El-Reacho Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 10 hours ago, Folski said: Surprised nobody has mentioned Erik Bakke and Joey Gudjohnsson I remember Gudjohnsson (possibly incorrectly) being decent enough for us no? GT Mk2 was when all of the other teams around us really started spending and Ellis tightened the purse strings even further so we were signing players for buttons at that stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 In recent years Mings by a country mile. Made the defence solid straight away and one of the key reasons why we got promoted, along with Grealish returning from his annual two months of being injured. I think Carbone was on loan, or certainly a short term deal when he was at Villa and was good for 6 months. It was also nice to finally see Robbie Keane in a Villa shirt and he scored a couple of decent goals. In terms of worst there are just far too many to mention. Often a waste of time and money. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinRichardsonsMoustache Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Best: Mings for his contribution on and off the pitch. The way he engaged with the fans, the importance of the time he signed in our history, the boost he gave the defence, his celebrations in the final and, of course, him wearing the shirt when he travelled back on the train. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 (edited) Looking at previous post forget to mention Tammy, obvs a great loan. Johnstone was a decent keeper for the Championship. No Martinez but still a good goalie, just lacks good distribution skills to be a top level. Also forget that Milner was at Villa on loan for his first season, looked a good prospect at the tme. 09-10 was his peak year for us though, after that we sold him and were rubbish for nearly a decade. I think for the ones that were on loan for a whole season you tend to regard them almost a permanent signings. Edited January 25, 2023 by The Fun Factory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MentalM Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 I would mention El Ghazi as well. The Wembley goal was worth it alone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post GarethRDR Posted January 25, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2023 "Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" With bonus subs. 1 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperTed Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 14 hours ago, Xela said: Grrrrrreat post! God Bran it Xela! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperTed Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 13 hours ago, Mantis said: The BBC seem to love taking boring and/or stupid mediocre players and making them regular pundits. See also: Savage, Murphy, Richards etc How he hosted the drawing ceremony for the World Cup too!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperTed Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Were either Pires or Joe Cole loaned to us or just signed in a free transfer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Pires was a free transfer. Was 38 going on 58 though. Although I remember one random game vs. Blackburn where he turned the clock back like 15 years 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 15 minutes ago, VillaJ100 said: Pires was a free transfer. Was 38 going on 58 though. Although I remember one random game vs. Blackburn where he turned the clock back like 15 years Cole was also a free. Had one good game v Burnley. Ginola, Pires, Cole, Coutinho. We love buying a past it creative midfielder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmirch Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 4 hours ago, The Fun Factory said: Cole was also a free. Had one good game v Burnley. Ginola, Pires, Cole, Coutinho. We love buying a past it creative midfielder. Grealish came on with a few minutes left and hit the bar in that Burnley game I think. Believe that was also when Gresford was born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 27 minutes ago, MrSmirch said: Grealish came on with a few minutes left and hit the bar in that Burnley game I think. Believe that was also when Gresford was born. Really? I have no reollcation on that and I went to the game. Okore gave away a pen near the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icouldtelltheworld Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 6 hours ago, SuperTed said: God Bran it Xela! Cant stand it when VT descends into mindless puns. There's a couple of posters who really stand out as cereal offenders 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpTheVilla26 Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Gudjonsson was worth the loan solely for that mental night at VP vs the unwashed. At 0-2 down, with Dion off, I remember being sat there wanting our players to break their players legs. Joey gave it a good go. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdman Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Pires was decent if I recall. Still had the touch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinRichardsonsMoustache Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 25 minutes ago, UpTheVilla26 said: Gudjonsson was worth the loan solely for that mental night at VP vs the unwashed. At 0-2 down, with Dion off, I remember being sat there wanting our players to break their players legs. Joey gave it a good go. He scored that weird 35-40 yarder when we thumped Boro, too. I bought that white away strip and that was the only naffing away win of the season. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 25, 2023 Author Share Posted January 25, 2023 5 hours ago, The Fun Factory said: Really? I have no reollcation on that and I went to the game. Okore gave away a pen near the end. Some guy called Danny Ings scored it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smg Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 On 24/01/2023 at 18:55, Demitri_C said: Not sure how you stick coutinho there. We have had a lot worse. One of the biggest disappointment loan signings was that that wasteman bolaise. I really did think he was going to be a coup for us in championship and he was shite. Also dawkins has to be there Wasteman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPower_14 Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 We used the loan system to incredible effect in the promotion season, Mings, Tammy and El Ghazi all absolutely crucial. In the prem, Milner was good the year we had him on loan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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