AVFCforever1991 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Wrong sport, Simon Been in America too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForfarVillan Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Seems a very nice chap judging by his avtv interview Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grogan_Avfc Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 I hope he does a job, and an extra option can't be a bad thing. But we've signed a player from Tottenham who i bet 90% of Tottenham fans have never heard of. Its all hugely underwhelming to say the least Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8pints Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 He's got Magneto like skills. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Well, here's to hoping we've struck gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Perhaps a more informed opinion from the good people over at 7500toHolte. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8pints Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Is he a good set piece taker does anyone know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCAM Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Ok. I know he's not a marquee name, but as far as I see it (and I may be wrong as I'm only going on what I have been told)... Dawkins can play out wide. Albrighton can play out wide (not that well at the moment). This means we have 2 wide men. This means we can have a plan b when our usual long ball down the middle doesn't work. It means that when we bring on Darren Bent, we can actually play a style of football that suits him, as we have wide players who can cross the ball (Albrighton maybe 1in 5 good crosses)... But hey, I'm just being positive about. Welcome to Villa Simon, I hope you prove the doubters wrong! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNeeUs Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 This could be quite good business from Lambert. I've been screaming at getting a winger in and this is our lad - seems to score a fair few goals for a winger too which is quite a nice stat (albeit MLS). It may also get us playing 442 more instead of the horrible 532 formation. If he gets balls into the box then we may see more of Mr Bent. _________________Guzan________________ Lowton____Vlaar____________Clark___Baker N'Zogbia__Westwood_____Sylla_____Dawkins ______Benteke____________Bent__________ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 I've read a couple people say he's out of contract with Spurs at the end of the season, is this true/does anyone have a source? If it is, then some consolation will be if he does turn out to be useful enough to have around we shouldn't have to fork out any money or see Spurs simply re-integrating him into their squad a better player (à la Kyle Walker). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Disregard, I've just seen Abraham's tweet stating as such. Well that's something, at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaglint Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 (edited) I've no problem with us signing someone who can play wide. We have the best header of a ball in the Premier League and two extremely proficient poachers yet we very very rarely get crosses into the box from decent positions. Never understand why Holman isn't tried on left wing seeing as that was where he played for his previous club. Anyway all the best Simon... if you keep us up then Messi will be asking you for tips... Edited February 1, 2013 by villaglint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danwichmann Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Ok. I know he's not a marquee name, but as far as I see it (and I may be wrong as I'm only going on what I have been told)... Dawkins can play out wide. Albrighton can play out wide (not that well at the moment). This means we have 2 wide men. This means we can have a plan b when our usual long ball down the middle doesn't work. It means that when we bring on Darren Bent, we can actually play a style of football that suits him, as we have wide players who can cross the ball (Albrighton maybe 1in 5 good crosses)... But hey, I'm just being positive about. Welcome to Villa Simon, I hope you prove the doubters wrong! N'Zogbia can also play wide, and potentially a lot better. This is what's important about this signing I think, it does give us the option to go to a different system. Maybe this will herald the end of 5-3-2, and isn't possible Lambert saw this as the only way to give us width with our lack of wide players in midfield? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 (edited) Looks quite quick, so thats a good thing. Edited February 1, 2013 by AVFCforever1991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevangrealish Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 (edited) 14 goals in two seasons in the MLS as a striker. Also got released by tottenham but they decided to take him back. Also has went on trial with the likes of bournemouth... I dont see the point of paying his wages tbh as i think he'll be the 6th choice striker. If he's a wingman then fair enough anybody is better than nobody. But reading his wikipedia... just looks awful. Edit: In fact not sure about 6th or 5th choice maybe him and Bowery will battle it out for a bench warming spot -__- Edited February 1, 2013 by kevangrealish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morpheus Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Reminds me of Tony Daley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCAM Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 N'Zogbia can also play wide, and potentially a lot better. This is what's important about this signing I think, it does give us the option to go to a different system. Maybe this will herald the end of 5-3-2, and isn't possible Lambert saw this as the only way to give us width with our lack of wide players in midfield? I don't see Zoggy a wide player, he always cuts inside. Last season you could have built a moderately sized housing estate in the casm of open space left in front of our fullback, the area between the oppositions wide man and fullback...Charlie was always drifting into the middle...this made Barry Bannan sad as he had nobody to float his cross field Hollywood ball to...he wasn't to be deterred though, Barry played the pass anyway... On the subject of Charlie though, he doesn't half look sharp at the moment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterms Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Oh thanks, very kind of you Don't take it personally. I just thought the article was snide and tiresome, just a Tottenham fan looking for words to fill his empty page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Anyone know if he takes set pieces? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Burgundy Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 This is the vid I watched before we signed him Has anyone ever been to an MLS game some of those crowd shots of San Jose look quite lairy. Shirts off, beers in hand, sunshine out, surging forward when they hit the goalsack. looks like a right laugh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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