Concrete Ron

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

With his injury record and age etc, if he doesn't want to stay (or has a better offer in the wings) fine.
Use his wages for signing a younger version and rely on Baker, Clark, Okore, Senderos, Lowton? and Donacien. I don't think CB is a priority considering the cover we've got.
 
Perhaps TS has got someone lined up?

[Phil from the upper holte]

I don't care if he stays or not

[PeterWithesShin]

If he stays on low wages or pay as you play, fine, if he leaves, fine. He's hardly irreplaceable even when he does make it onto the pitch.

And if he has made it public in any way that he's leaving he can go fuck himself. Nice timing with the games we have coming up. If he hasn't, then see the first paragraph again.

[silhillvilla]

We need to move on from vlaar to be honest.  He's too old now and too injury prone. Let him become someone else's problem / liability.

[warleyboy]

With his injury record and age etc, if he doesn't want to stay (or has a better offer in the wings) fine.
Use his wages for signing a younger version and rely on Baker, Clark, Okore, Senderos, Lowton? and Donacien. I don't think CB is a priority considering the cover we've got.
 
Perhaps TS has got someone lined up?

I think Senderos did a good quality job for us when he has been available, but unfortunately he is way to injury prone, like concrete.
I'm still on the fence with Okore, although I was damn excited when we signed him, out of all CB's we have, I would give this guy a chance with a new quality CB signing.
I would use Baker and Clarke as back up, they do show promise but also can lose concentration sometimes.
And I feel a new GK is a must, with new CB and Okore in position for few months to get some stability into defence.

As for Vlaar, Auf Wiedersehen Pet

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

If TS doesn't need him, fine.
Got a bit of a soft spot for him but he's far too injury prone for any PL team, including AVFC.
That's life.
We ain't a charity.
If he'd been fit as a flea and Yanited wanted him he'd fu*k off to them, no problem.

If it's true he's come out and said this now, it a pretty shite thing to do, given all that's at stake.
Worth waiting to see if this is just paper talk.

[OCD]

Can't see anything about it on Sky Sports' website. If he is leaving, now wouldn't be a good time to be letting it slip out.

[old man villa fan]

From last week being interviewed and saying he can't wait until next season to help push the club on to now when it has been somebody said that it had been reported that he said he will not be staying.

I may be wrong but I know which comment I think is correct.

[tomd2103]

With his injury record and age etc, if he doesn't want to stay (or has a better offer in the wings) fine.
Use his wages for signing a younger version and rely on Baker, Clark, Okore, Senderos, Lowton? and Donacien. I don't think CB is a priority considering the cover we've got.
 
Perhaps TS has got someone lined up?

I think Senderos did a good quality job for us when he has been available, but unfortunately he is way to injury prone, like concrete.
I'm still on the fence with Okore, although I was damn excited when we signed him, out of all CB's we have, I would give this guy a chance with a new quality CB signing.
I would use Baker and Clarke as back up, they do show promise but also can lose concentration sometimes.
And I feel a new GK is a must, with new CB and Okore in position for few months to get some stability into defence.

As for Vlaar, Auf Wiedersehen Pet

Yep, would go with that.  I think Vlaar is a good player, but I wouldn't be overly disappointed if he left in the summer.  I do think we would need to replace him if he went though, as our other options at CB have had their injury problems as well.

[dave.woodhall]

I can't see the summer's news being so good that we can afford to just blithely wave goodbye to our best defender.

[PeterWithesShin]

We selling Okore then?

[tomd2103]

I can't see the summer's news being so good that we can afford to just blithely wave goodbye to our best defender.

Suppose so and if there is one club that knows about the potential benefits of taking a punt on a defender with a bad injury record then it is surely us.

[PeterWithesShin]

Problem with Vlaar is the obvious one, he misses too many games with injury. As it stands he's missed league 35 games with injury since he arrived. Nearly a full season out of the 3 he's been here. And even with him in the side we've far too often been poor defensively. Who can forget the 'fun' of cornalty time.
He's a good player but hardly irreplaceable, especially as it's unlikely his injury problems will improve as he gets older.

[Toronto Villa]

Finding it hard to believe that he talked openly about how great things and even staying longer to a week later Saturday he's off. A story that of true would have been all over the place by now. And he's our best defender when fit and in a run of games. I hope we can find a deal that makes sense on both sides given his injury record.

[KRS]

Seems to be a few doubters to what I heard on SSN earlier so here's Koemans press conference from today...don't shoot the messenger! Questions about about Vlaar and media guy stating his agent has served notice to Villa from 5:30-6:30: