Aaron Tshibola

[Grande Pablo]

The 2016  Edition of Paul Mortimer.

Nobody can stoop so low in dissing the Holte after scoring as Mortimer did.

[Dante Lavelli]

They isolated Marc Albrighton if the oft repeated story is true that he was not allowed to return on the team bus and had to catch the train back.  Next thing he is allowed to go to Leicester and win a champion's medal while those who rode home on the bus amassed 17 points for the season and got relegated.  I suspect there is a clash of personalities going on.  Westwood behaves and gets picked Tshibola does not behave and does not get picked.

You might be right but I'd have thought that there has been too much churn of management for the two stories to be linked; so hard to conclude that it is an institutional problem.  Regardless it seems like another resource being either badly bought or under-utilised.  The waste at villa is unbelievable.   

[The Charmer]

£5m signings getting sidelined because, maybe, they're inclined to be a tad difficult still seems a difficult one to swallow.
If there's any truth in this then I guess it's best we steer clear of Ravel Morrison.

[eamonn]

I think he gave thanks to God after the Newcastle game when he scored the equaliser so he must be a lovely lad at least.

[Chris Jameson]

Maybe he's really not very good?

[pauliewalnuts]

He bangs on and on about God on twitter. That much I know.

[willenhall villa]

His last run out was for the u23's at VP some weeks ago.  He went off after the first half injured I think and hasn't been seen since. I think he's been unlucky since the arrival of Bruce and would fit in to our midfield now. He came on v the toon and did very well. Hope we haven't seen the last of him.

[pauliewalnuts]

He's in the photos on the OS today of the squad visiting the Acorns hospice.

[Dave]

Maybe he's really not very good?

Maybe, but it's not like he's having much to compete against. Maybe Tshibola couldn't possibly be as effective for us as Ashley Westwood is, but I don't think it's particularly plausible.

The argument of "well if he were good enough then he'd be picked" is the same argument that sees Zat Knight picked ahead of Gary Cahill and Kieran Richarson picked ahead of Marc Albrighton.

Maybe Cahill and Albrighton just weren't very good.

[Le Lapin]

And yet Westwood remains at large. How the hell is Westood, played game after game after game, how is he given chance after chance to show us how under average he is. But players like this fella are sold without been given a chance. Westwood might be a great pro. But pointing at what should be done in a game..... is just pointing.

[Percy McCarthy]

I've been impressed by Tshibola and completely underwhelmed by Pointy and Gardner, so I'm completely baffled regarding team selection in midfield.

Tshibola-Jedinak-Bacuna, easily the best three.

[peter w]

He bangs on and on about God on twitter. That much I know.

Maybe he's really not very good?

No, no, no. Surely it's because the Villa coached him to only kick with his knee and skip rather than run. Then get the train ALONE to Anerdeen after scoring against Newcastle whilst cats were being murdered by ASTON VILLA. FACT.

A simple thing like Bruce not fancying him due to his ability is not going to carry much weight around here Jameson. Shame on you.

[Dante Lavelli]

Maybe he's really not very good?

In which case Clarke is a dick for allowing/recommending the signing to go through.

[brian green]

Perhaps Bruce is wrong.  Managerial misjudgements have been known at the club.

[oldtimernow]

will be filed under Aston Villa conspiracy theories, somewhere between why didn't GB take the penalty and Bosko was a great clown