Glenn Whelan - Released

[Hoppo]

If anyone has 10 minutes to spare read what Stoke fans think of him on Oatcake Fanzine.. Were getting a goodun..

[Three Spires Villa]

Does anyone what his length of contract is?

[Meanwood Villa]

If anyone has 10 minutes to spare read what Stoke fans think of him on Oatcake Fanzine.. Were getting a goodun..

Have you seen the posts by iloveglennwhelan? Clearly a big fan.

[kippaxvilla2]

Q) How do you make a one dimensional, flat, ponderous midfield even more one dimensional, flat and ponderous?

A) By signing Glenn Whealan.

He's well and truly putting his stamp on the club now, unfortunately too many people have already brought into it.

Or maybe

Q) How do you ensure the midfield doesn't crumble when Jedinak is out, while also allowing Lansbury and / or hourihane to concentrate on what we bought them for?

For some reason this has cheered me up a bit.

[Axl Rose]

He scored the goal that left me in possibly the most foul mood I've ever been in after the football.

Yes! I was watching that game in a pub in Taipei. I had to take a four hour bus back to the place I was living afterwards, too. His name just reminds me of our top 4 hopes crumbling during the 2008-09 season.

I don't think he's a bad signing, however.

[Ads]

We were 5 points clear with a game in hand. Hold on, 11 to go...

It was Moscow. It was Stoke. It was Arnhem it was a bridge too far.

[PeterWithesShin]

What did it was our home form. That Stoke game made it 2 wins from 9 home games. By the time we won the last 2 we'd been on a run of 2 wins from 12 home games.

[tomd2103]

We were 5 points clear with a game in hand. Hold on, 11 to go...

It was Moscow. It was Stoke.

Been rapidly downhill ever since that week. 

[SoccerHQ]

We had 51 points after the Blackburn game on 7th February.

We ended with 62 points on May 24th.

Even by our standards it was an extraordinary collapse in the last 3 months to even finish below Everton who were miles behind us at one point. Just the usual MON burning out the 12 regular players (Gabby had nothing left by March) and the unused squad players not being good enough.

[oldtimernow]

Does anyone what his length of contract is?

Knowing our record 5 years wouldn't be beyond the reckoning

[Brazilian Villain]

Welcome Glenn! If he's good enough for MON and Tony Pulis....

[LeeB]

We had 51 points after the Blackburn game on 7th February.

We ended with 62 points on May 24th.

Even by our standards it was an extraordinary collapse in the last 3 months to even finish below Everton who were miles behind us at one point. Just the usual MON burning out the 12 regular players (Gabby had nothing left by March) and the unused squad players not being good enough.

I walked out of that Blackburn game convinced we could make a charge at the title, never mind the top four. We'd just delivered the kind of routine swatting of a pretty strong side that suggested we were serious players.

I should know better really, I was at White Hart Lane in 1990 as well.

[passitsideways]

If Whelan really is going to be used as a platform for us to play a 4-3-3 that frees up other midfielders to get into the box, then fair enough.

The thing is, based off what we have seen so far (preseason and most of last season), I don't have an iota of faith in Bruce to play anything other than a turgid 4-4-2 with the midfield two positioned barely in front of the back four.

[PaulWinch again]

Played 30 games in top flight last year. Not an exciting signing but comfortably good enough for us and more importantly the Championship.

[sid1964]

Bloke at work whose Brother watches the Republic play football all over the world, says that Whelan would be a fantastic signing.

Just hope that it is only a 2 year deal, at 33 we don't want to be giving him a 3 year contract, but knowing Villa it will probably be a deal for life!