Tiago Ilori (update 2017 - signs for Reading)

[Steve67]

Frees up the squad place for Sissokho.

[aj2k77]

I wouldn't say he's been an awful signing, he didn't cost us millions. It just hasn't worked out and we can now send him back. Not sure what the problem is really.

It's an awful signing, unless you think basically setting fire to a million quid is a good deal.

[Lastfootstamper]

I wouldn't say he's been an awful signing, he didn't cost us millions. It just hasn't worked out and we can now send him back. Not sure what the problem is really.

It's an awful signing, unless you think basically setting fire to a million quid is a good deal.

Yes it is. Yet another example of penny-pinching and of how embarrassingly low we've sunk that we can't even afford a working crystal ball.

[Ajdainty89]

I've seen him play in a couple of the reserves,
I like him, looks comfortable as a player certainly no worse them what we have at the back now.

That said a comfortable defender and a striker that can score.
It's obvious that we wouldn't try them.

[kippaxvilla2]

Things can't be that bad.  I haven't seen a reference to 'this once great club' in the last few posts.

[Clampy]

A loan signing that didn't work out. It's hardly the end of the world.

[supertom]

A total head scratcher. We'd signed a whole new team already and then decided to loan in a kid from Liverpool. It's a bit bizarre but you'd expect nothing less from the Villa. We've done daft things as far as transfers go for years. Who hasn't of course, but we're up there.
Rank alongside Drobny, Bartelt, Ghrayib and many others I've probably repressed by now.

[saunders_heroes]

A loan signing that didn't work out. It's hardly the end of the world.

Nobody claimed it was the end of the world just that it was yet again another shite signing by the Villa.

[aj2k77]

A loan signing that didn't work out. It's hardly the end of the world.

Who said that? We set fire to another pile of money, bad move.

[Toronto Villa]

A loan signing that didn't work out. It's hardly the end of the world.

Nobody claimed it was the end of the world just that it was yet again another shite signing by the Villa.

And people are going on about it like shite signings are somehow an Aston Villa thing, and that no other club does it. Which couldn't be further from the truth.

[saunders_heroes]

A loan signing that didn't work out. It's hardly the end of the world.

Nobody claimed it was the end of the world just that it was yet again another shite signing by the Villa.

And people are going on about it like shite signings are somehow an Aston Villa thing, and that no other club does it. Which couldn't be further from the truth.

Oh of course not and you're absolutely right. It's just that other clubs aren't rock bottom of the PL and heading for relegation after making these type of shite signings for the best part of 5 years and more. It would be foolish to think it was just an Aston Villa thing.

[Matt C]

Very odd one. He clearly has potential yet two managers including the one who told us he signed him because it was a 'no-brainer', deemed him not good enough to make the match day squad.

Anyway, as others have mentioned the bigger immediate issue is it frees up another Premier League loan so we can partner Remy with Benteke.

[Toronto Villa]

Unfortunately SH there are numerous other reasons why we are bottom of the PL. I certainly don't put it down to players alone and I actually think the players we signed this season are decent, and some very good. That I hope will prove itself over time even if in the short term we are relegated. They might need to start fresh and clear of the pressures of this season for them develop any kind of chemistry and confidence.

The incompetency shown in managerial appointments, and then compounded by the decisions made by those managers, compounded by some of the unnecessary long term contracts we have handed out have been far more punishing than the actual signings we have made over the years. In fact I would argue that the money Lerner has allowed to be spent since MON was sufficient if spent consistently with a plan to allow us never to be in the situation we have found ourselves over the last few years. Leicester have shown that you don't multi million pound signings and £100k per week wages to be effective in this league. We've bounced from one ill thought out strategy to the next. In fact calling them strategies at all is an insult to the word strategy.

[ChicagoLion]

A loan signing that didn't work out. It's hardly the end of the world.

Nobody claimed it was the end of the world just that it was yet again another shite signing by the Villa.

And people are going on about it like shite signings are somehow an Aston Villa thing, and that no other club does it. Which couldn't be further from the truth.

I think this is one of the things we excell at. This is why we are bottom of the 92 team league.

[Clampy]

Unfortunately SH there are numerous other reasons why we are bottom of the PL. I certainly don't put it down to players alone and I actually think the players we signed this season are decent, and some very good. That I hope will prove itself over time even if in the short term we are relegated. They might need to start fresh and clear of the pressures of this season them develop any kind of chemistry and confidence.

The incompetency shown in managerial appointments, and then compounded by the decisions made by those managers, compounded by some of the unnecessary long term contracts we have handed out have been far more punishing than the actual signings we have made over the years. In fact I would argue that the money Lerner has allowed to be spent since MON was sufficient if spent consistently with a plan to allow us never to be in the situation we have found ourselves over the last few years. Leicester have shown that you don't multi million pound signings and £100k per week wages to be effective in this league. We've bounced from one I'll thought out strategy to the next. In fact calling them strategies at all is an insult to the word strategy.

Agree with all that. It's been a combination of things, not just poor signings. As for Illori, he just doesn't fit in with Garde's plans.