Concrete Ron

[OCD]

A bit risky having knee surgery without the security of a contract? What if the surgery doesn't work? He'll be fucked! Not that disappointed, he's so injury prone.

What do you think would have happened if he had agreed a deal somewhere and then gone through the medical?

[villadelph]

A bit risky having knee surgery without the security of a contract? What if the surgery doesn't work? He'll be fucked! Not that disappointed, he's so injury prone.

What do you think would have happened if he had agreed a deal somewhere and then gone through the medical?

"I want to maximize my career, and I think I can go a step higher."

Good luck with that. At least he kept to his word and went quietly.

[spangley1812]

He wouldn't pass a medical currently

[pauliewalnuts]

He wouldn't pass a medical currently

He doesn't have to pass a medical based on his current fitness.

If he has a routine operation to have, that isn't going to make him fail anything. See Downing rocking up on crutches with a broken leg, for example.

[Ron Manager]

He wouldn't pass a medical currently

He doesn't have to pass a medical based on his current fitness.

If he has a routine operation to have, that isn't going to make him fail anything. See Downing rocking up on crutches with a broken leg, for example.

as I was just about to text. But you beat me to it!

[olaftab]

I assume he is paying for this operation himself or the Dutch national health service?

[OCD]

The PFA will cover it.

The medicals are there to discover any unknown conditions. So you're right in that this would be known but there's still a question as to whether a club would be willing to do a multi-million pound deal for someone with a knee injury. The sort of break Downing had was easy to track. Knees are far more complex and even Vlaar has said that 'they think this will resolve his issues'. I tend to think clubs will adopt a wait and see approach.

I still wouldn't be surprised if he failed a medical for something yet undetected. Polystyrene Ron.

[Ads]

He has he consistency of a soggy wheatabix.

[Diablo]

I just want us to get past all of this now. Vlaar will be gone, Delph will be gone and if someone meets the Benteke number he'll be off also. I want players who want to be at Aston Villa. If you don't find somewhere else to play. Southampton showed with good management you can lose good players and still improve. We have to find a way to do that also.

Couldn't agree more

[mrfuse]

I just want us to get past all of this now. Vlaar will be gone, Delph will be gone and if someone meets the Benteke number he'll be off also. I want players who want to be at Aston Villa. If you don't find somewhere else to play. Southampton showed with good management you can lose good players and still improve. We have to find a way to do that also.

Couldn't agree more

The difference was Southampton were not a struggling team beating off relegation the last few years.They had a lot of decent players and got good money for them all.
We on the other hand have one or two good players and are -£1M down on one of them.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Actually as he looks like he is in for yet more injury problems then he probably did us a favor by not agreeing to a new contract, assuming it was still offered.

I still find it hard to dislike him.

[Villafirst]

is the contract offer still on the table??

[Tony Erdington]

fuck him off, he's shit.

but I don't really have an opinion on this one.

[UK Redsox]

A bit risky having knee surgery without the security of a contract? What if the surgery doesn't work? He'll be fucked! Not that disappointed, he's so injury prone.

What do you think would have happened if he had agreed a deal somewhere and then gone through the medical?

"I want to maximize my career, and I think I can go a step higher."

Good luck with that. At least he kept to his word and went quietly.

Any step higher for Ron had better have hand rails

[exigo]

"I think I can go a step higher."

Not even on the stairs, Ron. Not even on the stairs.