Remi Garde - Departs Aston Villa

[PeterWithesShin]

At 21 Jamie Vardy was playing for Stocksbridge Park Steels.

[Toronto Villa]

These players should be going out at 17/18 and learning like Grealish did, not reaching the age of 21 with 2/3 competitive games under their belt.

They should be coming back to us, under 20 with 50-100 first team games, not sitting around playing pretend football for 4 years. What are they learning playing u21 football?

at 21 a player should be good enough for the first team or shipped out

good luck in your defence of this point. I'd suggest you hire this bloke



but he'd dead.

I'll add mine. At 21 Ian Wright wasn't even a professional footballer. In fact he'd done a spell in jail before joining Palace at 22 for driving without insurance because he was too poor to afford it.

[Richard E]

Johnny Cochrane topped himself when he realised he couldn't hold a candle to any of the lawyers on H and V.

[PeterWithesShin]

Drogba was signing his first pro contract at 21 in the French second division.

[Richard E]

Drogba was signing his first pro contract at 21 in the French second division.

Can you imagine the meltdown on here if we'd have signed him from there?

[oswald funkletrumpet]

totally different as they hadnt yet been discovered

if we have had a player for 2, 3, 4 years or longer and at 21 they arent knocking on the door of the first team what are we meant to do with them?

[Clampy]

totally different as they hadnt yet been discovered

if we have had a player for 2, 3, 4 years or longer and at 21 they arent knocking on the door of the first team what are we meant to do with them?

Thwow them to the floor?

[Legion]

Loan them out for experience?

[PeterWithesShin]

Melt them down and make new ones.

[Richard E]

totally different as they hadnt yet been discovered

if we have had a player for 2, 3, 4 years or longer and at 21 they arent knocking on the door of the first team what are we meant to do with them?

Thwow them to the floor?

Have them quietly executed.

[Legion]

Shoot them?

[Toronto Villa]

I got one. Miroslav Klose didn't make his Bundesliga appearance until he was 22. He joined Kaiserslautern when he was 21 in 1999 from FC Homburg and only made his debut the year after. I can't believe they even signed him given his age at the time, and after all he's made nothing of his career.

[Legion]

Never heard of him.

[Toronto Villa]

totally different as they hadnt yet been discovered

if we have had a player for 2, 3, 4 years or longer and at 21 they arent knocking on the door of the first team what are we meant to do with them?

remove their finger nails with pliers?

[Richard E]

Shoot them?

Too noisy, unless you have a silencer. Hanging, probably.