N'Zogbia

[aj2k77]

I am happy that Remi isn't pussy footing around and giving nothing answers to questions the fans want answering. He is name checking all the players we know are a waste of space. Gabby, useless free loading twat, Nzog, not even a footballer anymore. Leeches and parasites who through our stupidity have been allowed to help bleed the club dry, rich reward for barely any effort.

With a bit of luck there will be another huge cull in the summer. We need more Veretouts and Amavis and less Gabbys and Nzogs, no matter what the press say. It isn't the nationalities that are a problem it's the attitudes and we have so many of the wrong ones at the club.

Remi to stay and turn this sinking ship around. It might be blind faith but he is the first manager in a long while I have any sort of faith in.

[LeeB]

I am happy that Remi isn't pussy footing around and giving nothing answers to questions the fans want answering. He is name checking all the players we know are a waste of space. Gabby, useless free loading twat, Nzog, not even a footballer anymore. Leeches and parasites who through our stupidity have been allowed to help bleed the club dry, rich reward for barely any effort.

With a bit of luck there will be another huge cull in the summer. We need more Veretouts and Amavis and less Gabbys and Nzogs, no matter what the press say. It isn't the nationalities that are a problem it's the attitudes and we have so many of the wrong ones at the club.

Remi to stay and turn this sinking ship around. It might be blind faith but he is the first manager in a long while I have any sort of faith in.

I'm feeling the same.

[PeterWithesShin]

Ireland and Zog, there's been around £35-40m of Villa money invested in those two.

[Toronto Villa]

Naturally I'm hoping it doesn't come to this but I'm almost at a point of accepting relegation to ensure we rid ourselves of the numerous anchors that are holding us back as a club. We need a long term approach and a manager who is going to tear the system up and start again. We keep bouncing from one volatile and unstable situation to the next. That absolutely must stop for us to progress.

[Clark W Griswold]

I've never known a situation like the N Zogbia one. He's been here 4 and half years and literally never been any good. Right from the start. How has he stayed here for at least the last 2 and half years. Gabby has obviously peaked as well and I'm surprised he wasn't sold 12 months ago or in the summer. Have McLeish, Lambert and Sherwood literally buried their heads in the sand with these lot and Garde the only one with the bollocks to tackle it head on. I must admit I've really warmed to him with his no nonsense approach to Grealish and those 2. Ship out the freeloaders I say.

[UK Redsox]

I'd clean forgotten about Zog again.

[ChicagoLion]

Refreshing now ship the total waste of space out, it can do nothing for morale having freeloaders like nzog hanging around

[LeeB]

I've never known a situation like the N Zogbia one. He's been here 4 and half years and literally never been any good. Right from the start. How has he stayed here for at least the last 2 and half years. Gabby has obviously peaked as well and I'm surprised he wasn't sold 12 months ago or in the summer. Have McLeish, Lambert and Sherwood literally buried their heads in the sand with these lot and Garde the only one with the bollocks to tackle it head on. I must admit I've really warmed to him with his no nonsense approach to Grealish and those 2. Ship out the freeloaders I say.

In a well functioning club, the clubs buys better players and moves players who become obsolete on.

We sell the good ones, replace them (the quality of replacements is a whole other issue), but then expect the new recruits to line up alongside the same players that haven't been good enough for 4-5 years.

[postal]

I've never known a situation like the N Zogbia one. He's been here 4 and half years and literally never been any good. Right from the start. How has he stayed here for at least the last 2 and half years. Gabby has obviously peaked as well and I'm surprised he wasn't sold 12 months ago or in the summer. Have McLeish, Lambert and Sherwood literally buried their heads in the sand with these lot and Garde the only one with the bollocks to tackle it head on. I must admit I've really warmed to him with his no nonsense approach to Grealish and those 2. Ship out the freeloaders I say.

I agree 100% percent.

If it takes relegation to sort this mess out, and Garde has said he's stay, I'll take it ( we might not have a choice! )

[AV82EC]

The only time NZogbias done anything since he arrived is:

Chelsea Away in the McLeish season when we won 3-1.

