Milner Makes It A Magnificent Six For Mancio

good player, think we have the better deal, £16-£18m + Ireland.

Your getting a great player but stop stealing our stars!! If you try stealing someone else from us again in the way you do your 'business' then Villa will take legal action, no doubt about it!

Legal action? On what grounds Astvil123?

Have a look at our front page poll question and get voting.

What Randy Lerner spoke about two or three days ago mate, you asked about Milner, we said he's not for sale at any price, you made a bid, we rejected and told you again to leave it. But still you come back and make another bid, we reject it and again say he's not for sale. Then you come back again with another bid, it's ridiculous! You don't respect any rules the FA have set, you don't respect the views of other clubs. Your just Man City who want everyones top players and if they're not for sale then you just keep raising the bid over and over and over again until you offer way way above stupid money. Your club is absolutely pathetic. When you do win a trophy then the name 'Manchester City FC' won't represent your hard work and that you deserve it, all it will say is that Man City have this trophy because of the owner who took your club over. I can't wait (along with the rest of the county apart from the blue side of Manchester) to see your club flop when your owner gets bored and leaves you. But good luck Jimmy, top bloke!

Andy - the best deal? Surely that remains to be seen. Or, are you lot all about the money?;)

Top stuff JB ;) I'm pleased about this. He does have a part to play.

Andy3221, don't believe everything you read in The Express or on Tribalfootball. We agreed a fee with Celtic for Bellamy but he snubbed that. Just because you earn £100,000 per week doesn't mean you can be awkward with your boss at work and question his every idea. Go and find out some more facts then return.

******s he has had to have a drop in pay mate, ashley young was and still is our highest paid player, they made it clear to ireland they wouldnt match his wages. I presume ireland is having his pay off from city?

Robsongreensleeves ,,, well lets see Shay given ? Adebayor, ? Ireland who was your best player in 2009, i agree about Bellamy though , i wouldnt want him in my team. but hey lets see what happens with all these great players, time will tell ;)

Mancio on Milner this afternoon: "We must wait at this moment and only think of playing in the Europa League. I hope he can come soon - today or tomorrow. He is a good player and an English player which is important. He can play in different positions."

PAVFC - why would he take a drop in wages to move? Would you? Course you wouldn't! Best of luck to Ireland (I really do hope he comes good for you) and to the Villa for the rest of the season.

S-p-o-o-k-s mate, do yourself a favour and don't indulge that moron. He doesn't know his arse from his elbow.

We dont pay 200k a week to average players LOL

Andy3221, maybe the Express dig was a bit harsh! :-)

Robsongreensleeves: lol thanks :) good luck anyway with JM

If James Milner was not for sale at any price then how comes he's signed for City? What, did we force you to take what quite frankly most Villa fans think is way too much, + a rather promising player at gunpoint?

Man City have just loaded the 'cheat' onto Championship Manager on the PC game again and suddenly have loads of money and are buying players that would never have considered moving there in the 1st place.!!

Cheers Kaiser, best laugh I've had in ages!

"I don't think Mancini will develop any players if he can carry on picking and choosing, buying and dumping. That's no way to build a team" Wittonlane - who says he will? This is his first summer transfer window in which he has used the money available to him. Why the assumption from most that Mancini will continue with this policy. He has put his stamp on the squad, so there's no reason for him to be so active in the market next time around.

kaizersoze point taken, HOWEVER i'm three years away from celebrating my 50th birthday and boy, if MCFC win the Premier League before I die then HAPPY DAYS my friend.

"Players will soon realize what a disgrace Man City are in the way they treat the players, (Ireland and Bellamy) at the end of the day there will be many good players not getting a game and unrest will follow, which leads to poor team spirit, all that will happen with them is players comming and players going no team building Good luck to JM but i think the Villa got the best deal - andy3221" ...Andy....http://www.manchestercity.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=209652

Witton - just to remind you and all the other doubters out there, City came within one game of qualifying for CL play off last time out. We have now improved the squad, once the team settles, which it will we are going to be stronger with the quality that has been brought in. Face it, you're straw clutching because you so desperately want City to fail.

Best of luck to Man City from a Villa fan. I'm not jealous, afraid or bitter about Man City's vast cash revenue. Just saddened in the same way I was saddened by the Abramovich thing. I just feel for the game in this country. Cash and not merrit is the bench mark. However, good luck for the season. Afterall its you the man city fans tha will benefit from some really exciting players at your club.

Should read 'at least he hasn't enough' (probably still doesn't make sense) ;-)

That wouldn't be the owners of Manchester City Football Club that bailed out Barclays Bank to the tune of £4.5bn so enabling it to not be baield out by the government like Lloyds and RBS would it? That wouldn't be the owners that are investing £1bn in a deprived are of East Manchester? That wouldn't be the owners who have just set up an internet football centre of excellence to enable professional football coaching to anyone, anywhere who has access to the internet? Owners like Hicks & Gillette and the Glazers are the ones who are ruining football, by building sandcastles of debt reliant on future qualification for the Champions League just to break even. All City have done is try to compress 5-10 years worht of improvements into 2 seasons and the pace of change has instilled a media frenzy. This little circus will not continue, nor will it have to. Mancini has the squad at his disposal to shake up the old monopoly of 4 clubs dining at the rich man's table, and anyone in their right mind should realise that shaking up the moribund old order can only be a good thing surely? Unless you enjoyed having a glass ceiling whereby 16 clubs in the PL could finish no higher than 5th every season?