Idrissa Gueye - now gone

[Brend'Watkins]

I'm still not quite sure what his real name is now so it will be impossible to remember him when he's gone. All I'll have in memory is how he generally performed for us. Inconsistent, infuriating and mostly shit.

[achilles]

He was lined up with a club a couple of months ago, as long as he didn't get injured he was always going to leave at the end of the season, so in effective this is nothing new at all!

[Pete3206]

Headless chicken. Goodbye Gueye, Gana or whatever the fuck your name is.

[kippaxvilla2]

Thierno Seydi, who also represents Didier Drogba, spoke to the Agence de Presse Sénégalaise and explained Gueye would need to leave for the sake of ‘his progression’.

He said: “Leaving will be logical between Idrissa and Aston Villa. Thankfully, he’s been one of the best signings this season, and has shown throughout the season he easily has the level for the Premier League.

“As gentlemen and people responsible, we’ll sit down around a table and find an agreement for sure. There are offers coming in because of the club’s situation, and they know it’s probably in their best interest to let him go.”

As for where Idrissa Gueye could go, there was briefly speculation surrounding a move to Marseille, but Thierno Seydi believes a new club in the Premier League or a move to Bundesliga is the most likely situation.

The 26-year-old has made 35 appearances in all competitions for Aston Villa this season, scoring one goal and picking up an assist in the process, and has earned 29 caps for Senegal in the past five years.

[oldhill_avfc]

Thierno Seydi, who also represents Didier Drogba, spoke to the Agence de Presse Sénégalaise and explained Gueye would need to leave for the sake of ‘his progression’.

He said: “Leaving will be logical between Idrissa and Aston Villa. Thankfully, he’s been one of the best signings this season, and has shown throughout the season he easily has the level for the Premier League.“As gentlemen and people responsible, we’ll sit down around a table and find an agreement for sure. There are offers coming in because of the club’s situation, and they know it’s probably in their best interest to let him go.”

As for where Idrissa Gueye could go, there was briefly speculation surrounding a move to Marseille, but Thierno Seydi believes a new club in the Premier League or a move to Bundesliga is the most likely situation.

The 26-year-old has made 35 appearances in all competitions for Aston Villa this season, scoring one goal and picking up an assist in the process, and has earned 29 caps for Senegal in the past five years.

Delusional.

Bye.

[sickbeggar]

Well at least this and okare is starting to kill the myth that's its only the English based players who are the problem. The foreign lot are just as much bad apples, just as shite and can join the rest of 'em out the door if we can find anyone daft enough to buy them

[ozzjim]

The foreign lot.

This is all from his agent - not him, and Okore played through a serious knee injury to help us stay up last season. Conveniently forgotten and dubbed a bad apple.

Agents will stir up a move for a decent player, and no doubt a premier league side will likely buy Ayew, Gueye and Okore this summer.

[passitsideways]

He's intercepted more passes than any player in the league, according to Whoscored. I'm sure you don't get that many interceptions without some kind of positional sense. Meanwhile, he's completed 85.5% of his passes (for reference, Kante is at 81.8%) and has been dispossessed on average once per game. That's hardly suggestive of someone who apparently chronically loses possession.

Okay, he's pretty abysmal when it comes to doing anything in the final third, but that was never his remit - he's a defensive midfielder, pure and simple, and I'm sure he'll look better in a team (maybe it's us) where he's not being required to get forward and create goals.

[Steve R]

The foreign lot.

This is all from his agent - not him, and Okore played through a serious knee injury to help us stay up last season. Conveniently forgotten and dubbed a bad apple.

Agents will stir up a move for a decent player, and no doubt a premier league side will likely buy Ayew, Gueye and Okore this summer.

That's the amazing thing. Mid to low-end teams tend to pick over the bones of those that are relegated. We have done it ourselves. Normally there is only 1 or 2 players worth a look. We get relegated with most likely only three wins to our name but there are 5 or 6 players that are easily good enough for mid table PL side - or better.

Seriously, how the fuck did we manage to be so bad?

[brian green]

Bad owner. Bad CEO. Bad managers. Bad coaches.

[ozzjim]

Pretty much Brian. The coaching aspect I look at and wonder what we are up too. Pearson at Leicester had 2 assistants but then had some first team specialist coaches and an Elmesthorpe coherent structure. We seem to have 3 at most over the last few years and very little specialism.  I read Southampton target specialist coaches in the same way they research managers. Sounds entirely sensible to me.

[oldhill_avfc]

The foreign lot.

This is all from his agent - not him, and Okore played through a serious knee injury to help us stay up last season. Conveniently forgotten and dubbed a bad apple.

Agents will stir up a move for a decent player, and no doubt a premier league side will likely buy Ayew, Gueye and Okore this summer.

That's the amazing thing. Mid to low-end teams tend to pick over the bones of those that are relegated. We have done it ourselves. Normally there is only 1 or 2 players worth a look. We get relegated with most likely only three wins to our name but there are 5 or 6 players that are easily good enough for mid table PL side - or better.

Seriously, how the fuck did we manage to be so bad?

That's the whole point though isn't it.  This season we've had 5 or 6 players (at the absolute maximum) who'd get into a mid table side.  None would get into a top 8 side.  The rest, either through attitude or ability aren't even good enough for the championship.

We sold quality and replaced it with mediocrity.  We should have relaxed quality with quality, and the mediocre ones who were brought in should have replaced the ones we already knew from previous seasons were not good enough.

That was down to a combination of budget and policy from the top.  As Brian has said, there may have been bad managers and bad coaches as well but they weren't the root cause of this mess.

[peter w]

moreover we look like a team of individuals. All season we've failed to gel.

[montague]

Thierry Henry was bigging him up a few days ago, along with Kante, when talking about the players Arsenal used to sign.

[aj2k77]

Thierry Henry was bigging him up a few days ago, along with Kante, when talking about the players Arsenal used to sign.

They can have him!