Norwich Away in the League Cup qtr final when he had a superb cameo for the last 30 minutes which meant we ran out easy winners.

The West Brom FA Cup qtr final when he played well.

Other than that I can't remember anything else of note in his 4.5 years here. He seemed happy to sit on his arse and be pictured wearing ever more bizarre clothing he bought on
His frequent trips to Dubai.

Modern football eh?

[Toronto Villa]

I've never known a situation like the N Zogbia one. He's been here 4 and half years and literally never been any good. Right from the start. How has he stayed here for at least the last 2 and half years. Gabby has obviously peaked as well and I'm surprised he wasn't sold 12 months ago or in the summer. Have McLeish, Lambert and Sherwood literally buried their heads in the sand with these lot and Garde the only one with the bollocks to tackle it head on. I must admit I've really warmed to him with his no nonsense approach to Grealish and those 2. Ship out the freeloaders I say.

In a well functioning club, the clubs buys better players and moves players who become obsolete on.

We sell the good ones, replace them (the quality of replacements is a whole other issue), but then expect the new recruits to line up alongside the same players that haven't been good enough for 4-5 years.

every club has its shit signings. We just notice ours a lot more because they are ours. But I'm sure Man U, Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs have a list of players that cost them a lot to get in, who didn't perform, and they either rarely played and/or sold were sold on at a significant loss. We just don't pay attention to them.

[LeeB]

I've never known a situation like the N Zogbia one. He's been here 4 and half years and literally never been any good. Right from the start. How has he stayed here for at least the last 2 and half years. Gabby has obviously peaked as well and I'm surprised he wasn't sold 12 months ago or in the summer. Have McLeish, Lambert and Sherwood literally buried their heads in the sand with these lot and Garde the only one with the bollocks to tackle it head on. I must admit I've really warmed to him with his no nonsense approach to Grealish and those 2. Ship out the freeloaders I say.

In a well functioning club, the clubs buys better players and moves players who become obsolete on.

We sell the good ones, replace them (the quality of replacements is a whole other issue), but then expect the new recruits to line up alongside the same players that haven't been good enough for 4-5 years.

every club has its shit signings. We just notice ours a lot more because they are ours. But I'm sure Man U, Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs have a list of players that cost them a lot to get in, who didn't perform, and they either rarely played and/or sold were sold on at a significant loss. We just don't pay attention to them.

Of course, but generally at those clubs those players are on the bench, or loaned out. With us, they're key first team regulars, not through finding form, but because they're too shit for anyone else to want them.

[ChicagoLion]

With Nzog and Ireland, everybody knew they were problems.
It is one thing getting a player and them not working out but buying known basket cases is just daft.

[cdward]

Villa have seriously mis-managed a lot of players in recent years. The whole bomb squad approach was nuts.
N'Zog in, out, in out
Bent  - record signing to loaned out to championship to bomb squad, back to first team, sold
Ireland - basket case
Jean Makoun II  - bought, loaned out, not eligible to come back, doesn't learn english,
Hutton - first team to bomb squad, loaned out to championship and abroad, back to first choice
Given - first choice to reserve(s) to bomb squad to first team coach, back to first choice to bomb squad - sold
Jenas - loaned then injured, went back to parent club and we paid his wages.
Kozak
Also the list of players on our books right now, that should be off loaded
Baker, Llori, Bennett, Senderos, Cissokho, Crespo, Cole, N'Zog

[eamonn]

The only time NZogbias done anything since he arrived is:

Chelsea Away in the McLeish season when we won 3-1.

Norwich Away in the League Cup qtr final when he had a superb cameo for the last 30 minutes which meant we ran out easy winners.

The West Brom FA Cup qtr final when he played well.

Other than that I can't remember anything else of note in his 4.5 years here. He seemed happy to sit on his arse and be pictured wearing ever more bizarre clothing he bought on
His frequent trips to Dubai.

Modern football eh?

Free-kick against West Ham in Lambert's first season (VP Feb 2013) when we couldn't buy a win.
Think he scored against QPR in his first season to help grab us a point (?).
And last season at Sunderland he actually looked great, feeding Gabby and Benteke as we ran rampant.

So...yeah. A bargain.