Aston Villa defender Curtis Davies admits he is braced for an "interesting reception" when he returns to West Brom next season.Davies, well on the road to recovery from a ruptured Achilles, was viewed as public enemy number one by some Baggies fans when he joined Villa on loan last season - a transfer that became permanent earlier this week.
The former Luton player was booed when he turned out in a pre-season game for Albion last summer before he moved to Villa at the end of the August transfer window.
But Davies has no regrets about the move and believes Albion will be able to invest heavily from the money they acquired for his services - believed to be around £8 million.
He said: "The Albion fans booed me in a friendly but that is expected, with the way things are portrayed to fans being different to what the reality is.
"I wanted to leave because of my ambitions and because I left on the last day of the transfer window, it seems a bit as if I was hung out to dry.
"It was one of those things. I know they were booing me at the start of that friendly game but then they tried to clap me off the pitch. It shows fans can change their minds very quickly.
"The main thing for me is I'm at the club where I want to be and I just need to concentrate on my football now and press on - but it will be an interesting reception at The Hawthorns!"
Davies added: "I hold no regrets and it has turned out well for both sides.
"I hope they don't regret me going because at the end of the day they have got a good fee for me and they are back in the Premier League anyway.
"They can use the fee from me to buy more players. I am happy for Albion that they have gone back up and next season it will be interesting to see how they get on."
Davies has started kicking a ball in training for the first time since the injury against Arsenal in early March and is hoping to be back challenging for a first team place by the end of September.
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lol you baggies only came up due to a villa reject scoring your goals youve got no players who could make curtis look a t..t i just hope you are more competition then the blu noses were although 8 mill is a lot to pay for him when michael dawson wouldnt cost that much
silver badger you've made my day i agree with all that you say above.........boing boing
For a player hwo has yet to prove himself in the Premiership, doesn't he make an awful lot of noise.
As for the comments about "fickle" Baggies fans - just shows how thick he is - clap him off the pitch? Doesn't he understand anything about Black country humour? He was being clapped off the pitch and away out of sight, the effing Judas
I wonder if he'll be so full of s**t when the team he felt wasn't good enough for his golden skills come to the Villa and makes him look a t**t
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