> > Look, I'm as hacked off as you (Or anyone else) about this.
> > Delph was the
> > future, he was a player, along with Howson, we could
> slowly build a team
> > around and move up. But sadly this is the end game of
> our freefall,
> > financially we've (apparently) bottomed out and we
> start this season with
> > a reasonable amount of confidence. But ultimately
> we're a 3rd division
> > football team and the glory days might as well be
> Medieval history. Fcuk
> > the Champions League, Fcuk Man U and the rest of them
> up there. WE'RE NOT
> > THERE, and therefore cannot compete. What will he have
> been offered?
> > ?10-?20K a week? Plus Premiership football, plus a chance
> > to break into
> > the England team. What can we offer him?
> > Reality Check ... and trust me, it pisses me off as
> much as it does you.
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> Quite a few things wrong with that statement Tim.
Disagree - very realistic assessment of the situation Tim.
> First of all, do you think he will get premiership
> football. Do you think he
> is good enough to play week in week out in the premiership.
> Is he hell and
> will struggle like f*ck and probably end up getting himself
> injured if they
> play him regularly. So he'll probably sit in the reserves
> or on the bench
> for most of the season. What good is that to his career at
> the moment when
> he could be dancing around League Div One players and
> gaining in confidence weekly.
Could be, or he could easily be a like-for-like replacement for Gareth Barry.
> Break into the England team ??? Eh ??? Come on, he's just
> broken into our
> first team and couldn't even command a regular place in his
> best position !
In which case 6m rising to 7.5 m is superb business - can you name a player
from the 3rd tier who's been sold for anything like that sum ?
> As for the old argument that we're a third division side
> and we need the
> money blah blah blah I just don't buy it. Bates has said we
> don't need to
> sell. What use is money in the bank to us ? It aint gonna
> get us promotion
> that's for sure and we certainly won't be able to buy
> anyone who can replace
> Delph. Ok, we can buy back the training ground but what's
> the use of that if
> we're gonna spend the next 10 years in the 3rd division. No
> ambition !
If Bates pockets the money that's a scandal and we should get rid of him -
assuming it gets reinvested we can buy 3/4 quality players at League level to
replace a bloke who had lots of potential, but then so did Woods and Taiwo and
where are they now ?
I'm well happy that Chelsea took them off our hands for 5m the pair.
> Also, look at Delph. WOuld you rather live in Brum or Leeds
> ? It's a no
> brainer. Do you want to start talking like a Brummy ? It'll
> happen.
Where he lives is far less important than where he works - as you said, you
lived in Brum and without knowing why you went there it strikes me that Delph
has got as least as good a reason for upping sticks to the West Midlands as you
did.
He won't be living in Digbeth on his wage either - leafy Warwickshire for him
no doubt.
The reality is that if you offered the vast majority of people a massive wage
increase they'd be off like a shot.
> and Aston f'cking Villa - they're not even the biggest club
> in Birmingham so it's not that bigger move for him if you ask me.
It's no good harping on about what crowds they got in 1986 - this is the 21st
century and football is different now.
Villa are knocking on the door of the top 4 and are miles bigger than the yoyo
club at St Andrews.
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