Nigel Reo Coker on Exit - “I didn’t know who was in charge.."

[pauliewalnuts]

NRC did nothing to warrant being paid £40k a week for 3 years, thought he was better than what he actually is & is now plying his trade at the mighty Bolton. A few decent performances at the end of the season didn't warrant him being offered a new contract.

He's an extremely limited player.

I'm more bothered about the suggestion he didn't really know who was in charge at the club at the time (something which Mat Kendrick commented on on Twitter the other day, saying words to the effect of, he thought the same about the rudderless manner of things at Villa Park)

[Rudy Can't Fail]

NRC did nothing to warrant being paid £40k a week for 3 years, thought he was better than what he actually is & is now plying his trade at the mighty Bolton. A few decent performances at the end of the season didn't warrant him being offered a new contract.

It was more than a few decent performances. Alongside Downing, he was our most consistent performer last season. Whether that's worth 40k a week is another question but I'm guessing his agent put his own monetary interests ahead of those of his client.

[N'ZMAV]

I prefer Herd to Reo-Coker. At least can occasionally pass the ball to a fellow Villa player.
I wouldn't have given Reo-Coker a new deal. He didn't justify the £20mil in Transfer fee and wages that we probably spent on him anyway.

[Merv]

I always liked Reo-Coker, I make no apology for that. But I don't believe McLeish decided not to keep him - surely the timescales bear that out - and I'm pretty certain that NRC was offered a new deal, earlier in the season, and declined it.

There's plenty of things to grumble about with regards to the club at the moment, but NRC leaving at the end of his contract isn't one of them.

[LeeB]

I prefer Herd to Reo-Coker. At least can occasionally pass the ball to a fellow Villa player.
I wouldn't have given Reo-Coker a new deal. He didn't justify the £20mil in Transfer fee and wages that we probably spent on him anyway.

Spot on.

I would say when we spent £8m on him, a lot of that was on potential. In the time he was with us he didn't improve at all, and his weaknesses were blindingly obvious.

[SoccerHQ]

If you want to slag off a manager for his handling of NRC, then I'd say the most obvious one has to be the one who constantly played him at RB, then had a fall out with him on the training pitch and also preferred Sidwell ahead of him.

just saying Loike...

[Concrete John]

I always liked Reo-Coker, I make no apology for that. But I don't believe McLeish decided not to keep him - surely the timescales bear that out - and I'm pretty certain that NRC was offered a new deal, earlier in the season, and declined it.

There's plenty of things to grumble about with regards to the club at the moment, but NRC leaving at the end of his contract isn't one of them.

Agree with all of this.

I was a fan of him in the holding role, but he wanted too much cash to stay so he left.

[ajmant]

Ever present in Bolton Midfield. Bolton bottom of the league. Says it all. Average player, although for some bizarre reason I kinda liked him.

[Toronto Villa]

I always liked Reo-Coker, I make no apology for that. But I don't believe McLeish decided not to keep him - surely the timescales bear that out - and I'm pretty certain that NRC was offered a new deal, earlier in the season, and declined it.

There's plenty of things to grumble about with regards to the club at the moment, but NRC leaving at the end of his contract isn't one of them.

Agree with all of this.

I was a fan of him in the holding role, but he wanted too much cash to stay so he left.

add me to this camp. He could have stayed and he'd be playing right now. That said, we might not have seen the emergence of this promising Aussie full back into a very competent defensive midfielder. NRC is a good player. His agent put into his head that he was great and deserved to be paid accordingly. He should have a word with his agent given where he's ended up.

[pauliewalnuts]

Watching the Bolton game, I remembered that thing Zat Knight used to do to cover up his fuck ups, which was to point at something authoritatively.

NRC used to do that, too.

Oh, and he organised the team huddles before KO.

[Concrete John]

Ever present in Bolton Midfield. Bolton bottom of the league. Says it all. Average player, although for some bizarre reason I kinda liked him.

The same could therefore be said of their star centre half that also used to play for us. 

[dave.woodhall]

I get the impression that he tried to call our bluff - left when he didn't get the contract he wanted and thought we'd either offer him better one later or a 'big club' might fancy him, only to find neither happened.

[PeterWithesShin]

It pretty depressing to think that such an average footballer must have cost the club 15-20 million for his 4 years here.

[Concrete John]

It pretty depressing to think that such an average footballer must have cost the club 15-20 million for his 4 years here.

That's what average players cost these days.

[PeterWithesShin]

It pretty depressing to think that such an average footballer must have cost the club 15-20 million for his 4 years here.

That's what average players cost these days.

Especially the ones signed by MON.