Daily Mal - £25m David Villa ?

[rez9000]

Interesting - please expand.

My view is that Rebrov was a good player in a very specific system - an incredibly drilled and disciplined Dinamo Kiev team, which at that time was effectively the Ukrainian national team. Kiev's pass-and-move style of football, with two small not very strong guys up front - Shevchenko & Rebrov - worked in Europe, but would have been less effective in an aggressive, physical league like the EPL.

And that's exactly why he was a bad signing for us. He was still a good player. And I did say that if Villa did come to us, he may be a good player, but still a bad signing because of the money spent. A bad signing isn't simply a question of a player not playing well for the club he signs for. What if Villa came, played really well with Keane, but had major problems with Berbatov? What then? Sell Berbatov? Sell Villa on?

And even if we only ended up spending a small amount. Let's take your figure of £6 million. For a million more we could activate Poulsen's release clause, a player for a position we need to strengthen. Or even worse, let's say we end up only spending £6 million for Villa, but then we go for another player we really need and he's £2 million pounds outside the budget. We either don't get him or go above budget to sign him, possibly affecting our summer transfer budget.

All these permutations have to be taken into consideration before we approach a player. Right now, the defence and midfield should come first. Our strikers do not need improvement. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

[justfookinhitit]

If we were to spend £26m in January I'd much rather we spent half of it on a central defender and the other half on a midfielder than blow it all on a striker. And if Paulsen were available for £7m that leaves an awful lot of cash left over.

 

[spurs4europe]

The transfer of Bent was based on £5.5m a year plus add-ons. So if we sell him before the 1st anniversary for anything over £5.5m are we in profit (forgetting salary, of course) ?????????????

oh dear

 

[chinaman]

His agent said it is possible if we provide a better financial package. There's no chance of it we can better what Manure and Chelscum can offer. So don't even hope for it.

 

[bogosian]

just one more striker won't be enough - we need 2 at least. sell some starter in midfield if money is a problem.

 

[tony0379]

yes yes yes please

 

[DC_Boy]

Hi DC Boy. Yup - I entirely accept I may be making 2+2 = um, something ridiculous, and over-complicating things! :wink:

I was going to add "football is a game of opinions", but that's the kind of inanity that Alan Shearer gets paid megabucks to utter on MOTD, and I think we should all leave the cutting-edge analysis to him.

yanno

 

[inegve]

Give them Bent + 15 mil:razz:

 

[justfookinhitit]

oh dear

I couldn't find a "tongue in cheek" smiley for my original message.......

 

[Kushal]

Will be great playing in front of a player like Fabregas I must say.

Should we just get both for 26 mil. then? :wink:

P.S: He'll end up at a club way bigger than us - no doubt about this.

 

[Gazza123]

not another striker surely.

 

[michaelden]

Surely it's Bent + 10Mil?

 

[justfookinhitit]

The way Bent is playing at the moment it has to be a hell of a lot more than Bent + £10m.

Anyway, this is irrelevant. David Villa isn't coming to the home of the yids. Get over it.

 

[Defsta]

Well Valencia is out from euro cups now, so there could be chances to get him in January :think:

 

[dirky88]

if torres was still at A.M it would be his name linked. its just lazy journos

 

[justfookinhitit]

This all reminds me of last summer and the summer before when we were linked with every dutch guy that had ever kicked a football, only to end up with none of them.

 

[hybridsoldier]

i saw villa live, hes shit i hope we dnt even make a bid

 

[nightgoat]

Well Valencia is out from euro cups now, so there could be chances to get him in January :think:

For all the big clubs, yes... For us, no...

For the money Villa'd cost, we could get a centre back, defensive midfielder and a left winger...

 

[worcestersauce]

Well he injured now so it's looking more likely.

 

[KentuckyYid]

I'd rather buy Aston Villa for that kind of money...