Leandro Bacuna - Sold

[kiddylion]

Like been stated above,I'd expect he's quite cheap in premiership terms & can play in a few positions.
I'm quite happy he's in & around the squad never a world beater but can never knock his effort or commitment to the club

[paul_e]

Interesting. He hasn't really mucked up at right-back this season so far, though, so maybe Tactim prefers him to Hutton. It would be a more attacking choice.

I thought he did really well in the first game.  Was comfortable until Gradel came on, got turned a couple of times by him and then marked him out of it for the rest of the game.  I thought it was pretty similar against Man U, he had a couple of ropey moments but generally his positioning and marking was a lot better than it has been, given he was marking Memphis or Young for most of it I'm happy with that.

[passitsideways]

Don't really know why people are complaining at all, so long as the wages aren't anything out of this world. The fact that we could do better than him starting most games at RB doesn't change the fact that there's little downside to this: because he's a very useful utility player who's young enough that, barring a catastrophic loss of form, he can probably be shifted easily for a couple of million if we want to at some later stage.

[Toronto Villa]

I find Bacuna to be a very useful player to have on the bench or as part of the squad. Solid pro, very coachable. He'll not let us down, but if we want to improve he's got one of the positions that we should be upgrading.

[Malandro]

Pleased with this. I couldn't understand why Lambert left him out of the side in his last season.

[dekko]

Seems like a no brainer to me.  He's young, probably not on enourmous wages, knows the club and the league, can play a number of positions, always gives 100% and generally performs pretty well on the pitch.

I'd much rather we signed him up than spend more money on somone else who may or may not be as good.  I expect we'll be getting an upgrade at RB in a window or two anyway.

[kippaxvilla2]

Baker, Westwood, Bacuna - times they are a changing.

However, I am absolutely dreading tomorrow's news......

Aston Villa is delighted to announce that club Captain, Gabriel Agbonlahor has agreed a new five year contract that ties him to the club until 2020.  Fans favourite Gabby started life as an Academy graduate and got his first team break against Everton in 2005.  A scorer of vital goals over the years has seen Gabby elevated to hero status amongst the claret and blue faithful.

Speaking after signing the deal Gabby said 'It was a no brainer really, no one else would go near me, and the club have this ludicrous notion that the fans all love me, so I thought why not.  This is a club going places after all.'

[OCD]

Baker, Westwood, Bacuna - times they are a changing.

However, I am absolutely dreading tomorrow's news......

Aston Villa is delighted to announce that club Captain, Gabriel Agbonlahor has agreed a new five year contract that ties him to the club until 2020.  Fans favourite Gabby started life as an Academy graduate and got his first team break against Everton in 2005.  A scorer of vital goals over the years has seen Gabby elevated to hero status amongst the claret and blue faithful.

Speaking after signing the deal Gabby said 'It was a no brainer really, no one else would go near me, and the club have this ludicrous notion that the fans all love me, so I thought why not.  This is a club going places after all.'

He only signed a new contract last September.

[kippaxvilla2]

I know so it's about time he signed another.

[usav]

I would have Hutton over him at right-back and I would have any number of people over him in right-midfield.   Squad player at best.

[villadelph]

I really like Bacuna. I think he's dynamic and growing into a good player.

Good job club and Leo!

[Jockey Randall]

Ending last season with 5 assists from a limited amount of games at right back was a pretty good effort. There's plenty of room for improvement defensively though. He still offers way more to the team than Hutton ever will imo.

[kippaxvilla2]

According to Dutch football fans on Twitter, he is almost James Milner like. In that he is quite versatile but is best in a central role. Due to his versatility, he has been played out of position quite a bit which has slowed his progress.

The above was said about him on the very first page of this thread when we were signing him.  I think they made a fairly accurate assessment of him.

[cdbearsfan]

Glad he's renewed. I like Leo.

[curiousorange]

I can't decide if I'm that bothered about a new deal for Bacuna. Half of me thinks he's being played in the wrong position and the other half thinks that doesn't really make that much difference.