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Cuellar on way to Villa for £7.8m



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Published Date: 12 August 2008
CARLOS CUELLAR is set to become Aston Villa's latest summer signing after the Barclays Premier League club agreed a £7.8million fee with Rangers.
Villa last night had a bid accepted, confirmed by Rangers as ¤10m, which invoked the release clause in the Spaniard's contract.

Villa were today discussing terms with the 26-year-old although Rangers already consider the player as good as sold,
claiming yesterday the deal was complete subject to a medical.

Cuellar, who was outstanding for Rangers after joining the Scottish club from Osasuna last season, told Rangers officials he wished to leave the club at the weekend.

His decision is a huge blow to the Scottish club coming just a week after a humiliating early exit from the Champions League at the qualifying stages.

Cuellar was instrumental in Rangers' run to the UEFA Cup final last season and was named Scottish Football Writers' player of the year.

Rangers revealed they offered the player a substantially improved contract but it was declined due to his desire to move to the Premier League.

Cuellar said: "My ambition has always been to play for my national team and I believe that playing in the biggest league in the world for Aston Villa will help me realise that. When I told (chief executive] Martin Bain on Sunday that I wanted to leave, I did so with sadness.

"The Rangers supporters have been fantastic to me, but I am young and want to play at the highest level and I hope they will always welcome me back. I want to thank them for everything."

Cuellar is set to become Villa's seventh signing of the summer following Curtis Davies, Steve Sidwell, Luke Young, Nicky Shorey, Brad Friedel and Brad Guzan.

Rangers manager Walter Smith expressed his disappointment at Cuellar's decision to move on.

He said: "This has come as a surprise and I am disappointed. Carlos Cuellar has been a great player for the football club and there has been speculation about him playing in the Premiership. The club has received a substantial uplift in fee and we will now reinvest in the team."





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  • Last Updated: 12 August 2008 9:30 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Rangers FC
 
1

BEMUSED EXILE,

12/08/2008 14:00:47
There will be numerous theories abounding over this one, so let's lay the facts out right at the start...

Cuellar signed a 4-year deal with RFC, but wanted to play at the highest level of club and international football, so a 10 million euro "escape" clause was inserted. However, this clause couldn't be triggered in the first year.

After his superb first season, RFC realised that they might lose him, and realised that only CL football would persuade him to stay. Following the goalless draw at Ibrox against Kaunas, WS knew that Cuellar would probably be leaving, so he spent £2.5 million on a replacement, Bougherra.

When RFC were subsequently knocked out of Europe, WS knew that Cuellar was a goner, so he protected RFC by stating that they didn't want to sell the player, and had received no bids. However, when the fans and media interpreted that comment as meaning that Cuellar would definitely stay, WS attempted to soften them up for the inevitable disappointment by stating that RFC were "vulnerable to a predatory bid", which was a coded way of saying that if an offer of a certain size came in, RFC would be powerless to stop the player leaving.

There are the facts. Now I'll sit back and await the fiction...
2

&Larrsonfixestheradio,

12/08/2008 14:31:30
M´lud as you can see the defendant is in a state of denial which exhibits itself with a tendency of being mistake for a pathological liar who has been found roaming the streets singing "We lost Carlos to Aston Villa ... I´m going home top cry in my pilla"

I have tried to convince my client not to worry and that Murray is going to hijack the Hearts Balogh loan deal...so that the gers can have Balou the bear and Bagherra playing in the same team ... its just the bear necessities .....you see

David Murrays state of denial to the nation address follows .. exhibit 1

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=s46SgIBpQ-Q

exhibit two m´lud

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v113/james73/kerrydale/hun_ofahcast1.jpg

Silence in court. Silence in court. Any more hilarity in my courtroom and you wont be going to Europe this year

HAil HAil
3

BEMUSED EXILE,

12/08/2008 14:53:57
Didn't have to wait too long, then.

