coda Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 It might be a little unfair on him but the signing of Heskey is one I'll never forget for all the wrong reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condimentalist Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 It might be a little unfair on him but the signing of Heskey is one I'll never forget for all the wrong reasons. Yeah but then he had that storming debut against Pompey the cheeky little tease. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Add kiraly, agathe, drobny, berson, ferrasi, heskey, sidwell, shorey, de bilde, bardsley, djemba x2 and Carlton Cole to the shite trumps deck no Gustavo Bartlet? We never signed half of that list, they were short term loans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted February 4, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted February 4, 2012 Looks like we paid up almost all of his contract. HABIB Beye’s contract has been cancelled by mutual consent, bringing to an end the forgotten full-back’s expensive misadventure at Villa. Beye’s two-and-a-half year spell has cost the claret and blues just under £9 million in fee and wages for just 15 starts and three subs appearances. Martin O’Neill signed Beye from Newcastle in August 2009 but neither he nor Gerard Houllier and Alex McLeish played the right-back regularly. Villa have grudgingly agreed to pay up his reported £42,000 per week contract until it expires in the summer, to end a frustrating and costly chapter. A deal has been struck to allow Villa a reduction on the total outlay and give Beye, 34, the chance to kickstart his career as a free agent and most probably join Doncaster. “It did not work out,” said McLeish. “When I came in it was a clean slate and I looked at everybody and I felt it was difficult. “It was difficult to have players on really high wages as your third back-up. “So we made a conscious decision to try and shift Beye and free up wages and I felt that the other two were ahead of him. “Chris Herd was ahead and Alan Hutton was ahead. “There was no offence and no hard feelings. It is impossible for you to sustain a club (with out of favour players earning) at that level.” Read More http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/aston-villa-fc/aston-villa-news/2012/02/03/aston-villa-habib-beye-leaves-villa-park-after-contract-cancelled-97319-30260768/?#ixzz1lPTzjHvSclicky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CI Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 £9m, it just doesn't compute Thanks a lot Martin you wankstain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted February 4, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted February 4, 2012 Sod it, bad mistake, learn from it and move on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Chrissake, it's not the first time ever a player has moved to a club and it didn 't work out - who at the moment is paying for Makoun to warm the bench at Olympiakos, for example? I sometimes think a lot of the posters on here must only have stumbled upon top flight English football in the past couple of months and haven't quite worked out how it all works yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted February 4, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted February 4, 2012 Chrissake, it's not the first time ever a player has moved to a club and it didn 't work out - who at the moment is paying for Makoun to warm the bench at Olympiakos, for example? I sometimes think a lot of the posters on here must only have stumbled upon top flight English football in the past couple of months and haven't quite worked out how it all works yet. I dont think its the fact that it did not work out, rather the sheer amount of wages spunked on a 31 year old average defender who wasn't even bought in as a first teamer...madness! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Chrissake, it's not the first time ever a player has moved to a club and it didn 't work out - who at the moment is paying for Makoun to warm the bench at Olympiakos, for example? I sometimes think a lot of the posters on here must only have stumbled upon top flight English football in the past couple of months and haven't quite worked out how it all works yet. I dont think its the fact that it did not work out, rather the sheer amount of wages spunked on a 31 year old average defender who wasn't even bought in as a first teamer...madness! This.. also the length of the contract was baffling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 I think he just refused to play in a Macron kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stockport_Villain Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Good riddance to bad rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Chrissake, it's not the first time ever a player has moved to a club and it didn 't work out - who at the moment is paying for Makoun to warm the bench at Olympiakos, for example? I sometimes think a lot of the posters on here must only have stumbled upon top flight English football in the past couple of months and haven't quite worked out how it all works yet. I agree. Total waste of money and a major **** up. Shit like this, and worse, has happened at almost every Premiership Club at some stage and will happen again though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 I think he just refused to play in a Macron kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Salifou....cult hero but look at the facts. Made one prem sub appearence in Jan 2008 and was still here until this summer! Issiah Osboune was another...was given a new 3 and a half year deal by MON when he wasn't even making the bench! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Issiah Osboune was another...was given a new 3 and a half year deal by MON when he wasn't even making the bench! He signed a 3 and half year deal in December 2006 when he was just 19 which ran till June 2010. In 2008 when he was 20 he extended that contract by a year and it ran out in 2011. Osbourne would have been on no more than 3 to 5k a week and, like a lot of young players,spent a fair amount of time out on loan where his wages would have been paid. At one time like many of our youngsters over the years he looked a decent prospect. As things panned out it seems he wasn't up to Prem level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Salifou....cult hero but look at the facts. Made one prem sub appearence in Jan 2008 and was still here until this summer! Issiah Osboune was another...was given a new 3 and a half year deal by MON when he wasn't even making the bench!Tbf, Salifou was paid less than a dollar a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denis_B Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Salifou was on over £9k per week - can't divulge how I know but that is the correct figure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Salifou was on over £9k per week - can't divulge how I know but that is the correct figure Muzzy, is that you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHV Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 How is Kachloul worse than Beye? Yes they're both shite, but Kachloul cost nothing, played 22 to Beye's 9. He wasn't on Beye's wage; though he was on a big wage yes. And he put in some decent performances too IIRC. I think in a game of 'crap Villans' top trumps, Beye would be the 'Star Trump'. Ivo Stas must be up there. what a crap signing he was Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NowDoINotLikeThat Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Worse signing was surely Bosko Balaban. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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