Now that Alpay has become available, should we be in for him? He was bought for #5 mil., so an offer of around #4 mil. should be enough to secure his services in our defence.

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2000

Answers

No. He has been with Villa for about 6 weeks and alreday wants to go to a "better" PL club. We have no resaon to think that he would be any more loyal to us if we had a bad patch. Besides which, did you see against Boro on MOTD?

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2000