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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Dante Lavelli on May 07, 2012, 11:33:39 PM
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"Emile Heskey tells @BBCSport he is looking for a new club after being told he will not be offered a new deal by #avfc - http://t.co/aSaAX6Pz
@BBCSport 23 minutes ago”
Not surprised and I wish him well, he always gave his all etc etc.
I’m hoping the the thinking is that no new manager would want Heskey rather than AMc still making strategic decisions.
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Heskey has the good fortune to be saying goodbye at a time where we were so bad, he was a standout performer. For whatever contribution he made to us staying up, and for the few goals I can remember him netting in claret and blue, thank you.
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Here:
http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/aston-villa-fc/aston-villa-news/2012/05/07/emile-heskey-i-m-definitely-leaving-aston-villa-97319-30918407/
and here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/may/07/emile-heskey-aston-villa
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That's Heskey and Cuellar going then, any word on Guzan and Marshall yet?
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Thank christ for that. I was starting to imagine the nightmare perfect storm of McLeish being retained, with his first task being to sign Emile up for another three years. One down, one to go.
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1 in 10 goal ratio, £12.6m in fee's and wages. While I appreciated his effort it was just the wrong signing on the wrong contract.
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All the best Emile. You were a good pro for us but I can't say I'm disappointed to see you go.
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We will miss him but not as much as he missed for us...
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Thank christ for that. I was starting to imagine the nightmare perfect storm of McLeish being retained, with his first task being to sign Emile up for another three years. One down, one to go.
The nightmare doesn't end yet for me unfortunately.
Would anyone be completely stunned if we did something really positive like make McLeish walk the plank - only for his replacement to re-sign an unattached Ivanhoe?
Lambert likes a big forward up top too...
I'll only breathe easily when he's plying his trade in the Championship/ China/ Blackpool Pleasure Beach come August.
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The biggest problem with Heskey has been his mental and physical frailty, this is a bloke that comes off the pitch with the slightest twinge, never puts a series of performances together because he is weak in the head and body. He will go down as a player that had a gift but rarely used it. He has more talent than most people recognise but he has been a pretty big let down to himself and the game.
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He played very well in the last month but I can't say I'm sorry to see him go. I'd like to wish him all the best at his new club... just so long as he doesn't score against us or help Sunderland finish above us.
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Think the club will live to regret this decision as even now he's still a valuable asset to the team as sub, and could lend his experience to the younger players like Wiemann
Who am i kidding.
GET IN YOU BEAUTIE!!!11111111111ONE
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I remember saying a decade ago that Heskey's problem is that his centre of gravity is not on his body - it floats around him like a rogue electron.
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Thank fuck for that. Cheers for the effort Emile.
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Since he signed, the spiral has been down. Never even looks like scoring a goal.
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Loved Emile. Good luck in your next club but still wish you were playing for us. X
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If only all of his time at Villa - well, his whole career - was as good as that month or so under Houllier when he suddenly seemed unplayable (think his goal at Molineux and the one he set up for Albrighton at Spurs). He was a brute - a real throwback to his early days as a Leicester player. And then he got injured and reverted to type as the lumbering, injury-prone, non-scoring centre forward we all suspected him to be.
Alas. The wrong player at the wrong time. Good luck Emile.
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Symbolic of all that was wrong with the MON era of transfers.
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We've had shitter strikers, but never ever did we have one as bad as him who's managed over a hundred gmes befure being given the boot.
Praise god, the nightmare is over
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If only all of his time at Villa - well, his whole career - was as good as that month or so under Houllier when he suddenly seemed unplayable (think his goal at Molineux and the one he set up for Albrighton at Spurs). He was a brute - a real throwback to his early days as a Leicester player. And then he got injured and reverted to type as the lumbering, injury-prone, non-scoring centre forward we all suspected him to be.
Alas. The wrong player at the wrong time. Good luck Emile.
Still cant get my head round how he started playing like that for a few short weeks. I was at that Spurs away game when he absolutely monstered them first half, having done the same the previous couple of matches. Then the monstrous crapness of almost the entire rest of his Villa career - amazed to read that he's actually scored 14. Not the right stuff mentally?
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If he's ably surrounded by goalscoring attackers and talented midfielders you can see how his unselfish play would both be appreciated and come in handy. But as a leader, someone you expect to weigh-in with his fair share and take on the burden when there's a few young lads playing alongside him...he just didn't cut it.
