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Author Topic: Ashley Westwood - Sold to Burnley  (Read 231957 times)

Offline brontebilly

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Re: Ashley Westwood
« Reply #945 on: December 15, 2016, 07:30:43 PM »
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

spoiled it by reference to the frightening front four

Offline four fornicholl

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Re: Ashley Westwood
« Reply #946 on: December 15, 2016, 07:32:30 PM »
A nasty, spiteful, no need article.

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Re: Ashley Westwood
« Reply #947 on: December 15, 2016, 07:42:30 PM »
A nasty, spiteful, no need article.

But, completely factual.

It is borderline insane that a central midfielder playing for a club like ours in the second division couldn't muster more than 17 passes. Some of the midfielders he was brought in to replace (ie. Barry, Milner, Delph etc.) can string together a third of that total in one trip down the pitch.

It's unacceptable, plain and simple. The guy has lost his way and needs a fresh start somewhere else. He offers nothing that Gards, Jedinak and Tshibola cannot already do. We need to get some real midfielders in this January.

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Re: Ashley Westwood
« Reply #948 on: December 15, 2016, 07:57:36 PM »
I'd expect Gardner to be registering the same sort of figures.


Offline four fornicholl

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Re: Ashley Westwood
« Reply #949 on: December 15, 2016, 08:00:45 PM »
I'd expect Gardner to be registering the same sort of figures.
And if you went through "our division" probably quite a few more, hes in a team game after all.

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Re: Ashley Westwood
« Reply #950 on: December 15, 2016, 08:11:06 PM »
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.

Bang on the money Jimbo, bang on!!

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Re: Ashley Westwood
« Reply #951 on: December 15, 2016, 08:20:05 PM »
The article was a bit nasty and if you were his mother you'd be a bit upset. However, I'm not his mum and in all fairness it's fairly bang on!

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Re: Ashley Westwood
« Reply #952 on: December 15, 2016, 08:24:15 PM »
Why would we revel in god knows who slagging off one of our 1st team players,he may be struggling , but come on, all hands to the pump and all that.

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Re: Ashley Westwood
« Reply #953 on: December 15, 2016, 08:26:00 PM »
He should be making a difference at this level. He isn't. In fact, I think he still hasn't found his level. Perhaps Walsall? Gardner in the same mould.

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Re: Ashley Westwood
« Reply #954 on: December 15, 2016, 08:27:56 PM »
Somewhere in there is a mid table Championship midfielder, he's completely lost, like a rabbit in the headlights, he's clearly not enjoying his football and the nicest thing we can do is to loan him out or sell him so he can reboot and start again.  I don't dislike him but he needs to be moved on pronto.

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Re: Ashley Westwood
« Reply #955 on: December 15, 2016, 08:28:45 PM »
He's a symbol of our past regimes. I wish him no ill will but I also wish he'd fuck right off.

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Re: Ashley Westwood
« Reply #956 on: December 15, 2016, 08:30:00 PM »
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.

Offline Alex77

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Re: Ashley Westwood
« Reply #957 on: December 15, 2016, 08:32:44 PM »
He's a symbol of our past regimes. I wish him no ill will but I also wish he'd fuck right off.

Not a fan of quoting myself (even if I do talk complete sense after a few pints), but as a p.s. on the basis we get a half competent replacement!

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Re: Ashley Westwood
« Reply #958 on: December 15, 2016, 08:32:59 PM »
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.

Yes, he'd be an excellent way to spend their £10m war chest.

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Re: Ashley Westwood
« Reply #959 on: January 12, 2017, 11:12:02 PM »
I think a key feature that is lacking is physicality and robust nature of play.
(Here is West wood thread!- I don't post in transfer thread anymore  after harshness will only observe)

 


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