Libor Kozak

[saunders_heroes]

Massive donkey, another terrible Lambert signing.

Not a terrible player at the time, but do think he was a terrible signing because of the other squad weaknesses and lack of money.

Scored a few goals but other than that I thought his all round play was abysmal. Another dreadful signing who won't be missed.

[Steve67]

Seven million pounds. Utter shite but hey, Lambert still thinks that he was given little money to spend.

[brian green]

Even ten years ago his leg break was so bad that he would never have played again.  He is a credit to his doctors and himself to even be trying to rebuild his career.  He is now a very limited player but I wish him well whatever his future holds.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Seems like he is going to Opava for a six month loan. We've supposedly denied it but he's been pictured there and confirmed it.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/aston-villa-transfer-news-libor

[Malandro]

Seven million pounds. Utter shite but hey, Lambert still thinks that he was given little money to spend.

That transfer window period was important in our doom. We were crying out for a Robert Huth/Dann centre back and he bought another forward.

[paul_e]

Even ten years ago his leg break was so bad that he would never have played again.  He is a credit to his doctors and himself to even be trying to rebuild his career.  He is now a very limited player but I wish him well whatever his future holds.

It was, apparently, a very similar break to one that ended Nilis' career.

[paul_e]

Seven million pounds. Utter shite but hey, Lambert still thinks that he was given little money to spend.

That transfer window period was important in our doom. We were crying out for a Robert Huth/Dann centre back and he bought another forward.

I disagree, we really needed a winger or 2 , the 433 with gabby and weimann either side of the beast worked but was limited by the inconsistency of those 2.  No idea who was or wasn't available but some to do the job that Mahrez did for Leicester or Payet did for West Ham last year.

[Malandro]

A Christmas hoax by Kozak! Supposedly a Czech tradition.
Still training with us.

[aj2k77]

A Christmas hoax on the 4th January? His timing is as poor as his first touch.

[eamonn]

How long is left on his contract?

[aj2k77]

6 months.

[chrisw1]

I don't know why we get worked up about this.  He won't play for us again and really is just a fixed cost to the club that we can't do anything about.  Of course it would be nice to use his wages elsewhere, but really they just need to be written off and we should move on.

[PeterWithe]

A strange player, he seemed a natural finisher but his all round game was pretty poor and he always looked physically weak. Showed what he was capable of with some fine goals in a game against the Tatters but other than that pretty much forgettable.

[OzVilla]

Seven million pounds. Utter shite but hey, Lambert still thinks that he was given little money to spend.

That transfer window period was important in our doom.

A while back someone listed all of the players Lambert bought that Summer, Kozak, Bennett, El Ahmedi, Bowery etc.  It just showed what a complete chancer he was,  just one shit signing after another.  Idiot!

[passitsideways]

From a monetary and forward-thinking standpoint, I think his signing made sense - we were expecting to get only one more season from Benteke anyway, so spending 6.5 million euros on a replacement capable of scoring somewhere between 10 to 15 league goals in a season as the first-choice was fine (I mean, I'm pretty sure Steven Fletcher went for double that amount after managing a 12 goal season for Wolves), and letting him settle into English football without the added pressure of replacing Benteke was sensible.

The problem was at the time we also desperately needed a forward with real quality who could either play off Benteke or provide goalscoring from out wide, because even back then everyone pretty much agreed that neither Gabby nor Weimann were trustworthy just yet, and so they subsequently proved.