SPECULATION - Wayne Routledge

[aaronrfc]

QPR have confirmed they are not interested in Routledge. Would really like to see us go after him, has definetely got the potential.

maybe the person who started this got told that he was signing for a team playing in blue and white hoops, and he guessed the wrong team...?

[Coppelled Streets]

QPR have confirmed they are not interested in Routledge. Would really like to see us go after him, has definetely got the potential.

SSN get it wrong then or QPR were given short shrift after making an unacceptable £1.8m offer.

I'd love to see us bring him here, just what we need, in either division!

[moo]

Wages could be a problem.

Haha! Do me a oxf*rd favour! Wages a problem for Routledge!?!?

Jesus..

Yes. We won't be able to afford his wages, well, we won't be willing to pay his the kind of wages he will expect.

[Coppelled Streets]

Wages could be a problem.

Haha! Do me a oxf*rd favour! Wages a problem for Routledge!?!?

Jesus..

Yes. We won't be able to afford his wages, well, we won't be willing to pay his the kind of wages he will expect.

I thought he was on around 15k a week at Spurs? I know we're tight but we can match that.

[Hoop Blah]

He's been on SSN this morning advertising his services.

He thinks Spurs are overvaluing him a bit at the moment and is more keen on a permenant move. I wonder if a cheeky loan move would be accepted though?

Almost certainly no future at Spurs though.

[West Stand Flash]

I just cant understand why Coppell wouldn't be interested.

Ready made Premiership right winger, premiership experience, everyone knows is a good player, only struggles to get in there side due to Aaron Lennon & wouldn't break the bank with wages or transfer fee.

Crazy if we weren't interested.

[Platypuss]

I just cant understand why Coppell wouldn't be interested.

Ready made Premiership right winger, premiership experience, everyone knows is a good player, only struggles to get in there side due to Aaron Lennon & wouldn't break the bank with wages or transfer fee.

Never mind all that - he played for Palace!

[The whole year inn]

I just cant understand why Coppell wouldn't be interested.

Ready made Premiership right winger, premiership experience, everyone knows is a good player, only struggles to get in there side due to Aaron Lennon & wouldn't break the bank with wages or transfer fee.

Crazy if we weren't interested.

Palace links too.

We currently have no right wingers in a side that until now has thrived on our wide play.

Get involved Steve FFS

[West Stand Flash]

I just cant understand why Coppell wouldn't be interested.

Ready made Premiership right winger, premiership experience, everyone knows is a good player, only struggles to get in there side due to Aaron Lennon & wouldn't break the bank with wages or transfer fee.

Never mind all that - he played for Palace!

Doh - Yep that too. It must be a done deal surely then

[Stranded]

I just cant understand why Coppell wouldn't be interested.

Ready made Premiership right winger, premiership experience, everyone knows is a good player, only struggles to get in there side due to Aaron Lennon & wouldn't break the bank with wages or transfer fee.

Crazy if we weren't interested.

He was a bit pants during his loan at Fulham by all accounts, was in and out of the side.

[Badger Finger]

Are people forgetting the fact that he's shit?

Did none of you watch the U21 tournament during the summer? Christ on a bike!

[Hoop Blah]

I just cant understand why Coppell wouldn't be interested.

Ready made Premiership right winger, premiership experience, everyone knows is a good player, only struggles to get in there side due to Aaron Lennon & wouldn't break the bank with wages or transfer fee.

Crazy if we weren't interested.

He was a bit pants during his loan at Fulham by all accounts, was in and out of the side.

A bit like Soel then.

He was so good at Palace though and we never usually seem worried about taking players that can't get into other teams sides.

I don't think this is going to happen. I guess Coppell just doesn't rate him but with our complete lack of natural right wingers I can't help but think this would be a good signing.

[cmonurz]

Villa for Routledge then.

[The Prisoner]

Has just turned down Cardiff as Villa have agreed a deal with "another club". Cracking young ambitious player and available for only 300k ish - surely ideal for us? Could we be about to do another Sidwell and poach an on-loan player from under someone's noses? I know he is heavily linked with QPR, but surely we are a better bet for prem footy next year?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 807192.stm


Routledge rejects Cardiff switch

Aston Villa winger Wayne Routledge has rejected a permanent move to Cardiff City in order to move to another club.

The 23-year-old has impressed during his six week loan spell at the FA Cup finalists and has also attracted attention from Championship rivals QPR.

The FA Cup finalists bid an estimated £300,000 for Routledge and offered him a three-and-a-half year contract.

But Cardiff chief Peter Ridsdale said: "We have been informed that Villa have a agreed a deal with another club."

Cardiff were confident of signing the former England under-21 international as Bluebirds chairman Ridsdale said the club were "close" to agreeing a permanent deal for Routledge on New Year's Eve.

But Routledge, whose loan spell at Ninian Park was due to expire on 17 January, has been recalled to Premier League giants Villa after agreeing a move to another club.

Ridsdale told BBC Sport: "We couldn't have done any more to keep him.

"We spoke to Villa and while we had not concluded a transfer fee we felt it was pretty close so that wasn't the issue.

"The issue was the lad himself wanted to go.

"We offered him a three-and-a-half-year contract on terms that were frankly very generous and all week he had been stalling on whether to except.

"That told me he was in two minds and I wasn't surprised when I got the phone call from Aston Villa on Friday morning."

Ridsdale added: "We are left to thank him for his six weeks at the club and to focus on the FA Cup match this weekend."

The former Tottenham Hotspur star joined Cardiff on a two-month loan deal in November as Dave Jones sought cover for injured midfielders Joe Ledley and Peter Whittingham.

Routledge, who has Ashley Young and James Milner ahead of him in the Villa pecking order, has made just two substitute appearances for Villa since joining from Tottenham for £1.25m in January 2008.

Routledge helped inspire the Bluebirds to fourth in the Championship and was part of their eight-match unbeaten run.

But Routledge rejecting Cardiff just days after striker Michael Chopra's successful loan spell was terminated by his parent club Sunderland is another blow to boss Dave Jones' Championship play-off push.

[Hoop Blah]

We should've got him last year in my opinion, we didn't and as the story goes (and is mentioned all over the place) it's QPR who have trumped Cardiff for his signature.

As Vision said the other day, it's possibly that Coppell knows something about him we dont about him as he looks to tick all our boxes, especially last season when we were crying out for a winger, but he doesn't seem to have been interested.

[Geekins]

Wish it was us but very much doubt it.

[Deathy]

QPR

[yappy]

It's quite obviously going to be QPR, would've been nice to sign Routledge and for him to make his debut against Cardiff!

[One Beer is never enough.]

Now 'confirmed' on SSN

[Deathy]

And yet we've needed a right winger for what, 2 years?

Chris Eagles, a snip at £1m and went to Burnley.
Wayna Routledge, a bargain at £300k, going to QPR.