Not so much fiction as gobbledygook, frankly, embroidered with links that nobody will look at.
4

&Larrsonfixestheradio,

12/08/2008 15:08:44
Bemused,

Rangers have been trying to sell Cuellar all summer and to the highest bidder. The release clause that they agreed to last summer has never been changed but kept well under wraps. Nobody wanted the Scottish writers players of the year. You know the group that chose Rangers to win the SPL based on Walters Hex over Gordon Strachan.

Cuellar like DAnny ShittonU had been promised many things if he kept stumm. Rangers knowing that Carlos was not going to be earning CL bonuses this year and knowing that he wasn´t prepared to wait until the January window like Boumsong did as there was no point as you are no longer in Europe knew that the time was ripe to move.

The lies that Murray had fed him about a big money move to Spurs wasn´t happening and MON told him he was pulling the plug on him. Hence he moved for the minimum amount in his get out clause. How did MON know that one ? cos Carlos´agent told him.

I can feel your pain from here bud. You need to do something about your denial buddy it makes you look stupid.

HAil Hail
5

BEMUSED EXILE,

12/08/2008 15:14:55
Nice little story, but I don't buy a word. You're yet another Celtic fan who isn't happy to accept the obvious truth but prefers to spin every story to paint RFC in the poorest possible light.

Martin Bain reluctantly admitted after the Cousin fiasco in January that the player's £3 million clause didn't actually come into effect until this summer. It's reasonable to assume, given that Cuellar was signed at the same time, that his clause was similarly structured.

RFC crash out of Europe, Cuellar doesn't fancy another SPL season, decides to exercise his clause, has his agent alert interested parties south of the border, and MON makes his move.

It ain't rocket science.
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&Larrsonfixestheradio,

12/08/2008 15:21:12
Bemused,

Cousins has no release clause in his contract. That was another lie peddled by Murray to gullible bears like yourself who thought you were selling good quality players during the January transfer window when you were on the cusp of an unprecedented treble. A lot of the intelligent bears out there were worried that you´d just end up with two tin cups if it continued. So Murray comes up with the escape clause routine. He´s bare faced lying to you .... haven´t you read Templetons funny money assertion ? and you are sure right it´s not rocket science its barter circa 1690

Hail Hail
7

BEMUSED EXILE,

12/08/2008 15:28:17
So now there was no clause for Cousin or Cuellar? You get funnier by the minute. If that were the case, then why did nobody come in lower for either player? Surely a £2 million bid for Cousin or a £5 million bid for Cuellar would have been worth a try?

You'll also have to explain your Danny Shittu and Boumsong references to me, particularly concerning Boumsong "waiting" until the January window to move. He left at the first available window, just a few months after he signed, so just how soon did you expect him to go?

Santa Claus is a fictional character. The escape clause, however, is real.
8

&Larrsonfixestheradio,

12/08/2008 15:51:23
There was always the clause for Cuellar just that Rangers didn´t want to publicise it as they wanted to keep him or get more than the miminum. Completely unlike Cousin who they would have punted for half of that if they could. Now you surely can understand that BE ?

Cousin was wanting out and Rangers done everything they could to get him out. Citing a 3m buy out clause as a way of saying there was nothing they could do about it as Hutton had just left ...without a clause also I may add.

It was all a mute point as Cousin couldn´t be sold anyway the numpties that they are. Remember Watty telling FIFA to get the finger out ??? LOL when there was nothing for FIFA to do

Shittu was verbally promised 20k a week and then when it came to it in writing it was 13k a week.

I reckon that Murray would have liked to have kept Cuellar until the January window as thats when EPL relegation fodder pay big bucks for laptop loyal players of the year... that way Murray gets his cake and eats it

HAil Hail
9

BEMUSED EXILE,

12/08/2008 16:03:05
Nope, I can't understand that. If RFC would have punted "Cousin" for half of that amount, then why were Fulham prepared to pay £3 million, or are you about to claim that wasn't true either, despite the fee appearing on the Fulham website at the time? There was obviously a clause.

The "relegation fodder" is a pointless comment, since Cuellar wouldn't have been prepared to move to such a club anyway.

