Mat Kendrick's Dentist Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 1 hour ago, NottingVilla said: Eibar are an outfit this season you don't get to 7th in La Liga without being decent. I don't think he played in the 0-4 away win at Valencia mind? Point is, he's playing in a much better team. La Liga have a new TV deal now which gives in relative terms all the 'lesser' teams quite a bit more Wonga (minimum is 50 million Euros IIRC) so Eibar may even buy him themselves. He's at Depor, not Eibar . Agree with the rest of your post though. I've seen quite a bit of them this season, and they are a much better team than us. They have also been better when he has been on the pitch. I disagree totally with those who say that he is unsuited to "English football". IMO he's unsuited to playing in a team that can't build the play properly, rather than bypassing midfield and lumping it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted February 7, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted February 7, 2017 Helped to do destroy the premier league champions in a devastating half of football, the second half set Leicester on their way to being champions of the Premier League. Shows how fine a line it really is. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsworthvilla Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 10 hours ago, tinker said: Helped to do destroy the premier league champions in a devastating half of football, the second half set Leicester on their way to being champions of the Premier League. Shows how fine a line it really is. Except he was substituted whilst we were 2-0 up before Leicester's comeback even began .... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osmark86 Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 are we still entertaining the idea of him coming back into our fold when all seems to point at him not wanting to be here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 42 minutes ago, osmark86 said: are we still entertaining the idea of him coming back into our fold when all seems to point at him not wanting to be here? Things can change - depends on his attitude and whether Bruce rates him or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted February 7, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted February 7, 2017 (edited) 2 hours ago, handsworthvilla said: Except he was substituted whilst we were 2-0 up before Leicester's comeback even began .... I wonder if Sherwood would change his mind about his substitution, given the chance. It would be the first question i would ask him. It was also the infamous waving his arms about tactical advice as well, comedy gold...... Edited February 7, 2017 by tinker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsworthvilla Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 2 minutes ago, tinker said: I wonder if Sherwood would change his mind about his substitution, given the chance. It would be the first question i would ask him. It was also the infamous waving his arms about tactical advice as well, comedy gold...... If I remember correctly there was uproar after the game about his substitutions as he actually brought Ayew on for Gil rather than a defender to shut up shop. Totally take your point about it being a thin line between success/failure though. I've often referenced the Villa vs Leicester game when talking to non-villa fans about the power of momentum in football and why Leicester won the league. After that game they just seemed to build positive momentum and had a belief that they would not get beat, whereas in the first half of that game they were dreadful, I remember us being all over them. I genuinely think that was the turning point for them and once the positive momentum swings in your favour and starts building it becomes a habit to win. They have completely the opposite situation now, they have negative momentum and every mistake seems to be punished despite having practically the same team/tactics as last year. Anyway I'm going off topic. Personally I liked Gil, felt he was unfairly stereotyped as being weak/fragile due to a simplistic British understanding of the game and underappreciation of technique / building the play. Very much a mute point now though as he is never coming back so the thread can be closed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan_of_oz Posted February 7, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted February 7, 2017 9 minutes ago, tinker said: I wonder if Sherwood would change his mind about his substitution, given the chance. It would be the first question i would ask him. It was also the infamous waving his arms about tactical advice as well, comedy gold...... That was the end of us and the beginning of Leicester. If we had won Leicester wouldnt have won the league 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan_of_oz Posted February 7, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted February 7, 2017 How does Gil have 299 pages about him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 reading back on this thread I will be tuning into the next Depor game to see a player compared with Messi and Ronaldo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 5 hours ago, Villan_of_oz said: How does Gil have 299 pages about him. Only 299? Lets get it up to 1000 asap! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 The most surprising thing is that Messi only has 4 assists. He normally has about 35 by now. I like Gil, he is really good technically but it's not surprising that a stereotypically Spanish footballer got bombed out by stereotypically British 'managers' like Sherwood and Black. It's not surprising that when a bid came in he went, either. The likes of him and Veretout are doing well and playing a lot for teams in a higher league than Villa at the mo so good on them. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 7, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted February 7, 2017 1 hour ago, Zatman said: reading back on this thread I will be tuning into the next Depor game to see a player compared with Messi and Ronaldo Except nobody compared him to Ronaldo and Messi in anything other than a quirky stat about assists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romavillan Posted February 10, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted February 10, 2017 I reckon he'd be awesome as the one in a 3-4-1-2 with Hogan and Kodija upfront. Shame. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tismyk Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Why are we talking about him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_b Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 Seems he is doing good things in the Spanish league and had busquets in his back pocket on Sunday, looks like we will never see him in a Villa shirt again, another player with potential who never showed it at Villa, how many more are their going to be!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RimmyJimmer Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 Click bait headlines again. Gil embarrasses messi!!...really? Played 62 minutes, they got the winner when he went off. Read further into the 'story' & he's struggled for game time all season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 He isnt pulling up any trees at all in a not very good Deportivo side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_b Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 I just read the sky sports Spanish review and it said he had busquets under wraps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dounavilla Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 5 minutes ago, Tommo_b said: I just read the sky sports Spanish review and it said he had busquets under wraps. Wouldn't they go a bit soggy there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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