Libor Kozak

[Phil from the upper holte]

Can we sort out the quoting please

[kippaxvilla2]

He cannot be allowed to go to Small Heath.  It would be potentially catastrophic. If it happens I will have lost all faith in the decision making of whoever is in charge of the serial buffoonery that is currently engulfing the place.

[Villafirst]

It wouldn't surprise me if went on - loan to Blues. It would fit with the crap decision making at the club.

[adrenachrome]

Meaning Evil

Libor Kozak will remain an Aston Villa player after boss Remi Garde decided that the big man could still have a role to play at the club.

The striker, who was a target for Birmingham City, has yet to feature this season and was keen on a temporary move away before the loan window shut earlier today.

But when clubs came calling ahead of the 5pm cut-off, and Blues were not the only interested party, Villa decided against letting him leave.

Garde said: “No players left because I’ve got some players struggling to be fit again.

“I decided that nobody would leave but maybe they will in the next window.”

[Toronto Villa]

His recent comments on Kozak aren't pleasing. I just don't get it. Here is a player that was doing quite well after he joined us. Showed promise, chipped in with some goals. Then he suffers a terrible injury followed by a crushing relapse. He fights back from all of that. Then this pre season he looks like a lot of that hard work has paid off and he might be ready to get back to first team action. Yet Sherwood doesn't pick him and we all think over the course of time it's simply because the manager is a buffoon. Now Garde doesn't pick because he isn't impressing him.

How does a player, still quite young, work so hard to get back not then put in the last bit of really hard graft to get back to first team action? What am I missing here?

Speaking to the Birmingham Mail ahead of the weekend’s trip to Southampton, manager Remi Garde insisted that the Czech striker is no better than his other forward options and needs to do more to even earn a place on the substitute bench.

“I can’t tell you details but he needs to be better,” Garde said of Kozak. “He won’t be involved this weekend, no. You know my job is to pick what I think the best players are. This is the way it is with Libor.

“I have the feeling for many reasons that he could not do better than we are doing at the moment. This is my feeling.

“I am not saying anything bad about Libor. He’s not the only one not to be included in the squad. I saw him playing with the reserves and then I decided.”

[PeterWithesShin]

It really could be as simple as he's not good enough following 2 years out. It happens.

[OCD]

I was always surprised that Lambert bought him because he's very much a Darren Bent type of player. You won't see him in a game for a long time but he's capable of popping up with a goal. These days that type of player is a luxury that very few (if any now) can afford. Also consider how Bent turned out after his injuries (and those were far less severe than Kozak's).

[oswald funkletrumpet]

It really could be as simple as he's not good enough following 2 years out. It happens.

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he cant make the bench even with us being as shit as we are. another player who greatly improved whilst injured. at least everything will be okay when gardner is fit.

in 2021

[johnc]

It really could be as simple as he's not good enough following 2 years out. It happens.

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he cant make the bench even with us being as shit as we are. another player who greatly improved whilst injured. at least everything will be okay when gardner is fit.

in 2021

Heard from a friend of a friend that he is bone idle. Did not work at his rehab and now he is fit is not working hard at training. Basically his attitude is one of the worst seen down VP and God knows we have had some doozies! The lad who told me is not a BS merchant and his source would have done a bit of backroom work with the Old Lions

[aj2k77]

He's never going to do it anyway, he always looked like a cumbersome donkey to me, the sort of Striker you have whilst slumming around the bottom of the division. For £5m+ with his league record, it was a terrible signing on paper.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

It really could be as simple as he's not good enough following 2 years out. It happens.

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he cant make the bench even with us being as shit as we are. another player who greatly improved whilst injured. at least everything will be okay when gardner is fit.

in 2021

Heard from a friend of a friend that he is bone idle. Did not work at his rehab and now he is fit is not working hard at training. Basically his attitude is one of the worst seen down VP and God knows we have had some doozies! The lad who told me is not a BS merchant and his source would have done a bit of backroom work with the Old Lions

i have heard that as well, he must be doing sod all in training not to make the bench

he needs to be loaned out (but if he doesnt want to then he doesnt have to) or just mutually settle his contract and fuck him off, he cant have that long left on it

[SoccerHQ]

Why is he doing sod all? He dosen't strike me as a lazy player having seen him play. Can't help having been out so long not really getting a chance, it would probably demotivate most.

[villadelph]

I blame Clark.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Why is he doing sod all? He dosen't strike me as a lazy player having seen him play. Can't help having been out so long not really getting a chance, it would probably demotivate most.

our shittest team in god knows how long and he cant even get on the bench and he is fit so what does that tell you?

[old man villa fan]

Lost his heart for the game. It can happen after a bad injury. If the injury is in the back of his mind, the 50:50's become 40:60 and you have lost that edge