And as if by magic another Sunday and another speculation post.
Could be quiet tonight, we shall see.
First out of the traps is the NOTW who claims Liverpool have given Dalglish has a £50m warchest and will target Downing and Young. These two will feature in this summer a lot in speculation I think.
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…all this stuff about committed to a club or I am proud to play for this club cause I ever dreamed to play for them… Thats all bullshit. Players play where they get the most money and our players make no difference. A. Young and Downing are one of the best wingers in this country. Liverpool have the best young striker in the air, so the need excellent wingers who feed him with crosses. So, no wonder they are interested in our wingers . They pay Joe Cole 90.000 p.week after a free, so they are capable to dish out big wages. I think, we will loose that battle, hopefully one will stay.
exactly, I believe nothing any player would say, we only have to see the cover up over what went on at the hotel.
downing will stay if no one matches our price and I believe he will not force a move unlike Barry and more like Milner.
So you think Ashley Young’s crossing is good enough?
the questions is, what is our pricel level for a Downing sale. 18-20 mio. I would expect. And several clubs are able to spend this, Liverpool one of them. A. Young is different: he is in is last year of contract so he has to prolong that or we have to sell. Think he wants to leave.
I would say £15m for both, maybe could push downing to that £18m range
the threat for us is Liverpool with Downing as I suspect young will be CL bound
and Plop need a left winger
MJVilla we need to stop living in the past. Players dont give a shit what we did 30 years ago or in the 1890s.
We are not a major club and havnt been for a long time, we are big in the midlands. Thats it.
We almost made the top 4 three years in a row mate and went to wembley twice last season. We are not a super-club but we are not small either. We are big enough to keep players and for our players to believe we can make top 4 or win a cup.
We almost did, but we didnt, we failed as usual. We cant compete with man u, man c, arse, chelsea, liverpool or spurs. If any of them want one of our players they will leave, simple.
We have zero chance of making a challenge for the top 4 with the current managerial set up
you are the most negative person ive ever witnessed, not realistic, NEGATIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are not viewed as big club outside of the west midlands and we will always struggle because of the nations opinion of birmingham sadly.
With young 99.9% certain to go I think this will bring the opportunity for albrighton to kick on and become a quality attacking threat for us, he looked very lively against stoke and in time I think he will be an england regular, we are also in need of a quality playmaker in center midfield someone who can drive the team forward, people slate houllier but he just hasn’t got good enough players in key areas, coker and petrov just haven’t got the quality to open up defenses, makoun will be a player next season but needs that top quailty player next to him, I hope we can keep walker as the kid is quality if not we need to replace him and the left back position with quality, sort out the keeper situation and we will be raring to go next season, i’m trying to be positive here as I know we have had a shit season but the person responsible for this is a yellow belly no good low life! yes MON left us high and dry and it didnt matter who came in as it was going to be a thankless task, lets hope the club get it sorted sooner rather than later.
UP THE VILLA………
It shouldn’t matter how we are viewed by others or what people think of birmingham, this is our club and we bloody well need to start supporting it in good times and certainly in bad times.
I don’t know about anyone else but I have seen a big improvement in our fitness levels as under MON we were dead on our feet for the last 30 mins of a game, I have also seen an improvement in our play lately and the difference being all the players are pulling in the same direction.
UP THE VILLA………
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