AVFCAM Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 And so it begins... 'Villa say Benteke not for sale...' then 'Villa place £40m price tag on Benteke to put off bidders...' now 'Villa place a £25m price tag on Benteke...' (In the mirror today) We're so obvious. We try to sound tough and stubborn about keeping him, then we put a silly price on him, just incase someone pays it, if not we keep him...until...nobody makes a bid, so we drop the price, encouraging people to bid for him. Is £25m his value? Yes. Is £25m his value to us? No. Do we need to sell him? No. I get bored of football. Whenever a team finds a gem that they can build around, the big 4/5 swarm in, flash the cash and take him. Leaving them stronger and the rest weaker...probably not playing him in the process. I've already taken the choice not to renew this year (due to funding next house purchase/bored of spending £600 a year to watch crap every week/out of principle that te club hasn't adopted the Bayern Munich approach even though the PL now brings them about £20m more money) but I have been doubting myself every day...if we sell Benteke for less than £30m (not including player exchanges) then my choice will be totally validated...we will have learned nothing from losing Milner, which for me, was when everything started falling apart... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 Which is why, if ou want to compete at the top of the table, you have to have mega millions , an owner with mega millions and willing to spend the cash. We never will until we have the mega millions. I have long since forgot about top four . The current strategy of acquiring p and coming lung players to develop and take the club forward is decent and we have a brilliant manager, but it does rely on our best players being sold eventually when they start making names for themselves , to go to clubs already higher than us. Way of the world in football. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Avenue Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 If selling him becomes inevitable this summer, then please avfc don't sell him on the cheap. Spurs want £80m for Bale, lets use that as a benchmark and make any club daft enough pay through the nose for him. I'm sure lambert can work wonders with a few extra quid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 If selling him becomes inevitable this summer, then please avfc don't sell him on the cheap. Spurs want £80m for Bale, lets use that as a benchmark and make any club daft enough pay through the nose for him. I'm sure lambert can work wonders with a few extra quid.depends when he gets the few extra quid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunarsea Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 And so it begins... 'Villa say Benteke not for sale...' then 'Villa place £40m price tag on Benteke to put off bidders...' now 'Villa place a £25m price tag on Benteke...' (In the mirror today) Are there any actual quotes from Lambert, Lerner or anybody to do with Villa to support those figures or is it just the Mirror making stuff up again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCAM Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 No quotes, just going on what we do every time we have a good player... Follow Spurs example, price him high and stick to it!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moorski Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 All players have a price,it depends on what Benteke has said to Lambert privately,ie;I want to leave/stay, it is clear his agent wants a transfer that is the big problem for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVillain Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 It's a quote from the mirror - I am taking the basic stance that its BS, like most of their stories. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 I've already taken the choice not to renew this year (due to funding next house purchase/bored of spending £600 a year to watch crap every week/out of principle that te club hasn't adopted the Bayern Munich approach even though the PL now brings them about £20m more money) but I have been doubting myself every day...if we sell Benteke for less than £30m (not including player exchanges) then my choice will be totally validated...we will have learned nothing from losing Milner, which for me, was when everything started falling apart... To be fair, we have only been playing crap week in/ week out for a while, because we've constantly been in the dreaded 'transitional' season. Houllier's year in charge, which included weeks where GMac and KMac were in charge, McLeish's year in charge and then Lambert's first year in charge. It's no surprise that we've been poor at times. The team, direction and football philosophy has changed so much each year that the players have had to keep on adapting, and the fans have to pretend that we can make head and tail of what we're doing. For the first time in years, we now have a bit of stability. Lambert is building something, and we now have a chance to improve on the season before. Also, don't believe everything you read in the paper. It wouldn't surprise me, at all, if we're simply waiting for the internationals and player holidays to get out of the way before we sit down with Benteke, next week, to discuss a new contract. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praisedmambo Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 Also, don't believe everything you read in the paper. It wouldn't surprise me, at all, if we're simply waiting for the internationals and player holidays to get out of the way before we sit down with Benteke, next week, to discuss a new contract. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincenzo Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 It always amazes me that people actually believe what is printed in the papers. Most of it is just lazy journalists writing BS That's why I don't buy papers any more Even the stuff reported on Sky etc I take with a large pinch of salt. Total pap most of it Best place to get some info and a valid perspective is on this site or MOM site 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 (edited) Few options i can see with Benteke. 1: Aston Villa offer a 50k salary plus 1 year extension.(release clause inserted for 35-40 million) If you can have a great season and World Cup.. then next summer he will have offers from bigger clubs than Tottenham and Atletico and we may even get more than 30 million. OR 2: We can leave him on his 15k salary and let him rot in the reserves for 3 more years if he refuses to play. Its not as expensive ( like Ireland salary). See what he chooses. I dont think he will refuse to play in a World Cup year. Aston Villa FC have the upper hand here. Benefits everyone if he signs a new extension and stays 1 more year. Hell add a Belhanda/Kiyotake style number 10 and another top quality CB... p5viding our current players and new players gel quickly and improve.. we may even challenge for a top 6-8 berth. Selling him should not be an option this summer. Edited June 30, 2013 by KSV 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voinjama Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 And so it begins... 'Villa say Benteke not for sale...' then 'Villa place £40m price tag on Benteke to put off bidders...' now 'Villa place a £25m price tag on Benteke...' (In the mirror today) We're so obvious. We try to sound tough and stubborn about keeping him, then we put a silly price on him, just incase someone pays it, if not we keep him...until...nobody makes a bid, so we drop the price, encouraging people to bid for him. Is £25m his value? Yes. Is £25m his value to us? No. Do we need to sell him? No. I get bored of football. Whenever a team finds a gem that they can build around, the big 4/5 swarm in, flash the cash and take him. Leaving them stronger and the rest weaker...probably not playing him in the process. I've already taken the choice not to renew this year (due to funding next house purchase/bored of spending £600 a year to watch crap every week/out of principle that te club hasn't adopted the Bayern Munich approach even though the PL now brings them about £20m more money) but I have been doubting myself every day...if we sell Benteke for less than £30m (not including player exchanges) then my choice will be totally validated...we will have learned nothing from losing Milner, which for me, was when everything started falling apart... I find this post ironic, you say that clubs haven't adopted the Bayern Munich approach of creating the own wealth organically, but then you get annoyed about clubs finding gems and having them taken away from them. But that is exactly what Munich do in Germany. Stealing all the gems from the other German clubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted June 30, 2013 Moderator Share Posted June 30, 2013 And so it begins...'Villa say Benteke not for sale...'then'Villa place £40m price tag on Benteke to put off bidders...'now'Villa place a £25m price tag on Benteke...' (In the mirror today)I think the problem is more that people are hanging on newspapers' every word. Have Villa actually said anything at all? I haven't heard anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 If he's available at that price i cant understand why Liverpool haven't come in with a bid yet After all they did pay 20 for Downing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfTimePost Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 (edited) I've already taken the choice not to renew this year out of principle that the club hasn't adopted the Bayern Munich approach even though the PL now brings them about £20m more money. The 'Bayern Munich Approach' involves buying up everybody from the other teams in the league, the best players in the league and throwing money at them in order to get them to sign. Bayern Munich last year turned over €320m. We turned over €98.6m. #ReasonsWeArentBayernMunich. Edited June 30, 2013 by HalfTimePost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicMushroom Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 HAHAHA! Honestly, if we were willing to accept 25m for Benteke he would be gone by now! And so would Lambert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 I can't believe the amount of price tags that have been slapped on Benteke and it isn't even July. I think he's going to leave to be honest. I was confident before that he would stay but this is starting to feel more and more like our other high profile leavers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 At least we know that if he leaves it will be for a lot of money. Personally I think £25m is at the very bottom end of what we could get. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belgian guy Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 ppl please stay calm dont get al freaked out for some shitty newspaper. there are no quotes so theyr just pissed because its to silent for them so they decide to make up some stories anyway just to keep their buisness running. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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