Shittu was "verbally promised" 20k a week? Really? Who's word are you taking for that one? It wouldn't have fitted in with the current wage structure, so I doubt that such an offer ever existed.

The fact that they were prepared to sell Hutton without even pretending that a clause existed only serves to strengthen the idea that there was a clause with Cousin and Hutton.

Ultimately though, even if you were right with your meanderings, I wouldn't have any problem. Selling Cuellar for £7.8 million, replacing him with Bougherra at £2.5 million, and using the other £5 million plus to bring in two new midfielders makes perfect sense and helps the team.
10

&Larrsonfixestheradio,

12/08/2008 16:15:49
Fulham were prepared to pay 3m. Rangers would have taken 1.5m ..more than they paid for him. The 3m clause which didn´t exist was a way of placating the Rangers support who didn´t want to see players leave without being replaced in the run up to an unprecedented treble.

I heard the same about Boumsong when he went to Newcastle ... he like Cuellar will be found out as an average player. I´ll always thank him for that hand ball and Barry Robsons penalty.

I´m taking Danny Shittus word on that one. Why should he lie?

Aye agree .. a great piece of business .. problem is that the bluenoses are so gullible that they believe the krap that they have been forced fed.

It´s MON that´s made the real howler here imho
11

BEMUSED EXILE,

12/08/2008 16:24:48
Boumsong will be found out as an average player.

Aye, cos they all end up playing for giants in Serie A, don't they?

RFC would have taken £1.5 million, but Fulham out of the goodness of their hearts were happy to hand over £3 million? Who writes your material?

Why should Shittu lie? Possibly to make the breakdown seem like RFC 's fault, and possibly so he didn't come out of it looking too greedy? Only a guess.

At least you seem to be admitting (I think, since you seem to contradict yourself a wee bit) that the Cuellar 10 million euro clause actually exists, and that RFC couldn't prevent him leaving, so we're getting somewhere.
12

&Larrsonfixestheradio,

12/08/2008 16:30:12
BE,

"There will be numerous theories abounding over this one, so let's lay the facts out right at the start..."

so how do you know the facts ?

The floor is yours
13

&Larrsonfixestheradio,

12/08/2008 16:37:45
http://scotzine.com/blog/?p=1021

Looks like it´s Mc Gregor next
14

BEMUSED EXILE,

12/08/2008 16:38:35
An interesting switch of tactics. Has your argument led to you headbutting too many walls?

Cuellar's clause I accept as a fact because Cuellar himself says so, RFC say so, and Aston Villa say so, which is good enough for me or any reasonable person without an agenda.

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BEMUSED EXILE,

12/08/2008 16:42:45
A "blog" makes it "look like" it's McGregor next? You're clutching at straws, and as I said earlier, I don't look at links.

McGregor has just signed a lucrative long contract, and I'd be amazed if he goes anywhere, and I'm pretty sure that there's no clause to trigger on that one.

Onwards and upwards.
16

&Larrsonfixestheradio,

12/08/2008 16:43:38
BE,

pre-tell has Mc Gregor an escape clause also in his brand new contract or is he definitely not leaving? :-)

p.s I think all the other bears are on FF today organising a Billy Boy demonstration for the weekend
17

&Larrsonfixestheradio,

12/08/2008 16:46:16
BE,

been fun shooting the breeze with you today . I need to go but I still stand by post #2

You need a psychiatric evaluation for that denial it will render you speechless one day. Hopefully one day soon.

Hail Hail
18

BEMUSED EXILE,

12/08/2008 16:50:33
Larrson

It is strangely quiet, although this thread doesn't appear on the main football page, so maybe it's being missed.

Don't personally think that SDM would risk selling McGregor. At least he has an excuse for the sale of Cuellar. Two good midfielders at a cost of several million, and nobody else important leaving is the least that we need now.

Yet strangely, if we sign the right players, I'm very confident that we can make a real fist of challenging for the SPL title this season.
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12/08/2008 20:07:13
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