Aaron Tshibola

[UK Redsox]

Good work by the villa getting shot of that car crash

I'm not sure what he's done wrong other than just not being up to Villa's level. Have I missed something ?

[dave shelley]

I wish him well, I don't know why but I always felt a bit sorry for him.

[themossman]

Good luck to him. I don’t get the saltiness about players like him leaving. You could say he wasted some good years of his career playing for a car crash club.

I’ll save my bad vibes for the real piss takers and there have been plenty of those in recent years.

[cdbearsfan]

Good luck to him. I don’t get the saltiness about players like him leaving. You could say he wasted some good years of his career playing for a car crash club.

I’ll save my bad vibes for the real piss takers and there have been plenty of those in recent years.

Sums up my thoughts exactly. No reason to wish him any ill will.

[manic-road]

Good luck to him, he was part of a poor period of our history when we were paying over the odds for mediocre/poor players.

[Risso]

He's just like a ten times more expensive Jordan Bowery.  Absolute nothing player.  He'll be one of those players you can never remember when trying to do a "fill in the names of the players" quiz on the BBC website in ten years time.

[Dogtanian]

I honestly don't think we can judge the guy.  We bought a 21 year old who needed to continue playing and to develop as all young players do and then we played him only eight times, provided little consistency in terms of management, and farmed him off to other clubs.

Absolutely no one is going to develop and show their potential like that and we probably let him down as a club more than he ever had a chance to let us down.

[KRS]

I don’t actually remember ever actually watching him play for us...how many games (or minutes) did he play for us in all the years that he’s been with us? He clearly wasn’t good enough to be excluded by so many managers. A bad signing but that’s not his fault and wish him all the best with his career.

[OCD]

If anyone deserves criticism it's Roberto Di Matteo. From the lad's point of view someone was showing enough faith in him to warrant a £5m transfer, he would have been getting a big jump in pay and moving to a much bigger club. He's hardly going to have said no. Unfortunately Di Matteo and Steve Clarke's faith was misplaced and he didn't have the talent to live up to the potential they thought he had.

[algy]

I honestly don't think we can judge the guy.  We bought a 21 year old who needed to continue playing and to develop as all young players do and then we played him only eight times, provided little consistency in terms of management, and farmed him off to other clubs.

Absolutely no one is going to develop and show their potential like that and we probably let him down as a club more than he ever had a chance to let us down.

This pretty much sums up my thoughts.  It's not really fair to level criticisms on how good he was when we brought him for his potential then did absolutely nothing to develop it.  We overpaid for him, but that's hardly his fault.

Good luck to the lad, anyway.  Hope the move to Belgium works out for him.

[not3bad]

If anyone deserves criticism it's Roberto Di Matteo. From the lad's point of view someone was showing enough faith in him to warrant a £5m transfer, he would have been getting a big jump in pay and moving to a much bigger club. He's hardly going to have said no. Unfortunately Di Matteo and Steve Clarke's faith was misplaced and he didn't have the talent to live up to the potential they thought he had.

I do remember the reaction of the Reading fans at the time though who regretted him leaving their club and were convinced he'd do very well with Villa. It seems a bit strange for them to think that if he was such a dead loss.

[OCD]

It's always a big risk to bring in such a raw talent. We've seen so many kids over the years who promised a lot but delivered little. It's management who have to assess whether, in this case, the player is worth the £5m. At the time we had a poor management team who didn't have the ability to get such decisions right. The current set-up are far more worthy of trust to get these decisions right.

[Risso]

I think his main problem is his attitude.  Rumours of having a bad one whilst here, and then when his season-long loan was cut short by MK, all their fans said the same thing too.

[paul_e]

I honestly don't think we can judge the guy.  We bought a 21 year old who needed to continue playing and to develop as all young players do and then we played him only eight times, provided little consistency in terms of management, and farmed him off to other clubs.

Absolutely no one is going to develop and show their potential like that and we probably let him down as a club more than he ever had a chance to let us down.

This pretty much sums up my thoughts.  It's not really fair to level criticisms on how good he was when we brought him for his potential then did absolutely nothing to develop it.  We overpaid for him, but that's hardly his fault.

Good luck to the lad, anyway.  Hope the move to Belgium works out for him.

I agree, I think he could've been a decent player from what I saw but when RDM went we needed a manager like Smith to come in if we were going to nurture players like him, by going shit or bust we effectively cut our loses on almost anyone under about 22-23 who wasn't already established in the first team, the really odd bit of that is that he signed a couple of the people that he then pretty much ignored and who have now moved on (in Bedeau and Bree).

[Mister E]

I honestly don't think we can judge the guy.  We bought a 21 year old who needed to continue playing and to develop as all young players do and then we played him only eight times, provided little consistency in terms of management, and farmed him off to other clubs.

Absolutely no one is going to develop and show their potential like that and we probably let him down as a club more than he ever had a chance to let us down.

This pretty much sums up my thoughts.  It's not really fair to level criticisms on how good he was when we brought him for his potential then did absolutely nothing to develop it.  We overpaid for him, but that's hardly his fault.

Good luck to the lad, anyway.  Hope the move to Belgium works out for him.

I agree, I think he could've been a decent player from what I saw but when RDM went we needed a manager like Smith to come in if we were going to nurture players like him, by going shit or bust we effectively cut our loses on almost anyone under about 22-23 who wasn't already established in the first team, the really odd bit of that is that he signed a couple of the people that he then pretty much ignored and who have now moved on (in Bedeau and Bree).

Bedeau was a Bruce buy, wasn't he?
Same point applies, though.