Aston Villa sign Charles N'Zogbia (Reply#1151)

[Holtenderinthesky]

I would rather we signed a player that wants to play for this club than another mercenary who will bugger off again.

We're back in Roy of the Rovers territory here.   These guys are professionals,  not fans, and I suspect we'd be limiting our options to an unworkable level if our criteria when signing a player was that he "wants to play for OUR club",. 

[Risso]

I think McGeady would be a good signing at the right price. He's got excellent footwork and he's still young so he'd develop and work on the other aspects of his game. I don't want him instead of N'Zogbia, I'd like both. Plus, I want to us to sign McGeady because it will cause some people to go mental on here who have such strong opinions of him without ever really having seen him play, but none more so than cb who's bigoted head I expect to see explode with bits found as far afield as East Anglia, Cumbria and Hampshire.

He has quick feet, TV. But that's about it.

He over elaborates, step over after stepover or trying to beat the man twice before putting in a decent delivery or taking a shot. Fine if he did the first part and still managed the second. But in this case, the first usually prevents the second.

I was genuinely surprised that we were so interested in him last year, with three decent wingers already on the books.  Now that we only have one, I'd still rather see him go elsewhere.

Agreed.  He's the sort of one trick pony that excels in Scotland, but will get totally found out down here.

[Californian Villain]

I think McGeady would be a good signing at the right price. He's got excellent footwork and he's still young so he'd develop and work on the other aspects of his game. I don't want him instead of N'Zogbia, I'd like both. Plus, I want to us to sign McGeady because it will cause some people to go mental on here who have such strong opinions of him without ever really having seen him play, but none more so than cb who's bigoted head I expect to see explode with bits found as far afield as East Anglia, Cumbria and Hampshire.

He has quick feet, TV. But that's about it.

He over elaborates, step over after stepover or trying to beat the man twice before putting in a decent delivery or taking a shot. Fine if he did the first part and still managed the second. But in this case, the first usually prevents the second.

I was genuinely surprised that we were so interested in him last year, with three decent wingers already on the books.  Now that we only have one, I'd still rather see him go elsewhere.

Agreed.  He's the sort of one trick pony that excels in Scotland, but will get totally found out down here.

McGeady is absolute gash, the MON equivalent of Muzzy Izzet.

[PaulWinch again]

No to McGeady, sign N'Zogbia. We still need 3 or 4 others as well.

[olaftab]

I suggest we lock this thread and merge it into the main transfer thread. It is no longer serving any useful purpose that can not be followed in the other thread.

[BedsVillain]

Well if our new super scout is now in place and this deal isn't sorted by Sunday night, maybe we should take our £10m to the continent or South America where we could probably pick up 2 of the next Charles N'Zogbias.

[Clampy]

I'd be happy with McGeady coming in on loan as well if possible. He'd be useful coming off the bench in games when the opposition defence are tiring and besides we do need 3 wingers.

[Clark W Griswold]

Yes, i'm in the McGeady 'in' camp too, as well as N'Zogbia and for the right price. He looks like a better version of Maloney to me, who was a good player who just didn't settle. I think he would surprise a few. And lets face it, the club isn't going in the direction we hoped it was 12 months ago, we have to be realistic. And lets face it, we haven't scouted a successful foreign bargain since Dwight Yorke in 1989.

[cdbearsfan]

McGeady is shit.

I'd rather get Maloney back.

[TheSandman]

I watched McGeady a lot when he played up here and have always been of the opinion that he's not very good. He over-elaborates and cannot cross. He has always struggled to get a berth in the Republic O'Ireland team ahead of the likes of Glen Whelan and Liam Lawrence too. That said he seems to have had a good season in Russia so might not be all that terrible.

[Greg N'Ash]

McGeady reminds me of one of  those scottish wingers that used to be sent down by the busload every summer in the 80's before clubs discovered foreign players. He looks desperately average to me and you've got the cost factor. He wasn't cheap last summer when we were rumoured to be interested so 7-8m for someone like him seems barmy.

[Shrek]

McGeady can't even hold an Ireland place down, he is pure shite!

[pauliewalnuts]

Isn't McGeady playing in Russia, home of stratospheric salaries?

[TheSandman]

The club who own him paid £10million. He's had a good season so I think he'd cost more than that.

I'd rather we signed someone like Shaqiri or Vargas.

[PaulWinch again]

Isn't McGeady playing in Russia, home of stratospheric salaries?

He is, and on every level we shouldn't be signing him. He'd cost a fairly big fee and his salary would be very large, so there are better and cheaper options.