Cole set to stay til January. (3 Viewers)

[I_Saw_Shaw_Score]

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/aston-villas-joe-cole-set-10459117


Don't think many of us saw that coming.


Some squad we have.....til January anyway!

 

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[ccfcmad1]

Got nothing to lose with this one can only be a good thing.

 

[Deleted member 4439]

Qualification from TM "Without anything being concrete, we are in discussions and will try to take it to January"

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Has to be long term, or completely pointless having him for just a month - he was always going to need time to get up to speed.

 

[jim20]

I think if he gets up to speed we need to keep him until the end of the season, along with a few others including Armstrong and Kent. If we can do that, or TM replaces them if they go in Jan with as good as or better we will have a good second half of the season as well

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

Interesting how it is going to work with 6 loans when Turner arrives.

 

[Specs WT-R75]

Interesting how it is going to work with 6 loans when Turner arrives.

Seems quite straight forward to me... either Cole will start and Bigi will miss out, or when Cole is not fit enough to start, he won't be in the squad and Bigi will be on the bench.

Possible that Cole, Bigi and Kent get rotated a bit when we have 3 games in a week, or shall I say Cole plays one game and the others play 2/3 each!

 

[shmmeee]

The positive to Cole's fitness is opposition managers never know if he'll be playing.

 

[skybluetony176]

I heard he wanted to stay because he loves jumping jacks. Never out the place apparently

 

[Philosoraptor]

Keeping Cole is only good news. I don't think money has had a big part to play in this whatsoever. Tallent like that can choose which club he plays for, and I think he has. When he does finally become fit and shakes off those niggles from coming back from major injury, he is going to be a legend for us.

Can see this going longer then just January.

 

[Kingokings204]

Interesting how it is going to work with 6 loans when Turner arrives.

Kent will go back and Maddison comes back. That's got to be the plan

 

[Astute]

Not too bothered about what the plan is. TM has put a decent team together on a pittance. Next season if we go up he will have much more money to spend. It doesn't seem right as we are Coventry City.

 

[skybluetony176]

SW must have come back for a day to sort this out. I have it on "good" authority that JC was his parting gift ointlaugh:

 

[Sick Boy]

Fair play to the club once again, just need to get the stadium situation sorted, and dare I say it, we will be being run not to shabbily at the moment.

 

[shmmeee]

Fair play to the club once again, just need to get the stadium situation sorted, and dare I say it, we will be being run not to shabbily at the moment.

This season has been a step change. Hope it's not just Mowbray's influence and it's someone on the board so this continues even if TM leaves.

 

[Sick Boy]

Let's hope so! The club certainly showed massive ambition getting him in and retaining him, they deserve credit for that.

 

[covcity4life]

good news, dont think hell be in squad for saturday though

 

[shmmeee]

good news, dont think hell be in squad for saturday though

I bloody hope he is! Only game I've missed at home this season is the one he played.

 

[covcity4life]

I bloody hope he is! Only game I've missed at home this season is the one he played.

im yet to see him either, hence im glad loan to be extended!

 

[Nick]

You only really missed his free kick

 

[IrishSkyBlue]

Its good news i trust in TM to get his fitness up and hopefully play more

 

[Deleted member 5849]

This season has been a step change. Hope it's not just Mowbray's influence and it's someone on the board so this continues even if TM leaves.

tbf, scattergun signing policy aside, I've not had much of an issue with how the club's been run (bar Northampton! and the ticketing stupidity - OK as I put this, maybe I *do* have a fair few issues with how the club's run:thinking about since Dulieu left.

Take away the elephants in the room and, even if they haven't worked out, managerial choices have been sound in Robins, Pressley and Mowbray, as has the general principle of backing a manager and keeping an academy going.

 

[bawtryneal]

You only really missed his free kick

But what a free kick and great 3 points.

 

[Great_Expectations]

This season has been a step change. Hope it's not just Mowbray's influence and it's someone on the board so this continues even if TM leaves.

I think the very fact they initially recruited TM and ultimately persuaded him to re-sign indicates a change of strategy from SISU. Couple that with the fact they allowed him to create a Director of Football position and appoint his own man into it.

As the season has progressed the backing they must be providing (compare our current squad to last years) and the decision to work in the background to not distract from football matters, demonstrates further positive signs.