N'Zogbia

[Pat McMahon]

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.

I still find it unbelievable that we brought in Ireland when we didn't have a manager. Utter madness.

[tomd2103]

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.

The financial clout at those clubs means they can afoord to make expensive mistakes.  As the last few years have shown, we can't and one of the main problems has been our top earners have been contributing the least.  If we are paying big wages, we desperately need those players to perform.   

[Toronto Villa]

Mistakes are mistakes. Every club makes them.

[tomd2103]

Mistakes are mistakes. Every club makes them.

Yep, but we seem to have made more than most over the past few years.

[bobdylan]

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.

I still find it unbelievable that we brought in Ireland when we didn't have a manager. Utter madness.

It was that or sell our best player and not replace him, with hindsight that's a better option, but probably not at the time.

[brontebilly]

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

Makoun was the worst of the lot above, up there with Balaban for me

some of those were poor signings, others the terms of the deal were wrong e.g. Given's deal

With the exception of Cole, Cissokho and Senderos, there werent too many objections to signing the list above at the time.

Bent's ankle injury killed his mobility, what he lost on him we made back when selling Benteke

swings and roundabouts.....

[supertom]

N'Zogbia not making enough effort? Well there's a surprise.

Prick. Bloody awful, awful, cretinous bastard. Waste of oxygen. Pack him and his wardrobe up and fuck him off.

[SoccerHQ]

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.

I still find it unbelievable that we brought in Ireland when we didn't have a manager. Utter madness.

The plan I think at the time was to give McDonald the job for the season (or for a period until a capable candidate became available) until Newcastle 6-0 destroyed that idea.

However I remember reading at the time Ireland had worked with Mac in the Ireland set up before he retired from the team and they had a good working relationship so that's why it went through as it was assumed MacDonald would be managing the team and Ireland for a while that season.

[four fornicholl]

in some far flung language, im sure you can rearrange nzogbia,as an anagram into,
you fucking wanking bastard free roller fuck off

[N'Zimidy]

I liked Makoun II. Houllier actually wanted us to play with the ball and Makoun was definitely talented in getting moves started.

His performance at Man Utd away was excellent, then we never saw him again.

Since Houllier left our central midfield has gotten worse and worse.

[PaulTheVillan]

His performance at Man Utd away was excellent, then we never saw him again.

United didn't even press him. They were happy to let him have the ball all day long, because we were doing fuck all with it.

[rob_bridge]

His performance at Man Utd away was excellent, then we never saw him again.

United didn't even press him. They were happy to let him have the ball all day long, because we were doing fuck all with it.

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And beat us comfortably.                 

[Ozzjim]

NZogbia having one of his fun Q and A sessions with the fans on twitter tonight

[aj2k77]

NZogbia having one of his fun Q and A sessions with the fans on twitter tonight

Has anyone asked him what he does for a job?

[SheffieldVillain]

NZogbia having one of his fun Q and A sessions with the fans on twitter tonight

Has anyone asked him what he does for a job?

This pretty much sums him up.

@drt03 Im a baller, why should i be off The ball ?? I learnt to always have The ball not to chase it

Tell that to Messi or Suarez you lazy sod.

He also seems to have no idea why Garde wouldn't want him in the team.

Steven Harford ‏@steven1harford  36m36 minutes ago
What's going on with @CharlesNzo been given 15 mins against man city looked more threatening than anyone  and hasn't been seen since

 Charles N'Zogbia ‏@CharlesNzo  30m30 minutes ago
@steven1harford and 10mins Vs Everton, the next day training with the under 21 until further notice.

What a prick.