It’s been the week of loans in B6 with no less than four players heading out to get some competitive football elsewhere.
Firstly, Habib Beye went to Doncaster, initially until January, but hopefully a deal to take him through to the end of the season (and his Villa contract) won’t be out of the question. Assuming he’s not a disaster.
Then Nathan Baker, closely followed by Shane Lowry, made a temporary switch to Milwall; Baker for a month, Lowry just into the
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I said I wouldn’t dwell on this sort of expose much, so apologies up front, but once again a slightly negative story with a sensationalized headline in the British tabloid media is seized upon by the delusional Aston Villa blogger in Sweden to further bolster his bizarre agenda.
This time the subject is Habib Beye and his quite understandable frustration at his lack of playing time. Firstly, let’s look at the headline and quotes (yes, they have quotes!!) from the
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Actually, I don’t know if there’s really any connection, but just days after Martin O’Neill has said he’s not looking to sell or buy and then later pretty much admitted that if he did want to buy, he’d have to first sell, we have a couple of pieces of speculation floating around today.
This morning all the talk was of Glasgow Rangers’ Kris Boyd “being in talks” with Aston Villa, which the club later distanced themselves from a little, although they’ve
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Despite some early blockbusters, it’s been quite a subdued transfer market overall this summer. Nevertheless, Martin O’Neill managed to match last summer’s influx by bringing in seven new faces, although his hand may have been forced somewhat by the exists of Gareth Barry & Martin Laursen.
Here’s the seven in the order they joined:-
Stewart Downing, 16/07/09, £12m, Middlesbrough
Fabian Delph, 04/08/09, £8m, Leeds
Habib Beye, 07/08/09, £2.5m, Newcastle
Andy Marshall, 12/08/09, Free, N/A
Stephen Warnock, 27/08/09, £8m, Blackburn
James Collins, 01/09/09, £5m, West Ham
Richard Dunne,
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Aston Villa have signed 31 year old French/Senegalise right back Habib Beye from Newcastle Utd on a three year contract.
He’s highly regarded by Newcastle fans in his right back role, but can also fill in at centre back. He’s obviously used to working with James Milner on the right, so shouldn’t have too many problems adapting.
At 31, I’d like to hope that MON plans to use Habib as a utility/squad player, perhaps just seeing us through a season or
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