Nicklas Helenius

[fredm]

Helenius, Okore and Bowery were in the players car park laughing and joking with each other at 2.30 on Saturday.

[PGW]

Helenius, Okore and Bowery were in the players car park laughing and joking with each other at 2.30 on Saturday.

Your point is!!!....am i missing something. I may have been miffed if it were 17:30 and had all played in the game.

[Clampy]

Helenius, Okore and Bowery were in the players car park laughing and joking with each other at 2.30 on Saturday.

Your point is!!!....am i missing something. I may have been miffed if it were 17:30 and had all played in the game.

I was thinking the same unless it was just an observation.

[PGW]

Helenius, Okore and Bowery were in the players car park laughing and joking with each other at 2.30 on Saturday.

Your point is!!!....am i missing something. I may have been miffed if it were 17:30 and had all played in the game.

I was thinking the same unless it was just an observation.

It's actually nice to see that Okore is laughing and joking with what's happened to him.

[Lsvilla]

Helenius, Okore and Bowery were in the players car park laughing and joking with each other at 2.30 on Saturday.

Your point is!!!....am i missing something. I may have been miffed if it were 17:30 and had all played in the game.

I was thinking the same unless it was just an observation.

It's actually nice to see that Okore is laughing and joking with what's happened to him.

I agree - I actually see this as a good thing that he's integrated given the challenge of moving country etc

[Merv]

Nice to hear Helenius laughing too. It's not really working out for him so far. Was really looking forward to seeing him play this season...

[fredm]

Helenius, Okore and Bowery were in the players car park laughing and joking with each other at 2.30 on Saturday.

Your point is!!!....am i missing something. I may have been miffed if it were 17:30 and had all played in the game.

I was thinking the same unless it was just an observation.

It was just an observation. The thread was asking what has happened to him - I was just saying he was at the game.

[Villa in Denmark]

I guess as much as anything, it's the physical side of the game. 

Around the time of the Spurs cup game he was quoted over here as saying that Lambert had had him hitting the weights and he'd put on a load of muscle since he joined.  About 2 weeks later he'd got the flu / trots and lost 4kgs body mass in a week.  I guess if he was behind on the physical side of things to start with - the majority of defences over here are not built around the likes of Okore or Agger, something like that will really have pushed him back.

[johnny from donny]

Seem to remember him saying that he didn't expect to be involved much this season and that he was going to learn as much as possible and bide his time for the time being.

[eamonn]

Pack him off to Walsall for Christmas. That should make a man out of him.

[Ron Manager]

What he should do is arrange a meet with Crouchy and ask for his advice on how to cope with the rigours of the top flight.

Crouchy is his benchmark in style of play and phyiscal shape.

[dekko]

So Helenius' agent has been doing the media rounds in Denmark:

The agent of Niklas Helenius has stated that he expects to speak to Aston Villa when the transfer window opens and could possible see his player make a loan move away from Villa Park.

The 22-year-old Denmark international has struggled to break into the Aston Villa team after his £1.2million move from Aalborg BK.

His agent Mads Bach Lund told Danish newspaper BT Lund: "Nicklas is at the age where he will have as much time as possible. A rental will not necessarily be a defeat for him if it comes to that.

"The most important thing is that he develops and overlooks the playing time. We are in constant dialogue with Aston Villa, and I expect that we will have a word with them again when the transfer window opens."

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/aston-villa-rumour-mill-niklas-6417697

I think a lot of us expected him to be another 'one for the future' signing who wasn't necessarily going to get much playing time (he himself said as much when he signed).  If thats the case, I think sending him out to play in a league that plays at a reasonable standard would be better than him riding the pine at VP.

[eamonn]

A "rental" huh? Blockbusters has just gone kaput so that rules them out with a swoop for our Nick.

[PaulWinch again]

I think he needs to be loaned out.

[supertom]

A few months in the championship would do him good. Get him having a bit of a buffeting and man him up should he need to be called upon in the run in. If he can net a few goals it'll do him the world of good.