Lion...

Some reports are saying Lucho Gonzalez is on his way to Marseille.. thought he would attract bigger clubs.. Has he gone off the boil a bit.. also how do you think he would do for us in the middle of the park alongside Petrov..

ADRIAN_1976 wrote:Some reports are saying Lucho Gonzalez is on his way to Marseille.. thought he would attract bigger clubs.. Has he gone off the boil a bit.. also how do you think he would do for us in the middle of the park alongside Petrov..

He is going to Marseille for €25 million

They are taking a bit of a risk as he got badly injured against MU in the CL and probably won´t play until October at the earliest

Top player - who probably didn´t have the best of seasons this past year

Not an MON type of player though - likes to pick the ball up in front of the back four and be the central playmaker

Lionheart wrote:

ADRIAN_1976 wrote:Some reports are saying Lucho Gonzalez is on his way to Marseille.. thought he would attract bigger clubs.. Has he gone off the boil a bit.. also how do you think he would do for us in the middle of the park alongside Petrov..

He is going to Marseille for €25 million

They are taking a bit of a risk as he got badly injured against MU in the CL and probably won´t play until October at the earliest

Top player - who probably didn´t have the best of seasons this past year

Not an MON type of player though - likes to pick the ball up in front of the back four and be the central playmaker

Isnt that just what we need.. with the pace and the wingers we have?

ADRIAN_1976 wrote:
Isnt that just what we need.. with the pace and the wingers we have?

Isn't that what Petrov was doing last season?

roadoftrinity wrote:

ADRIAN_1976 wrote:
Isnt that just what we need.. with the pace and the wingers we have?

Isn't that what Petrov was doing last season?

RoT to a degree yes but what i like about Petrov is he keeps it short and simple.. if we could have another player to compliment him who can play it around too and have the likes of Milner Young Bentley playing infront with a lone striker i think it would work brilliantly..

Sadly boys

Lucho is a product of South American football which involves the ball being passed around - often backwards to try to create space and movement - until we have someone at VP with the level of football intellect that knows how you make all that kind of thing work - we won´t sign players like him

Lionheart wrote:Sadly boys

Lucho is a product of South American football which involves the ball being passed around - often backwards to try to create space and movement - until we have someone at VP with the level of football intellect that knows how you make all that kind of thing work - we won´t sign players like him

I never knew you werent happy with the coaching staff at Villa Park, how come you never said before?

On another note, apparently Veloso's agent was claiming we are after him, is he any good?

roadoftrinity wrote:

Lionheart wrote:Sadly boys

Lucho is a product of South American football which involves the ball being passed around - often backwards to try to create space and movement - until we have someone at VP with the level of football intellect that knows how you make all that kind of thing work - we won´t sign players like him

I never knew you werent happy with the coaching staff at Villa Park, how come you never said before?

On another note, apparently Veloso's agent was claiming we are after him, is he any good?

ROT

Thats not been reported here

If so - YES

An almost identical player to Barry - lacking pace - prone to put on a bit of weight - but a cultured left foot and a great football brain

I have that Veloso in my Villa team in FM09 he is excellent, completely based on that.

Veloso´s preferred position is as a "libero" central defender where he can bring the ball out and be a deep playmaker in the way Beckenbauer and Krol used to play

Alan Hansen used to play in a similar way for Liverpool