Secret_Squirrel Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 Thomas Helmer played for Sunderland. Didnt Heinze Rieldle play for Liverpool at one point? Anyway back on topic, I dont think we'll sign any Germans! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_eristic Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 To be fair, name any germans who have played here. EDIT: Damn, too slow! I can think of few more worth mentioning. Didi Hamann KP Boateng Markus Babbel Robert Huth Jens Lehmann Mortin Volz Christian Ziege Steffen Freund Uwe Rosler (speaking of which, weren't there a bunch of other Germans at City early-mid '90s?) Been several others that weren't regulars, too, like that Nsereko kid at West Ham and Stefan Wessels at Everton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 The west ham kid came from an italian team, so hitz aside alot of older players The original arguement remains valid, IMO werder bremen offered ozil something no other prem team could At the start of the season at least ambition to win the league Take diegos place in a team that was built around him Play every week in front of the german manager, remembering at the team he hadnt got into the german team Made perfect sense for him to stay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu_The_Villan Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 Alot more than three then basically Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulieB Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 Our youngsters and reserves have consistently outperformed their peers true but most of them haven't made the step up and stayed there have they .. Gabby is the only one at present isn't he ? .. and from the forums a lot of people think he shouldn't be in our team ( I rate him for what it's worth) we've not yet produced a Player along the lines of West Ham who churned out a whole production line for example Gareth Barry came through Villa's ranks.. I know we snatched him of Brighton at 16 IIRC, but nevertheless he came through Villa's ranks along with Vassell. I see where you're coming from but apart from Gabby we have produced other decent players that arguably we maybe should have kept ie...Cahill, Whittingham et al. I was meaning the current crop of Bannan, Albrighton, Delfouneso, Lichaj, Clarke etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 Lichaj is poor in my opinion. Clark, Albrighton, Delfouneso are the three main players I think that can step up. Albrighton as regular impact player and sometimes starts. Delfouneso as starting more and more sub apparences and Clark as 4th choice CB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 20m from sponsorship deal, 30m from Milner sale, another 10m for Shorey, NRC, and Heskey.....that's 60 million pounds in the transfer kitty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4rvillan Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 £20m over 3 years, so you need to do your maths again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 20m from sponsorship deal So spend all three years of the sponsorship money in one go and forget about the next two years. Interesting idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carew_villa Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 20m from sponsorship deal So spend all three years of the sponsorship money in one go and forget about the next two years. Interesting idea. That's what Spurs did! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 £20m over 3 years, so you need to do your maths again. No I don't, really. You have guaranteed money coming in, so if you need to spend it now, why not? 60 mill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 No I don't, really. You have guaranteed money coming in, so if you need to spend it now, why not? Because you might need some of it in the future? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ads Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 Spending the sponsorship money in a concentrated fashion will make it go further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolteExile Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 20m from sponsorship deal, 30m from Milner sale, another 10m for Shorey, NRC, and Heskey.....that's 60 million pounds in the transfer kitty. Word is the sponsorship money has been set aside for the North Stand redevelopment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaN.I Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 Thats all good but Randy needs to remember that we will need to see exciting players to fill this redeveloped area. No point having a capacity of 50k if our average is 36k or whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 The Sun says that Stoke want Carlton Cole and Heskey. I hope there is a bit of truth in this! Heskey played well for England at the weekend but he's not what we need at Villa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claret75 Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 If Heskey has more games like he did against the US, his price should go up a couple of million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbojames Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 With top players running off him he suddenly looks a good player and you can see why top players want him in their side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodytom Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 With top players running off him he suddenly looks a good player and you can see why top players want him in their side. Yeah, I think Emile gets some unfair criticism, when a lot of it is just down to the fact he just doesnt suit our style of play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted June 15, 2010 Share Posted June 15, 2010 Lichaj is poor in my opinion. Clark, Albrighton, Delfouneso are the three main players I think that can step up. Albrighton as regular impact player and sometimes starts. Delfouneso as starting more and more sub apparences and Clark as 4th choice CB. Lichaj can throw as far as Delap. Reason enough to put him in the first team! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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