Amadou Onana

[Brazilian Villain]

Hamstring injury. Out at least until after the international break.

£50 million for this waste of oxygen.  Utter useless even when fit.

How was the trip back from Wrexham?

Long, the local sheep proved irresistible to him.

[kippaxvilla2]

He was renting a flat in Great Tindal Street, I don't blame him.

[Ian.]

Well I guess Emery didn’t fancy him, so as long as he’s manager we’ll never know.

[Mister E]

When Onana was brought in, neither Bogarde nor Barrenechea looked like reliable CMF. Now, both would probably be a better partner to Kamara. If we could get the money back on Onana to support the reinforcement of other areas in the squad I'd do it ... but it probably won't happen (who would pay 50m for Onana, and would Emery want to get rid?), and - anyway - he still has plenty of scope for improvement.

[Percy McCarthy]

How good would someone have to be to get in front of our first three picks for two spots in centre-midfield, Kamara, YT & SJM? Then you’ve got Bogarde as back up, and with the way he’s playing you wouldn’t really want too many getting in his way. Barkley - we’ll probably let his contract run out.

[kippaxvilla2]

Miraculously he’s on the bench today.

[N'ZMAV]

his usual monthly outing.

[Goldenballs]

Can't recall the exact numbers but he's missed nearly as many games through injury as he's started.

[aj2k77]

Can't recall the exact numbers but he's missed nearly as many games through injury as he's started.

Minutes wise, since he's been here and in all competitions he's played 24.5 games worth out of a possible 66.

[Flamingo Lane]

On the bench, that's nice, just in time for him to be fit to join up with the Belgian squad.

[Smirker]

In honour of the big man returning today I've been in the studio with the songwriters and music producers and I've coined this song for him, to the tune of Love Me Do:

Am-Amadou
You know I love you
In claret and blue
So score one or two
Whoa, Amadou

Welcome back big man.

[brontebilly]

Few months left to save his Villa career.

[Dave]

Not really

[Monty]

Only in the sense that almost every player almost always has 'a few months' to save their careers at a club - i.e. if they're bad, they're sold. It's a bit like saying a political party leader has one general election to save their jobs - like...yeah.

[Smirker]

He will be here for a while and will improve massively. People need to remember how young he still is.