I can't understand how such a big man can spend so much of a game on his arse. He probably was too shy to snipe back at defenders.
A huge amount of money largely wasted. I hope Martin O'Neill gets his wish for a target man, misses out on Davies and is reunited with Emile again.
Farewell Gentle Ben.
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He played very well in the last month but I can't say I'm sorry to see him go. I'd like to wish him all the best at his new club... just so long as he doesn't score against us or help Sunderland finish above us.
Can't help being cynical and think that his improved effort and form over the past few weeks have had a lot to do with the fact that he is out of contract this summer. I have to wonder which Heskey his new club will see once he has his new contract in the bag.
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You can not build a team around Him because he is either injured or gets injured during a game. I bet he has the record for the least amount of games completed. He is a multi millionaire so dont feel too sorry for him.
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"EMILE Heskey is on the lookout for a new Premier League club"
Bollox to that! My grandma has got more chance of playing in the Premier League next season.
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I've always thought he seemed like a good guy, not someone you'd ever hear about kicking a nightclubs doors in, moaning or missing training.
He's just not a very good player anymore, hasn't been since his last hurrah at Wigan. Don't know what the hell O'Neil was thinking when he signed him, on a par with Harewood in the WTF and How Much? stakes.
Thanks for your efforts Emile, don't let he door hit you on the way out. Ah who am I kidding, of course it will.
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"EMILE Heskey is on the lookout for a new Premier League club"
Bollox to that! My grandma has got more chance of playing in the Premier League next season.
That's our Emile you're talking about.
Your grandma (and I'm guessing here) is great with a sieve and several grades of flour.
Our Emile can sieve that, crumb significant gravities of fats (including lard) and be on hand to head in a cumulative confection of a flaky custard tart.
Woah! Stitch that, as they say round here.
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I've always thought he seemed like a good guy, not someone you'd ever hear about kicking a nightclubs doors in, moaning or missing training.
He's just not a very good player anymore, hasn't been since his last hurrah at Wigan. Don't know what the hell O'Neil was thinking when he signed him, on a par with Harewood in the WTF and How Much? stakes.
Thanks for your efforts Emile, don't let he door hit you on the way out. Ah who am I kidding, of course it will.
Agree. MON's worst signing, and let's face it, there's a lot of competition for that particular accolade.
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good luck to him. I've nothing against Emile, but I will be glad that we will no longer have to discuss him on match day. He was a fabulous player at times in his heyday. It was just so not the right signing for us when it happened. Still, he never had a bad word to say about us, was always a consumate pro, just not the quality that we were looking for or needed.
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good luck to him. I've nothing against Emile, but I will be glad that we will no longer have to discuss him on match day. He was a fabulous player at times in his heyday. It was just so not the right signing for us when it happened. Still, he never had a bad word to say about us, was always a consumate pro, just not the quality that we were looking for or needed.
Presumably you've forgotten about him moaning about losing his England place when MON had him on the bench for ages?
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His Villa contract was his semi-retirement, he's managed to coast through it shying away from physical challenges of any kind in an effort to avoid injury so that he may reach this day where as a free agent he may squeeze a bonus retirement contract out of somebody else. good riddance
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I couldn't care less about how beloved he may be by fellow professionals - as a fan he was a nightmare to see in the shirt. I don't accept that any footballer should be praised for being seen to work hard for his team - any player whose confidence is so disablingly low as his bloody well ought to be working hard. I don't dislike the bloke but he's been a punchline for far too long.
Also, he can control the ball further than most players can kick it.
I hope he remains in the game but I've never been less concerned about a striker leaving us and having that threat of him coming back and scoring against us. Even Penrice managed that.
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good luck to him. I've nothing against Emile, but I will be glad that we will no longer have to discuss him on match day. He was a fabulous player at times in his heyday. It was just so not the right signing for us when it happened. Still, he never had a bad word to say about us, was always a consumate pro, just not the quality that we were looking for or needed.
Presumably you've forgotten about him moaning about losing his England place when MON had him on the bench for ages?
no I don't recall him "moaning" at all. I do recall him being concerned as he should have been, and also answering questions about those concerns honestly. If you are suggesting he made a scene about, he didn't.
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66 goals in 10 seasons.
Fucking incredible.
