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Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.
« Reply #60 on: February 03, 2017, 10:27:15 PM »
Pretty sure we made a profit on Knight so he doesn't belong on the list.

Offline Perthvillan

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Re: Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.
« Reply #61 on: February 05, 2017, 05:08:20 AM »
Insomnia takes some beating.

Offline ronshirt

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Re: Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.
« Reply #62 on: July 24, 2023, 05:40:08 PM »
https://www.thenpl.co.uk/liversedge-land-ross-mccormack-77187

Consett play them at home early November. Comments from the stand will involve advice on security gates and legovers for the elderly.

Offline langleylions

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Re: Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.
« Reply #63 on: July 24, 2023, 07:00:43 PM »
habib baye has to be one of the biggest wastes of money ever , 1 we didnt need him and 2 50k a week for 4 years , what the fuck was martin oneil thinking !!
« Last Edit: July 24, 2023, 07:03:05 PM by langleylions »

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Re: Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.
« Reply #64 on: July 24, 2023, 09:27:12 PM »
https://www.thenpl.co.uk/liversedge-land-ross-mccormack-77187

Consett play them at home early November. Comments from the stand will involve advice on security gates and legovers for the elderly.
He won’t be there by November, couple of pre season friendlies for publicity and he’ll disappear like he did at Aldershot

Offline dcdavecollett

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Re: Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.
« Reply #65 on: July 25, 2023, 11:16:37 PM »
Didn't Bruce pay £9m for Scott Hogan?

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Re: Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.
« Reply #66 on: July 25, 2023, 11:21:51 PM »
Emile Heskey

(If that bloke can play for England, then you know what? I can as well)
Nobody disses Emile.

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Re: Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.
« Reply #67 on: July 25, 2023, 11:25:14 PM »
Didn't Bruce pay £9m for Scott Hogan?

At least it said on the internet that he'd scored goals. At the very least he was industrious enough to fake the Wiki page.

Offline dcdavecollett

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Re: Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.
« Reply #68 on: July 26, 2023, 11:30:59 PM »
Horrifyingly, you may not be far off the mark, Monty.

It was clear that Bruce had little idea how to bring the best out of Hogan or coach a team to give him the chances he needed. Presumably he was regarded as a goalscorer as the numbers showed he could score goals (for half of that season, at least).

Kodjia was the same, in my view, but Jimmy D did his own thing in wondrous ways and found the net regularly.

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Re: Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.
« Reply #69 on: July 27, 2023, 12:42:33 AM »
Kodjia was pretty good for us and top scorer one season. Quite often stuck him on the wing, rather than directly up front too.

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Re: Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.
« Reply #70 on: July 27, 2023, 09:13:11 AM »
Coutinho
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Re: Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.
« Reply #71 on: July 27, 2023, 12:39:47 PM »
I won't have Kodjia as wasted millions. He was an excellent buy for where we were, and IIRC we were all falling over ourselves when Cote d'Ivore got knocked out of the ACN early so we could have him back. We just outgrew him.

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Re: Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.
« Reply #72 on: July 27, 2023, 01:08:47 PM »
I won't have Kodjia as wasted millions. He was an excellent buy for where we were, and IIRC we were all falling over ourselves when Cote d'Ivore got knocked out of the ACN early so we could have him back. We just outgrew him.

Yep, agreed.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.
« Reply #73 on: July 27, 2023, 01:22:15 PM »
Kodjia was never the same after the injury, something we seem to say about a fair few of our strikers. Before that though he was very good for us.

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Re: Aston Villa's Wasted Millions.
« Reply #74 on: July 27, 2023, 02:40:05 PM »
Kodjia, for me, was one of those great Championship players you hear about when you're struggling in the Prem and you think, "it's okay, at least when we go down we'll be able to have a player like that who'd score thirty goals, easy". Except we signed McCormack first.

 


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