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gone to villa for £9m, good to see an english youngster not ending up in the chelsea rotation system. looks as though micah richards is staying at city too...?

Good for Watford too, £9mil seems a bit high IMHO.  As long he doesn't suffer villa syndrome whereby all quality players turn useless as soon as they don the claret and blue.

Damn you double posts.

Not true, Milner did very well at Villa and Sutton and Petrov work their socks off.

Perhaps it's a legacy of my best mate being Villa and me giving him stick/him complaining loads, takes me back to Alan Thompson, Steve Watson, Angel, Baros, Sorenson for a while.  A few years back they spent a fortune and just got loads of rubbish players, come to think of it maybe the players they signed were just rubbish at stupidly high prices.

Correct. As for swapping Baros for Carew  :?  It's a fucking donkey merry-go-round!

I've never really rated Baros or Angel anyway

Agreed. Villa would be in the relegation zone if it wasn't for Barry's penalty taking!

villa are shit. FACT

I thought Alan Thompson was good. But i'm probably thinking about when he was still at Bolton which is a very long time ago now in fairness :shock:

I know a Watford fan who thinks the Young deal is fantastic business. I am inclined to agree.

I think the price tag is far too high -

One of my housemates is a Villa fan and says they're paying for the future. Then again, I've never met anyone so tinted by their football club though... They could sign Shaun Close and he'd say that he's a great player.

To be fair Villa are good at bringing through youngsters, Agbonlahor has just been improving and improving.

Yes, they have plenty of players from their Youth set-up which is always good. That's probably because of Doug Ellis though - Ellis was quite tight with the cheque book at times (as a result Villa were a financially sound business pre-Lerner) - I'm sure if O'Leary had the chance he would have brought in a host of players from abroad.

O Leary is a complete tosser

That's another player added to the £6mill+ but no england cap brigade, he's replaced Chris Kirkland.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6294919.stm

Baros was close to joining Chelsea and the deal only fell through because Wright-Philips didn't fancy going to Villa  :|

Why the fuck would Chelski want Baros - his finishing is dire - only seems to turn it on in International games.

I think Carew will do well for Villa, big targetman but mobile as well.

from that link above:

"Baros, who signed a three-and-a-half-year deal at the Stade Gerland, admitted talking to Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho after the goalless Premiership game at Villa Park on 2 January.

"We just spoke about the match. Just after the game in the tunnel he told me that he wanted me to join the team and asked me if I was interested. I told him so. But it did not happen in the end."

Is that not tapping up?

i agree with sy that carew will do well for villa.

i remember when carew was ace at valerenga  :old:

As do I - He used to be linked with the big English clubs all the time but opted for the other leagues instead. Carew's arrival has been a long time coming (like Benny McCarthy) so time will tell whether he's good or not.

£9 million for Young is an absolute joke!

He's played a handful of good games for Watford certainly not enough to earn that price tag.

The irony is he didnt play on tuesday and they won only their 2nd game of the season

Young scored last night, could have had another identical one too. Looked very pacy and decent shot.

Yes he looked good against a dodgy Newcastle defence. Him and Carew looked decent - which for Villa fans will be refreshing.

Still not worth £9million though.

english youngsters are very expensive, i'd say its a fair price considering his potential - villa aren't buying the finished article and they know that