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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: 1874 on October 15, 2012, 07:17:20 PM
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After reading the other thread asking who our first ever loan signing was, I thought I would ask this. I suppose a club of our stature doesn't dip into the loan market very often but it would be interesting to hear who you think our best and worst ones were. I'd probably go for Kyle Walker as my favorite. I thought he had a very good impact, especially for a full back. Carlton Cole for my worst. Thought he would bang them and believed that even more after he scored on his debut. Ended up with a Heskey-like strike rate.
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Best: Milner
Worst: Jenas
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I was thinking of Jenas but thought it harsh considering he didn't really play.
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I was thinking of Jenas but thought it harsh considering he didn't really play.
That's why that deal get's my vote. Harsh on the player but at least the like of Cole were on the ptich, even if we wished a lot of the time that they weren't.
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Best - Benito Carbone.
Worst - was Eirik Bakke on loan? He was awful.
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Best - Milner
Worst - Václav Drobný
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Best - Benito Carbone.
Worst - was Eirik Bakke on loan? He was awful.
Did we not sign Carbone on a permanent deal? Basically I think we took over his Sheffield Wednesday contract which had about 8 months left to run. I may be wrong.
Anyway,
Best - Kyle Walker.
Worst - Can't Control.
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The chaff more than outweighs the wheat:
Gabor Kiraly
Frank MacAvennie
Gustavo Bartlet
Phil Bardsley
Alan McLoughlan
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The chaff more than outweighs the wheat:
Gabor Kiraly
Frank MacAvennie
Gustavo Bartlet
Phil Bardsley
Alan McLoughlan
Three of them were trialists rather than loans and Kiraly was an emergency.
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Hated Carlton Cole. While he was with us, I loved Robbie Keane.
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Best - Benito Carbone.
Worst - was Eirik Bakke on loan? He was awful.
It could be my memory playing tricks on me but I thought Bakke looked half-decent.
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De Bilde didn't exactly pull up any trees.
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Milner, Walker, Keane, Carbone - we've had some pretty good players through on loan in the last few years.
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I agree with you PeterWithesShin.
Best: Milner
Worst: Jenas
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Didier Agathe wasn't amazing and that Michael Bradley only played about once for us.
Robbie Keane did much better than I thought possible.
Carlton Cole was brilliant on his debut against Southampton and then cack ever after.
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Adrian Heath was immense
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I agree with you PeterWithesShin.
Best: Milner
Worst: Jenas
This
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Worst outweight the best or perhaps I just can't forget the awfulness of
Jim Herriot
Malcolm Allen
Frank McAvennie
Evan Williams
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I would say Milner was the best but I hate to think what might have happened if we hadn't had Keane for a spell last season. The Carlton Cole loan was bad (3 goals all season wasn't it?) due to the fact we flogged Crouch to make way for him.
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I didn't actually think that Milner was that great for us on loan. Once he actually signed for us he was a far better player.
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I thought he was pretty mediocre for a while after he signed for us.
Then he moved in to the centre and the rest is history.
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Best: James Milner
Worst: Jenas
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I thought he was pretty mediocre for a while after he signed for us.
Then he moved in to the centre and the rest is history.
I'd say he was always generally mediocre in his career until he moved to central midfield. Which is why it is a shame he has gone back to being a winger at Citeh.
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He was better than mediocre IMHO, so a good signing for us. Agree with you that he is wasted there having seen him play in the centre for Villa, could have been an England regular in that position there now. That said, thought he did a good job the other night
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Yeah mediocre was probably too harsh a word. But he didn't ever really pull up any trees at the Barcodes. Was decent the other day although the rest of the team were shite that day which helped him stand out a bit.
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Maybe mediocre was a bit harsh for his career before he moved into the centre.
O'Neill wouldn't have coughed up £12 million for mediocrity would he ?
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I suppose that depends if you consider Steven Flechter to be mediocre.
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I didn't actually think that Milner was that great for us on loan. Once he actually signed for us he was a far better player.
Wasn't Milner our player of the season when we first had him on loan?! Admitedly, it was a pretty mediocre season.