Joleon Lescott - GONE

[Stirchley Villain]

i'm not sure he's an upgrade on Vlaar to be honest, maybe about the same

Speaking of whom....I know he's injured so won't be going anywhere that soon but his 'step up' ambition isn't looking that good with Southampton having signed Van Djik. I'd imagine our offer on the table is on it's way to the bin as well with Lescott signed.

I actually feel sorry for Vlaar.

I know he's still set for life, and will get a club eventually, but if you look at not much more than a year ago, he was about to become a free agent and having a brilliant world cup. His stock couldn't have been higher.

Only to have a horrible course of events pan out for him.

Fuck him. Rarely fit, often shit, thought he could do better than the Villa.

He tried to play this system and lost. Hard cheese.

[cdbearsfan]

Yep. I've no sympathy. He's just another Alpay. Decent, but hardly spectacular, defender who did well at a World Cup and decided he was better than the Villa.

[Risso]

i'm not sure he's an upgrade on Vlaar to be honest, maybe about the same

Speaking of whom....I know he's injured so won't be going anywhere that soon but his 'step up' ambition isn't looking that good with Southampton having signed Van Djik. I'd imagine our offer on the table is on it's way to the bin as well with Lescott signed.

I actually feel sorry for Vlaar.

I know he's still set for life, and will get a club eventually, but if you look at not much more than a year ago, he was about to become a free agent and having a brilliant world cup. His stock couldn't have been higher.

Only to have a horrible course of events pan out for him.

The main thing that panned out for him was not signing the contract extension he was offered, which obviously is entirely his own fault.  And given his injury record, he should have grabbed our more than generous offer with both hands.  He twisted, and bust, the greedy shit bastard.

[mr underhill]

say it like it is! I like that Risso; Ron you  venal greedy crook bastard. Nice.

[class-of-82]

They all think the grass is greener away from villa park
Tough shit to em all

[JJ-AV]

Very pleased with this. Should have signed him 10 years ago, mind!

[ldavfc4eva]

My baggies supporting mate said that Lescott was a solid enoug player but tried to "play the ball out of defence" far too often instead of keeping it simple and getting the ball clear. Still said he can't understand why they have paid 8m for James Chester and 6m plus add ons for Evans when they could have kept Lescott.

I think he will add some much needed experience to the back line and hopefully link up well with Richards. Always helps the younger players to have someone of his experience playing alongside them too.

Welcome Joleon!

[KRS]

Apparently Rondon is going to skin him when they play us according to my inbred Baggies supporting mate.

[JUAN PABLO]

Apparently Rondon is going to skin him when they play us according to my inbred Baggies supporting mate.

He might until amavi takes the ball off him.

[KRS]

I'm genuinely looking forward to watching Amavi and Traore tearing Brunt and Dawson new arseholes on 19th September. I suspect we'll get at least one penalty and at least one of them will be sent off.

[adrenachrome]

Apparently Rondon is going to skin him when they play us according to my inbred Baggies supporting mate.

He's probably been watching too many Sky Atlantic programs such as True Detective, Hannibal and Game of Thrones. Flaying is all the rage these days.

That reminds me of a bizarre chant from the very old days:

Animals!
Cannibals!
Grab his balls!

[KRS]

To be fair, he's actually watched the Game of Thrones series at least 3 times...best thing on television ever apparently!

[kippaxvilla2]

I note with interest that Christian has suffered a thigh injury on international duty.

[Quiet Lion]

Can we get him and Micah to recreate this video

[rob_bridge]

You leave our club at your peril - sometimes the grass isn't always greener.

Benteke - 1 offside goal in 4 games.
Delph - 23 minutes game time and three weeks of injuries.
Cleverley - 8 weeks out injured.
Vlaar - injured and in oblivion.

Beneteke brilliant who can rip a defence apart half the time. The other half remains to be seen.
Delph looked good in a shit team. Will look average in an excellent team
Cleverley utter bag of shite. Over rated overpaid. We did another James Beattie to Everton on him.
Vlaar. Like Jamie Redknapp nice player when fit and on his game. The other 80% of the time unfotnpr ineffective.