Concrete Ron

[villan from luton]

If he wants to go, I would say go forth and multiply. He is a good defender, nothing more. However, I like his attitude to our club and think he actually has a feel about the club, lets hope so. It is wrongtract he and Delph have not been offered new contracts

[Pete3206]

I don't think Villa want to move him on. It all depends on whether we receive an enquiry, a bid and whether the player wants to go.

Are you The Mail's football finance expert? His name is Peter as well I think.

*wink*

I'm here all week. Try the veal

[tom jennings III]

More Man United January Transfer Window rumours.

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/rumours/

[Tom_Mc9?]

It's such lazy reporting. He's Dutch, played for Van Gaal, and Manchester United need defenders. Of course the papers are going to say that they're going to want to sign him and they very well might. However, the fact that it's been reported about 500 times hardly registers as news, does it?

[tom jennings III]

Let's hope not. Just get that contract signed and at least we'll get some money for him if he does leave. Sunday Express is not exactly a bastion of journalistic integrity so lazy reporting is almost definitely correct!

[Smirker]

I'm starting to care less and less to be honest.

[olaftab]

Situation is no different from summer. van Ghoul will not go for him because he is not reliable due to injury prone limbs. He managed to survive World Cup but his record with us is not good in terms of consistent games. I think we should concentrate on bringing on Okore/Baker partnership long term.

[silhillvilla]

Whilst I appreciate loyalty in football departed a long time ago, I'd be somewhat disappointed if Vlaar opted to bail out now considering how long we've stood by him through injuries. That's assuming we've made him a decent offer of course.

[Dave]

Whilst I appreciate loyalty in football departed a long time ago, I'd be somewhat disappointed if Vlaar opted to bail out now considering how long we've stood by him through injuries. That's assuming we've made him a decent offer of course.

How long we've stood by him?

What exactly have we done, other than pay him the wages that his contract says that we owe him?

[silhillvilla]

Just looking at his stats. In his first season with us he missed 11 league games, last season just 8. This season started well but he's missed what the last 3 or 4 games ?

[Ron Manager]

Anybody confident he will be declared fit for the Everton match. I have considerable doubts. Even if he is I would continue with our current pairing who are doing well. Might get the subs bench though over Okore.

[Ads]

We should cut our losses and use the money we were going to buy Cleverley to pick up a reliable replacement. Swap Cleverley for him if necessary.

He misses far too much football.

[mrastonvilla]

We should cut our losses and use the money we were going to buy Cleverley to pick up a reliable replacement. Swap Cleverley for him if necessary.

He misses far too much football.

If they offer more than we paid for him I'd take it given we have never had a full season from him and that is only going to get worse after the age of 30.

[Goldie.7]

Anybody confident he will be declared fit for the Everton match. I have considerable doubts. Even if he is I would continue with our current pairing who are doing well. Might get the subs bench though over Okore.

Shifting 8 goals isn't doing well plus Senderos is crocked so that probably won't happen.

[SoccerHQ]

We should cut our losses and use the money we were going to buy Cleverley to pick up a reliable replacement. Swap Cleverley for him if necessary.

He misses far too much football.

He usually has one long injury spell out during a season. It's frustrating but it's not likely he plays a couple of games, gets injured, comes back, get injured etc.

Looking at last season he had his usual mid winter break but I think either side of that he only missed the Everton away game in February. Think it was a similar case in 12/13. He has made 62 league games for us so that's 30 league games a season which isn't too bad.

In fairness under different managers over the last 15 years we've signed some really good defenders for not a huge amount (Laursen, Bouma, Mellberg, Dunne (First season)) so it does seem a welcome club tradition so we'll find someone else to fill the void.