Aston Villa Banter Archive May 26 2013

26 May 2013 07:57:01
All of a sudden you're all hating Benteke, you should show some dignity and accept that he singlehanded saved Villa from relegation. So behave yourselves, stop bad mouthing him and accept the inevitable. You're not Arsenal, you're not top half premier league, you are relegation strugglers. He is young with ambition higher than Villa are able to match.

Except football is not just about an individual players ambition. The "dignity" you talk about is what makes us want to avoid being in the position we were in last season. Keeping our best players is the only way to achieve that. If Benteke, as you claim, single handedly kept us up last season, why on earth would we sell just to satisfy his ambition at the sake of our own?
Your point, if there was one, makes no sense
Mendax

So Villa keep a player against his will, cause un-rest throuout the squad, His head has been turned he wants to play Champions league, not fight for survival, So If the likes of Arsenal or Chelsea who seem to be his most likley destination offered the asking price and can up his wages do you honestly see him saying he will see out his contract.

Contracts are not worth the paper they are written on, all it means the buying club will have to did deep to get him, Rooney is on his way out of old trafford, Moyes is said also to be interested in Benteke, Its going to take some special deal to him at the Villa, Perhaps the fans should bite the bullet and say thanks for what you did last season and let him move on

It makes me laugh. The players can act as precocious brats if they want to renege on a contract they were perfectly happy to sign and the fans will actually rush to defend them
Too much is made of the notion that you can't keep an unhappy player
Exactly how unhappy can you be on £70,000 a week
There is no suggestion this has happened with Benteke by the way. But at the end of the day if a child threatened to scream and ball until you gave him that ice cream you had just denied him, would you cave in to keep the peace?
Mendax

He will defo move to arsenal seeing as their ladies won a trophy app more balls in that team than wengers

The point is Villa as a club are unable to match the ambition of a club he is capable of playing for. Without doubt Villa would have been relegated without him, now he has stated he wants to leave he is the devil incarnate. Accept that he is too good for Villa.

Irrespective if he is earning 70 or 70000 pounds a week, if somebody offers to increase your pay by a significant amount you are going to take that offer, regardless of what you need to say to the media to appease the fans. If somebody offered to double your pay you would move jobs. If you are saying you wouldn't you are either a liar or a mug.

It makes you laugh because now it's happening to your club, but when your club takes another clubs employee who is under contract that's fine is it Mr Hypocrite?

Put it another way, If someone from your field of work offered you an extra £100 a day to go and work for him what would be your response?, And No its not a different argument, Money has a habit of talking, its just a question of Scale.

You are missing my point. What I am saying is that as a club, Villa should not ignore their own ambition over that of one of their players
Yes, if someone offered me twice what I am getting now I would want to go
And by the way, I don't have any issue with Benteke
However, if I had signed a contract that meant I couldn't I would have to suck it up and get on with it
My point is Villa come first and we should adopt that attitude. a bit like Daniel Levy at Spurs does.
I hope I have put it clearly enough for even the Norwich fan to understand
Mendax