Twitter Announces Heskey is Off

[Edvard Remberg]

66 goals in 10 seasons.

Fucking incredible.

Yes, I think it's this.

9 goals in 4 seasons for us

[pauliewalnuts]

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.

[Irish villain]

Great bloke and a top pro. But he used to annoy me so much in the final third.

Best of luck Emile.

[Chris Jameson]

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.

[PaulTheVillan]

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.

[The Man With A Stick]

Heskey has scored 14 goals for us? Does that include training sessions?

Good luck Gentle Ben, wherever you go.

[Brend'Watkins]

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.

[Concrete John]

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.   

[SamTheMouse]

Nice bloke, not good enough.

And he's not the only one at the club who fits that description.

[Bad English]

"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

[Steve R]

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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.

[TonyD]

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.

[Lambert and Payne]

"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.

[JUAN PABLO]

I reckon he will score some goals now playing for Hinckley Utd.     complete waste of money.

[Risso]

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.