Nathan Baker - Sold

[Hairbandinho]

Would I be right in thinking their owner is pretty rich?

[Tayls_7]

It's a forum.That's generally a given.

In my opinion.

I have seen Jedinak play very comfortably in that gap between the two full backs. It may have something to do with the fact he rarely loses an aerial battle. We could get rid of mad Tom and the dough boy and still have enough cover.  As for the kids, I can't comment yet.

[KRS]

Always prone to making mistakes, gifting a goal or getting injured. No great loss but I wish him all the best with his move.

We've signed Terry and Samba who are both better players than Baker so I'm struggling to see how this weakens us defensively...would prefer to get rid of Richards and Elphick (hopefully one of them will still go) but this is still an upgrade on last seasons squad.

[Hairbandinho]

Would be interesting to see if Elphick or somehow some chump takes Richards off our hands. Then we definitely are light there. Sadly probably means they both are staying

[paul_e]

Would be interesting to see if Elphick or somehow some chump takes Richards off our hands. Then we definitely are light there. Sadly probably means they both are staying

At least 1 of them will go.  If both went I think we'd get a young replacement or try to bring Bedeau/Suliman into the mix.

[PaulWinch again]

Good luck Nathan.

[cheltenhamlion]

Would be interesting to see if Elphick or somehow some chump takes Richards off our hands. Then we definitely are light there. Sadly probably means they both are staying

At least 1 of them will go.  If both went I think we'd get a young replacement or try to bring Bedeau/Suliman into the mix.

Suliman was utterly shit on loan at Cheltenham.

[brian green]

Suliman the Not So Magnificent then.

[andyh]

Good luck Nathan.

Has he passed his medical?

[cheltenhamlion]

Good luck Nathan.

Has he passed his medical?

Yes. But then injured himself stretching the shirt for promotional snaps.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Good luck Nathan!!! Shame you've gone and chancers like Richards, bacuna and Gabby are still at the club.
I believe Gabby is in the last year of his contract, a prime time for somebody to come in for normal players and get a bargain, but not Gabby!!! The fact nobody (as far as I'm aware) has even tried says a lot!

[SoccerHQ]

I thought he had a decent season last year and would've had plenty of games this year as obviously Terry and Samba are going to come out of the team on occasions.

Can understand the need to balance the books but I'd have rather kept Baker than Elphick.

Wonder if we tried to get Aiden Flint in a swop? We were linked to him earlier in the summer.

[ktvillan]

I thought Baker was a decent squad player, a little error prone but less so than Clark used to be and waya less than Elphick and Richards currently are.  Not great with the ball at his feet or positionally but was pretty dominant aerially and very committed.  Not devastated to see him leave but not chuffed either.   

[claret+blue ed]

If we have got £4m for him, then well done villa, I've said it previously on here, he tries hard but is too prone to errors, was always lucky not to give penalties away as he dived in too much

But, I wish him well in his future career as he did always put the effort in for our club

[IFWaters]

in my opinion the wrong decision.

Should have kept him as number 3 choice centre back behind Terry and Chester, ahead of Samba.

My only guess is that its to balance the books as we cant get rid of others who can fill the same slot.