City’s Milner Fee Complete
City have agreed a few for Milner and will move from Aston Villa in a couple of hours time. The BBC reckon the deal will be complete in 36 hours with Ireland moving the other way to Villa Park.
Ireland’s Delayed Move
Stephen Ireland’s move to Villa has been delayed after Ireland has demanded 2 million payment to leave Manchester City.
Milner the next to leave Villa for a ‘bigger club’?
Martin O’Neill has come out today and stated what we all didn’t want to hear but at the back of our minds all knew it was coming, Yes James Milner want’s out of the very club that made him the player he is today.
Do I begrudge him a move to a club with ambition? No I don’t and just like Gareth Barry I wish him every luck in the future.
But the thing that does bother me is why are these players wanting to leave as soon as a club with money comes knocking? And if it is the ambition thing then we are no better off than we was under Doug Ellis.
I personally would leave a company if they offered more money and looked like they were going places so why should we begrudge James Milner the same?
The fact is Villa need to stop being stupid and stubborn now that Martin O’Neill has decided to show his cards as Man City know one way or another that they will get there man sooner or later. We simply need to get what we can from the player and as quick as possible so we can also replace him.
That is another worry of mine though. I fear what Martin O’Neill will do with the reported £25million and I just hope he does something decent with it.
Official Statement: James Milner
We can confirm that Aston Villa last night recieved a offer from Manchester City believed to be in the region of around £20million for James Milner.
The club are obviously very serious about James Milner as they quickly responded unlike Villa and it was later announced on the website that the offer had been rejected with the club statement reading:
We have received an offer from Manchester City and this has been firmly rejected.
We plan to sit down with James Milner and his representative after the World Cup to agree a new long-term deal and this remains our position.
Which is nice to hear from the club – lets just hope a certain Gareth Barry doesn’t get in Milner’s ear much like Steven Gerrard did when Liverpool tried to sign our former captain.
City make move for Milner
According to Sky Sports, Manchester City have tabled a big money move for our prize asset James Milner.
Milner has had a fantastic season which has no doubt raised his profile and this has meant a lot of interest in the England International.
The offer is believed to be in the region of around £20million as they look to try and get him in before his value could go through the roof if he has a successful World Cup.
If the deal is to go through this will be the second season running that Manchester City have taken very good influential players from Villa Park after Gareth Barry’s move last summer.
Villa have yet to respond or comment on this story but Randy Lerner did state about a week ago that James Milner wouldn’t be going anywhere THIS summer.
Let’s just hope James is happy at Villa Park and Villa stand firm with Mancini as his team.
