Gabby Agbonlahor

[eddiemunster]

One down, and good riddance in my opinion, but how many of the following are going to follow him, or will the club hand out new contracts like confetti?
Terry, Bunn, Hutton, Samba,  Sarkic, Watkins, Abdo, Blackett-Taylor, Borg, Prosser, Pastorek, Clarke, Clark, Finnerty, Coates, Knibbs, Cox, Hall, Idem, Johansson, Stretch, Boucher, Bazeley-Graham, Williams, Rowe.

[JUAN PABLO]

He made a positive contribution to the club for about 6 years. It went downhill since and he'll no doubt have some regrets, but he was really decent for a while.

He clearly didn't have that attitude to push himself - rejecting England a few times and phoning it in when the club wasn't doing well. But for the good times I'll always be thankful.

All the best Gabby. I wonder where he'll go though? I know his house is up for sale but his future earning potential is going to be a pittance of what he was on. I can't see him getting a top half Championship club...

Sunderland maybe?

Burton?

Stoke


i just saw his video on AVTV about his time at Villa. quite enjoyed it and the good times he had, but the brainwashed comments on there about him being our most loyal player ever and thanks for staying with us when we went down . wtf ...  he was on 60k a week for eating fast food ffs .     and give him a contact and future manager here .. haa haa fecking haa

[JJ-AV]

Stoke aren't gonna sign him. He's nowhere near good enough for them.

[sickbeggar]

Said before, got Walsall written all over him. as i feel he's unlikely to want to stray too far from his social life. A season there, then off to the middle/far east or the likes for one last pay-day when he realises £2000 a week won't keep him in the manner he's accustomed to.

[ez]

I think we've got to also look at whoever offered him that last contract. I expect even Gabby was shocked to be offered it.

[eamonn]

There has been talk of retirement - he's definitely tried his best to regain fitness under Bruce but his body has failed him and that has been unfortunate. He's done great work with Acorn by all accounts and struck-up a seemingly genuine relationship with Mo, that young Villa fan with a terminal illness.

His coasting for too many years before that, culminating in his shisha-smoking and entertaining females in a London hotel room the day of our relegation (having been papped in Dubai, was it(?), a few weeks before) was unforgivable though. The most painful day for the club in 30 years and he was laughing his head off.

[Chris Harte]

What has made me see him in a very different light was his complete moral disintegration when we were fighting for survival in the Premiership.  Of all our squad he should have been the one to heal the dressing room wounds, to encourage young players, to give the likes of N'Zogbia and Richards a kick up the arse and most of all to reach out the hand of friendship to our continental players.  He did none of those things. 

Precisely. When we needed his input the most he went missing from his "childhood club" (as Stan Petrov has described it on Twitter this weekend), and indulged in social media spats (one for the haters was how he described his single goal v Norwich in the relegation season).

[Ad@m]

Given the 'desire' he's shown to get back in to the Villa side I can't see him being arsed to train at the likes of Walsall or Burton.

[Lastfootstamper]

I've just watched the video.

Fantastic memories of some of my most joyous recent times watching the Villa, moments of pure ecstasy, feelings that I never wanted to end, and there should, could, have been many more.

I also had to struggle with a strong urge to put my size 12 through the telly.

[SoccerHQ]

MLS club may pick him up.

This is a league where Bradley Wright Phillips scores 20 a season.

[brian green]

I have had a crafty bet on him going to MK Dons.   Flash place.  Plenty of Rancho Grandes for the tasteless rich to install their snooker tables and juke boxes.  Halfway on the M1 and the Euston line to sample the fleshpots of Star City and Crockford's on a nightly basis.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm not sure anyone will want him. A forward that's rarely fit and rarely scores on the odd occasion he is. If I were a betting man my money would go on him retiring, possibly with him saying he couldn't bring himself to play for anyone else to cover up that no one of note wanted him.

[brian green]

Respect PWS but there are a lot of fools out there with a lot of money.  Somebody will be mad enough to employ him.  IMO.

[PeterWithesShin]

He's 32 later this year, as stupid as some clubs are i'm not sure anyone in top 2 divisions is that stupid and that anyone below that would risk so much of their budget in him.

[London Villan]

Some daft club will offer him £5-£10k a week. If i was his agent that’s what I’d be telling him.