Kingfisher Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 No quotes. It's as vague as the last time they printed it. Not that it stopped any of you lot speculating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel1Avfc Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Tbf to Richard, DS was pretty much nailed on as far as I was told. These things happen in football no? No he wasn't we signed Westwood instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 is all this a smokescreen so we can resign Milner on the sly or a double bluff and we sign Belhanda??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Tbf to Richard, DS was pretty much nailed on as far as I was told. These things happen in football no? No he wasn't we signed Westwood instead. They're very different players, so I presume we would have tried for both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel1Avfc Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Tbf to Richard, DS was pretty much nailed on as far as I was told. These things happen in football no? No he wasn't we signed Westwood instead. They're very different players, so I presume we would have tried for both. Very different? You make it sound like ones a GK and the others a ST. They're both CM's known for their passing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
switters Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Tbf to Richard, DS was pretty much nailed on as far as I was told. These things happen in football no? No he wasn't we signed Westwood instead. we only signed Westwood on deadline day, so it's plenty possible he wasn't first choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 We'll probably get popov instead. Good player mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Tbf to Richard, DS was pretty much nailed on as far as I was told. These things happen in football no? No he wasn't we signed Westwood instead. They're very different players, so I presume we would have tried for both. Very different? You make it sound like ones a GK and the others a ST. They're both CM's known for their passing. DS is a box to box player known for getting into scoring positions. Westwood is the exact opposite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfTimePost Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 (edited) Apparently he's off to the UAE. What a waste. Assume his quotes in the news were him desperately trying to find a buyer in England? None arose so he decided to take the paycheck and go to the UAE? Agent likely used us as a bluff to get other clubs involved. Ahwell. Edited June 24, 2013 by HalfTimePost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praisedmambo Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 I bet it was agent games from the beginning. The people who genuinely seem ITK all said it was bullshit. Not one of them (out of about 3) said otherwise. All the heat came from foreign press stories that often contradicted each other. I bet we never even discussed him but watch, he'll go down in some Twitter lore nonsense along with that winger from last year (I don't remember his name...Brahimi?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdomlahor Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 (edited) I've seen this being compared with the Brahimi talk of last Summer a few times now. Don't get how people can compare this saga with the one of Brahimi. His reputation is no-where near as big as Belhanda's. Edited June 24, 2013 by adz.villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel1Avfc Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Tbf to Richard, DS was pretty much nailed on as far as I was told. These things happen in football no? No he wasn't we signed Westwood instead. They're very different players, so I presume we would have tried for both. Very different? You make it sound like ones a GK and the others a ST. They're both CM's known for their passing. DS is a box to box player known for getting into scoring positions. Westwood is the exact opposite. DS has played DM numerous times, hence why he has a shit goals to games ratio (also baring in mind he's only ever played in shity lower leagues) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-Reacho Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Mohammed Ali @mohammedali_9348m According to Abu Dhabi Sport Channel, Montpellier's Younes Belhanda is in the Emirates to talk to Al-Jazeera (the club) - what a waste. Was retweeted by French Football Weekly who's pretty reliable on all things French. What a waste indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Mohammed Ali @mohammedali_9348m According to Abu Dhabi Sport Channel, Montpellier's Younes Belhanda is in the Emirates to talk to Al-Jazeera (the club) - what a waste. Was retweeted by French Football Weekly who's pretty reliable on all things French. What a waste indeed. Although a move to the UAE could be for many reasons (religion, money, living closer to family), I find it incredible that he would move there so early on his career and especially being as he said he wants to play in England. Quite a shame really and a genuine 'waste' of somebody who could become a very, very good player. As I said though, if he has his reasons then fair play I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-Reacho Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Mohammed Ali @mohammedali_9348m According to Abu Dhabi Sport Channel, Montpellier's Younes Belhanda is in the Emirates to talk to Al-Jazeera (the club) - what a waste. Was retweeted by French Football Weekly who's pretty reliable on all things French. What a waste indeed. Although a move to the UAE could be for many reasons (religion, money, living closer to family), I find it incredible that he would move there so early on his career and especially being as he said he wants to play in England. Quite a shame really and a genuine 'waste' of somebody who could become a very, very good player. As I said though, if he has his reasons then fair play I guess. Birmingham is much much closer to Morocco than Abu Dhabi. I don't think he would not come to Birmingham for religious reasons after spending a few seasons in Montpellier. I think it indicates we are unwilling to meet his terms or his club's, or are simply not interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 I don't think we were ever going to spend what they were asking on a player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.I.C.O. Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 Never really thought this move was on the cards, if he'd rather take the sheikh's oil shilling and play in the joke that is the UAE League, rather than hang on for a real opportunity on a bigger stage he's probably not worth the hassle. Big fish in small pond syndrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biskitt Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 On talent alone he'd be a great fit for our team but not sure what it says about his character if he's making the move to the UAE at 23 years old and with a lot of decent teams in Europe after him. Would be a shocking waste of talent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islingtonclaret Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 What does the UAE have that Birmingham doesn't? Oh yeah. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vandaq Posted June 24, 2013 Share Posted June 24, 2013 If that is an option he would consider then I don`t want him here anymore...come here belhanda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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