Jordan Ayew - sold to Swansea

[ozzjim]

He had got some ability but his work rate is exceptional.  I like how Garde had clearly fluffed him up confidence wise too.

Imagine him with better players around him.

[Dante Lavelli]

He had got some ability but his work rate is exceptional.  I like how Garde had clearly fluffed him up confidence wise too.

Imagine him with better players around him.

Ironic that this is what Sherwood did last year with Cleverly/Delph and Benteke, yet seemingly had little appetite to do the same for Ayew/Vertout and Amavi this season as he had his own agenda.

[UK Redsox]

He had got some ability but his work rate is exceptional.  I like how Garde had clearly fluffed him up confidence wise too.

Imagine him with better players around him.

you'll see that next season in the Premier League when he's playing for some other team

[ozzjim]

Maybe so. I hope he gives us till January at least

[Hoppo]

I think you will find that the Club brought people to the Club who undermined Sherwood, that is why his appetite waned.

[PaulWinch again]

I really hope we keep all of those players we signed in the summer if we go down. They're young and one season, hopefully, in the Championship might not do them any harm.

[Monty]

I think you will find that the Club brought people to the Club who undermined Sherwood, that is why his appetite waned.

Sherwood knew exactly what he was getting himself into, then when it materialised he started to flail and whinge.

[Hoppo]

Monty. You hated him before he was even appointed.
Something changed at the Club.

[Monty]

Which he signed up to. It's no good just saying I hated him when we appointed him (I did) - there's no evidence that Sherwood didn't have a veto on who we signed, that he was unhappy with signing them, that the new structure was a surprise to him, any of it. Only when it started to go south did he start casting about him for excuses, because it can never be the fault of Timmy Sherwood.

[brian green]

Monty was one of the very few on here myself included who called Sherwood for the chancer he was. The dissing of the French players is one thing but Sherwood not only dissed them but presented his own alternative to them in the form of Spurs rejects.

[Toronto Villa]

Sherwood at the time could easily through his contacts in media have let slip how he wasn't approving these transfers. He didn't and he even went as far as to say they were his signings.

From Aug 13, 2015

“It’s good that the club have backed me,” Sherwood said, reflecting on the club’s transfer business. “Change is what was needed. We’ve sold a lot of players, so we needed to replenish. And we brought in a lot of money, so the owner has not put that back into his pocket, he’s invested into the squad, which we’re all very excited about"

In many respects Villa feel like something of an unknown quantity this season. Micah Richards and Scott Sinclair, both of whom have joined from Manchester City, are well known to English football fans, but the same cannot be said for several others, including Idrissa Gueye (£9m, Lille), Jordan Veretout (£8m, Nantes), Jordan Ayew (£10m, Lorient) and Jordan Amavi (£7.7m, Nice), all of whom were playing in Ligue 1 in France

“Some of these foreign boys we’ve gone for are better than the English ones, they’ve played a lot more games at a very young age,” Sherwood said. “You look at the English boys, they’ve played five games and they cost the same amount as a guy who has played 200 games in Ligue 1. It doesn’t add up.”

When he was being found out as a manager that's when he claimed he didn't approve them, the lying fucking weasel.

[Hoppo]

Look.  You can't have it both ways. One minute he ostracized the French lads, the next he wanted them.

[Dave]

I think you will find that the Club brought people to the Club who undermined Sherwood, that is why his appetite waned.

How much appetite he has doesn't change the fact that he is a hopeless mountebank who should never have had the chance to ruin the first third of this season.

[Hoppo]

Why is it the same cronies get involved in here? Do you message each other?

[Dave]

Why is it the same cronies get involved in here? Do you message each other?

I know, astonishing that lots of posters think he was shit.

It's almost as if he er.... was.