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It was like the feeling last summer when we got McLeish, I was surprised in the fact we signed him. I really wanted him do well and was very chuffed he scored on his debut. But again like McLeish I like them both and they are both decent professionals and people but not quite right for the job. We should have gone for a goal scorer. Heskey does a lot of good things on the pitch but when it comes to sticking the ball in the net it just doesn't happen.
Good luck for the future though Emile.
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If the option was keep Emile and lose McLost,..............
Everyone seems sure that both will go, but I have a nightmare that McLost will be spouting the same rubbish in August which worries me more than keeping Emile.
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goodbye Mr Heskey, I shall never forget the sheer disappointment I felt when we signed you, your incredible goalscoring record, your amazing first touch, and your overall contribution to making us the poor side we are today.
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With NRC last season and Heskey ,Cuellar ,Guzan and Beye all walking away for nothing just how much have we wasted on players with both little return on the pitch ans no sell on fee's .On transfer fees alone its around £23 mil down the drain.
Heskey was a poor signing injury prone big man brought in to cover injury prone big Man Cares with the pair costing us over 100 k a week in wages ..
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As Ali Campbell would say, He's the One in Ten.
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As Ron Atkinson would say
He trapped a ball further than some could kick it and his 2nd touch was always a tackle
Any club that has him in the team is ridculed by every other football fan
A useless bag of shit - we ought to be grateful that the likes of Marshall and Savage was older as i am sure MON would have lumbered us with them as well
good riddance to one of the shittest players ever to grace our team
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The Telegraph report he was on £65,000 a week if thats right no wonder our finances are shit. 68 games 14 goals (1 this year in 16 this year) what on earth was MON thinking?
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Thank god, never really felt as if he played for us anyway. The start of many hopefully including the manager
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66 goals in 10 seasons.
Fucking incredible.
Yes, I think it's this.
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Seems a decent bloke, but on the whole a player who rarely delivered.
Nothing personal but glad to see him go.
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Bye Emile, thanks for not a lot. I can't always say you've been to blame, you did what was probably expected by most..... Enjoy the Championship.... I hear there's a club in Wolverhampton in that league...
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Cheers for the effort Emile, now if you could have a word with Randy and convince him Mcleish needs to be on his way as well.
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66 goals in 10 seasons.
Fucking incredible.
Yes, I think it's this.
9 goals in 4 seasons for us
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I'm sure he was a lovely bloke and a good trainer, and he never turned up kicking in nightclub doors at 2am or anything like that, but he is a poor, poor footballer, and the amount of money we wasted on him will linger long in the mind as an example of MON's profligacy.
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Great bloke and a top pro. But he used to annoy me so much in the final third.
Best of luck Emile.
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Hurrah! The day is almost here, I used to find him hilarious to watch until he signed for Villa. He is bloody useless at his job and we have rewarded him spectaculary for being so useless.
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Thought he's been one of our best players of the last few games.
He's had good spells, but overall he's not been good enough and don't know what MON was thinking signing him.
Enjoy it back at Leicester.
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Heskey has scored 14 goals for us? Does that include training sessions?
Good luck Gentle Ben, wherever you go.
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You can not build a team around Him because he is either injured or gets injured during a game.
Yep.
The Bolton game epitomized him. Played well for a half, then jumped for a ball, no defender near him, falls over and injures himself. He didn't fall awkwardly either, just fell.
He's had a few good games, more bad though. But my abiding memory of him will be that you tube clip in the Man City tunnel this season, 'high fiveing' all the opposition players like they were long lost friends.
Aston Villa have been very good for Emile Heskey. A pity it wasn't reciprocated.
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I'm not sorry he's leaving, but do wish him well.
The criticism of a lack of goals will always be levelled at him, but he's never been a great or regular scorer. What he did was create space for others and occupy defences with pace and power. We never seemed to have forwards clever enough to make the best of that, plus as he aged those attributes became less prominent. And then there's the ridiculous decesion to play him in midfield. 10 years ago maybe, but not in his 30s.
I don't think £3.5m was all that high a fee, but £60k a week was horrendous wages for an aging striker who was never going to be a regular.
Ultimately, I think we never forgave him for not being Darren Bent when we signed him.
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Nice bloke, not good enough.
And he's not the only one at the club who fits that description.
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"Of course, the Aston Villa fans never gave him a chance as he played for that shower down the road, plus Potato Head and TWICE for Villa's undoubtedly greatest ever manager, the undeservedly vilified Sir Martin O'Neill. The fickle Holte End should hang its collective head in SHAME"
@LZJournalist
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Our Emile can sieve that, crumb significant gravities of fats (including lard) and be on hand to head in a cumulative confection of a flaky custard tart.
