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Who does Burke know at Villa?
- Thread starter Munkfish
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Keeping The Dream Alive.
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Weird. I was about to post a very similar thread!
deletebeepbeepbeep
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- May 12, 2009
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It seems strange that we seem to have specific relationships with any one club at a time, we briefly had a flurry of loans of players from Man City, then we bought a number of players from Swansea now we are getting a flurry of loans from Aston Village. Odd.
severnside gull
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Coincidence - or the natural outcome of us asking for one player we knew was available and being offered another who needed game time. I suspect we went for Bennett and were offered Gardner as well.
Once we had a decent relationship it would just need a cheeky ask about Bent and with Lambert desperate to get rid it would just be down to how much we've had to pay and whether he said yes. I gather that if things work out he isn't expected back at Villa this season then he will be out of contract and available on a free to the highest bidder (or maybe where he feels happy if the money is reasonable).
If Lambert had kept playing him in a 2 man front line you would think he would have scored a few and retained a residual value of maybe £7m or £8m at least. Sticking to one man up front and counter-attacking has cost them big bucks. In a poll in the local rag 80% of Villa fans yesterday said they would rather have kept Bent and played him regularly. Lambert is about as popular with them as Hyypia is on here.
Once we had a decent relationship it would just need a cheeky ask about Bent and with Lambert desperate to get rid it would just be down to how much we've had to pay and whether he said yes. I gather that if things work out he isn't expected back at Villa this season then he will be out of contract and available on a free to the highest bidder (or maybe where he feels happy if the money is reasonable).
If Lambert had kept playing him in a 2 man front line you would think he would have scored a few and retained a residual value of maybe £7m or £8m at least. Sticking to one man up front and counter-attacking has cost them big bucks. In a poll in the local rag 80% of Villa fans yesterday said they would rather have kept Bent and played him regularly. Lambert is about as popular with them as Hyypia is on here.
I guess we can be reassured that Bennett and Gardener are having a positive enough time here to not put Bent off.
Coincidence - or the natural outcome of us asking for one player we knew was available and being offered another who needed game time. I suspect we went for Bennett and were offered Gardner as well.
Once we had a decent relationship it would just need a cheeky ask about Bent and with Lambert desperate to get rid it would just be down to how much we've had to pay and whether he said yes. I gather that if things work out he isn't expected back at Villa this season then he will be out of contract and available on a free to the highest bidder (or maybe where he feels happy if the money is reasonable).
I suspect this is accurate. Shame we ever made contact with Barnsley...
Albion Robster
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Do the Villa players share the same agent? I guess this could have an impact on players transfer movements.
Postman Pat
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No, but Bent does share an agent with Aaron Hughes. Stellar Football ltd.
Also have Gareth Bale on their books so fingers crossed....!
spanish flair
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Maybe Villa use the same Scout7 data base that Burke uses and make positive inputs against players they want rid of.