Owen Coyle is interested in securing a loan deal for Villa winger Marc Albrighton. Albrighton is yet to feature for Villa in the League but has impressed in his only appearance to date, a League Cup start against Tottenham. The 23 year old used to be very highly rated amongst Villa fans and impressed under Houllier and McLeish, but under Lambert his career has been hampered with injuries.
It’s believed that Aston Villa have two offers on table, one being from Wigan and the other offer likely to be from Derby, who were linked with Albrighton earlier on in the season. Recently, Albrighton has had a minor throat injury which has ruled him out for a few games.
“There has been one or two asking for him.
“I’ll wait and see.
“He has done alright for me in training.
“I thought against Spurs in the cup he was excellent. He has just come through a little throat operation.” – Paul Lambert
According to the Birmingham Mail. Albrighton could possibly move to Wigan on loan this week. If Albrighton isn’t going to be given a chance, let him go out on loan to rejuvenate his career. I still rate Albrighton highly and reckon the youth academy graduate has a future at Villa Park. He is the type of player we are crying out for right now and it’s unfortunate that he isn’t given a chance. His contract is expiring at the end of the season so if he is to stay, he will need to find some game-time in order to impress.
I was looking forward to watching Albrighton devolp into a really decent player but unfortunately things haven’t worked out for him for various reasons. wether he has a future at Villa is Lamberts decision but sending him out on loan will hopefully help him re-discover some of the ability he showed he has in the past. It’ll be a good move for him I think.
Its a shame with MA he was really good under houllier and his performance in 2.2 draw with utd was superb. My only gripe was he was awful defensively never picked up his man and made lots of errors. However that could of been worked on. Let’s put it this way is he seriously a worse player than Tonev for example? I think not.
Tonev was our most creative player against Everton.
I think he did well and deserves another go in the team. I’m all up for more attacking players and Tonev is one of them.
But ideally I’d play Albrighton on the right and Tonev on the left wing
Tonev is awful his shooting and final ball is a joke. He put a couple of half decent crosses in but that’s it.
A couple half decent crosses is really the only thing he’s been able to do with the little amount of time given. He really improved after his first game where he really tried to get into the good graces of Villa fans, which sadly didn’t work. Get an inform striker in the box and he’ll be our highest assisting player.
We have got an inform striker Benteke. He still played well but goalie made great save.
4 goals in 18 shots, scoring in 3 of his 7 appearances, 2 came as results of penalties (first one against was the deflection back to him for an easy goal). I wouldn’t say he’s in form. Hopefully he does however get in form.
Fuck me the scum are doing well with 10 men 4.4 now ffs
Stoke’s first team is pretty poor. Truly not surprising a team like Birmingham with nothing to lose at home was going to go all out though.
They are not that poor they nearly got a good result away at utd on say ffs
I would have preferred to see him in action again after all he is an out and out winger, how many more player’s going out on loan, if he’s no happy then buy.
Lets face it, Albrighton will never be a PL player. He was massively over rated simply because he is a Villa fan and people wanted him to do well because of that. The reality is he is a mid to lower level championship player.
I’d put Albrighton closer to a safe, lower Prem to upper Championship player. I can’t remember a really good game from him other than owning Evra which everyone was doing. But then Wigan are great at taking players at loan and making them better so I do hope that Lambert lets him go, a month, till January, till next summer. It’s not like Villa will miss him just training, he needs to play, either that or sell him off.
I think he is another Peter Whittingham. Decent enough player but will prb end up spending most of his career in the Championship. Oh well, he should command a decent enough fee if we eventually sell…
Lambert letting Albrighton out on loan just shows he does not want home grown or English or any British players only foreign cheap and useless.Bet he would stab Sir Gabby in the back if he thought he could get away with it.Knows though if he did even his staunch supporters would turn on him.
Erm…. What? This doesn’t prove he doesn’t want home grown or English players. Albrighton has never proved himself good enough to be an EPL winger. Injury hasn’t helped him but a couple decent games is all he’s ever had. A loan deal shows that Lambert wants to test to see if he’s good enough, while knowing that if Albrighton failed in a couple games at Villa Park, he’d get booed off the pitch. Playing the likes of Clark, Baker, Delph, Gabby, Westwood, Bennett, Lowton (not so much the latter 2 as we all know they’ve either dipped in form or weren’t good enough).
I think if his contract expires at the end of this year it’s a last chance saloon for him to show some signs of revival so a no brainer to let him go as he’s not getting any game time with us. But I doubt we will get any fee for him, the likelyhood is his contract will run out and he’ll be off on a free. Still more wages free I guess.
What’s the difference between s hovercraft and the blues? Hovercraft has more fans.