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Shit a brick. I didn't realise he was this good.
This is the best defence of a player I have read in a long time.
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Thank christ for that. I was starting to imagine the nightmare perfect storm of McLeish being retained, with his first task being to sign Emile up for another three years. One down, one to go.
My thoughts exactly.
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"Of course, the Aston Villa fans never gave him a chance as he played for that shower down the road, plus Potato Head and TWICE for Villa's undoubtedly greatest ever manager, the undeservedly vilified Sir Martin O'Neill. The fickle Holte End should hang its collective head in SHAME"
@LZJournalist
66 goals in 10 seasons.
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I reckon he will score some goals now playing for Hinckley Utd. complete waste of money.
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Not the worst player ever at Villa, but certainly the worst ever signing in my opinion, given what he's cost us and what he's delivered.
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I reckon he will score some goals now playing for Hinckley Utd. complete waste of money.
The cheeky bastard is insisting on his Twitter thingy that he will only settle for another Premier club.
Outside of O'Neill, I can't imagine who else would want him.
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Not the worst player ever at Villa, but certainly the worst ever signing in my opinion, given what he's cost us and what he's delivered.
we knew this when we signed him . Still cant belieeve that other clown bought him ( oh yes I can to be honest )
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good luck to him. I've nothing against Emile, but I will be glad that we will no longer have to discuss him on match day. He was a fabulous player at times in his heyday. It was just so not the right signing for us when it happened. Still, he never had a bad word to say about us, was always a consumate pro, just not the quality that we were looking for or needed.
Presumably you've forgotten about him moaning about losing his England place when MON had him on the bench for ages?
And refusing to play centre half against Fulham about three years ago too (thankfully).
Good luck, Emile. Quality player on your day, but just lack the drive to do it consistently. Reckon he'll look back on his career with a massive 'what if'. Are Leicester still spending big? If so he's surely a cert to go there.
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If Heskey plays for England so Can I.........
I still find it hard to believe we signed him, and that we paid him £60k a week! Jesus what was the club thinking, they would find it hard to top that horrible signing!
Hang on a minute, who did they sign as our manager?
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If Heskey plays for England so Can I.........
I still find it hard to believe we signed him, and that we paid him £60k a week! Jesus what was the club thinking, they would find it hard to top that horrible signing!
Hang on a minute, who did they sign as our manager?
As is the H & V way, plenty defended him at the time of his signing, saying how great he was and how Michael Owen loves him.
See also Marlon Harewood.
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I reckon he will score some goals now playing for Hinckley Utd. complete waste of money.
The cheeky bastard is insisting on his Twitter thingy that he will only settle for another Premier club.
Outside of O'Neill, I can't imagine who else would want him.
I can see a promted club going for him - Reading, perhaps?
Or, as someone said, seeing his career out at Leicester.
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Please let it be Liverpool.
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I wouldn't be surprised to see him in an Everton shirt next season.For all the stick Heskey gets from fans there's been a succession of managers who have loved him.
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Not the worst player ever at Villa, but certainly the worst ever signing in my opinion, given what he's cost us and what he's delivered.
I dunno, I reckon Beye is worse value.
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Thought he's been one of our best players of the last few games.
He's had good spells, but overall he's not been good enough and don't know what MON was thinking signing him.
Enjoy it back at Leicester.
Yeah he's played pretty well relative to others recently and we've played better as a whole before he goes off injured. This is probably due to us not changing tactics to suit who ever replaces him.
That said not sorry to see him go, I just hope there is someone better to replace him.
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Not the worst player ever at Villa, but certainly the worst ever signing in my opinion, given what he's cost us and what he's delivered.
I dunno, I reckon Beye is worse value.
Davies too.
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Not the worst player ever at Villa, but certainly the worst ever signing in my opinion, given what he's cost us and what he's delivered.
I dunno, I reckon Beye is worse value.
Davies too.
I liked Davies and thought he was very unlucky with two long term injuries at times when he was at the top of his game.As for the worst value for money signing how about Balaban?
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Not the worst player ever at Villa, but certainly the worst ever signing in my opinion, given what he's cost us and what he's delivered.
I dunno, I reckon Beye is worse value.
