{"id":349272,"date":"2011-03-30T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/30\/james-milner-i-left-aston-villa-for-manchester-city-to-play-in-the-centre-of-midfield\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T08:31:00","slug":"james-milner-i-left-aston-villa-for-manchester-city-to-play-in-the-centre-of-midfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/james-milner-i-left-aston-villa-for-manchester-city-to-play-in-the-centre-of-midfield\/","title":{"rendered":"James Milner: I left Aston Villa for Manchester City to play in the centre of midfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Adithya Ananth<\/h3>\n<h4>30 Mar 2011 09:31:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"56.094306049822\">\n<div readability=\"14.049504950495\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James Milner, Manchester City (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3feddb46107609_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>James Milner, Manchester City (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"16.298588490771\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/4696\/james-milner\">James Milner<\/a> insists that he moved from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/95\/aston-villa\">Aston Villa<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/manchester-city\">Manchester City<\/a> to ply his trade in the centre of midfield.<\/p>\n<p>The England international was given the role he favours during the friendly with Ghana, which saw Asamoah Gyan&#8217;s equaliser cancel out a first international goal for Andy Carroll.<\/p>\n<p>And having played in a central role, Milner told <em>Sky Sports<\/em>: &#8220;I enjoyed it. I think that\u2019s my best position. I played there for Aston Villa. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s why I moved to Man City, to play there in central midfield, and maybe I haven\u2019t played there as much as I would have liked but I\u2019ll do whatever\u2019s best for the team. It was great to play in there tonight and hopefully contribute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Milner joined City last summer in a \u00a326 million deal that also saw Stephen Ireland move to the Midlands club.<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/3feddb46107609_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/30\/2417898\/james-milner-i-left-aston-villa-for-manchester-city-to-play\" title=\"James Milner: I left Aston Villa for Manchester City to play in the centre of midfield\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Milner: I left Aston Villa for Manchester City to play in the centre of midfield<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Adithya Ananth 30 Mar 2011 09:31:00 James Milner, Manchester City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players James Milner insists that he moved from Aston Villa to Manchester City to ply his trade in the centre of midfield. The England international was given the role he favours during the friendly with Ghana, which saw Asamoah Gyan&#8217;s equaliser cancel out a first international goal for Andy Carroll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>James Milner: I left Aston Villa for Manchester City to play in the centre of midfield - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/james-milner-i-left-aston-villa-for-manchester-city-to-play-in-the-centre-of-midfield\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"James Milner: I left Aston Villa for Manchester City to play in the centre of midfield - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Adithya Ananth 30 Mar 2011 09:31:00 James Milner, Manchester City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players James Milner insists that he moved from Aston Villa to Manchester City to ply his trade in the centre of midfield. 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