Marc Albrighton has recently spoke out about his desire to play more first team football with Aston Villa, and ultimately, sign a new contract extension at his boyhood club, Aston Villa. When Albrighton first burst into the scene for Aston Villa at the age of 19 there was a lot of promise for the young winger. In his break-through season he scored 5 goals and also made a fair amount of assists, under McLeish he still made an impact, but it wasn’t to the same degree as his break-through season under Houllier. Now, under Lambert Albrighton has recovered from illness and injury and is vying a run in the first team following his fantastic performance against Man. Utd.
When asked about a new contract being an incentive for the 24 year old:
“It is. If I can play games and show the manager what I’m capable of, who knows what will happen?
“I said at the start of the season it’s a massive year and now I’ve got into the starting line-up hopefully I can keep my place and get a few more games.”
“It is a long time out and the confidence factor is massive,” said Albrighton.
“People forget about you and it’s hard to take that. Hopefully if I can play a few more games and play well that confidence will come oozing back.”
“He has always told me I’m in his plans and to get back to where I was,” he said. “That’s what I’m aiming to do and if I can do that then brilliant.” – Marc Albrighton
If Albrighton isn’t offered a new contract he will be free to leave on a bosman transfer at the end of the season. He may even begin to speak to other clubs in regards to a transfer in January. His loan spell to Wigan did him wonders in-terms of match fitness and it appears as though Albrighton has done enough against Man. Utd to convince Lambert to give him an extended run in the team. Weimann is badly out-of-form and Tonev is yet to adjust to the Premier League. Still, I’d hate to see Albrighton leave Aston Villa for free, because he still has a lot to offer to this club.
What I liked about Albrighton is that he is an unpredictable winger with loads of quality. He had a go against Evra, and more often than not, he got the better of the experienced left-back. He made cut backs, spins and turns and was capable of having a shot on target when necessary. But most importantly, I’m convinced he is the best crosser we have, right now at Aston Villa.
Haven’t seen him play recently judging by what ive heard he fades abit as the game progresses.i did expect big things from him but for injury & change in gaffers his form is hard to judge.he does add that bit of experience in the team & knows the job he’s got to do.he certainly carn’t do any worse than some of the plonkers we’ve got.
He is without a doubt better than tonev and is much better for that position than weimann, he looks like he wants to fight for his contract and i tink under Lambert he will get it, the last thing we want is him leaving on a free and then finding the form he had under houllier with another team. Good luck mark hopefully he will kick start our season. UTV
Agree he’s better than tonev but costs us too much defensively just like bannan
We have 4 defenders and 3 defensive midfielders most games why should he or any other forward player have to defend? Its a rhetorical question as he shouldn’t hav to defend but our 3 midfielders play so narrow he has to come back to help and granted he isn’t good defensively but he isn’t a defender so don’t think he should be judged on that.
Because that’s the modern game wingers especially are expected to track back and help out full backs. If you watch a player like Suarez on Sunday there were times when he dropped deep between mid and defence to help out. Unfortunately are full backs are crap anyway lunar got hammered on Sunday.
Ya in a 4 4 2 but with 7 defenders on the pitch our 3 forwards should not have to worry too much about defending except maybe against da top teams, and suarez would very rarely be in a defensive area he might drop back to midfield every now and again but he mainly defends from the front which is much better imo, rooney comes very deep alright but usually when playing the number 10 role but still you can’t compare either to marc they are on a different level, all i expect from marc is to drive a few crosses into the box and hopefully do what he did with houllier and pop up at the back post for the odd goal, but i do get why you want him to be good defensively because our full backs are pretty poor.
Fair point Kerry
Probably shouldn’t, but our fullbacks time and time again are doubled/tripled each and every time because they receive absolutely no help from the DM’s or wingers.
Goodluck to Albrighton UTV
I would really like to see him succeed. He puts the effort in and plays in a positive manner. I agree with KerryVillan he is a better bet in that right side position than Weimann.
One thing marc can do that the rest of the team fail to understand is how to pass and move! Plus he sticks to the flanks which makes more space for the rest of the team should they decide to use it. For me personally he would be the first on the team sheet given how shit the rest of the squad is playing.
Lol utv