land in England, with some notable exceptions like Modric. Imagine signing a Modric. 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_Hope Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 And up and coming Modric or Rakitic would be nice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romavillan Posted May 28, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted May 28, 2019 2 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said: The obsession with signing loads of Championship players is a bit weird. There's an entire world out there. I'd be looking over to Eastern Europe. The Slavic nations have been producing top quality technical footballers, with the athleticism to compete in the Premier League since forever yet this still feels like a relatively untapped market. It may be my imagination but it feels like these players often do a stint in Spain or Italy before they land in England, with some notable exceptions like Modric. Imagine signing a Modric. Imagine getting a Pjanic... Lots of eastern european kids in the Italian academies it seems.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Indigo Posted May 28, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted May 28, 2019 There's obviously a balance to be struck between the two extremes here which are people just naming random young players from the lower leagues they've barely seen play (/Brentford players that even Brentford fans think they can improve on), or bringing in as many former players as possible for some reason. Each player is a case by case basis. You can't really lump Milner in the same bracket as Albrighton etc. I'm all for the approach of signing younger players and not repeating the mistakes of the past but he is an outlier in this case and a player we'd be mad to turn our noses up at if he became available for a season on two. If anything a player of Milner's quality and experience right in midfield would be the perfect supplement for everything else we're doing. Purely hypothetical of course but that's a no brainer for me. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaHatesMe Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 47 minutes ago, Kingman said: James Milner's available on a free, Any takers?.. *raises hand* 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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