Concrete Ron

[dave shelley]

I don't think I've seen it mentioned on here so apologies if it has.  There's a scenario whereby Ron decides to see out his contract and a sale goes through that sees a level of investment designed to move the club forward.  Ron just might like the look of this and decide he wants to be part of it and looks to sign a new contract should Villa be prepared at that stage to offer him one.  Wishful thinking/dreaming, on my part.

[paul_e]

I don't think I've seen it mentioned on here so apologies if it has.  There's a scenario whereby Ron decides to see out his contract and a sale goes through that sees a level of investment designed to move the club forward.  Ron just might like the look of this and decide he wants to be part of it and looks to sign a new contract should Villa be prepared at that stage to offer him one.  Wishful thinking/dreaming, on my part.

I've thought the same with him and Delph, they may want to hold on and see what happens, both will be key players for a couple of seasons you'd think so they might well look at this as an opportunity to prove their worth early so they're effectively 'on at the ground floor'.  I really don't think hanging around until Jan/next summer would be massively harmful for either of them and the potential rewards could be worth the wait.

[ChicagoLion]

So join Manure and be part of the rebuilding plans with his National team manager or stay at the rudderless leaderless Villa and partner Senderos, yeah tough call

[PeterWithesShin]

I hate to say it, but if I was Vlaar I know what i'd be doing. His stock is probably the highest it has ever been, at his age the chance for a big pay day and possibly play CL football, or stay and hope for mid table obscurity in B6.

[silhillvilla]

Yep vlaar won't hang about. He needs one massive last contract.

[VILLA MOLE]

I hate to say it, but if I was Vlaar I know what i'd be doing. His stock is probably the highest it has ever been, at his age the chance for a big pay day and possibly play CL football, or stay and hope for mid table obscurity in B6.

oh to dream of midtable obscurity !!

[Des Little]

I hate to say it, but if I was Vlaar I know what i'd be doing. His stock is probably the highest it has ever been, at his age the chance for a big pay day and possibly play CL football, or stay and hope for mid table obscurity in B6.

Seconded. And good luck to the bloke I say.

[Damo70]

I like him and don't want him to leave, but some of the comments about what a great World Cup he has had and comparing him to Paul McGrath are over the top for me. I think he has been exposed on a number of occasions and has been lucky on other occasions not to  be punished for defensive lapses and fouls.

[john e]

he's our best defender, but some of his performances last season were woefull, as were the defence as a whole at times, well a lot of times actually

he did mark Messi (the greatest player in the world) (obligatory when writing the word messi)
out of the game last night, but so did the Iranian defence and the Swiss one apart from one brief moment

we need him to stay as he's by far the best we got, but he's not Laursen or McGrath and if he goes to Man Utd I fear he will be exposed as not good enough a bit like young was.
 
that said I like him, really like him, and if he left it would be a kick in the balls for us as fans, but like others have said you couldn't really blame him, unless he goes to the likes of Hull, Southampton, Stoke, Crystal Palace etc, then I think we could be a bit pissed off, with Villa not the player

[peter w]

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.

Sadly one of those passes was straight at the Argentinian keeper.

It would be complete madness to sell him with the current state of affairs at the club and hope Senderos wasn't bought in the knowledge that Vlaar is off.

And yet according to Tyldesley, former Liverpool player Mascherano was the man of the match....

And from that I think we can safely deduce that Tyldesley = Twat.

Not sure that we had to deduce that Tyldesley is a twat from that.

[Matt Collins]

Couldn't blame him at all for wanting to leave

But we have to try and hang on to him. Our record without him is horrendous and without him I'd be pretty much certain we're going down, as I doubt we'd get an adequate replacement in

[adrenachrome]

[ChicagoLion]

Just thinking what it will be like with Senderos and Baker as the two centre halves, shudder.

[ciggiesnbeer]

I hate to say it, but if I was Vlaar I know what i'd be doing. His stock is probably the highest it has ever been, at his age the chance for a big pay day and possibly play CL football, or stay and hope for mid table obscurity in B6.

Seconded. And good luck to the bloke I say.

Thirded. He has always given his all for us. If he can get a payday in this time of uncertainty, then I would not blame him.

[pauliewalnuts]

Couldn't blame him at all for wanting to leave

But we have to try and hang on to him. Our record without him is horrendous and without him I'd be pretty much certain we're going down, as I doubt we'd get an adequate replacement in

I wouldn't blame anyone for leaving us at the moment.

We're quite clearly going nowhere, and not even pretending to have any ambition to do anything beyond staying up. I wouldn't nail my career to that.