deal to send James Milner to Aston Villa is done
By: j | August 29th, 2008I’ve been very tough on the financial structure of the club in the past and of-recent have wondered if the deck of cards is ready to drop or had somehow been privately shored up. Things were starting to look too good to be true and back-room questions of whether the club had raised were being asked. That was answered today with the inexplicable sale of James Milner.
Newcastle accepted Aston Villa’s £10m offer for James Milner today and in a move that raises every red-flag of the clubs finances again, its direction and highlights the major rift that is slowly ripping the sport apart. Selling your future by the pound is lunacy and to offload the England U-21 captain, who has been a major bright spot of the club is a move of financial motives and not a Football mind.
I know for some readers, the point will have a resounding dead-thud but this game is changing in front of our eyes and a player like young Mr. Milner, after Newcastle was lucky enough to move here from Leeds United, should be a fixture with the club and should not have been sold.
Newcastle boss Kevin Keegan commented:
“He’s a player, in an ideal world, you would not want to lose, but I just want to make it absolutely clear that at the end of the day, it was my decision to sell him. We got an offer that I feel was his value.”
“But he has always behaved impeccably. He’s a fantastic professional, and there’s no doubt about it, they’ve got an outstanding player and we have got to move on.”
For all Toon supporters, this is a horrible move and cannot be underestimated.
Good luck to Aston Villa and James. I know I’ll enjoy watching him play for year and someday leading the Three Lions.
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I agree, this is terrible. It must have been galling to him, though, to watch players like Alan Smith and Joey Barton make loads of money for sitting on the bench or in a jail cell, while James works his ass off and sees less money than Taylor or N’Zogbia.
I’m growing less and less enchanted with this new management.Posted from
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