What's up with that?
I saw on Twitter that he was going to a have a routine op but it was only minor blip in the grand scheme of things.
It's a shame, really good player.
He's still incredibly naive in his tackling, always throwing himself everywhere when he really doesn't need to. I would have thought that he would have learned by now to be a bit more disciplined.
I do see glimpses of talent from him but I still don't get the hype on here. Hope he improves though and maybe it would do him good to be on the bench for a couple of matches when Jenas gets fit.
He's been very good this season and back to his old self. If McLeish would partner him with Cuellar (when fit) instead of Collins our defense would be rock solid (at least the central part of it, both fullbacks have been, so far, crap IMO ).
Just saw this comment from McLeish.
'It's not going to be the Aston Villa of 1982 or the giddy heights of a couple of years ago.'
The "giddy heights" of two years ago? That may be the most depressing thing I've read regarding Villa in the last few months (and that's not easy!).
Discussing whether Houllier should have continued is useless. He had to go because of his health and that should be the end of that. The fact is his health wouldn't have let him continue so it's a moot point.
Not having a go DeepDish but i would take what you read on the official side with a pinch of salt. My experience is that they tend to sugarcoat things as much as possible.