Right, lets sum this up...
Milner wants out of Villa. James and his agent went to Villa (MON, Randy, Paul Faulkner) before the World Cup started, as they had heard of City's interest, i assume James' agent had been doing some undercover work for some time. James and his agent told Villa that James wanted to leave and under no circumstances would he be signing an improved contract with the club. This pushed Villa into a corner, the fact that James has said he would not sign an improved contract means that James was actualy being very smart by saying to Villa ''im not signing a new contract, so you either let me go now and get top doller...or you hang on another year and i go for half the price?''
Having taken stock of the situation over the World Cup, MON, Randy and Paul Faulkner have decided that they are fighting a loosing battle to keep James, thus MON going public and saying that if Man City meet the valuation decided he can leave. James is pissed of with Villa (especially MON) as MON went public about this little meeting before the World Cup when James asked to be allowed to leave. This has now made James look bad to us fans as we all now know that he asked to leave and doesnt want to be at the club anymore.