Carlos Cuellar on Twitter.

[Simba]

Both right. I don't use twitter and realise it is a public forum. My mistake. Old.....

[PeterWithesShin]

How Collins is continually picked ahead of him is a mystery to me. And yet a few Villa managers have made that decision the majority of the time. I wish I knew why.

[Villan For Life]

How Collins is continually picked ahead of him is a mystery to me. And yet a few Villa managers have made that decision the majority of the time. I wish I knew why.

That's the part that I don't get

[ozzjim]

Have to think that if he is off, then we have room to get one in wages wise.

We are desperate for a left back and a holding midfield player.

[eamonn]

Er, I'm obviously missing something but he didn't exactly say he was off (didn't deny it either, in fairness). Just a coy answer about the summer.

The likelihood of course is that he will be. I just wonder, his replacement is likely to be a senior player (to complement the two Celtic cousins and Clacker), so why not just keep him? A replacement will be on cheaper wages presumably but there'll also be a likely transfer fee to cancel that out. Unless Carlos wants to go, and given his relative lack of games that's also very possible, I'd prefer him to stay. Top professional, clearly well-liked in the dressing room (if you see any of the team-bonding/having a lark bits of footage on avtv Carlos is always laughing and being friendly to the others) and above all a bloody good defender.

[JJ-AV]

He's either an awful trainer or a not very good footballer and he's got most of us fooled.

[The Adventurer]

Really sad news. No doubt that he's a better centre back than Collins but mysteriously just never gets a decent run.

Good luck Carlos.

[Chris Smith]

It shows a high level of hubris to think that successive managers have been wrong about Cuellar and that you are always right. He's a decent player but lacks concentration, aggression and is awkward on the ball; probably too nice a feller to be a good defender.

[eric woolban woolban]

Did McLeish manage him at Rangers?

[Clampy]

Shame he never really got a run in his prefered position, he's a decent defender.

[Chipsticks]

Such a massive, massive shame.

I along with clearly many others on here always rated Cuellar and I maintain the opinion that he has the talent to be starting for a decent, mid-table, established premier league club such as ourselves, if not higher. It's sad to see him almost waste his career with us.

[TimTheVillain]

He is a great bloke and as a footballer, I'm not 100% sure.

He's a bit gangly, and played a RB is playing him out of position as his passing, let's say, wouldn't fit into the Barcelona team.

Rangers fans loved him - but Scotland's a foreign country, they do things differently there.

Good luck Carlos.

[Chris Smith]

Shame he never really got a run in his prefered position

That's a fair point, but when neither MON, Kev MaC, Houllier, McAllister or McLeish were willing to give him that chance it does suggest that he wasn't trusted. If it was just one of them you could put it down to favouritism but not with all of them.

[TaxDodger]

I genuinely think he's better than all our centre halves, a better right back than Hutton and probably a better left back than Warnock too.

[Chris Smith]

I genuinely think he's better than all our centre halves, a better right back than Hutton and probably a better left back than Warnock too.

 The only time I remember him playing left back, in a cup game early last season, he was truly shit.