Bencey83 has submitted the following and I think it’s an interesting question;
Judging by the recent poll, it appears that the majority of us think that this may be the season that our luck runs out and we make the fateful drop into the Championship.
I thought it would be interesting to consider who we think will remain at the club after the dust settles.
Personally, I can see the following jumping ship at the earliest opportunity, regardless of whether or not we go down:
Benteke (looks totally disinterested at the moment)
Cleverley (probably still hoping for an Everton move)
Bent (he’ll be off as soon as his contract runs out)
Vlaar (as soon as he gets a better offer or when he becomes a free agent)
I can see the following being snapped up by other clubs in England on the cheap if we get relegated:
Delph
Sinclair (will probably go out on loan elsewhere)
Hutton
Cissokho
And I can see the following going overseas on the cheap:
Gil
Sanchez
Okore
Kozak
Weimann
Bacuna
N’Zogbia
Helenius
Sylla
Tonev
Who will we be left with?
I think that Lambert will stay, saying “I owe it to the Chairman and the fans to take us back up” and we will all groan in disbelief as the Villa PR team go into overdrive trying to justify why we have gone down. Maybe he will manage to take us back up – he has a decent track record in the lower leagues – or maybe we’ll just disappear into the abyss with the other once-great teams, such as Forrest and Leeds, who are still struggling to break free from the shackles of the lesser money divisions.
His squad will probably consist of the following (either because nobody will take them off our hands or due to some skewed sense of loyalty):
Guzan
Lowton
Clark
Baker
Bennett
Herd
Westwood
Gardner
Grealish
Robinson
Burke
Steer
Stevens
Donacien
Calder
To be honest, it doesn’t really look too bad a squad of youngsters for the Championship that would probably do well under a good manager, but Lambert would probably take them down another division.
Not sure about this lot, could go either way, as they’re all a bit over the hill. They could well stick around, as I’m not sure there would be a great deal of Premier League interest:
Given
Gabby
Cole
Senderos
Looking through our current squad has made me realise that we do have a good balance of youth and experience and really are under achieving. We should be comfortably sitting in mid table and not flirting with relegation yet again! I despair! UTV!!!
Would love to see, N’Zogbia, Given, Richardson, Luna, Tonev, Cole – all out of the club, plus im 50/50 about some others….Weimann, Gabby, Bennet, Herd. The amount of wages saved straight away would be nice and plus it wouldn’t really affect the squad as we have imo some good youngsters to provide the cover.
He’s playing a lot in Denmark at the moment. He played in the Europa League too this season which none of our lot can put a claim to. So he’s recovered now I guess. I think the main part of it was Lambert and what’s going on behind the scenes day to day.
How heart breaking when a 6 year old boy feels the need to help Villahttp://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/watch-six-year-old-aston-villa-fan-5114985. How will we generate young fans with bad displayed so called football at Villa Park.
Just watched it – what a great kid!
He’s only 6 and he even he knows we need to change managers. Someone please send the link to Bernie and Tom ASAP
Sorry meant Randy and Tom!!!
That little 6 year old coming on central news sports.
I am almost too depressed to comment on this post, but there is one fact that may be overlooked. In the manager’s and all the players’ contracts there will be a break clause activated by relegation.
It is there to allow the club to reduce their wages, but if you propose to offer somebody reduced terms you cannot hold him to the contract. The players are not out of contract and free agents who can walk out of the door, but they can force the club to put them up for transfer unless the club keeps them on at the same wages.
Termination payments will also be reduced or cancelled. Lambert and any player will be able to be dismissed without paying up the full contract, probably only 3 months wages.
Please note I do not know the details of any Villa contracts, but the provisions I mention are quite common in the case of relegation, so I think they are likely to apply.
OLL is it known as the shower of shite clause?
seems like we joined the players in giving up, waving the white flags,
i have abandon hope on the chelsea game. i might even avoid watching or listening to this mismatch. so i don’t hit the lows again, i did all this week from the arsenal game.
the hull game is key. big IF, but if we can come out of the chelsea game with some bollocks, some fight, everything that seems to be going against us, can quickly change.
time to believe or at least while its mathematically possible
p/s avoid the chelsea game at all costs,
I’m not even contemplating relegation . We are better than that I’m expecting benteke to save us . Maybe I hope . Gill and Sinclair can provide the ammunition.
And then your alarm went off.
Dreaming I’m only Dreaming, I feel a song coming on.