HKP90 Posted December 24, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted December 24, 2020 Just wanted to put a question to you all to pass the time. Which villa players have been nearly-men....they had the tools and the talent to be exceptional, or to kick on, but for whatever reason...time, circumstances, injury, whatever, never saw their villa career take off. I’ll start you off with Luc Nilis. What a signing he could have been..could have taken us to the next level, a real marquee player. Scored an absolute worldie, then got a career ending injury. Such a tragedy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post YouUnastanFren Posted December 24, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 24, 2020 Jores Okore looked brilliant against Chelsea in the CL, felt like a coup when we signed him, lightning fast with bags of potential. Then he ruptured his ACL in about his 3rd **** match and never looked anything like the same player again 6 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Steero113 Posted December 24, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 24, 2020 Gana, Veretout, Adama, Amavi... part of that horror relegation season squad which was masking their class as the club was mired in poor management and ownership. Oh for them to be arriving now! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted December 24, 2020 Author VT Supporter Share Posted December 24, 2020 1 minute ago, Steero113 said: Gana, Veretout, Adama, Amavi... part of that horror relegation season squad which was masking their class as the club was mired in poor management and ownership. Oh for them to be arriving now! Yeah, hard to see how we mucked that up so badly. Some real talent but absolutely no balance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HKP90 Posted December 24, 2020 Author VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted December 24, 2020 The other obvious candidate was Collymore. What a player he would have been if he’d given his head a wobble. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Fashnu. Was really excited when we signed him but he just was not great 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCollins29 Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 For me, it was o'neills team that were fighting for top 4. We signed heskey in jan snd the rest is history. If we had signed an actual goalscorer who knows where we could have gone 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted December 24, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted December 24, 2020 Yeah we were supposedly interested in signing Falcao at the same time we signed Heskey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguson1 Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 The signing of Tony Cascarino sticks in the mind. Was meant to be the final piece of the jigsaw in what should have been a title winning season. Wasn’t to be. Stan was a disappointing one. Coming home and all that. Sasa Curcic. Was really excited when we signed him but was a real let down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted December 24, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted December 24, 2020 29 minutes ago, ferguson1 said: The signing of Tony Cascarino sticks in the mind. Was meant to be the final piece of the jigsaw in what should have been a title winning season. Wasn’t to be. Stan was a disappointing one. Coming home and all that. Sasa Curcic. Was really excited when we signed him but was a real let down. Brought the wrong Millwall forward 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Gollini is a big one especially since we have taken about 8 goalkeepers to get to Heaton. He is an Italian international and now a Champions League regular 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_Villain Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Nilis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted December 24, 2020 Moderator Share Posted December 24, 2020 Watching Vassell come through the reserves back in the day, he had the most unbelievable talent, lightning quick, brilliant feet, a really good finisher, he was exceptional. His fault was that he was too nice, you have to be aggressive to succeed in this league up top, a bit of an arsehole, I always felt he played slightly within himself because he was afraid of the fame. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted December 24, 2020 Moderator Share Posted December 24, 2020 And even further back - Stephen Cooke - twinkletoes himself, a body sway like Grealish, balance, touch and the ability to put a ball in a bucket from forty yards - if someone had been able to give that boy two inches of height and two stone of muscle he'd have been king of the world. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted December 24, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted December 24, 2020 Sasa Curcic is one that jumps to mind. More recent times Adama Traore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted December 24, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted December 24, 2020 2 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: And even further back Stephen Cooke - if someone had been able to give that boy two inches of height and two stone of muscle he'd have been king of the world. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post lexicon Posted December 24, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 24, 2020 Not a player, but Houllier. I think had he not had health problems he would've sorted out the team in the summer and we'd have transitioned into a decent outfit that could play football, getting rid of the arseholes in the team and modernising somewhat. All went south from there under Lerner. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Remember fenton? He was suppose to be really highly regarded but massively flopped. I think hendrie could have been great as well but never really hit the real heights i thought he could. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
His Name Is Death Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 1 hour ago, GingerCollins29 said: For me, it was o'neills team that were fighting for top 4. We signed heskey in jan snd the rest is history. If we had signed an actual goalscorer who knows where we could have gone O'Neill signing Heskey was extremely embarrassing when you remember that Falcao, little known at the time, was offered to us not long before that. And then you had Cavani, who was supposedly engineering a move to us as well. Maybe they wouldn't have settled here at that stage in their careers, but why would you sign Heskey instead of them? You'd have to be a sentimental stick-in-the-mud who only signs players he knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 14 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: Remember fenton? He was suppose to be really highly regarded but massively flopped. I think hendrie could have been great as well but never really hit the real heights i thought he could. Didnt Fenton win Man of the Match in the cup final? pretty sure thats not a flop for a youth prospect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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