Zatman Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 (edited) £4m for a player with 6 months left (less than 4 months of playing time really) is a bit ambitious IMHO. we paid 3.5 million for this Edited October 14, 2014 by Zatman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 £4m for a player with 6 months left (less than 4 months of playing time really) is a bit ambitious IMHO. Not if it's a struggling Liverpool or Man Utd buying him. in fact, £4m might be on the low side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted October 14, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted October 14, 2014 I am not convinced that Man U or any other `big' team is interested. All I see is paper talk, and there were no moves for him in the summer. Remember his age and injury record. He is more important to us than any other club, he knows he is a big fish for us and will be able to agree a contract commensurate with his importance, and he may well therefore sign an extension to his contract. This is pretty much the case I believe. Vlaar is much more important to us than he would be for anyone else. Sometimes this happens to a player. Right place at the right time with right environment. And a team that needs the player so badly that it is willing to wait for his annual injuries to be over. I hope, and think, that Vlaar sees this, and does the right thing and signs. More likely every day, I think. How on earth is it "more likely every day"? I'd say every day we get closer to January and he can start talking to other clubs makes it more likely he'll go. If you believe in what I wrote, that Vlaar doesn't/didn't get the attention from other clubs and is seeing Villa as his best bet for the remainder of his career, then the longer it stays that way, the more likely he'll stay. But I get your point aswell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turnbull Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Well if the "double my wages" story is true, then at least we know about's money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 but whats he on? 30k? doubling that is fine IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted October 15, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted October 15, 2014 Where has this 4 mill/double wages story come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smetrov Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 If we are baulking at 50k pw for a player of Vlaars calibre we may as well pack up and go home.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted October 15, 2014 Moderator Share Posted October 15, 2014 I don't think wages or wage demands have anything to do with it. At his age he has one more contract and/or move left and one chance for a big pay day and I think it is fairly obvious that he will take it and I don't particularly blame him. I think he will move to Europe, probably Italy and pick up a big Bosman signing on fee and wages and play out the last couple of years of his career and I will wish him well. Having only cost £3m we will have got our money's worth out of him, I'd rather he stayed but being realistic I don't think that is going to happen as I've been saying since the summer. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Liverpool lead the race to sign him, and are prepared to blow a deal of 50k pw out of the water with close to double that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samjp26 Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 (edited) Liverpool lead the race to sign him, and are prepared to blow a deal of 50k pw out of the water with close to double that. Just like when you said Vlaar would be sold in the summer and Lambert wasn't going to get a new deal? You've also commented many times about how Lambert was about to be sacked, how did that go? Or how about the hints towards Tonev leaving in the January window last season? There isn't any need for this really. Edited October 15, 2014 by samjp26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted October 15, 2014 Moderator Share Posted October 15, 2014 Liverpool lead the race to sign him, and are prepared to blow a deal of 50k pw out of the water with close to double that. Yeah, no. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Anybody paying more than £50K a week for Vlaar is mental. He isn't that good, and he won't play a full season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ads Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 He isn't worth the money he would want for the length of contract he would like, given his injury record, which at his age isn't going to get any better. Cash in and replace. We know there is money there, at least £7 million given our Cleverley heist, plus whatever we get for him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westholmevillan Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 The length of Vlaar's contract will probably be the sticking point rather than his salary IMO. 3 years at 45K would be about right IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntrimBlack Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 These claims appear to be based on an article in the Daily Star, which in turn qualifies its' article as ``reportedly''. I am going to need more than that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 I wouldn't be against selling him in January. I'd like him to stay obviously but his injury record is irritating and it's not going to get better with age. Plus Baker Senderos is a rather good partnership at the moment and we've Okore hanging about too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM3000 Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 I don't think wages or wage demands have anything to do with it. At his age he has one more contract and/or move left and one chance for a big pay day and I think it is fairly obvious that he will take it and I don't particularly blame him. I think he will move to Europe, probably Italy and pick up a big Bosman signing on fee and wages and play out the last couple of years of his career and I will wish him well. Having only cost £3m we will have got our money's worth out of him, I'd rather he stayed but being realistic I don't think that is going to happen as I've been saying since the summer. It's pretty much the same as Mellberg IMO but we got an extra 3 years out of him. If we get taken over and start investing heavily in our team he might stay but I don't blame him either if he wants to go and play in the CL and try win something before his time is up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Yeah, it really is the same as Mellberg . . . no grudges, he's been one of our best performers, we're not at the point where we can hold on to players like Vlaar at the current time (nor is it easy to see when we will be in the future) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 I hope he goes somewhere like Roma rather than Man United. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dont_do_it_doug. Posted October 15, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted October 15, 2014 Same as Mellberg? Nah come off it. Mellberg bled claret and blue and I'm convinced he only left because O'Neill lost the plot, thought he was done and farmed him out wide. Inter or no Inter. Mellberg was one of us. The day he left was a very sad day but he left with our blessing. I like Ron, he's a good player and I hope he stays, but I won't care about where he goes after, he won't have a special place in my heart. I'll say thanks Ron and instantly forget he was even here at all. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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