I think the club has got a decent deal, compared to £1m for Goode who was club captain and first name on the team sheet £300,000 for a player unable to get near a place in the starting 11 seems ok. Does not worry me that Villa have not loaned him back to us as we have 3-4 strikers in front of him he would be limited to cameo substitute appearances. Although he turned down our contract offers I doubt we would have got more at this time if he was on a permanent contract, to do so he would have needed to break into the team and show his worth. He is better developing within their youth set up.
Curle and Brady have both said he needed to more work off the ball and this was evident when he came on against Birmingham. On one occasion he lost the ball and made no attempt to win it back and seemed to have the attitude of "thats me done until somebody gives me the ball again". Kabamba and Rose both have the defensive side to their game and he needs to learn that.
Looking at the Villa forum some of them appear to think he is ready to step into their team commenting "assume he will be our 3rd striker". I doubt if he features in their team any time soon.
When Villa took his younger brother Carney does anybody know what we got from that deal?.
Where is the £300k coming from?
Read that a couple of times but seems to be ‘undisclosed’