If we can get a decent offer it would be good business to sell. Flores seems to want to stick with 4-2-3-1 and Troy and Vydra can compete for the striker spot. Any money we get for Ighalo can be invested in a winger.
Absolutely zero reason for him to want to go there. The only thing that Villa are a bigger club than us at is stadium size.
Bigger stadium size , bigger fan base , more successful history , bigger turnover , bigger world wide name , far more trophies , bigger staff, bigger transfer budget , founder member of the football league etc etc etc . Yeah apart from that , Watford dwarf Villa in every aspect GD You are either a troll , or a complete b£ll end
You shouldn't post when you're high m8, makes your posts look like they were written by a 5 year old.
Ighalo is different from waht we have. He's not the quickest, strongets or fastest but he does what others fail; get into the right position at the right time nd tap it in. Not many players do it with his consistensy.
Some of you lot are wasted posting your opinions on a football forum. You've clearly missed your true vocations as successful financial planners.
Ive walked past him several times on Berko high street recently, and Sherwood does actually come across as even bigger than his listed 6ft if anything, perhaps it's how he gets 'em all so damn motivated...
http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/sp...eap_benefits_of_full_pre_season_with_Watford/ Sound like a player who thinks he's off to Villa? They are a spent force and will be relegation favourites this season, why would we help a rival strengthen, by depleting our squad? Never going to happen.
Spent force? They have a bigger stadium , bigger fan base , better looking female fans , better sausage rolls , better car parking space for players , better plumbing , better haircuts , better internet connection speed , better 4G coverage , etc etc etc
Wouldn't put it past Pozzo myself. Send Agent Odion out, pay him a "Pay as you hysterically miss every chance" bonus, tell him to put a relegation release clause in his contract, and get him back the following season for cheap. Good business sense.
My first football match at Vicarage road was 13 September 1969 v (Tommy Dochertys) Aston Villa, in the old Second Division. We did the double over them that season and survived our first season in the 'big league' and they got relegated - Just saying
Imagine opposition fans coming on here and reading that some of our lot think we're as big a club as Aston Villa.
I think people are getting confused between potential and history. As a club currently, I genuinely do think we have greater potential at this current point. Lerner doesn't want to be there, they've just sold two of their best players, Sherwood has 5% of the managerial credentials that QSF has and their board has 5% of the credentials that the Pozzo's have so yes we have more potential but at this point in time they are still a bigger club by far.
With Villa's stadium and fan-base, their potential way exceeds ours. If rich new owners took them over, they have as much going for them as Chelsea did 12 years ago. That's not to say that Ighalo should, or will, go.
Think Coventry and Southampton over the course of this century. These clubs stagnated for years and eventually got relegated, but sometimes it takes a relegation or two to get things moving in the right direction again; it has happened to Man City, Leicester and Southampton but not for Coventry though, and it hasn't got Leeds, Sheffield Wenesday or Forest back up to the top level again yet.
15 years ago I'd agree with you but football has changed. These days we have the top 6 and after that every other club is just happy not to go down. I'd say the odds on Villa winning a trophy or playing in Europe in the next 5 years are pretty similar to Watford or Bournemouth.
Villa are a much bigger club than us. Their captain just signed for Man City and their best player is about to leave for 30 million. Utter delusion to think we're anywhere close to a club like that in terms of size. It's not even close.
Villa are potentially much bigger than us, but they have an owner who wants out and they've just sold their two best players. We don't and we haven't.
Yes, they are bigger. But, will they pay significantly more? Also, next year, are they more likely to stay up? Some of the traditional big clubs (Villa & Newcastle are top of mind) have joined several traditional "wobbly" clubs IMO as clubs that seem to lack direction. I don't know that move to some of these places are as certain as they once were. Again, just my opinion, but Villa when Young went there and Villa now are two entirely different propositions.
Villa is on the edge of Birmingham where all the clubs are ****. We're on the edge of London where all the clubs are good, potential? - YOU DO THE MATH.
