Villa player loan watch

[supertom]

Fonzie found a bit of form in the last couple of games for Cov. Hopefully he's done enough to convince them he's worth signing.

[eamonn]

Took both goals well. Strength, power and skill. Such a pity he didn't take-off with us after such high hopes.
Him and Helenius, our two goalscorers against Sheff Utd this year.

[cdbearsfan]

Thought we might as well have a generic thread for this and keeping an eye on loanees' progress.

Jed Steer has gone to Doncaster on a three-month loan deal. I guess Given is our back-up again. Should be good experience for Jed.

Previously confirmed that Helenius has gone back to Kent Nielsen's Aalborg for the season while Sylla will probably be spending about ten minutes at Kayseri Erciyesspor before finding out they don't bother paying wages, as often seems to happen to foreign players in Turkey. I doubt we'll see either of them play for Villa again anyhow.

[Hoppo]

Thanks for starting the thread.. Glad he will get matches. Died anyone know what's happened to Ben Siegrist? He seems to have disappeared.

[dave.woodhall]

Thanks for starting the thread.. Glad he will get matches. Died anyone know what's happened to Ben Siegrist? He seems to have disappeared.

Injured at the end of last season playing for Cambridge on loan.

[Legion]

Are you happy for me to rename this thread Loanwatch 2014-15 and sticky it?

[cdbearsfan]

Yep.

[Hoppo]

Thanks Dave.

[dekko]

Glad that Steer is out on loan.  He was never going to get any better sitting on the bench here and I wouldn't be comfortable relying on him if Guzan got injured or suspended.  Good move for all concerned I think.

[Gregorys Boy]

Three months is a decent amount of time also.  Enough for him to get a number of games under his belt, but also not too long from our point of view should we need to call on him.  Think a number of players currently on our books could do with getting a loan move.

[cdbearsfan]

My downside of Given being back up is it means he will play in the cups and I don't like older goalkeepers in penalty shoot-outs, if it comes to that. Suppose we could always do a Holland and bring Guzan on after 119 minutes.

[Gregorys Boy]

My downside of Given being back up is it means he will play in the cups and I don't like older goalkeepers in penalty shoot-outs, if it comes to that. Suppose we could always do a Holland and bring Guzan on after 119 minutes.

That is one reason why I thought we could have held on to Steer to give him experience in the Cups.  My friend actually made a good point about playing a different keeper in the cups than league, and that is that it can be more difficult than with an outfield player because a keeper has to strike up an understanding with his back four, so if you bring someone in who is not used to those players then it makes it harder.  Hope Given plays today and at least one of the other friendlies. 

[Legion]

Good luck to Tony Moon with your loan to Hellas Verona. Thanks for that quite spectacular goal last season.

[PeterWithesShin]

"Spend some facking money!" Good luck Tony.

http://vimeo.com/72561509

[cdbearsfan]

One of the many Nazi clubs in Italy. I can't really wish him luck there, to be honest.