Villa missing Cahill already

Son of Jardel · Post by **Son of Jardel** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:43 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 290510.stm

Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill admits he may have thought twice about selling Gary Cahill had he been able to predict the club's current injury problems.

Villa have lost Curtis Davies and Stephen O'Halloran for the rest of the season, while Olof Mellberg has been struggling for fitness recently.

O'Neill told BBC WM: "If we'd know this then the situation of letting Gary Cahill go might have arisen.

"We might not have done it. But he was desperate for first-team football."

Cahill moved to Bolton for £5m during the transfer window in January and has settled into life at The Reebok Stadium well.

"At the time we had Olof Mellberg and Zat Knight and the one area we had cover in was at centre-half," the Villa boss added.

O'Neill's options in defence have been restricted following the serious injury suffered by Davies, who will be out of action until at least October after rupturing his Achilles tendon at Arsenal.

O'Halloran may have been an option to cover but the young Irish defender damaged knee ligaments while on loan at Leeds.

Well, their loss is our gain!

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:44 pm

Shouldn't have flogged him then.

Dickhead

Hoboh · Post by **Hoboh** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:45 pm

Batman wrote:Shouldn't have flogged him then.

Dickhead

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:27 pm

Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill admits he may have thought twice about selling Gary Cahill had he been able to predict the club's current injury problems.

Villa have lost Curtis Davies and Stephen O'Halloran for the rest of the season, while Olof Mellberg has been struggling for fitness recently.

O'Neill told BBC WM: "If we'd know this then the situation of letting Gary Cahill go might have arisen.

It did, Martin, it did.

Zulus Thousand of em · Post by **Zulus Thousand of em** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:03 pm

Knight or Cahill? A tricky one that, Martin!

warthog · Post by **warthog** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:09 pm

Let's hope it doesn't affect them too much. We need them to beat 'Boro tonight.

enfieldwhite · Post by **enfieldwhite** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:19 pm

warthog wrote:Let's hope it doesn't affect them too much. We need them to beat 'Boro tonight.

We need to beat both of 'em soon.

Tombwfc · Post by **Tombwfc** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:53 pm

Well, they're losing at the minute.

Bastards 'Boro, you want them to win and they don't bother turning up. Want them to lose and they go and win.

SuperWhiteWarrior · Post by **SuperWhiteWarrior** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:40 pm

Their loss, our gain

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:59 am

feck em

CrazyHorse · Post by **CrazyHorse** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:05 am

communistworkethic wrote:feck em

Aye.

Soldier_Of_The_White_Army · Post by **Soldier_Of_The_White_Army** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:25 am

CrazyHorse wrote:
communistworkethic wrote:feck em
Aye.

I agree with Hoss' responce to Commie's responce to Villa's responce.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:41 am

Course, if you've got thirteen million kicking around Martin and want to throw a couple of players in, we may just.......

Matty-Sharples · Post by **Matty-Sharples** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:18 pm

Villa is coming up soon. Hope Cahill sticks one in them