Don't know if this has already been posted but it does seem to sum up Westwoods usefulness https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/loris-karius-and-five-other-keepers-have-better-passing-stats-than-the-most-pointless-midfielder/102723
A nasty, spiteful, no need article.
I'd expect Gardner to be registering the same sort of figures.
The writer got something very wrong indeed. The bit where he says Ashley Westwood can kick a football. He really can't, not to anywhere near the level you'd expect from a professional footballer. Not at Premier League level, not at Championship level. He is a non-football playing millionaire footballer who should only ever have appeared at Villa Park as a visitor with a lower/non league club in a cup match, or as a fan or steward or hotdog seller. He is the Bartleby of our midfield, and worse. He is a hoodwinker. A phoney, a fake and a charlatan. Yet he perfectly encapsulates what Aston Villa has been these last few years, a club that's completely lost its way and is still groping in the dawn twilight trying to find it. Get rid immediately.
He's a symbol of our past regimes. I wish him no ill will but I also wish he'd fuck right off.
Sometimes it's just better for all that we part company. He could do with a fresh challenge and we could do with someone who really gets involved more.He'd be an excellent first signing for Zola.