Luke Young Going to Liverpool

[spangley1812]

Good player but life goes on. I just hope we can get someone decent in to replace him

We have King Carlos

[pedro25]

A lot of people assuming he will be replaced, but currently Cuellar is our 1st choice right back and our back up is a seasoned international on about £40k a week, we also have Lichaj.  I don't see how replacing Young with someone like Richards helps reduce our wage bill when he will cost more in terms of a fee and wages.  Specialist full backs are not a priority for M'ON and I would only expect a right back to come in if Beye were to go too, but I can't see anyone taking him on his wages.  Luke had turned into more of a back up left back to Warnock than anything else by the end anyhow.

[spangley1812]

A lot of people assuming he will be replaced, but currently Cuellar is our 1st choice right back and our back up is a seasoned international on about £40k a week, we also have Lichaj.  I don't see how replacing Young with someone like Richards helps reduce our wage bill when he will cost more in terms of a fee and wages.  Specialist full backs are not a priority for M'ON and I would only expect a right back to come in if Beye were to go too, but I can't see anyone taking him on his wages.  Luke had turned into more of a back up left back to Warnock than anything else by the end anyhow.

Well said Pedro........and the money should be spent on a quality goal scorer

[markus209]

Good luck Young. A very good fullback.

However, I'm not convinced that this is a case of MON with his favourites/ holding a grudge.

Cuellar came in at right back when Collins and Dunne came in, which was around the time of Young losing his brother.

The defence put in some solid performances, and got clean sheet after clean sheet after clean sheet. Why change the defence? It was doing its job.

Then when he did change it, we get hammered 7-1 by Chelsea. Not just down to Luke Young I know, the whole teams performance was disappointing, but you can see MON thinking surely? I do recall afterwards O'Neill coming in for a bit of criticism because he brought Young in for the Chelsea game when Cuellar is better defensively (I can't remember whether it was on this forum, but I think it was).

Young offers more going forwards, but is he better defensively than Cuellar? I personally don't think so. Young is a good player with a good attitude, and I understand if he wants to move on. O'Neill stuck with Cuellar, who was putting in solid defensive displays (which first and foremost is what you want from your defenders.) Young wants to play regular football presumably, which he's not getting at Villa so he's moving on. I wouldn't have thought that Liverpool is the best destination to get 1st team football, but there you go, that's Young's choice.

[darren woolley]

Be sad to see him go but mon as made up his mind on this one.

[SoccerHQ]

I see a lot of people are saying we're better off without him and so on we need someone younger etc etc.

I agree Luke Young is not all that and that we could use a younger player but such is the scarcity of good right backs he is still one of the better ones around. I also see very little agreement from anyone on the right man to replace him.

I personally feel he defended slightly better at left back.

As you say a full back who can play both positions relatively well isn't that easy to find nowadays.

I think this is an error particularly if we lose a couple of our defenders to injuries.

[villa baz]

well done martin,sell the best r/b at the club to one of your rivals .you fucking idiot!

[JUAN PABLO]

Lets let him go to Liverpool as long as they  will take Heskey off us for exchange for Torres....

[Chris Smith]

He'll play less games next season than he did last if he moves there.

[Brend'Watkins]

well done martin,sell the best r/b at the club to one of your rivals .you fucking idiot!

Or, well done Martin, sell an average r/b to one of your rivals to help us exploit their weaknesses when we play them...you fucking genius!

[SoccerHQ]

They don't have a left back at the club currently.

[spangley1812]

well done martin,sell the best r/b at the club to one of your rivals .you fucking idiot!

Or, well done Martin, sell an average r/b to one of your rivals to help us exploit their weaknesses when we play them...you fucking genius!

or well done Martin thats left us with ZERO experienced specialist right backs........

[JUAN PABLO]

well done martin,sell the best r/b at the club to one of your rivals .you fucking idiot!

Or, well done Martin, sell an average r/b to one of your rivals to help us exploit their weaknesses when we play them...you fucking genius!

Didnt Wigan say the same thing, when we signed a certain player off them...

[PaulWinch again]

Just another part of a somewhat depressing summer as a Villa fan thus far.

[MoetVillan]

I think its a good move for all concerned.  Luke has a chance to get into the Liverpool squad, and play games.  Not good enough to get into our team, which is better than Liverpool, so lets sell him, take the money and cut the wage bill and invest elsewhere