Some more in the know news has come out of Villa Park today and as usual, take it with a grain of salt. But, the last time I did an ITK post, all things became true, minus Kozak going out on loan. But that move was largely influenced by the arrival of Remi Garde. Nonetheless, let’s begin:
Aly Cissokho can and will definitely be brought back to Villa from his loan move at Porto. Villa are in need of a new left-back and Garde has previously worked with Cissokho. Cissokho isn’t getting too much game time at Porto and appears to be keen on reuniting with Garde. It’s not known whether or not Cissokho will be brought in before January to get some extra training but Cissokho can not play for Villa until January anyway.
The rumour of Adama Traore’s £80,000 a week contract is simply not true. There are no appearances clauses in his contract and will not become Villa’s highest earning player any time soon. What does remain true about Traore is that he hasn’t be playing because the coaching staff simply don’t believe that he is ready to be playing first team football. Traore has a bag load of potential, but he is very frustrating to work with in training. Garde has tried to tell Adama numerous times to track back, but he is apparently very stubborn and refusing to adapt his playing style. Traore will most likely not be anywhere near the first team any time soon.
A new centre-forward is a top priority in the January transfer window, until then the plan is to try and get as many points as possible and try to push on from January on wards with a new forward. Speaking of January, a new goal keeper is not on the list with Guzan set to remain Villa’s first team keeper.
In training, Garde has prioritised set pieces with Veretout now responsible for the majority of set pieces at Villa. This showed against Watford with Villa scoring a goal from a set piece. Training has also been intensified and Garde’s first day of training was labelled as incredibly physical by the players standard. But this was an average training session for Garde’s Lyon side. It seems as though the players were seriously lacking match fitness and Garde is continuing to work on this aspect of the game.
You can take this with a grain of salt, but this information is incredibly interesting and gives fans a small insight into what is really going on, behind the scenes of Aston Villa.
I suspect there’s a lot of pussy-footing around about what some think, because we want to try and keep things upbeat on the whole.
Here’s my very frank take;
Veretout and Gana are utter crap, as it stands and shouldn’t even be in a Villa midfield.
There you go, I’ve said it.
I we put all our players & I mean every player in a hat who we don’t rate I guarantee you that would be the whole of our squad.so the overall opinion is we’re absolutely utter SHITE.there is not one single player we have that everyone agrees is decent.
IF we put *
I think there are two possibilities –
1, Lerner invests some cash to help us stay up, like he did with Darren Bent – problem here is I think we are clear out of luck and think we will go down anyway, which could leave us in financial sh1t…. I doubt anyone will come to us unless, like previously, its for their one last chunky pay cheque.
2, Lerner bury’s his head in the sand and thinks we will fight our way out of it – most probable possibility with the club coming out with their building for the future/transition crap !!
Whatever – I think we are down due to the woeful running of the club and purchasing replacement players by way of a computer game.
Shame on you Lerner !
I think Amavi is quality. Injured of course.
Not really sure I agree that all our players are crap, I still think that they’re better than their current position (mind you that might only mean 16th instead of 20th) but they’re just not playing together, especially the defence where it’s most crucial.
Yes Watford got a lot of new players in but they also got their new manager in at the same time (he joined last June). This gave him some time to sort out the team he wanted.
Unfortunately we also gave our manager some time but it turned out to be the wrong manager. Even with some time Tim just couldn’t make it work.
Just wondering if Garde had been in place in the close season and with the same squad would we be doing somewhat better?
Oh well it’s all supposition now. Anyway Milton Keynes is just down the road from me so it’s handy for at least one away game next season :-((
Pat there’s even fans who knock amavi for his defending abilities but good going forward & crossing the ball.guaranteed someone out there don’t rate him.
Interesting – originally lots of optimism on here – much better squad than last season was the general consensus. Now, understandably not only does the owner / management stink (no change there then) ALL the players are useless – not one gets a tick in the box even Gana who was widely accepted as a good buy has descended to being ‘utter crap’ to quote Badger.
So, at last, we have complete agreement on this site.
Aston Villa are utter sh**e and deserve to go down probably no matter who the manager is or who we buy / don’t buy in January.
‘So, at last, we have complete agreement on this site’
Not quite, I’m still harbouring a little hope. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, okay it’s only a tealight and the wind is bloody strong yet…
Won’t totally give up until January. At least I’ll have something to take my mind of it then, I’m hopefully going to see Barca thrash Bilbao at the Nou Camp for my 65th.
At least one of my teams are okay 🙂
Pasalo bien at the nou camp pat hope they stuff em MATE.
Thanks Giddy.
Should be an experience, I mean actually watching a team I support win a game. Nearly forgot what that was like 🙂
LOL 😀 funny enough I’ve started supporting Bayern Munich I wonder why???
Glory hunter!!
Remember seeing Cruyff do his turn at Villa Park (1978?). Thought it was entirely magical. Supported Barca ever since – as my second team of course.
Well one out of two isn’t bad I suppose 🙂
2-2 John Deehan scored the equaliser in the dying moments, them where the days Pat.