I don't. Heskey with his one goal in his last 40 games is pretty well a sign that we aren't going to score.
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Not the worst player ever at Villa, but certainly the worst ever signing in my opinion, given what he's cost us and what he's delivered.
I dunno, I reckon Beye is worse value.
I don't. Heskey with his one goal in his last 40 games is pretty well a sign that we aren't going to score.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not making excuses for Heskey, he's rubbish, and a dreadful signing which epitomises O'Neill's lack of vision.
I'm judging it really on the basis that Heskey has actually had to do some actual playing to "earn" (I know, I know) his money, whereas Beye has spent almost all matchdays since he came here at home mowing the lawn / cleaning the car.
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I'd be amazed if he could pass his next medical, he's got glass legs and a full 90 minutes seems beyond him.
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Can anyone else remember him mullering Southgate and Ehiogu as a 19yr old for Leicester? I thought back then he was going to be top class. Oh well..........
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Can anyone else remember him mullering Southgate and Ehiogu as a 19yr old for Leicester? I thought back then he was going to be top class. Oh well..........
Yes, didn't it finish 3-1 or something? He looked like an absolute beast of a player back then, and to be fair had one very good season at Liverpool where he scored a lot of goals.
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Can anyone else remember him mullering Southgate and Ehiogu as a 19yr old for Leicester? I thought back then he was going to be top class. Oh well..........
Yep he battered Southgate particularly that day. Created the space for their chances. December 1996. I have a Leicester mate who talks about it. Every time I see him.
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Can anyone else remember him mullering Southgate and Ehiogu as a 19yr old for Leicester? I thought back then he was going to be top class. Oh well..........
Yes, didn't it finish 3-1 or something? He looked like an absolute beast of a player back then, and to be fair had one very good season at Liverpool where he scored a lot of goals.
What has always confused me about him is that when he does score, they're usually good goals. It's not as if he's so useless he can only bundle them in off his arse from 2 yards. His goal against Wolves last season is a prime example, as was his one against Germany in the 5-1 game, plus his debut goal for us away at Portsmouth.
So why doesn't he do it more often?
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Can anyone else remember him mullering Southgate and Ehiogu as a 19yr old for Leicester? I thought back then he was going to be top class. Oh well..........
Yes, didn't it finish 3-1 or something? He looked like an absolute beast of a player back then, and to be fair had one very good season at Liverpool where he scored a lot of goals.
What has always confused me about him is that when he does score, they're usually good goals. It's not as if he's so useless he can only bundle them in off his arse from 2 yards. His goal against Wolves last season is a prime example, as was his one against Germany in the 5-1 game, plus his debut goal for us away at Portsmouth.
So why doesn't he do it more often?
Under MON we changed our style of play to accommodate him, but he didn't do what was needed and we suffered because of it.
The only thing you can read from his time at Villa is that he's quite useful at holding the ball up.
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Judging by his performance this season he is utterly 'shot' as a striker.
He cannot strike it 1st time anymore and now waits until he is tackled or tries to lay it off-all he can still do well is head the ball and use his size/experience to shove the occaisional opposition player.
So I don't think any prem club will come in for him-the best he can expect is a sympathy contract from Leicester or to a 'Dion Dublin' and be a centre back for Coventry-or he could just buy them and play himself upfront!
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All the best Emile, some of us liked you. And we'll always have the memories of the Heskey shuffle.
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Can anyone else remember him mullering Southgate and Ehiogu as a 19yr old for Leicester? I thought back then he was going to be top class. Oh well..........
Yep he battered Southgate particularly that day. Created the space for their chances. December 1996. I have a Leicester mate who talks about it. Every time I see him.
Was that the game when Ellerey gave the worst penalty I've seen given at VP. Heskeys best performance at VP,shame it was 15 years ago and not for us.
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Not the worst player ever at Villa, but certainly the worst ever signing in my opinion, given what he's cost us and what he's delivered.
Balaban, collymore, Cascarino, Harewood, Fashanu, Callaghan, Penrice.
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All the best Emile, some of us liked you. And we'll always have the memories of the Heskey shuffle.
the way he drops that shoulder is messi-like
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Not the worst player ever at Villa, but certainly the worst ever signing in my opinion, given what he's cost us and what he's delivered.
Balaban, collymore, Cascarino, Harewood, Fashanu, Callaghan, Penrice.
