Jordan Ayew - sold to Swansea

[Toronto Villa]

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

yes we are all in a clique

[Monty]

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

He can have agreed to their signing and then handled them rubbishly. That's only happened, I don't know, thousands of times in football history.

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

We have a network of hilltop beacons.

[aj2k77]

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

Tell that to tactics Tim the thick bastard. He wanted them when they were signed and hadn't kicked a ball and then threw them under the bus when we were floundering because he was a shit chancer.

It's not rocket science with Dimbo, he tells everyone what he thinks they want to hear, always looking out for number 1.

[Villa in Denmark]

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

yes we are all in a clique

We are the Borg, resistance is futile.

You can call me 9 of 11.

[Villa in Denmark]

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

Alternatively, if you look at it chronological order.

Players get signed. Nice but Tim senses a chance to look like some Wenger mk.II pulling all these unknown foreign players in. Makes a big scene as mentioned in Toronto's post to make sure everyone knows he's the brains behind it all.

Fast forward 2 months. It's all going down the shitter quicker than you can say narcissist. Cue all the shit about having players that he never wanted and who aren't good enough anyway.

All conveniently ignoring that the individual fuck-ups that were costing us were almost exclusively coming from existing players. The lie being further exposed by the fact that our better performers of late have been 2 of the 3 he was first to bin, the other being Amavi who no one on the planet could understand how he was dropped for Richardson.

EDIT:
There were plenty of us on here who called Sherwood the second he was rumoured to be Lambert's replacement.

Would get the players wound up enough to survive but at some point in the autumn we'd be talking about how long he'd got left.

That he exceeded even the most pessimistic predictions of how long he'd last and how much shit he'd leave us in says more than any diatribe could.

He deserved our thanks for keeping us up last year, although I'll remain convinced that any half competent relatively up beat manager could have done that.

The shit sandwich he's left us eating this season removes any goodwill.

[Dante Lavelli]

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

You can if you accept that Sherwood speaks bollocks most of the time. 

His actions suggested that he did not rate the players or maybe was trying to prove a point by not playing them.  The reason he heralded them when sign just demonstrates that the bloke is a chameleon more interested in himself and raising his own profile.

[brian green]

Or as O'Neill put it "his brand".

[old man villa fan]

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

Appetite waned!  He was a manager of a football club, paid to manage the team, not dictate the future of the club. He put himself first and the club second which is unacceptable to me as a long term Villa fan.

[mr underhill]

interestingly, Benteke has only scored one more goal in total this season than Ayew.

[aj2k77]

Benteke and Ayew would have been a cracking forward line for us, I could see them linking up well.

[LukeJames]

When we signed him it was reported that he was lazy with a bad attitude, granted it took him a couple of months to settle but I h aven't seen a player with a better work rate and attitude at Villa for a long time, I don't know what he was like in France to get the reputation but he has been the mirror opposite of what we were told, alot of natural ability too..... Very likeable and I hope we can hold onto him whatever division were in next season.

[Pete3206]

Benteke and Ayew would have been a cracking forward line for us, I could see them linking up well.

Kozak and Ayew can be this.

[PeterWithesShin]

I wonder if someone still thinks he's worse than Balaban?

[UK Redsox]

That would have been done goal if Ayew could have finished off his run

[brontebilly]

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

Alternatively, if you look at it chronological order.

Players get signed. Nice but Tim senses a chance to look like some Wenger mk.II pulling all these unknown foreign players in. Makes a big scene as mentioned in Toronto's post to make sure everyone knows he's the brains behind it all.

Fast forward 2 months. It's all going down the shitter quicker than you can say narcissist. Cue all the shit about having players that he never wanted and who aren't good enough anyway.

All conveniently ignoring that the individual fuck-ups that were costing us were almost exclusively coming from existing players. The lie being further exposed by the fact that our better performers of late have been 2 of the 3 he was first to bin, the other being Amavi who no one on the planet could understand how he was dropped for Richardson.

EDIT:
There were plenty of us on here who called Sherwood the second he was rumoured to be Lambert's replacement.

Would get the players wound up enough to survive but at some point in the autumn we'd be talking about how long he'd got left.

That he exceeded even the most pessimistic predictions of how long he'd last and how much shit he'd leave us in says more than any diatribe could.

He deserved our thanks for keeping us up last year, although I'll remain convinced that any half competent relatively up beat manager could have done that.

The shit sandwich he's left us eating this season removes any goodwill.

I could understand why Amavi was dropped. He was playing like a wuss, jumping out of challenges that cost us points against Palace, Baggies and I think one more. Young players can go through major form blips, it happens. Veretout was totally unfit at the start of the season and it took him some months to settle. Ditto Ayew, his Leicester appearance was so bad that he has shown serious character to come back from it. Traore has flopped so far, two assists but nothing to back up our investment in him so far. The failure of Richards, Lescott and Gestede is totally down to Timmy.

I was totally against Sherwood, the warning signs were there in the Southampton game where he sat in the dug out hardly making a change leaving the players to rot in front of him. A more wised up chairman would have got rid of him after he threw the players under the proverbial bus minutes after the Cup final. Tactics, man-management, coaching - he was appalling at all. Evidently our pre season camp must have been nothing short of calamitous considering the fitness levels of the players for most of the season.