Aston Villa to sign Micah Richards - CONFIRMED

Welcome Micah, SSN Breaking News has said he's signed a 4 year deal, also on the OS.

Aye. Welcome Micah. Stay fit please buddy! 

At last!

Welcome Micha and I sincerely hope you go on to be a fans favourite like you was at City:beer:


http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~4800877,00.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

No longer speculation! Welcome buddy :)

Good business. Love it. An absolute beast who should be a real asset if he keeps fit.

Excellent start to the window. More to come too.

Cracking news , young, English & free, could possibly be our best "free" ever !
Welcome to VP Mr Richards , keep em coming Mr Sherwood !

now we await news for Huddlestone

Welcome Micah

Welcome Micah - Hope you put in some sterling work for us.

(that's hope not expect)

Great signing IMO

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Villa_Dan wrote:Great signing IMO

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I'm fairly easy going...but that comment is a fucking disgrace mate....shocking!

Please don't repeat that or anything like that again Dan.

It was a joke because there's 2 black guys and 1 white guy. It wasn't an insult and wasn't meant as offensive.

I'm sure it wasn't but it could easily be taken as such.

Fair enough, I understand that.

ok, besides that, how about that as a back 3- fast, strong, tall, okore and clark have good passing skills... most of the time...

Great signing, think he'll do well for us..... Next???

fastbackace wrote:ok, besides that, how about that as a back 3- fast, strong, tall, okore and clark have good passing skills... most of the time...

Richards can play CB & FB - so there are many permutations - he could play as full back, CB in a 2 or 3 CB formation.

I think he will start CB but end up FB.

I like the kind of flexibility Richards brings. Can change our tactics mid-game by simply moving him further out wide if we are struggling on that side. He'll be a beast for us IMO

Crikey, a good, experienced, big name defender who doesn't spend most of his time injured. I was thinking Vlaar out (or at best a squad player, due to relentless injury), Baker and Senderos in reserve and one other player to join Okore and Clark as our backbone. I still believe that until we have 25 excellent players from which to choose a starting 11 so good we can play the same formation every week we need to be able to set up differently depending on the opposition - whether that be with three plus wingbacks or four at the back - but have the flexibility to cover so we never ever see the LB disaster that was N'Zogbia/Lowton/Hutton/Richardson/Bacuna.

Happy 27th birthday today for Micha!

Best wishes and hope you become a legend

He really needs to shut up. His babbling in the media 24/7 is already pissing me off.

Joppe84 wrote:He really needs to shut up. His babbling in the media 24/7 is already pissing me off.

I'm pretty sure he isn't phoning journos up telling them to "run this". It's just so little news is coming out of Villa Park, the media makes stories out of nothing. Remember when Houllier was here and it sounded like all he did was talk about Liverpool, but if you watched his pressers, he'd just answer the one or two questions he's asked about his time there, in addition to the dozens more about Villa. The Liverpool questions were the only ones the media picked up on, and ran them every week.

I don't think Richards is doing anything wrong here. He's doing a lot of interviews because he is our highest profile signing so far.

Joppe84 wrote:He really needs to shut up. His babbling in the media 24/7 is already pissing me off.

Grow up - footballers do press interviews when they're the latest signing, especially when our captain almost goes to his old club. You don't have to read/watch his interviews do you?