Concrete Ron

[supertom]

We'll be lucky to get 50p for him now. Useless bugger.

From 60 million to 50p in one kick. No one does player value depreciation quite like the Villa.

[Gregorys Boy]

Feel bad for Vlaar tonight, he has had a great tournament though and that shouldn't be overlooked.

[godzvilla]

He has his Fans , including Mr Ferdinand apparently , I wonder if this ( below ) was written before his Pen was saved . No matter , he HAS been a revelation during this World Cup , unfortunately this will not have gone unnoticed by other Clubs who may be able to offer him Champs League Football .....I  really hope not because I,ve always rated him but I don,t have a good feeling about this at all ............Godzvilla !

From the Beeb....
Former England defender - and BBC pundit - Rio Ferdinand was full of praise for a fellow centre-back on Twitter  as the Netherlands faced Argentina in semi-final action: "Ron Vlaar has been immense. Best CB performance of the tournament so far for me."[/b]

[Toronto Villa]

Two Dutch players turned down the first kick when asked. Vlaar didn't which is credit to him despite how it ended up.

[Caiphus]

They needed someone not Dutch to take the penalty... it's not Ron's fault they are the worst penalty side in history.

[mr underhill]

are they worse than England?

[Deano58]

Manchester City fan here and whilst I was supporting Demichelis and Zabaletta my eye was caught by "Concrete Ron" throughout. Did your club proud and had the bottle to take a penalty when, according to Van Gaal, others wouldn't step up. Hope he gets a cup-winnrs medal with you next season.

[SashasGrandad]

Newspaper headline next week

Vlaar stopped at UK customs trying to smuggle in south american immigrant.

"It was a present for my team mates - I forgot to empty my pocket after the semi final"

[Smirker]

Manchester City fan here and whilst I was supporting Demichelis and Zabaletta my eye was caught by "Concrete Ron" throughout. Did your club proud and had the bottle to take a penalty when, according to Van Gaal, others wouldn't step up. Hope he gets a cup-winnrs medal with you next season.

Cheers mate so do I.

Anybody reckon we can keep him? Major fuck up not sorting him out with a new deal before he entered the final year of his contract.

[dekko]

I'd worry about keeping him longer than the end of next season.  Even if he hands in a transfer request we'll just do what we did with Benteke, reject it and tell him to get on with it.

[silhillvilla]

Manchester City fan here and whilst I was supporting Demichelis and Zabaletta my eye was caught by "Concrete Ron" throughout. Did your club proud and had the bottle to take a penalty when, according to Van Gaal, others wouldn't step up. Hope he gets a cup-winnrs medal with you next season.

Cheers mate so do I.

Anybody reckon we can keep him? Major fuck up not sorting him out with a new deal before he entered the final year of his contract.

Major fuck up indeed. Maybe one of the reasons Faulkner got his P45.

[Rigadon]

I'd worry about keeping him longer than the end of next season.  Even if he hands in a transfer request we'll just do what we did with Benteke, reject it and tell him to get on with it.

Is that what happened with CB?  I thought we were looking for a big price, Spurs dicked us around and nobody else came in.

I have little doubt that had Spurs met our valuation last summer he'd be on their treatment table now.

[Dave]

From F365:

Vlaar won 100% of his tackles, 100% of his aerial duels, made 11 clearances (five more than any other player on the field) and registered a pass accuracy of 92% - it was as close to the perfect performance as we have seen throughout this tournament.

[PaulWinch again]

He was outstanding and I think that proves that he's a good player and I believe he could comfortably fit in it a club higher up the league. I really hope he stays, but given his age, contract situation and the club's instability I'd be surprised.

[robbo1874]

He's had plenty of practice last season to be honest