{"id":467028,"date":"2011-07-24T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/24\/alex-mcleish-tells-aston-villa-players-to-live-near-birmingham\/"},"modified":"2011-07-24T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T11:58:00","slug":"alex-mcleish-tells-aston-villa-players-to-live-near-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/24\/alex-mcleish-tells-aston-villa-players-to-live-near-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex McLeish tells Aston Villa players to live near Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"49.1584867076\"><span readability=\"3.71951219512\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/95\/aston-villa\">Aston Villa<\/a> manager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/scotland\/19100\/alex-mcleish\">Alex McLeish<\/a> has asked those players who travel a long distance to the club&#8217;s training ground to move closer to Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>McLeish\u2019s words echo the policy of previous Villa manager Gerard Houllier, who had disagreements with star players like Stephen Warnock and Richard Dunne because they refused to move.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span readability=\"17\"><br \/>However, while the new manager is prepared to be slightly softer on the club\u2019s policy, he still believes that his players should at least live closer to the club\u2019s training ground.<\/p>\n<p>McLeish told <em>The Daily Mirror<\/em>: \u201cThere are four or five players involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am asking them to move to Birmingham and I want evidence they are making genuine efforts to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do understand concerns about families moving, but there\u2019s nothing to stop individuals renting a flat or sharing with one of the other lads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In particular, McLeish wants Dunne, Warnock and Stephen Ireland to look for houses closer to the club\u2019s Bodymoor Heath training ground.<\/p>\n<p>New signing Shay Given has already said he is looking for somewhere in Birmingham after leaving Manchester City for \u00a33.5 million.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>See original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/07\/24\/2588295\/alex-mcleish-tells-aston-villa-players-to-live-near\" title=\"Alex McLeish tells Aston Villa players to live near Birmingham\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex McLeish tells Aston Villa players to live near Birmingham<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish has asked those players who travel a long distance to the club&#8217;s training ground to move closer to Birmingham. <\/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-467028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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