Leandro Bacuna - Sold

[SoccerHQ]

Didn't Reading win their first game for about six months last night?

[cdbearsfan]

It's possible for players to play well in, generally, unsuccessful teams. Benteke, for instance.

[tomd2103]

It's possible for players to play well in, generally, unsuccessful teams. Benteke, for instance.

He'd probably be a better bet on the bench than Bjarnason (faint praise indeed), but wouldn't be in our starting XI as it stands.

[eamonn]

Didn't Reading win their first game for about six months last night?

First home win since they beat us, the day we sold Bacuna to them.

[Jockey Randall]

Reading fans are raving about how well Bacuna is playing for them.

Another example of how we have been destroying careers?

Haven't they been playing him right back? Always thought it was his best position when he was here.

[TheMalandro]

Missing out on Roberto Carlos and now this. We have appalling luck.

[SoccerHQ]

It's possible for players to play well in, generally, unsuccessful teams. Benteke, for instance.

He's hardly inspiring them to win after win though?

Bacuna had his moments but was just so sloppy/poor in possession to ever be a first choice midfielder unless he was told just to run about and disrupt the opposition which SB seemed to just tell him to most of last season.

I agree he had some good games for us at RB so if he'd been properly coached he could've been a decent player there in the long term.

[ASHTONVILLA]

He was rubbish and annoying, well shot of him and all the other players we have sold since relegation. I do not miss a single one of them.

[TheTimVilla]

He was rubbish and annoying, well shot of him and all the other players we have sold since relegation. I do not miss a single one of them.

Ashley Westwood seems to get the last 15 minutes of Burnley games, generally coming on for Dufour.

[Gareth]

Think Idrissa Gueye may be the exception to that one, he is a very adequate Premier League player so would have been very good in this league

[tomd2103]

Reading fans are raving about how well Bacuna is playing for them.

Another example of how we have been destroying careers?

Haven't they been playing him right back? Always thought it was his best position when he was here.

Agree.  I think if he had thrown his lot into playing that position then he could have become a good Championship / possible lower half Premier League level player in that position. 

[ASHTONVILLA]

Think Idrissa Gueye may be the exception to that one, he is a very adequate Premier League player so would have been very good in this league

Hardly pulling up trees for Everton this season though. Could well find his way back to the Championship with them.

Another player that was hard to like, and barely registered a shrug upon leaving.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Think Idrissa Gueye may be the exception to that one, he is a very adequate Premier League player so would have been very good in this league

Hardly pulling up trees for Everton this season though. Could well find his way back to the Championship with them.

Another player that was hard to like, and barely registered a shrug upon leaving.

Along similar lines the Traore/ Odomha deal is one of the few cases I can remember of a transfer trade working out well for us.

[tomd2103]

Think Idrissa Gueye may be the exception to that one, he is a very adequate Premier League player so would have been very good in this league

Hardly pulling up trees for Everton this season though. Could well find his way back to the Championship with them.

Another player that was hard to like, and barely registered a shrug upon leaving.

Decent player but a questionable attitude when things aren't going well.

[SoccerHQ]

Gana did win POTY for Everton last year.

I think pound for pound the player we've sold in recent times who's gone on to have a good career elsewhere is Matt Lowton. Every time I see Burnley, they've been on Sky a fair few times this season, he's generally been very solid.

Just shows in the right formation he can be a good full back at premier league level.