Heskey to be offered new contract : Is mid-table totally exceptable now??

[Dan England]

(c)  His on the pitch role is reduced to testing Given with shots in the warm up.

Does saving shots from Heskey really consitute a warm up?

No but the amount of running that Given would have to do to fetch the ball from the North Stand Lower could equate to a 10k run.

Edit:- Posted before I read Chris' post! Great minds.....

[Phil from the upper holte]

Does he deserve a new contract? Look at Todays performance and decide!!

I'd tell him to go January

[ez]

I'm expecting Heskey and Beye to go in January freeing up some money for a midfielder.

[spangley1812]

I'm expecting Heskey and Beye to go in January freeing up some money for a midfielder.

You will be disappointed I think....Alex likes him and has played him every game that he has been available for

[Villanation]

Time for him to move on, looked out of it at times today.

[UsualSuspect]

I'm expecting Heskey and Beye to go in January freeing up some money for a midfielder.

Im not expecting them to go anywhere until their contracts expire

Who is going to come in and offer beye 42k per week and heskey 50?

[Pete3206]

Time for him to move on, looked out of it at times today.

Of course he looked out of it. He's a lumbering, brick shit house of a centre forward, playing out of position. At one stage today,  he was almost playing at right back. Oh I forgot, he's The Kaiser.

[Greg N'Ash]

He's been arse since he arrived. I'm not sure why AM can't see it  but then MON couldn't see it either. If clubs ever stop employing hoof merchants as managers, Ivanhoe could be in trouble. Until then....

[hawkeye]

We have got so many mediocre players now, Hutton Nzogbia Delph Warnock Collins, just add heskey to that list.
So is mid table acceptable now? it is all we can hope for.

[Eigentor]

(c)  His on the pitch role is reduced to testing Given with shots in the warm up.

Does saving shots from Heskey really consitute a warm up?

It constitutes a surprise that he got a shot on target. Unless the keeper is sat in row Z or stood near the corner flag.

I should have written: does standing in goal watching shots from Heskey going wayward constitute a warm-up? Anyway, I think we should keep him. Fans seem to get more and more indifferent about Villa these days. The presence of Heskey in the starting line-up is one of few things that agitate them.

[brontebilly]

Hasn't been a decent player for years. Complete non entity now and predictably was a complete passenger today.

One of MON's worst signings. Like Harewood the vast majority of Villa fans knew he would be too.

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Heskey suely has come to the end of his Villa playing days. We need to freshen up the squad. Possibly some unknown european starlets ? Think Delph is running out of games and we are still not sure what Jenas is going to bring to the table ........

[eastie]

Maybe mcleish is using the prospect of a new contract as an incentive for heskey who apparently has been playing a lot in training as a centre half in recent weeks-however come the end of the season i would be astonished if  heskey was offered a new contract.

[Concrete John]

I'm expecting Heskey and Beye to go in January freeing up some money for a midfielder.

You will be disappointed I think....Alex likes him and has played him every game that he has been available for

I think that's in part due to wanting him in the side due to his height and power, which are antributes AM rightly recognises as important in the PL.  Should we be able to find a Viera-like midfielder in Jan (yeah, I know!) then Heskey's place in the side immediately comes under threat, IMO. 

And there's also the issue of whether he may be odd man out once Jenas is fit.

As to who'd take him, players entering the last few months of their contracts will naturally be looking around via their agent.  It's possible some sort of deal could be struck - maybe to Leicester with us still paying a chunk of his wages?