Birkir Bjarnason - Released

[PeterWithesShin]

I think Bacuna is useful as a squad player, especially to have on the bench, as he can cover a number of positions. The other 2 will be a relief not to see featuring much.

[dave shelley]

He speaks very well. I like him already.

Which makes Gardner's new contract extension a bit mystifying.


I wonder where this is going to leave Bacuna, Westbrook & Gardner?  Not that many will care I guess but crikey, Bruce really can't have thought much of them, to bring in 3 midfielders in his first window.

It's almost like he's seen them play and noticed how utterly shit they all are.

[KevinGage]

Bacuna could still be useful as back up.

Gardwood might make a useful doorstop, or summat.

[PeterWithe]

Not really, he was on a smallish contract as he hadn't played which contained clauses giving him a better one when he proved his fitness. He played games at the start, proved his fitness so the clause was activated.

[Old Kodjia]

He speaks very well. I like him already.

I wonder where this is going to leave Bacuna, Westbrook & Gardner?  Not that many will care I guess but crikey, Bruce really can't have thought much of them, to bring in 3 midfielders in his first window.

It's almost like he's seen them play and noticed how utterly shit they all are.

Yet still preferred them to Tishibola.

Why give Gardner the new contract if he thought he was shit though?

[Nastylee]

Why didn't Barry take that pen?

[The Moose]

So we can get a good price when the big clubs come sniffing round....

[Ian.]

Is it any surprise though when we are struggling in this division? We're in the bottom half.
We all knew it last summer and it wasn't addressed by RDM. I had no idea who Jedi was or Tish for
that matter and that's all we brought in while letting many go.

[Old Kodjia]

Is it any surprise though when we are struggling in this division? We're in the bottom half.
We all knew it last summer and it wasn't addressed by RDM. I had no idea who Jedi was or Tish for
that matter and that's all we brought in while letting many go.

In his defence, he appears to have been let down by Gueye who told him one thing and then did another.

[JUAN PABLO]

He speaks very well. I like him already.

I wonder where this is going to leave Bacuna, Westbrook & Gardner? 

Rotherham hopefully

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

He says he's attacking. Pretty sure Lansbury is as well. And potentially Hourihane? What are we playing at? We're Villa, we don't do 3 attacking midfielders. We didn't do attacking for quite a few years as well.

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but I really hope we don't attempt the Icelandic clap from the Euros. It's an Icelandic thing, not Villa. It looks shit when any other team does it.

[dave shelley]

It needs big hairy Nordic types to carry it off.  If we tried it; it would sound like our testicles hadn't yet dropped.

[Ads]

He looked a bit of a metronome style hard worker in the Euros. He's not the quickest but he's got the energy and drive our midfield badly lacks.

[andyh]

I have watched the obligatory YouTube video of him.

Pretty good.
Looks like a really dynamic, energetic player.
Remember when we used to have midfielders like that?

https://youtu.be/fJk8a8tbXrc

[Dave]

We all knew it last summer and it wasn't addressed by RDM. I had no idea who Jedi was or Tish for that matter and that's all we brought in while letting many go.

Tshibola fair enough, but Jedinak was hardly an obscure name. He's probably the most well-known signing we made in the summer.