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Tiago Ilori. Bloke on loan from Liverpool in the 15/16 car crash season.  Another pointless signing, never played a single first team minute for us! This has happened too often at Villa showing our confused transfer policy has been going on for years.

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7 hours ago, The Fun Factory said:

Tiago Ilori. Bloke on loan from Liverpool in the 15/16 car crash season.  Another pointless signing, never played a single first team minute for us! This has happened too often at Villa showing our confused transfer policy has been going on for years.

Now back at Sporting 

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13 hours ago, The Fun Factory said:

Tiago Ilori. Bloke on loan from Liverpool in the 15/16 car crash season.  Another pointless signing, never played a single first team minute for us! This has happened too often at Villa showing our confused transfer policy has been going on for years.

That was actually a Sherwood signing believe it or not. Knew him from managing Spurs in the under 21 league when he was at Liverpool I think.

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31 minutes ago, VillaChris said:

10 year ago N'zogbia got his one cap for France.

There's an article about it and his time with us in the Athletic.....:ph34r:

pretty sure he only got a cap because the entire team were suspended after striking at the World Cup

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5 minutes ago, A'Villan said:

^Made me remember Hugo Rodagella. If only we'd signed Moses or Valencia from that Wigan team instead.

Valencia and Nzogbia only played together for 5 months at Wigan

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19 hours ago, sidcow said:

Lewis Grabbon. Saw his name mentioned elsewhere recently, I had completely forgotten about him even though it was only a couple of years ago. 

Another 20 goals for him this year. The guy has a ridiculously good reckon in the Championship to be fair to him.

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2 hours ago, VillaChris said:

Always thought Paul Scharner was a decent player from that Wigan era.

Wigan were a proper decent team. Palacios, Figueroa, Melchiot and Koumas as well. 

Remember Zaki, the Egyptian striker?

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2 minutes ago, Xela said:

Wigan were a proper decent team. Palacios, Figueroa, Melchiot and Koumas as well. 

Remember Zaki, the Egyptian striker?

They had a good scouting system in those times. Most of those signed when Bruce was manager yet he came here and 90% of his signings were domestic ones like Hogan and Lansbury.

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5 hours ago, VillaChris said:

They had a good scouting system in those times. Most of those signed when Bruce was manager yet he came here and 90% of his signings were domestic ones like Hogan and Lansbury.

I think Bruce had an agent helping him at Wigan finding these players, sure he signed 3 or 4 Honduras players. To Bruce Honduras is a type of pizza

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On 07/08/2020 at 19:23, villa_shere said:

Ben Yedder? Had a great game against Yoonited in europa league few years ago hasn’t kicked on since 

Unsure how you're quantifying not having kicked on, he got a big money move to Monaco after scoring for fun in La Liga the season after that game and I believe he was tied with Mbappé for top-goalscorer this season before shutdown.

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