Charles N'zogbia update

[silhillvilla]

Sorry I just checked the back of the latest programme for the squad and Nzogbia doesn't feature at all. Is the official complete squad listed elsewhere ?

[eastie]

Sorry I just checked the back of the latest programme for the squad and Nzogbia doesn't feature at all. Is the official complete squad listed elsewhere ?

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-squad-numbers-revealed-5316171

[CJ]

If you look on the Squad page on the official site N'Zogbia's number 36 has been given to Daniel Johnson

[adrenachrome]

If he was only injured he'd surely have had a squad number ? Wtf is going on ?

I thought he has a squad number but it was a high one from what I recall in the 30s?

No squad number mate. All a bit suspect if you ask me.

[eamonn]

Another experienced pro to be replaced by a wet behin the ears Unibond League halfwit. We're years away from the project's end goal after all.

[eastie]

If you look on the Squad page on the official site N'Zogbia's number 36 has been given to Daniel Johnson

How odd , so he was 10, then 36 and now he's not even got a number .

[CJ]

Yeah, very strange and potentially very expensive if Lambert has no intention of using him - on an expensive contract running til July 2016

[eastie]

Looking at the playing staff list it seems donacien has no number either - I wasn't aware mark Delaney was on the coaching staff  in the academy - pity we can't get him coaching the full backs.

[aj2k77]

Wasn't aware Nzogbia was a trouble maker aswell?

[eastie]

Wasn't aware Nzogbia was a trouble maker aswell?

I don't think Hutton or bent were trouble makers or given - he just didn't seem to want them - glad to see shay has kept a few clean sheets at the boro and the team are picking up.

[rob_bridge]

Wasn't aware Nzogbia was a trouble maker aswell?

I don't think Hutton or bent were trouble makers or given - he just didn't seem to want them - glad to see shay has kept a few clean sheets at the boro and the team are picking up.

I suspect the more he got off the wage bill the more funds he had to spend on his own players.

The one thing all those in the bomb squad has was they were all on very high wages some of them with very long contracts.

Proof positive of how utterly dire the club from a footballing perspective has been run in the last few years.

[JUAN PABLO]

Bowery was a low risk punt, which is fair enough. However he clearly isn't good enough and him being in the first team squad at Villa isn't really acceptable.

I can understand a risk like varney ??  is it , at Leicester but not a bloke that was on Chesterfields bench , he should be playing one of our own young players .

[JUAN PABLO]

Lambert ditches experienced player shocker...

It will be interesting to see what happens when he is fit. I don't think he will be part of the plans.

I always think , If you have a player and he might make a difference and we are paying his wages still, how ever expensive he is costing . Play him , we are not going to sell him while hes rotting somewhere and then he goes for pennies , if we are that tight at least lets try and get some decent money for them , play them If they can do a job and someone might come in with a decent offer .

Nzogbia would , when fit , easily walk into this team.

[aj2k77]

Wasn't aware Nzogbia was a trouble maker aswell?

I don't think Hutton or bent were trouble makers or given - he just didn't seem to want them - glad to see shay has kept a few clean sheets at the boro and the team are picking up.

So another example of us cutting our noses off to prove a point? Wont we be needing Nzogbia for the relegation run in?

[taylorsworkrate]

Bowery was a low risk punt, which is fair enough. However he clearly isn't good enough and him being in the first team squad at Villa isn't really acceptable.

I can understand a risk like varney ??  is it , at Leicester but not a bloke that was on Chesterfields bench , he should be playing one of our own young players .

That's the point for me regarding Bowery. I can understand the manager wishing to take a punt on a promising young player from the lower leagues, but when said player has such a pathetic goal scoring record in the lower leagues it is incredibly mystifying.

I'd love the opportunity to ask Lambert exactly what he saw in Bowery, although at this stage it wouldn't surprise me if he had forgotten himself.