MagicMushroom Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Having just re-read the clubs statement together with Paul Lamberts comments, im beginning to think the words are aimed at the agent rather than the player. It reads as if the Agent has been pushing for this, or am i seeing something thats not there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Having just re-read the clubs statement together with Paul Lamberts comments, im beginning to think the words are aimed at the agent rather than the player. It reads as if the Agent has been pushing for this, or am i seeing something thats not there? you are not seeing something that is not there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 I got over the anger quite quick this morning, quite simply because I have belief that A - lerner will give lambert a large wedge of the cash and B - my belief that paul lambert will already have players lined up who will come here and not want out after 1 season. Benteke said we were a stepping stone, its no surprise he wants to further his career with a club that will challenge for honours, just a shame he wants out so soon as I thought he would give us another year. Onwards and upwards. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 (edited) Amazing we all think he's brilliant and spurts fans seem to think he's shite but he'd still be prepared to play for the ****ers Edited July 9, 2013 by Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amo69 Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Amazing we all think he's brilliant and spurts fans seem to think he's shite but he'd still be prepared to play for the **** Spurs fans with half a brain are crying out for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicMushroom Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Having just re-read the clubs statement together with Paul Lamberts comments, im beginning to think the words are aimed at the agent rather than the player. It reads as if the Agent has been pushing for this, or am i seeing something thats not there? you are not seeing something that is not there! Then theres hope he could still be with us until next summer Maybe theres a few more twists in this saga to come? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 I hope he doesn't go to Spurs, the whole of the rest of the transfer window will be them offering £15m, us saying no, then £15.5m and so on. Spurs are tight wads and we always get screwed when we deal with them. That's exactly what we do though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Amazing we all think he's brilliant and spurts fans seem to think he's shite but he'd still be prepared to play for the **** Spurs fans with half a brain are crying out for him. Spurs fans with half a brain does not exactly narrow it down much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaglint Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Correct. This self loathing about us being poor little Villa is just nonsense. This kind of crap happens to nearly every team. Arsenal, ManU, Liverpool, Dortmund. All have had their best players kick up a fuss and move. Its football and we tap up other peoples players (and managers) as much as anyone else. Just get the cash and hurl abuse at the alien eared freak next time he is at Villa Park It's also why we're not a selling club or a feeder club. The act of having a player bought by someone in a better position doesn't make you a selling club. United lost Ronaldo. Are they a selling club? Liverpool are struggling to hold on to wantaway Suarez. Are they a selling club? No, it's the way football works. That's just normal transfer business. The league also used to be fairly hierarchical in terms of big teams, middle teams and teams who perennially struggled. Now whilst we still have the big teams it is unbelievably competitive throughout. And many, if not all of the clubs are capable of rolling over anyone else including the bigger teams. For me the transfer window is a perfect reflection of this, it is getting more and more competitive. And it really is a dog eat dog war out there. The players are just human beings doing what anyone would do when clubs through the weapons at their disposal (money) at them. Which is why you MUST be prepared to play hard ball when required. I'm still going for him staying another year as nobody will pay what we want. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicMushroom Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Amazing we all think he's brilliant and spurts fans seem to think he's shite but he'd still be prepared to play for the **** Spurs fans with half a brain are crying out for him. More chance of seeing a naked yeti dancing down harborne high street than finding a Spurs fan with any type of Brain cell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pablo82 Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Ideal out come now would be Benteke, Bent and Ireland to be gone by Friday we finish our tour of Germany over the weekend and then come back to spending the cash on some decent targets that Lambert already has lined up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amo69 Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 I still think 25-30M reinvested in the club could be better than keeping a player who doesn't want to play for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Found it funny that a Newcastle fan posted this on Twitter So many things wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Our positivity and faith in Lambert and Villa is so refreshing. When we lost Milner, Young, Downing and Barry, this place was in meltdown. We were fearing the worst and didn't appear to have the faith we do now, when looking for a replacement. Under Lambert, however, we do appear to be content in building something over time. Despite 'No-Tekkers' handing in a transfer request, I'm really looking forward to next season! One player is not bigger than the club. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_Villain Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Does nobody care that this man actually ensured we are still a premier league team? Talk of hoping he gets injured and ends his career may be in jest but boy is it crude. He would be crazy to want to stay IMO. My words werent in jest whatsoever... F**k him sideways... If he signs a contract, he should honour it... If we HAD be relegated and he had a release clause, BY ALL MEANS, we wouldnt have a leg to stand on and he could go.... BUT We weren't and he didnt... So he needs to shut up, pull on the shirt and put the ball in the net like he is meant to and his agent needs to help with sponsorship and whatever else it is that agents are meant to do without acting like overpaid pimps for giggalos in sportswear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 9, 2013 Moderator Share Posted July 9, 2013 A Newcastle fan posted that? My my. They really are bitter that we relegated them and took so much joy from it aren't they I wouldn't be sitting too cosy if I was them this season either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 I honestly don't know how anyone can call us a laughing stock right now, not least Newcastle fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 I know right. We're selling our best player to a more high profile club. Such a humiliation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oaks Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Found it funny that a Newcastle fan posted this on Twitter So many things wrong That's like me calling Frank Lampard fat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacbuddies Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 If he goes, and it's still only an 'if' and the fee and the club that he goes to will be a barometer of Lerner's ambition for this club. Sell to a top European club who are regularly in the latter stages of the Champions League for well in excess of £30m and then re-invest all of the money into the playing staff then perhaps it will be positive. Sell to some 'wannabes' like Spurs for a lot less and only give Lambert a percentage of the money to re-invest into the playing staff and it will be negative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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