Pierluigi Gollini

[Nastylee]

The bit I don't get is Bruce's comments a fortnight ago. He stated that we needed SJ as we had no number 3 with Steer injured, therefore alluding 2 first team keepers was not ideal. Yet, with today's news we have that situation once again.

[wittonwarrior]

Feel sorry for the lad  he simply did not have the experience and was let down badly by  the likes Elphick.

Best of luck with your career - can't see him  returning to Villa Park.

[eamonn]

Michael Oakes was decent and had an oak tree growing out of his life force if what Gregory said is true.

[peter w]

Something i hadn't really thought about until today is that Gollini is only a couple of years younger than Johnstone and was at Man U a few years ago so when he left them there's a very real prospect that they decided to Keep Johnstone as the better prospect of the 2.

And yet both wind up at a mid-table Championship team.

[villabear]

Gollini not happy with training at Villa apparently. Seems you need an Italian goalkeeping coach!

Quote from News Agency ANSA.

Pierluigi Gollini reveals he pushed for an Atalanta move because of poor training at Aston Villa. “I intend to stay in Italy.”

The goalkeeper spent much of his career in England, joining Manchester United’s youth academy in 2012, then at Aston Villa for the last six months.

“I already had contact with Atalanta over the summer, then in January Marco Sportiello left and the opportunity opened up,” Gollini told news agency ANSA.

He arrived on a two-season loan with option to buy.

“I returned to Italy with the intention of staying and continuing my career here. The condition I had set my agent for me to stay in Birmingham was to have an Italian goalkeeping coach. That was the situation, with Massimo Battara, until the manager Roberto Di Matteo was fired.

“I played a great deal at Villa, but I wasn’t happy with the training regime.”

[villadelph]

what a loser. foreign born wants to be catered to and cuddled.

Got I hate these young, pretentious pre-madonnas. gtfoh.

[PeterWithe]

We should have sent him to one of those evening English language schools like on that TV programme in the 70s.

All sorts of fun and merriment could have ensued.

[supertom]

Not happy with the training? Well we weren't happy with him dropping every bastard ball that came near him, or shanking clearances straight to the opposition, the butterfingered, nonagon footed, shortsighted, gangly limbed fuckwit.

Harsh??

Gollini terrified the life out of me. I'm glad he's gone. At least my ticker is.

[UK Redsox]

We should have sent him to one of those evening English language schools like on that TV programme in the 70s.

All sorts of fun and merriment could have ensued.

The Deathwatch Thread had me remembering Francesca Gonshaw and now my mind's wandering back to Francoise Pascal

[Tony Erdington]

We should have sent him to one of those evening English language schools like on that TV programme in the 70s.

All sorts of fun and merriment could have ensued.

The Deathwatch Thread had me remembering Francesca Gonshaw and now my mind's wandering back to Francoise Pascal

tbf he made Buffon look world class.

[Clampy]

Not happy with the training? Well we weren't happy with him dropping every bastard ball that came near him, or shanking clearances straight to the opposition, the butterfingered, nonagon footed, shortsighted, gangly limbed fuckwit.

Harsh??

Gollini terrified the life out of me. I'm glad he's gone. At least my ticker is.

Harsh, I think so. He didn't drop every ball that came near him at all. He was just too young and not yet good enough to be a first choice keeper.

[andyh]

Really disappointed to read PG's comments. He is trying to manufacture a permanent move by driving a wedge between him and the club.

He has to remember is still our player and will need to come back at some point.

 

[cheltenhamlion]

I am pretty sure we won't see him again.

[olaftab]

what a loser. foreign born wants to be catered to and cuddled.

Got I hate these young, pretentious pre-madonnas. gtfoh.

Foreign born has nothing to do with it as we have seen with successions of home born wasters. Just modern F'ing footballers.

[somec]

Why would he specify an Italian GK coach?

If he spent time at Man U surely language isn't an issue?