Summer transfer madness thread

[Steve67]

I think a fair few questioned the acquisition of Neil Taylor, but my word he's a far better player than Amavi.  Still work to be done for Bruce in the summer. Hopefully, the likes of Amavi, Bacuna, fatbonlahor and Richards are pushed out.

[Steve kirk]

Amavi is giving Warnock a run for his money at being the worst left back to ever play for our club.

[LeeB]

Amavi is giving Warnock a run for his money at being the worst left back to ever play for our club.

Warnock is nowhere near the worst left back to play for the club.

[SoccerHQ]

There are many contenders. It has been a cursed positon at the club ever since Bouma broke his leg.

[UK Redsox]

Amavi is giving Warnock a run for his money at being the worst left back to ever play for our club.

Warnock is nowhere near the worst left back to play for the club.

He was better than Shorey for one

[passitsideways]

Warnock back in MON's final season was basically the last time where you could count on the left back to put in a solid 7/10 performance every week. Been shocking otherwise - even Ryan Bertrand started looking pretty shit the more he played for us.

[mr underhill]

he looked very shit to be fair but many a promising career has floundered on the rocks under the good ship Villa - the only player this year with a reputation that hasn't is Johnny Kodjia.

[eamonn]

Plus Chester.

[mr underhill]

Apologies yes, Chester too, but not to the extent that Kodjia has been. All our problems yesterday came down the left side and collectively we contrived to make their No 9 (Mendes?) look far better than he is.

[saunders_heroes]

Amavi is giving Warnock a run for his money at being the worst left back to ever play for our club.

Warnock is nowhere near the worst left back to play for the club.

Spot on, Warnock was a decent player for most of his time here. The Bouma adulation always confuses me as well. I never rated him and was left scratching my head listening to fans waxing lyrical about him.

[Toronto Villa]

Amavi is giving Warnock a run for his money at being the worst left back to ever play for our club.

Warnock is nowhere near the worst left back to play for the club.

Spot on, Warnock was a decent player for most of his time here. The Bouma adulation always confuses me as well. I never rated him and was left scratching my head listening to fans waxing lyrical about him.

He was very solid and that allowed Ashley Young to attack/develop without fear his left back would let him down. That said he's hardly the best left to play for the club and I imagine the waxing lyrical has as much to do with how it all ended (a bit like Nilis) as it is to do with some of the utter gash we've had in the position since.

[sirlordbaltimore]

Definite outs for me

Any of the ones currently out on loan, none of them wanted to stick around and help us recover so fuck em all
Bunn
Amavi
Hutton
Richards
Bacuna
Gabby
Kozak
Elphick
Gardner
McCormack

and Grealish. I've finally accepted he's never going to be the player we all hoped, and will forever been known as the kid that played a blinder in the semi final two years ago that everyone except us has already forgot

[saunders_heroes]

Definite outs for me

Any of the ones currently out on loan, none of them wanted to stick around and help us recover so fuck em all
Bunn
Amavi
Hutton
Richards
Bacuna
Gabby
Kozak
Elphick
Gardner
McCormack

and Grealish. I've finally accepted he's never going to be the player we all hoped, and will forever been known as the kid that played a blinder in the semi final two years ago that everyone except us has already forgot

Agree with practically all of the above apart from Grealish. I still think he'll be a top player and we shouldn't allow the baby to be thrown out with the bath water. It'd come back and haunt us, I'm convinced.

[sirlordbaltimore]

Agree with practically all of the above apart from Grealish. I still think he'll be a top player and we shouldn't allow the baby to be thrown out with the bath water. It'd come back and haunt us, I'm convinced.

I can't see any point. He's offering zero when he does get a look in and yesterday was another short cameo of bottling it and nothing else. I don't even remember him playing well anymore, it's been that long

[SoccerHQ]

Yep I really thought Grealish would be a major player for us at this level but he's just fizzled out and is just an afterthought when the team gets announced now e.g. there's no great outcry when he's named on the bench now.

He's still young but I worry he's going to be one of these young players that just tries to live on a great game he played two years ago (Liverpool cup semi) and just never amounts to much. Similar to someone like Macheda for example.