Tom Cleverley loan watch

[supertom]

He'd be crazy not to sign and we'd be crazy not to make a decent offer to him. He's looking a top player under Sherwood. He looks a goal threat now too. It just seems so ridiculously simple how TS has made this turnaround. Get these players in the box. Simples.

We've long waited for someone as good as Delphy in our midfield to help him out and TC has made that step up now.

He will have many clubs to choose from but hopefully Mr Sherwood and his smooth talking will sort it. He was always a good player, just wrongly used. Are you forgetting Westwood by the way lol

No Westy is starting to look like the player we potentially saw 2 years ago. He's ideal foil for the energy that Delph and TC give ahead of him.
With Gardner returning we might just have options in the middle next season.

[timeoutbigbar]

Looked lost under Lambert, I thought we'd got a dud and the stick he got on social media was for good reason.  Glad to say I hold my hands up and I was wrong.  There is a very good player there, playing in the right system.  I just hope playing our way out of trouble and us putting faith in him is enough to convince him that he's better off here than anywhere else.

[villan from luton]

I think Gardner may thrive under TS. As for Westwood, he is a top player IMO and is proving it, the shackles have been let loose for all the players

[silhillvilla]

If the money's right I think he will stick with sherwood.

[alan_clarke]

I'd be pissed off if he goes to Everton because I think we can finish above them next season if we can get keep this group together.

[OCD]

When Lambert was manager, I think it was understandable that he was looking to go to Everton. Since Sherwood's come in, Cleverley looks like he's enjoying himself, he's thriving and is knocking on the door for an England call-up. With a cup final to look forward to, the whole club is bouncing again. He would be mad to go to Everton. The problem would be if a Champions League side came in for him, in which case he's got to consider whether he'll be regularly playing.

[paul_e]

When Lambert was manager, I think it was understandable that he was looking to go to Everton. Since Sherwood's come in, Cleverley looks like he's enjoying himself, he's thriving and is knocking on the door for an England call-up. With a cup final to look forward to, the whole club is bouncing again. He would be mad to go to Everton. The problem would be if a Champions League side came in for him, in which case he's got to consider whether he'll be regularly playing.

If we carry on playing how we are he'll deserve it and it wouldn't be a massive shock if Westwood and Grealish are being looked at to join him and Delph in there, the whole midfield is working brilliantly right now.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

The concern is whether he'll start attracting the attention of teams that are better than Everton.

[PaulWinch again]

I really hope he decides to stay he's been fantastic of late.

[Goldie.7]

Manure might offer him a new deal at this rate, hardly anybody wanted us to pay the reported fee for him in Jan (and rightly so at the time) now he's looking like a really good player we're all most of us are now hoping he stays.

Mixed feelings of him over at RC, some want him back, some wish him well (academy player) some hope he stays with us and not the reported Everton.
www.redcafe.net/threads/tom-cleverley-aston-villa-loan-watch.393991/page-81

Personally it looks like he's enjoying his football here but these days it's about money, he will go to a club who offers him the best deal that suits him. It might be us.....it might not.

 

[robbo1874]

Signing cleverley would be a coup almost as big as re-signing Delph. I think we're all but safe in the league now and if we can beat arsenal then we'd have a great chance of keeping cleverley, benteke and vlaar.

[Smirker]

Fucking love this guy. He could have had a hat trick today. It will be a crying shame if he doesn't stay with us. For the first time in ages I feel as though we have that Ian Taylor/Platt type player at the club. Works really hard and gets into positions to score goals. Three goals in three, two of the them absolutely massive game winners.

What, after three or four games?

He was appalling for a long time before that. If the wages are reasonable then I'm OK with him signing but I'm not convinced yet.

Have not read anything after this comment, he was being played in a totally wrong position under the magic tactician that was Lambert

What about the three years before that playing for England & Man. United?

Done well recently, still not convinced but hope he keeps it up.

[PeterWithe]

I'd be pleasantly surprised to see him sign, he will get bigger offers than ours.

If he does go I think he can expect a warm welcome whenever he returns with another team, his goals and performances have been crucial just when we needed them most.

[silhillvilla]

If he does leave and is dropped into a team who don't play the right system and he's out of position then he will struggle again.

[Dante Lavelli]

If he does leave and is dropped into a team who don't play the right system and he's out of position then he will struggle again.

Maybe, he was v poor under lambert and not many clubs play as we do right now.  They mentioned on MOTD (or similar) that he is a confidence player so switching in/out of a chumps league squad would probably not suit him.

In a way it is a good litmus test for the modern footballer.  Stay (or join any club below Spurs), play every week and enjoy your football with a good chance of getting in the england squad or go to a 'big club' and the kudos which goes with that.  I don't even think a chumps league club will pay him that much more than we would due to FFP and their already bloated squads.

The more I think about it, and without C&B spec, the more I think we are the *right* club for him.  Whether he sees it that way is another matter.