Hornso Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 A bit surprised to see it when it was announced but it makes sense I guess. At his age he's probably not too keen coming off the bench. Although I do wonder what the insurance plan is if Terry/Chester/Samba suffer long term injuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 My main concern is next summer we need two cbs! If we don't go up we are screwed. In fact i think we moght need three as cant see chester sticming around for 3rd year in the championship. Have to say i like the look of flint no idea why we are not bidding for him. Off to blose as well which makes it even worse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 Big mistake this, Baker finally had a good CB as partner (Chester) and showed how much he could improve last season. playing/training with Terry would have been great for him & us. Alas we still have Richards 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 Bristol Post was reporting the fee was around 500k! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 5 hours ago, VillaChris said: Bristol Post was reporting the fee was around 500k! Haha, whoops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 3, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted August 3, 2017 (edited) 15 hours ago, Grasshopper said: Big mistake this, Baker finally had a good CB as partner (Chester) and showed how much he could improve last season. playing/training with Terry would have been great for him & us. Alas we still have Richards I don't quite agree with this. I agree that Baker was good last season, and I agree with the sentiment that letting him go was a bad move. But I don't think baker improved that much. it's just that we dropped down to a level that was more suited to him. By all accounts he was good when he was on loan at Bristol previously. It's the same with Ciaran Clark. People saying "look how good he was when he left Villa!". Well yeah, he was good, but that's because he was playing for a good team in the Championship as opposed to a shit team in the Premier League. I expect him to struggle next season in the Prem. So yeah, I like Baker, he's good at this level, but I don't think he had some big miraculous improvement. The championship just suits him. And as I've said previously, the silver lining for us is we've gotten rid of the worst hoofer in the team. For as well as Baker defended, with the ball at his feet he is poor. Edited August 3, 2017 by Stevo985 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Didn't play today, surely not injured already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 9 hours ago, rjw63 said: Didn't play today, surely not injured already? Banned remember he was sent off vs brighton 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Bristol City effortlessly scoring 3 in the first half hour annoyed me a little, we just needed one from them on the final day last year and they barely even had a shot! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 Baker scores on debut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One For The Road Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 (edited) At least we have Samba. Lol. Genuinely can't believe we let Baker go to bring in Chris Samba. Absolute madness. Edited August 8, 2017 by One For The Road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuck Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 8 hours ago, Demitri_C said: Baker scores on debut And goes off injured... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted August 9, 2017 Administrator Share Posted August 9, 2017 10 hours ago, One For The Road said: At least we have Samba. Lol. Genuinely can't believe we let Baker go to bring in Chris Samba. Absolute madness. Let him go? Or did he leave for first team football? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted August 9, 2017 Moderator Share Posted August 9, 2017 7 minutes ago, limpid said: Let him go? Or did he leave for first team football? Let him go, according to the Manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted August 9, 2017 Administrator Share Posted August 9, 2017 18 minutes ago, blandy said: Let him go, according to the Manager. Did he ask to leave so we let him go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 11 hours ago, One For The Road said: At least we have Samba. Lol. Genuinely can't believe we let Baker go to bring in Chris Samba. Absolute madness. Meh, given that the plan is to get promoted then it doesn't really matter who we have as we would have to get rid of them next summer as neither is good enough for the top flight. Having Samba in on a 1 year deal makes that a lot simpler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 1 hour ago, limpid said: Did he ask to leave so we let him go? Judging from Bruces comments it sounded like 4m was a very good offer and FFP was taken into consideration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted August 9, 2017 Moderator Share Posted August 9, 2017 2 hours ago, limpid said: Did he ask to leave so we let him go? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted August 9, 2017 Administrator Share Posted August 9, 2017 25 minutes ago, blandy said: No. I'll ask him next time I see him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted August 9, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted August 9, 2017 14 hours ago, One For The Road said: At least we have Samba. Lol. Genuinely can't believe we let Baker go to bring in Chris Samba. Absolute madness. That's not really a fair representation of what happened though really, is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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