thunderball Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 His facial expression when he signed for us pretty much sums up his villa career He's carrying a bit more timber these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supervillan78 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 The real problem is persuading someone to take him off our hands. I mean seriously who would want him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted July 28, 2015 Moderator Share Posted July 28, 2015 Probably the worst signing we've ever made. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonic_bouma Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 One of the worst players to ever pull on our shirt. Why on earth did sherwood give him so much game time last season? I was sure it would be Gil out the door this summer and we would keep Nzogbia. Thank god Tim has seen the light. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osmark86 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 hasn't exactly been a beacon of light during his career here. I hope we can offload him soon. we'll no doubt have to write him off as a loss because I cannot see any other club being head over heels over him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wittmann Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 One of the worst players to ever pull on our shirt. Why on earth did sherwood give him so much game time last season? I was sure it would be Gil out the door this summer and we would keep Nzogbia. Thank god Tim has seen the light. because CNZ has plenty of experience in relegation dog fights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysAVFC Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Why on earth did sherwood give him so much game time last season? Pretty unlikely but perhaps Sherwood knew the only possibility that we were going to stand any chance of shifting him at the end of the season was to give him some game time and hope he'd have some motivation to show what he can do himself. As I say, unlikely and also pretty high risk but it is also very unlikely we'd be able to sell him at all if he was bombed out (if it's not still anyway) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osmark86 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 to be fair he's had some good games for us, but overall he amounts to another drifting piece of deadwood. get rid asap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 28, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted July 28, 2015 One of the worst players to ever pull on our shirt. Why on earth did sherwood give him so much game time last season? I was sure it would be Gil out the door this summer and we would keep Nzogbia. Thank god Tim has seen the light. because CNZ has plenty of experience in relegation dog fights. So does Gil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wittmann Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 One of the worst players to ever pull on our shirt. Why on earth did sherwood give him so much game time last season? I was sure it would be Gil out the door this summer and we would keep Nzogbia. Thank god Tim has seen the light. because CNZ has plenty of experience in relegation dog fights. So does Gil. In the premier league?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Probably the worst signing we've ever made. Bosko Balaban says hello! Not a fan of N'Zogbia and he has not lived up to his transfer fee or his wadges.I'm glad if we can move him, but don't think he is the worst by any means. He still stinks though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Probably the worst signing we've ever made. Bosko Balaban says hello! Not a fan of N'Zogbia and he has not lived up to his transfer fee or his wadges.I'm glad if we can move him, but don't think he is the worst by any means. He still stinks though In four years I can remember a free kick against West Ham and a pass to Delph against WBA. Never has a player contributed so little for so much. Worse than Balaban. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted July 28, 2015 Moderator Share Posted July 28, 2015 Probably the worst signing we've ever made. Bosko Balaban says hello! Not a fan of N'Zogbia and he has not lived up to his transfer fee or his wadges.I'm glad if we can move him, but don't think he is the worst by any means. He still stinks though Worse than Bosko,far far worse. Not only did he cost almost half as much again as Balaban but he has 'earned' far higher wages. Plus we took a gamble with Balaban and it didn't work out, we should have known better with N'Zogbia. The real clincher though is what they cost us relative to our spending and budgets at the time and there no doubt who has been more costly in that time. Almost £10m and I hate to think about how much in wages and we got what? One freekick is the only memorable thing he has done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Probably the worst signing we've ever made. Bosko Balaban says hello! Not a fan of N'Zogbia and he has not lived up to his transfer fee or his wadges.I'm glad if we can move him, but don't think he is the worst by any means. He still stinks though In four years I can remember a free kick against West Ham and a pass to Delph against WBA. Never has a player contributed so little for so much. Worse than Balaban. Come on! We signed him for £5,5M in 2001 (wiki says 5,8), which back than was a huge transfer sum. And he "featured" (was invinsible) in 8 games for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 28, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted July 28, 2015 (edited) One of the worst players to ever pull on our shirt. Why on earth did sherwood give him so much game time last season? I was sure it would be Gil out the door this summer and we would keep Nzogbia. Thank god Tim has seen the light. because CNZ has plenty of experience in relegation dog fights. So does Gil. In the premier league?? Nope. Does that matter? Hermann Hreiðarsson has loads of premier league relegation dogfight experience too. Should we have signed and played him? Surely quality trumps "relegation dogfight experience"? It's a crap excuse. Sherwood just preferred N'Zogbia. Luckily he seems to have realised that was the wrong decision now. Edited July 28, 2015 by Stevo985 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piav_k4 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 (edited) He's inconsistent and hasn't been good enough over they years. He did put a shift in last when Tim came in and had a some good games. In a list of worst value for money signings in Villa's history on a cost per game basis, Bosko would be top. Edited July 28, 2015 by piav_k4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted July 28, 2015 Moderator Share Posted July 28, 2015 It was £5.8 which wasn't a huge amount, granted it wasn't small but it really wasn't huge. To put it context of my post above, we signed 3 players that summer for £5+ of which Balaban was one. Who were the other players we signed for £9.5m in the same window as N'Zogbia? Or since in fact until this window when spending the money from Delph and Benteke. N'Zogbia is out on his own as our worst signing.It was £5.8 which wasn't a huge amount, granted it wasn't small but it really wasn't huge. To put it context of my post above, we signed 3 players that summer for £5+ of which Balaban was one. Who were the other players we signed for £9.5m in the same window as N'Zogbia? Or since in fact until this window when spending the money from Delph and Benteke. N'Zogbia is out on his own as our worst signing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentVilla Posted July 28, 2015 Moderator Share Posted July 28, 2015 He's inconsistent and hasn't been good enough over they years. He did put a shift in last when Tim came in and had a some good games. In a list of worst value for money signings in Villa's history and a cost per game basis, Bosko would be top. I'd argue he his very consistent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piav_k4 Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 One of the worst players to ever pull on our shirt. Why on earth did sherwood give him so much game time last season? I was sure it would be Gil out the door this summer and we would keep Nzogbia. Thank god Tim has seen the light. because CNZ has plenty of experience in relegation dog fights. So does Gil. In the premier league?? Nope. Does that matter? Hermann Hreiðarsson has loads of premier league relegation dogfight experience too. Should we have signed and played him? Surely quality trumps "relegation dogfight experience"? It's a crap excuse. Sherwood just preferred N'Zogbia. Luckily he seems to have realised that was the wrong decision now. In fairness I doubt you'd want either 'in the trenches'. N'Zogbia preferred because he is more suited to a direct game imo. A more pacey, direct player than Gil and more likely to run on to a Benteke flick on. He's inconsistent and hasn't been good enough over they years. He did put a shift in last when Tim came in and had a some good games. In a list of worst value for money signings in Villa's history and a cost per game basis, Bosko would be top. I'd argue he his very consistent. Point well made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted July 28, 2015 Share Posted July 28, 2015 Said before, Im surprised he has not been made a available on a free to help with the wages AKA Given. Then off to the MLS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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