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Martin O'Neill has lately been hit with rumours about him leaving
Aston Villa. O'Neill has silently build stone by stone in his work at
Villa Park. The club is close to be among the best in the country, but
if his best players departs it will be impossible to stay on and make
Villa a Champions League contender.
Gareth Barry left Aston Villa last summer after a massive hunt from
Liverpool and Man City. Man City won the battle. The fact that James
Milner could be on his way to Man Utd is not something that O'Neill can
accept.
The situation at Aston Vila is a bit simular to what O'Neill experienced
at Leicester, but at a different scale. He has done at Villa what he did
at Leicester, moving his team a new and better level.
O'Neill seldom makes mistakes in the transfer market and he is also
known for his special abillity to see potential in players that others
have dumped or given up.
He has this season moved James Milner from a wide position in midfield
and into the middle. Milner is a new and better player and has evolved
under O'Neill.
Man Utd manager Sir Alex Ferguson has been impressed with the
progression of Milner and could be tempted to try to bring him to Old
Trafford.
As soon as players get notice of interest from clubs such as Liverpool,
Man Utd, Chelsea or Arsenal it will never be easy to keep them were they
are.
The only reason to stay on at their current clubs is if they can compete
with the top teams and show great ambition.
Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner has not yet shown the willingness of
bringing or keeping the best players to Villa Park, and this is probably
a reason why Martin O'Neill could walk out on the club in the summer.
Everyone thought that O'Neill left Leicester 10 years ago to go to
Celtic because he was long admirer of the club and that he always wanted
to manage at Celtic. That might be the right reason.
O'Neill knew that he had squezed out what was possible at Leicester, and
when the club decided to sell Emile Heskey to Liverpool, he knew that he
himself couldn't keep international players at the club and that his
time was up. This is probably also a situation that he could be at Villa
at this very moment.
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