Alan Hutton "Gets on Fine" with Paul Lambert - Wants to get back in the 1st Team

[pauliewalnuts]

I wonder why players that aren't popular with fans (Hutton) are greedy feckers who are a prime example of everything wrong with football, while players who are popular (Cuellar) aren't put in the same category. Cuellar drained the club of far more money sat on his backside than Hutton has (so far). 

End of the day, they're all greedy fuckers, and we probably would be too in the same circumstances.

There's a huge problem which will eventually rip the arsehole out of the English game, and that is the immense debts lots of clubs are accruing, as more and more telly money pours into the game, rather than do something sensible like safeguard the future of the game by subsidising tickets (German style), the clubs / FA are incredibly short term - they basically just spunk it away on players and agents.

I don't blame the players for taking the money, not for a nanosecond, I blame the people running the league ultimately for allowing such financial short termism to take place. Not to mention permitting a system to persist where agents drain away huge sums of money from the game.

It's not the Wayne Rooneys or the Ashley Coles on their 150k a week that will bring the game down, it is the number of utterly average players like Alan Hutton and hundreds more like him trousering 30k a week.

Good luck to 'em, I'm not going to pretend i wouldn't do the same, but it's going to end in tears sooner or later.

[PeterWithesShin]

You missed my point there Pete. Because Hutton hasn't moved for less money he's a greedy fecker only interested in money and to hell with his career. Despite us having no proof he's even turned down such a move.
Don't recall many attempts by Cuellar to move and take a wage drop to play more football when he wasn't in the squad for months at a time, and yet I don't remember anyone saying he was a greedy fecker.

Two players who seem to be doing the same thing, one is greedy (Mr Unpopular) and one isn't greedy (Mr Popular).

[Risso]

I take your point PWS, but if Alan Hutton has been told in no uncertain terms that he has no future at Villa, then that's a bit different to Cuellar who just didn't get picked to start that often.

[Clampy]

I don't remember Cuellar being away from the squad for 'months at a time' and if he was out for a while it was normally through injury. He played a lot of his football out of position. A poor choice of player to label a greedy if you ask me.

[PeterWithesShin]

I don't remember Cuellar being away from the squad for 'months at a time' and if he was out for a while it was normally through injury. He played a lot of his football out of position. A poor choice of player to label a greedy if you ask me.

I never labelled him greedy. I said 1 is considered greedy by people while the other isn't. It was obvious Cuellar wasn't considered first choice in any position the last 2 years he was at the club. Otherwise he'd have played more. He seemed happy enough to see out his contract which not many folks complained about. But Hutton may choose to do the same and is a greedy fecker.

And I agree to a degree Risso, but if no one came in with a bid for Hutton what's he meant to do differently (apart from improve as a player)?

[Risso]

And I agree to a degree Risso, but if no one came in with a bid for Hutton what's he meant to do differently (apart from improve as a player)?

I think that last bit is probably spot on.  If players like Heskey and NRC can't give themselves away for free, what chance another team was going to buy Hutton AND pay his wages, even at a reduced rate?

[eastie]

Can't really blame Hutton , he wants to play but is out of favour- the blame lies at the door of the man who signed him and the men who sanctioned his wages.

[Vancouver]

I would put Carlos and Hutton in the same group, but I wouldn't call them greedy. Both said they want to play, both aren't being picked by the manager. So assuming that's true, then they are hardly greedy. Just out of favour.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Randy was probably happy to sanction the wages, he was a lot cheaper than Cuellar. You can't appoint a manager then not let him sign who he wants.

[tbiddulph]

Now he has his chance:

●Alan Hutton has been sent away by Alex McLeish at Nottingham Forest. The defender's loan expired and McLeish wanted nothing else to do with Hutton. So he's ours again. Yay?

Source http://www.7500toholte.com/2013/1/7/3843648/aston-villa-ipswich-FA-Cup-Transfer-Rumours

[MoetVillan]

He could always take a pay "cut", and prove he wants to be back in the first team

[danno]

So Jenas and Hutton have been sent packing by Tsm?
Give him his due, the guy learns from his mistakes.
Just too bad he had to learn with us really.

[pauliewalnuts]

He could always take a pay "cut", and prove he wants to be back in the first team

Although I think Hutton is one of the worst players we've had in years, I wouldn't expect him to take a pay cut to prove anything.

End of the day, we gave him the deal, if we don't like it any more, then we shouldn't have given him it in the first place.

[MoetVillan]

Yes we did.  But if he fought his way back into the team, and one way to do this may be a downgrade in salary, he could make himslef more likely to be offered a new contract or a better deal elsewhere.  He would be in a stronger position if he was getting regular football at a top team

[TheSandman]

Regardless if we pay him £30,000 a week or 3 magic beans a week, the issue remains that he is not very good.