He fell in love with Villa whilst researching for his role in Castaway. Apparently he moved to Birmingham to experience how it felt to be miles and miles from civilisation.Badumtish!
"**** gutted. If there was one team in the world I wished he didn't join, it would be them. Doesn't feel right that it's ended this way. You're better than them, big man. Way better."
If Ibe improves his shooting and really steps into Raheem's boots (Not that Raheem was great at shooting - but in terms of making clever runs and scaring defences consistently), I can envision Benteke's presence occupying defenders allowing the pace of someone like Ibe to run absolute riot. Sturridge Benteke Ibe Firmino Coutinho CanMoreno Sakho Skrtel ClyneCould be a deadly future set-up. God damn we have a lot of options in midfield and attack at the moment. I really hope we don't let go of Lucas. Such a reliable option. Thinking maybe Lazar needs a loan to another Premier League side. Another season like the last one and he'll start to fade into a player worth only a tiny percentage of what we paid for him. But yeah...Benteke. He does seem intrinsically likeable. Must've been aware of the negative noises within our fan base regarding his potential arrival (From myself included)...I just feel now as though he can't possibly do any worse than what we had last season...If he just has a reasonable season by the standards of his career to date, it could mean the difference between a top 4 push/trophy and another year fighting Spurs for 5th. Not jizzing my pants with excitement as I was over the signing of Suarez - But feeling increasingly optimistic about this move.
I know it won't happen - but Balotelli and Benny up front would scare the shit out of any defence.
I was wondering that myself. Would CB be able to finally get Mario playing to his potential. It would allow Mario to drop off like he likes to do. That will be an interesting sub plot to the season.
Mario may be nuts and a complete waste of space on the pitch,mentally not ability wise,but you can't knock his enthusiasm or his boisterousnous. He could easily sulk and not have a laugh with benteke.
Excellent. My prediction of a prolific Benteke/Balotelli partnership is already coming to fruition.
Thank Fowler we're not getting Caulker
Anyone reported how much he's on a week?
Recall reading a few weeks ago that he'd be doubling his wages - was on a reported 40k a week at Villa.
Cheers I imagine close to £100k couple of villa fans saying it's £140k bit that must be bollocks. We only gave sturridge that after he scored all those goals
I hope he puts in four at Villa Park this season and goes up to Timmy and salutes him after every one.
Welcome Christian as hope you do well. It will be interesting to see how the team changes to blend him into the team and visa versa. Hopefully we see a little less 30 pass moves and try to use his strength & pace a little quicker as sometimes last season we looked like we needed to move the ball up the field in 2 yard increments. He will add some well needed strength to the side as we are still quite light weight and really looking forward to a potential partnership with Sturridge.
The tool who wrote that has an avatar of Merseyside born and bred Liverpool fan Daniel Craig.
Balotelli looks in awe of him.
I love Emre Can more than both of my children. Fact
benteke sturridge coutinho firminho hendo milner lallana sakho skrtel can mignoleti'm honestly more curious about brendan's line up against stoke than the actual game (ofcourse, no sturridge)