Heskey's probably cost us around £10million, Colly more was more than that, but Collymore was still quite young and had something ahead of him when he joined, Heskey was already past his average best....
Look at Cuellar and Angel, they cost a fortune each with transfer fee and wages....
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Can anyone else remember him mullering Southgate and Ehiogu as a 19yr old for Leicester? I thought back then he was going to be top class. Oh well..........
Yep he battered Southgate particularly that day. Created the space for their chances. December 1996. I have a Leicester mate who talks about it. Every time I see him.
Was that the game when Ellerey gave the worst penalty I've seen given at VP. Heskeys best performance at VP,shame it was 15 years ago and not for us.
They got a penalty but I thought it was for Oakes and A.N. Other colliding with one of their players. Also Claridge score in front of the Holte End >:(
Painful day was that especially as we were Top 5 at the time.
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What a truly awful player. So glad I will never see him in a Villa shirt again. Let's not pussyfoot around it, he was fucking shit.
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Not the worst player ever at Villa, but certainly the worst ever signing in my opinion, given what he's cost us and what he's delivered.
Balaban, collymore, Cascarino, Harewood, Fashanu, Callaghan, Penrice.
Emile is a worse signing than all of those.
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Yes, let's be honest, he was a waste of fucking space.
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Not the worst player ever at Villa, but certainly the worst ever signing in my opinion, given what he's cost us and what he's delivered.
Balaban, collymore, Cascarino, Harewood, Fashanu, Callaghan, Penrice.
Emile is a worse signing than all of those.
Yeah ok, of course he was.
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Not the worst player ever at Villa, but certainly the worst ever signing in my opinion, given what he's cost us and what he's delivered.
Balaban, collymore, Cascarino, Harewood, Fashanu, Callaghan, Penrice.
Emile is a worse signing than all of those.
Yeah ok, of course he was.
None of those players with the possible exception of Cascarino have had such a detrimental effect on the side as Emile. In my opinion obviously. But OK if it makes you happy, "Emile Heskey - the worst signing since Tony Cascarino".
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He played alright on Sun but that moment in the first half when he was put through and looked like he wanted to do anything other than shoot sums him up. A non-goal scoring striker is a luxury no team can really afford but particularly not us this year. Maybe in the future if McLeish is allowed to complete the job of sending us plummeting down the league we'll look back on the glory days when we could sign the likes of big Emile. More likely we won't. Good riddance. A very poor player.
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Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1994–2000 Leicester City 154 (40)
2000–2004 Liverpool 150 (39)
2004–2006 Birmingham City 68 (14)
2006–2009 Wigan Athletic 82 (15)
2009–2012 Aston Villa 90 (9)
1 goal every 10 games, not good enough for a forward, even one who's not got a great record to start with.
Thanks Emile, bye.
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What was the name of that reclusive collector that bought Anne Frank's drum kit? He might be interested.
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safe from relegation, heskey gone fingers crossed good things do come in threes
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Right, whose next? Dunne? Collins? Warnock?
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I actually think he has done all right in the last couple of months but I’m glad he is on his way, too much money for very little return.
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In keeping with protocol, this thread needs to be locked and a link to the transfer thread posted.
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He was a right prat when getting himself sent off against Sunderland last season.
Was that the same match where he nearly man handled the ref?
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Poor signing.
Him and Carlos going is pretty much 5m off the wage bill already.
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What was the name of that reclusive collector that bought Anne Frank's drum kit? He might be interested.
I'm going to look a prat now, but is that the Dutch one who hid from the Germans and couldn't leave the house for years ? Not very subtle owning a drum kit then is it....those houses are quite narrow in Amsterdam....when did she practice? Lol.
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What was the name of that reclusive collector that bought Anne Frank's drum kit? He might be interested.
I'm going to look a prat now, but is that the Dutch one who hid from the Germans and couldn't leave the house for years ? Not very subtle owning a drum kit then is it....those houses are quite narrow in Amsterdam....when did she practice? Lol.
Anne Frank did the hiding.............
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Doh....just googled. Well at least I got the joke !
'as useful as Ann Frank's drum kit '
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Lately he's looked more like scoring than Gabby. That just says more about how off the boil Gabby is.
But yeah, Emiles problem has never been for the want of trying. For a period under GH he looked surprisingly decent, without setting the world alight with goals. I like Emile, and I've always liked his attitude, but he can't last 60 minutes. He can't do two games in a week. He can't score goals.
