Oaks Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 On a serious note I didn't think we would have trouble getting rid of Bannan or Delph, low wages who seemed to do ok in the championship... Their level really. You're so wrong on Delph. He's going to have big year. Bannan, meh. He was neither as shit as some people suggested nor as good as Con would have liked to believe, but he doesn't add much to the squad and we're brimming with midfielders. Right time for him to go. By bad I ment the Fonz and got confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa-revolution Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 HH is right. He is on his bike. I just spotted him on the M6 Let's hope for our sake the journey goes without a hitch & he gets left well alone by the old bill other than for a safe escort to Ewood Park. After that they can throw away the keys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MessiWillSignForVilla Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 In a way a feel sorry for Bannan, he's got the attributes to become a good player, but just hasn't developed well enough in the time he's been here. He has a good touch and is a very good passer in my opinion but all that counts for nothing a lot of the time because he doesn't know when to play the right pass or the right type of pass. Bannan definitely has the potential to be a good player, and as absurd as it sounds I think he could reach that potential if he played for a team like Arsenal, as he would have coaches who would be able to adapt him to the type of game he is suited for. Just to be clear, as much as I think he has potential, I don't think he'd make at a team like Arsenal, just develop well there, get loaned out a bit and get shipped to a mid-table team. On the other hand I'm glad he's leaving, he never reached his potential and has been disappointing the majority of times he's pulled on a Villa shirt, and he seems to have a pretty bad attitude and often comes across as if he can't be arsed. I think a lot of the abuse Bannan gets on here is over the top, but I think a lot of it is in response to Con's over the top praise of him, to bring some sort of equilibrium to the thread. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 (edited) But... But Houllier said this guy resembles Xavi, can't believe we're selling him ;O or did he call him his "little Messi"? Edited July 25, 2013 by briny_ear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_John_10 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Wait....the best crosser in the premier league is heading to the championship. That doesn't make sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but we must have been watching different games. Delph was very good in the second part of the season. I agree that Delph was better towards the end of the season. But he was pretty piss poor at the start. Bannan was decent for a large part of the season but his form dropped off towards the end of the season which led to him being dropped. I don't think Bannan was that significantly worse than Delph was throughout the season. Spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Clearly nobody wants him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but we must have been watching different games. Delph was very good in the second part of the season. I agree that Delph was better towards the end of the season. But he was pretty piss poor at the start. Bannan was decent for a large part of the season but his form dropped off towards the end of the season which led to him being dropped. I don't think Bannan was that significantly worse than Delph was throughout the season. Spot on. Bannan didn't even play for a large part of the season did he? And if he did he certainly wasn't "decent". Delph's performances mirrored that of the team, dire initially with a vast improvement as the season went on, not sure how this can be levelled against him as it applies to pretty much the entire team?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_John_10 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 At the end of the season delph's performances were at a level Bannan will never be able to reach. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 25, 2013 Moderator Share Posted July 25, 2013 True BJ and that's as much to do with the system. I loved the relationship between Sylla, Westwood and Delph at the end. The destroyer, the playmaker and the blue-arsed fly, and all able to do a bit of the other guy's job. Hard to see how we'll even improve on that now. Bacuna has his job cut out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunnski Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Good luck wee Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 adios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rovers13 Posted July 25, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted July 25, 2013 Why does this have to happen to me? 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstonMartin82 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but we must have been watching different games. Delph was very good in the second part of the season. I agree that Delph was better towards the end of the season. But he was pretty piss poor at the start. Bannan was decent for a large part of the season but his form dropped off towards the end of the season which led to him being dropped. I don't think Bannan was that significantly worse than Delph was throughout the season. Not many people have good enough memories to remember the games he played in a year ago. Fortunately I do, which is why I remember all the contradictions Con posts about and have reposted them on occasion in the past... anyway, because of this memory I have I can conclude that Bannan was useless at the start of the season, useless in the middle of the season, and wasn't anywhere to be seen at the end of the season when we improved enough to pull away from the relegation zone (no coincidence). To reinforce this view are all the ratings of Bannan... Con's favorite site have him down as the worst rated Villa player last season, and he was consistently in the bottom of the rankings (Con will argue the stat is subjective - however, he can't prove this for the reason that it isn't - it is statistical). Lambert putting Bannan on the lowest squad number is yet another professional opinion of him of simply not being good enough. No Premier League club has come in for him... the only one who he was linked to was Swansea. Coincidently the speculation over Laudrup's future intensified during the period that he was being linked to Swansea... the press were reporting that he wasn't getting the say on who he could bring it... it would appear he was willing to walk away from Swansea as the board were thinking of buying Bannan... only peoples theories however there is no smoke without fire... Laudrup knows Bannan isn't good enough for a PL team. Bannan is unable to break into the worst Scottish team in 50 years and when he did play due to an abundance of injuries he was hopeless. He simply reaffirmed why he isn't a Premier League player... gave the ball away consistently and had no end product. It looks as though he is destined to join a club which were in the relegation zone in the Championship with only 2 games left to play last season and have gone through around 4 or 5 managers in a single year. Blackburn are usually a managerless club that is run by chicken farmers who don't know anything about football. It is funny how these people who know nothing about football, yet control the transfer activity, are the only ones who are willing to take a gamble on Bannan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webbs Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Delph performed better than Bannan in every part of the season. Good luck to him wherever he goes anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted July 25, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted July 25, 2013 Well, like with all players from our academy who don't make it I wish him well. I still think he will make it back to the Premier League. He is good enough. Good luck! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa-revolution Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Why does this have to happen to me? Poor old Rovers13 - losing Big Sam, Venky's, Steve Kean, Relegation, constantly being knocked out of the domestic cups by the greatest team on the planet & now `Wee Barry` joining your club. Could it possibly get any worse? To any Rovers fan contemplating suicide by jumping off the nearest floodlight in the Darwen End I offer you just one simple piece of advice. Jump! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted July 25, 2013 Moderator Share Posted July 25, 2013 I like Rovers, I almost feel guilty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KjParton Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Is he legit gone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted July 25, 2013 Moderator Share Posted July 25, 2013 Bit of perspective though. Blackburn avoided relegation to League One by 4pts last season. I think Bannan will definitely improve them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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