They started putting the paper work through at 4pm which means the transfer is valid but will not be confirmed until everything has been okayed by the FA today.Quote:
Originally Posted by lionelhutz
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They started putting the paper work through at 4pm which means the transfer is valid but will not be confirmed until everything has been okayed by the FA today.Quote:
Originally Posted by lionelhutz
We had this conversation on another thread recently. Damian Duff I think. I had heard that they were entitled to the remainder of the contract paid up. And this is generally worked into the fee payed by the buying club. And that more often than not some agreement is met between the player and club etc...Quote:
Originally Posted by drummerboy
Move to Villa now completed, usual pictures of Dunne holding the shirt have been taking at the Ireland training ground.
http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/News/0,,1...784203,00.html
Villa have completed the signing of Richard Dunne from Manchester City on a four-year deal.
The transfer has been finalised after the clubs agreed a fee last week and the player passed a medical.
Dunne, who has 52 caps for the Republic of Ireland, began his career at Everton before moving to City in 2000.
http://www.avfc.co.uk/javaImages/d5/...7032789,00.jpg
Hopefully he will have an impact similiar to the last Irish centre back at Villa. I mean Paul McGrath if there is any confusion.
When Paul went to Villa there was a lot of doubters but he proved them all wrong.
Zat KnightQuote:
Originally Posted by seanfhear
Out of acorns, there grows a mighty tree.
Excellent, all the best to the Brummie Honey Monster.Quote:
Originally Posted by gustavo
video tribute on Man City's website: http://www.mcfc.co.uk/Video/Features/Farewell-Dunney
"They (City) told me that had accepted an offer and I said 'but what happens if I want to stay and fight for my place'. Believe it or not, they said they needed the money," he laughed.
Delighted if city start leaking goals. :)
Mark Hughes must be off his head, Dunne's head and shoulders above Lescott and Toure.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/0903/dunner.html
I'm stuck for time so won't post the link but Dunne is very scathing of City in today's UK Times.
Here's the link:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle6821206.ece
Worst game in Ireland shirt tonight....looked lost.
Agreed, Okkas gave him the run around. Some very clumsy challenges and needless frees given away near the end. Couldve given away a penalty as well. I think Dunne suffers with an Okkas type of player, small and pacey, Sledge may have been the better option to mark him.Quote:
Originally Posted by rambler14
Clumsy, akward and poor judgment. Awful game by Dunne.
Horrid, looks to have lost a step, cant believe it but the boy needs to get his head on straight. He did more tackling today with his arms than Lawrence Taylor.
I have to think Sparky knows whats up at this point, Dunne seems to be regressing.
I realize he did play Bulgaria by himself but he seems out of sorts.
Well, he's had a bit of a Sh!tty week after all!
That would be a reasonable excuse for his performance.
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Originally Posted by elroy
and here was I thinking okkas was marking robbie keane :rolleyes:
Very poor game. I actually thought O'Shea was worse. And hardly noticed St Ledger. While Dunne made a lot of mistakes he made more valuable contributions than the rest of the defence combined. He needs to sort himself out though.
Yeah. Contributions wise he gave away twice as many free-kicks as the rest of the defence combined.Quote:
Originally Posted by eirebhoy
I know that. He did contribute a lot of good though which some people don't take into account. We can't just count up the bad things and say he was worse than O'Shea. O'Shea was worse for me but all eyes are on Dunne I suppose.Quote:
Originally Posted by rambler14
lads it's hard to play well when all around you are playing sh#it and making mistakes, and Dunne has been our best defender so many times, totally standing out above any other player on the team. we depend on him too much, maybe the pressure was too much for him last night, and when he looks around him and sees O Shea, Kilbane, St. Ledger, he's probably thinking to himself " Christ i'm gonna have to be man-of-the-match again today if we're gonna get anything out of this game"Quote:
Originally Posted by eirebhoy
I would agree with you.Quote:
Originally Posted by eirebhoy
Dunne's size means that when he's playing against someone with a bit of pace (therefore almost every game), he'll get stuck on the wrong side a few times. He makes more than his fair share of excellent challenges in these situations, but also is guaranteed a couple of clumsy ones. The same happened last night. He really hasn't got the pace or lightness of foot to be a world class defender. But he gives you 100%.
O'Shea has been playing much better for Ireland under Trapp, but last night he was back to underperforming. Very hesitant and positionally poor, he didn't look comfortable at all. I wouldn't blame him too much for his distribution as he didn't really have much of an option short with midfield AWOL.
Surely his pace hasn't gone though? Vucinic and Torres are lightning quick and he had no problem dominating them. Dunne was fast at his best. He didn't look very quick last night.
I know what you mean, but I think there's a difference between pace and speed. Dunne is quick in a straight line when he gets going, but because of his size he doesn't turn well. So he relies a lot on his reading of the game to be in the right place at the right time and not to be stuck on the wrong side (not unlike McGrath in his later years).Quote:
Originally Posted by eirebhoy
Last night he wasn't reading the game well, maybe it didn't help that the lads beside him were also poor.
Also, Torres whilst fast, is quite tall and hasn't got a low centre of gravity. I'd say Dunne far prefers playing against bigger lads.
In mitigation, Dunne is not an early (season) riser.
Also he missed out a good bit of training recently.
He'll be grand for the Italy game.
one poor game lads, Im not willing to write him off just yet after how good he has been throughout this campaign.Must have been difficult to get his mind right when he was trying to sort out a move in the middle of an important weeks training for the game. He will back to his best against Italy I have absolutely no doubts
he was poor tonight, could have given away two penos and gave away a stupid and needless freekick with 2 minutes to go
Are you Steve Staunton?Quote:
Originally Posted by geysir
Yeah were normally good around March!
Dont know if this was posted already but when dunnie was at City, one of the staff at the ground required a back operation which cost 15k, dunnie did a whip around and put the majority in himself. You dont hear too many stories like that in any walk of life never mind football. Fair play dunnie, the man has gone up in my estimation - again.
nice to hear them helping out, didnt robbie pay for new kits for all the age groups at one of his old dublin school boy clubs. cant remember the name.Quote:
Originally Posted by paul_oshea
debut for villa today
Good luck Richard. Show man city that they should have treated their best player over the last five years with a lot more respect.Quote:
Originally Posted by rebelmusic
Man city= plenty of money= absolutely no class.
Quote from Sky Sports
"I like Richhard Dunne in a Villa shirt- he looks right at home.
Here is is tidying up again with a flicked clearance to nullify any Birmingham threat"
Word on the villa forums is that they're generally very impressed with Dunne's showing thus far. :)
Villa at the moment are a modest club that seems to be boxing clever under O'Neill. It's a good club for a player to move to if they're the right mentality. We could potentially see Dunne move into another level of class at the club - I certainly had no faith in any part of the setup at City. Hope it goes as well for him as another famous Irish centre back who played at Villa ;)
All i'll say is go read the match details on sky sports score center. They're raving about him