Tom Cleverley | 2014/15 Performances (on loan at Aston Villa)

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shaggy said:
Think Young's runs out in 2016. Fellaini probably the year after that.
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We'll get a reasonable fee for Fellaini (12 - 15 m). I think Young will probably survive the cull due to versatility and be an overpaid back up for at least another year. Diving aside, I now find him less offensive than Valencia.
 
Well he got what he wanted and can leave on a free. No one would pay for him in January. Just wait it out.

Glad I never have to see him again in a red shirt.
 
Are Villa mad or something? His contract expires in the summer no? They could get him for free in the summer.
 
When you see that photo of Cleverley as a young boy in a United kit, it brings it home that top level professional sport is a fundamentally Darwinian business. And Cleverley made it here to the age if 25 - god knows how many fall by the wayside before they get anywhere near the first team. I always remember G Neville saying that his main fear at United was whether he'd survive from year to year (including when he was already an England international), or Steven Gerrard saying that his cousin was more talented than him but lacked the application to knuckle down when in his late teens. So good luck to Tom - he made it further than most but all the while having the public pick apart his failings as an elite level player (including me on this forum). They get paid a lot so long as they keep passing the various hurdles but, in the context of that brutal selection process which players go through, it's not easy money.
 
So I guess his Man United career is officially over as I really doubt he's going to sign a new contract at the end of the season. Hope he does well and definitely didn't deserve the hate he's gotten. Might flourish without the pressure of playing at a big club.
 
Wonder will Villa be tempted to play him further up the pitch? Roy Keane may not like him as a deeper midfield player.
 
Good luck to him.

Sad to lose another of our own products but this one probably had to be done.

Unlike Welbeck i can clearly hope he does well now.
 
Rozay said:
I don't think anyone's disappointed from a footballing perspective.

And he's from Bradford anyway isn't he? In fact I am pretty sure he didn't just screw us out of any fee for him yesterday, but he screwed Bradford City out of about seven or eight hundred-grand, as they held a 10% sell-on clause I think.

Far more of a loss for them than us.
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Just checked and the lad was actually born in Bassingstoke but grew up in Bradford. Either way, like you said, he's not a local lad.
 
Didn't City put some clause in the Barry's loan meaning that Everton had to pay something to them if they did want to sign him, despite his contract running out? Perhaps this is just something similar.
 
Haha. We finally got rid of him, sort of. And its a season long loan deal. And next summer we can sell him to Everton.
 
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