It's a bit unclassy to be celebrating 'getting rid' of an academy player for 9m to a lower level club.
However, it is a good move for everyone and best of luck to him.
However, it is a good move for everyone and best of luck to him.
Tom Cleverley | 2014/15 Performances (on loan at Aston Villa)
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Probably explains why he's played so poorly thus far this season, he definitely played knowing he was to be shafted.
So its okay to celebrate his leaving if he wasn't an academy player? This sentimentality of academy players is a bit too much. DO you cry every time an academy player leaves the club? If you are not good enough, you have to leave. Its not the end of the world and we are not monsters for doing it.
I've always had a bit of a soft spot for Cleverley, it's a real shame he never kicked on from his early promise. I remember being so excited we had a youth player scoring goals for fun from midfield in the championship and hoped he would really become a decent player for us. Sadly not to be, a move is the best thing for all parties.
good luck to him.
He's going to be a good player for Villa.
It was time for the axe to drop, but I'm still sorry to see a product of our youth system fail to make his dreams come true with the club.
It was time for the axe to drop, but I'm still sorry to see a product of our youth system fail to make his dreams come true with the club.
Best of luck lad.
Get in!! Best news all day
He's a broken player... What's sad is to see him recede and regress week on week.
All the best of luck, hope he's superb for them and rediscovers his better football, against everyone but us.
All the best of luck, hope he's superb for them and rediscovers his better football, against everyone but us.
The part I've bolded is the reason people are happy. Personally I'm happy for him -- I believe he has it in him to be a very good player. Right now, with us, he's stuck in my new favourite expression (courtesy of Mockney) the shame spiral.
Of course we wish him all the best at Villa, it's a true win/win situation if I ever saw one.
Good deal for both us and the player I think. Hope he does well, I reckon he will prove to be a solid and steady mid table midfielder when he gets some confidence and a steady run of games in him.
Not a fan of the attitude of a minority in here with the 'best news of the summer' type posts. He tried to make the jump up to the United senior team but didn't quite have it in him, give the lad a break.
Not a fan of the attitude of a minority in here with the 'best news of the summer' type posts. He tried to make the jump up to the United senior team but didn't quite have it in him, give the lad a break.
I'm glad a lot of the absolute shite in the squad is finally getting the boot but i won't celebrate until we actually bring players in to replace them. Getting rid without replacing them is just making us weaker, no matter how shite they are.
9 mill for Cleverly??? Still rubbing my eyes in disbelief! Good lad Keane, always manages to get our rejects are ridiculous prices.
I forgot Keane's there. He might rip him a new one if Cleverley reproduces his Spanish brilliance at Villa but then again if there ever was a player who was destined to play for Villa, it was Tom.
We have to sign a midfielder now. We have fletcher fit and that's it isn't it?
It's got nothing really to do with the fact that we sold him - I think it is best for everyone. I am just not a fan of people celebrating. It's also got nothing to do with him being from the academy really, but is similar to when some fans were sarcastically cheering Fellaini's every touch. We are surely better than that.
He wasn't good enough for us, but he did offer some good memories (8-2 vs Arsenal), some freak goals and he often worked harder than more talented players.
He received a lot of stick from opponent fans, I just don't think we should join them in belittling him when it was always a bit over-exaggerated.
£9m is a really good price considering how poor his reputation is and has been for the last couple of years. Nobody actually seems to rate him at all so it seems higher than I'd have thought. If it's a real offer we'd be mad not to take it
Good bye Tom =(
all the luck on the world for you.
Its a real shame he wont make it with us... sadly he failed to step up on a difficult time for the club.
At least we are getting good money for him.
all the luck on the world for you.
Its a real shame he wont make it with us... sadly he failed to step up on a difficult time for the club.
At least we are getting good money for him.
Pity it didn't work out and good luck to him, but this is all for the best. He's not good enough for our squad.
Vidal in?
Vidal in?
Hear, hear.
I agree, but some people here are acting the same way that City and Liverpool fans acted when Fergie retired.
Hopefully we bring in a CM and one other versatile player to avoid using Fletcher.
Very harsh.
He made a valuable contribution to our 12-13 title win.
He will be a decent footballer just like Darron Gibson is (shame with his recent injury tho) Aston villa is the perfect club for him IMO. needs to get his confidence sorted. Roy will do him good. So I hope we have some players coming in. He was our only 90mins fit midfielder after all.. We may try Jones, Pereira in weeks coming. Maybe Mata for a while at the cost of tempo...
Nah sorry, I had high hopes for Tom. He's hasn't stepped up and we are behind in the midfield department because of that. He showed promise for like a month 3 years ago. It's a shame
I just saw this on a Villa forum -
Good move for everyone involved. Good luck to him.
Confidence player whose confidence is rock bottom. Sad he didn't work out and best of luck to him. There's a good player in there somewhere and I genuinely hope he can rediscover it.
Not so long ago he was touted as better than Henderson and Allen. Henderson has come leaps and bounds, Allen moved sideways, maybe regressed a bit and Cleverley has just sunk like a stone. He's 25, not a youngster. You'd think he had settled into his level too much for that by now.
I could see him go entirely off the radar from here.
I could see him go entirely off the radar from here.
It's sad to a see an academy player who looked like he could contribute something to the first team just regress to the state Cleverley did but he really does need to leave here for his own sake. Think he'd do okay at Villa and will probably benefit from the lack of expectations from him.
I agree I don't think he'll end up much better off than someone like Steve Sidwell.
Couldn't convince them to take Young back then. Shame.
If he wasn't going to be sold before, I think getting subbed in America when he was supposed to play the entire game sealed his fate.
Showed early promise but has been very poor since. Good luck to him.
Showed early promise but has been very poor since. Good luck to him.
I'm not happy that he's going as much as I about us surely signing another midfielder. We need to completely restruct the middle of the field and it looks like it's finally happening.
Good luck to him...
(and if I hear Rude by Magic! one more time...)
(and if I hear Rude by Magic! one more time...)
Villa fans are worried that Vlaar will be coming to us.
Pity he couldn't step up. Good luck to him.
Anyway. Midfield is approaching the non-existent state. Only a few days of transfer window left.
PICNIC?
Anyway. Midfield is approaching the non-existent state. Only a few days of transfer window left.
PICNIC?
Agreed, but I think people are entitled to feel how they want about a player being sold or brought in. If this was Fellaini being sold, it'd be a lot different.
I've honestly not been able to keep up with the thread (Still trying to pretend I'm working!), but if so it's terrible.
To put it in a nutshell, to me Cleverley is a truly talented player who sadly at the moment is stuck in a spiral of fear and avoidance. A move will set his head right, I'm sure. And like I said, he's got Keano to help him give his head a wobble.
No more fear!
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