Aston Villa Banter Archive August 30 2014

30 Aug 2014 20:32:26
villa move for cleverly on the rocks over wage £of 70,000 per week; obviously clubs are trying to hold the club to ransom and show it matters not one jot if their greed, will interfere with their ability to buy armani' new clothes range or the new aston martn, tell that to a guy with a mortgage abd a fanily to support on £80 a week. footballers are greed y persons with neither integrity or any affinity with those whose pennies at the gate pay most of their obscene lifestyles

So your saying if another company came and asked you to work for them, and really wanted you you wouldn't hold out for the best wages??

30 Aug 2014 17:34:28
Posted on Twitter :
"Paul Lambert is currently undergoing a medical at Aston Villa after agreeing to spend £8million on Tom Cleverley"

{Ed030's Note - You certainly could have got a more talented player for that transfer fee and half the wages from abroad, Cleverly certainly isn't worth anywhere near £8m I don't think. }

I put this response on the rumours page and others disagree. For this sort of money PL could have got a choice of a lot of class players. A buy like this could be a stroke of genius or the worst foley that he has made.

Word has it lambert failed the medical, failed on common sense test

I hate to agree ED but I think this is madness
Kagawa for 8 mill would have been worth the risk

I think we know which of those is most likely Oldvillain
I'm not a fan of Lambert (does it show) and think he has largely shown poor judgement in the transfer market. But, even I was still baffled by this move
A lot of his dreadful buys (Bennett, KEA, Luna etc) have been explained away by Lambert supporters as understandable due to the budgetary constraints imposed by Lerner. Here, he has been given some decent dough and seems determined to waste it