Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Ivo Stas on January 05, 2017, 08:53:28 PM
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The Birmingham Mail (yes, I get suckered in by their clickbait headlines) has listed the contract expiry dates of our squad:
How long they have left on their contracts...
Rushian Hepburn-Murphy - 2017
Mark Bunn - 2017
Alan Hutton - 2017
Libor Kozak - 2017
Carlos Sanchez - 2018
Gabby Agbonlahor - 2018
Aly Cissokho - 2018
Jordan Lyden - 2018
Ritchie De Laet - 2019
Carles Gil - 2019
Mile Jedinak - 2019
Jed Steer - 2019
Micah Richards - 2019
Nathan Baker - 2019
Andre Green - 2019
Tommy Elphick - 2019
Gary Gardner - 2020
Jack Grealish - 2020
Ashley Westwood - 2020 - by which time we can ask is he the worst player to have played 250 games for us?
Jordan Amavi - 2020
James Chester - 2020
Pierluigi Gollini - 2020
Leandro Bacuna - 2020
Aaron Tshibola - 2020
Albert Adomah - 2020
Jonathan Kodjia - 2020
Ross McCormack - 2020
Jordan Ayew - 2020
Jordan Veretout - 2020
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Ashley Westwood - 2020
Wh-waaaaaaaat!?
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Cries.
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Wow. 13 players on contracts until 2020.
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Outside of Gabby, Richards and maybe McCormack and Elphick, I think we can probably get rid of any of those contracts without having to do something like subsidise the wages to a new club. Probably have to accept a cut-price fee on a few, but still, could be worse.
We can probably farm out Westwood on loan to another Championship club in a season or two providing we rebuild the midfield properly; I reckon a change of scenery would improve his performances enough to convince a suc-um, team to take us off our hands.
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We will finally see the back of Alan Hutton at the end of this season?