Martin O Neills transfer record at Villa

[Turnip from the Tip]

Has he done well?

out
Kevin Phillips WBA £700k
Matthieu Berson Levante £1m
Ulises De La Cruz Reading Free
Peter Whittingham Cardiff City £250k
Eric Djemba Djemba Quatar Free
Juan Pablo Angel New York Red Bulls Free
Milan Baros Lyon Swap
Mark Delaney Retired

In

Stiliyan Petrov Celtic £6.5m
Didier Agathe Celtic Free
Chris Sutton Celtic Free
Phil Bardsley Manchester United Loan
Gabor Kiraly Crystal Palace Loan
John Carew Lyon Swap
Ashley Young Watford £9.65m
Shaun Maloney Celtic £1.1m


SECOND SEASON 2007/2008:

Out

Gary Cahill Bolton Undisc (in region of £4m?)
Liam Ridgewell Birmingham £2m
Jlloyd Samuel Bolton Free
Lee Hendrie Sheffield United Free
Chris Sutton Retired
Steven Davis Fulham £4m
Aaron Hughes Fulham £1m
Gavin McCann Bolton £1m
Robert Olejnik Falkirk Free

In

Wayne Routledge Tottenham £1.5m
Moustapha Salifou FC Wil Undisc.
Curtis Davies West Brom Loan
Zat Knight Fulham £3.5m
Scott Carson Liverpool Loan
Harry Forrester Watford £250 000 initial fee rising on appearances
Eric Lichaj Unattached Free
Marlon Harewood West Ham Undisc (region of £3.5m?)
Nigel Reo-Coker West Ham £8.5m

THIRD SEASON 2008/2009

Out:

Luke Moore (West Brom - £3.5million)
Olof Mellberg (Juventus - free)
Patrick Berger (Sparta Prague - free)
Thomas Sorensen (released)
Shaun Maloney (Celtic, £1million)
Wayne Routledge (undisclosed)

In:

Curtis Davies (WBA undisclosed but around £7.5million?)
Steve Sidwell (Chelsea £5.5million)
Brad Friedel (Blackburn, undisclosed but in the region of £2 - £2.5million)
Brad Guzan (Chivas US, undisclosed, starts at around £800k up to £2m on appearances etc?)
Nicky Shorey (Reading, around £4m?)
Luke Young (Middlesbrough, around £5m?)
Carlos Cuellar (Rangers £7.8million)
James Milner (Newcastle, around £12million?)
Arsenio Halfhuid from Excelsior (undisclosed)
Emile Heskey from Wigan Athletic (£3.5m)

[SAFC_LIAM]

A bit hit and miss. Should have kept a few a little longer IMO (Whittingham, A. Hughes, Ridgewell, Cahill, maybe even Phillips) as he spent and wasted a fair amount of cash replacing these squad players (possible first team in Cahill) with equal or worse standard players. Payed over the odds on a couple (Reo-Coker stands out, £8.5m!) but there are some good deals in there (Carew swap for Baros, Young, Milner, Friedel, Cuellar, Petrov). Overall not too bad I reckon, you can't win with every transfer.

[thecozmo]

downing £12m

[TartanMackem]

Shaun Maloney was sold back to Celtic for a profit, not for 1 million.

[Lonz]

Originally Posted by thecozmo

downing £12m

Profit.

[Dick Fitzwell]

James Collins from West Ham and Dunne from Man City for around £6m each I think and both had a good season

[Tony_Montana1981]

Big Errors:

1. Selling Cahill and replacing him with Zat Knight was a terrible decision.
2. Heskey has been awful for them
3. Curtis Davies for £8m, Reo Cocker for £8m and Sidwell for £6m were very overpriced

Big Successes

1. Milner
2. Young
3. Friedel
4. Dunne
5. Collins (Who I previously thought was shite at West Ham)

[steve30000]

his 3rd season seems much better

[Bear]

Heskey was a cracking signing like

[Turnip from the Tip]

Originally Posted by Bear

Heskey will be a cracking signing for us like