Goodbye, good luck and all the best to the tumbling bear.
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Good news for all of us. Let hope he hang up his boots.
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Sods law he'll sign for West Ham or Blackpool & score against us next year. Written in the stars...
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Good news for all of us. Let hope he hang up his boots.
I genuinely hope he finds another club and squeezes as much playing time as he can at this point of his career.
He's an absolute waste of fucking space and the thought he's going is one of the few positives of recent weeks, but I bear him no personal malice.
Anyway, I want him to go to Sunderland. On a seven year contract.
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A move to Sunderland would be a terrific move.
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I think (pray) he'll go back to the Blues.
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Good news for all of us. Let hope he hang up his boots.
I genuinely hope he finds another club and squeezes as much playing time as he can at this point of his career.
He's an absolute waste of fucking space and the thought he's going is one of the few positives of recent weeks, but I bear him no personal malice.
Anyway, I want him to go to Sunderland. On a seven year contract.
£55k a week.
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Goodbye Emile you've been dreadful, I'm just relived that I won't have to listen to my mates laughing and saying he's playing Heskey again.....midfield against Citeah was a particularly difficult one to take
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Fan bloody tastic!
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Sods law he'll sign for West Ham or Blackpool & score against us next year. Written in the stars...
Score against us? No chance....because he'll never see another contract in the premiere league.
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Emile manhandled the ref in last season's game v Wigan.
He probably should have been sent off, unless the ref was that twat Dowd, in which case he should have head-butted the cheating shit and been rewarded with a new ten-year contract.
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Can I just reiterate that my offer to carry him to Leicester no longer applies now that he's going to be out of contract?
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Great!!!!!!!!!!!!! Piss off and dont come back.
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I genuinely hope he finds another club and squeezes as much playing time as he can at this point of his career.
He's an absolute waste of fucking space and the thought he's going is one of the few positives of recent weeks, but I bear him no personal malice.
Anyway, I want him to go to Sunderland. On a seven year contract.
That made me LOL; thanks, Paulie, for making me laugh.
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I don't think £3.5m was all that high a fee...
It was, considering four months later he would have been out of contract and free. He was in decent form for Wigan at the time (which probably equates to 3 goals in 10 matches) and there was talk of Liverpool being interested again but with our impish swagger towards the top four, MON ''landed him'', ''brilliantly''.
Dave Whelan seems to know how to screw the most out of us he can for players who turn to shite when they leave Wigan for Villa.
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153 goals from 712 matches sums it up for me, brought for too much, paid far too much, complete waste of a squad place, thank-you for very little and goodbye.
Best news of the season, Mcleish next and I'll be doing cartwheels
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an absolute charlatan of a footballer
I'm not sure it says much for the greatest league in the world (tm) when heskey has stolen a living for about 10 years playing in it.
an unforgivable signing from MON. 04/05 was the last time he scored more than 10 in a season and somehow MON thought he would be a good signing when we were pushing for the champions league. the 451 we were playing at the time suited us perfect. Heskey came in and we went to 442 and fell apart. remember his winner at pompey on his debut, great winner at Wolves under Houllier but some utterly horrific stuff it goes without saying. There was a miss at Sunderland that defied belief but his performance in the carling cup final summed up his villa career.
good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Symptomatic of the start of the decline of the club. That he has continually conned clubs of huge wages for a really shit supply of goals for so many years defies belief. A microcosm of his stay summed up in the appalling 'attempt' against Spuds.
Good riddance. Go help Small Heaths continuing decline.
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an unforgivable signing from MON. 04/05 was the last time he scored more than 10 in a season and somehow MON thought he would be a good signing when we were pushing for the champions league. the 451 we were playing at the time suited us perfect.
I think this is a bit of a myth. I recall that we were scraping quite a lot of results through keeping clean sheets, and getting some very lucky goals (didn't the run leading up to Heskey's signing see us win games 3 or 4 times through own goals?). We were failing to keep hold of the ball for much of games.
It's funny because when MON arrived, I was surprised that we seemed to concede quite a lot, but score bucket loads. From that season, we turned into much more of a MON side. More 'direct' football, better in defence, but fewer goals.
Anyway, I agree Heskey was a bad signing. I think we should have gone for Anelka before he went to Chelsea.
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The thought that never again will i see heskey in a vila shirt after tomorrow fills me with great relief- one of our worst signings when you consider how much he has cost the club over the last 3 years.