From AVFC....Release list

[spangley1812]

Heskey has scored more premiership goals than Bergkamp, Le Tissier, Zola, Di Canio, Rooney, Giggs, Defoe, and Drogba

[claret and blue blood]

Won,t miss Heskey at all, his first game was probably his best and he hardly ever lasted more than 60 mins.Some of the misses he contrived defied the laws of physics and he was just another stick for the away fans to beat us with.
Guzan was atrocious in the games I saw him play in until last saeson when agreed he seemed steady but no more.
Carlos was one of my favourite players even though he was not perfect he gave his all when very often being played out of position, he's the only one we will miss.

[Karlos96]

Heskey has scored more premiership goals than Bergkamp, Le Tissier, Zola, Di Canio, Rooney, Giggs, Defoe, and Drogba

And Tim Howard has the same amount of goals as him this season

[Hopadop]

Heskey has scored more premiership goals than Bergkamp, Le Tissier, Zola, Di Canio, Rooney, Giggs, Defoe, and Drogba

Not Rooney.

The Man Utd manbaby is well ahead of our eagle-eyed former sharpshooter

[PeterWithesShin]

Bye bye, Emile.  The best of luckand I hope you'll be very happy in your next job.  I appreciated you and what you did for Villa.

*tin hat on*

This.

All the best Emile.

[KRS]

Emile? What more can be said about this blundering embarrassment of a player. You were well and truly crap. Good riddance.

[Steve R]

I thought Guzan was desperately unlucky to lose his place last year. Almost out of nowhere he suddenly became an assured PL goalkeeeper.

It would have been nice to see him get more games, if only to show that it wasn't flash in the pan.

If it had worked out, I'd have been happy to see Given to be the one out of the door. Having an injury prone goalie who has a contract until he is 40 is not the best position to be in.

[JUAN PABLO]

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/football-sport/aston-villa-goodbye-emile-heskey-i-loved-you/

[Havencheese]

Heskey, is he an equivalent of the past decade as to what Jason Lee was to he 90's?

[Matt Collins]

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414 - Heskey is 1 of 22 players to score 100+ PL goals, but only Scholes (436) and Giggs (534) took more games to reach this milestone. Free.

Nice fact re-tweeted to me by my eldest son!

That still suggests he's been a one in four man throughout his career, which seems surprising

[Risso]

Bye bye, Emile.  The best of luckand I hope you'll be very happy in your next job.  I appreciated you and what you did for Villa.

*tin hat on*

This.

All the best Emile.

Being such fans of the substandard I expect you two have really enjoyed the past two years!

[N'ZMAV]

What would be an educated guess on the total cost of Guzan, Heskey & Cuellar's transfer fees and wages over the past few years.... £20mil... £30mil?

[James]

What would be an educated guess on the total cost of Guzan, Heskey & Cuellar's transfer fees and wages over the past few years.... £20mil... £30mil?

Add in Habib Beye who left in January, the transfer fees and wages for those four would have to be around £35m at least! Shocking isn't it?

You can understand the board's thinking regarding the cost of squad players when you think of it in those terms!

[ADVILLAFAN]

Bit surprised by Guzan's departure, thought he had a future at Villa.  But that will hopefully send a message to Mark Hughes that Shay Given is going nowhere!

Heard a rumour that he's on 20K a week though and if we signed Kello from Hearts he'd be on about 4K.

[N'ZMAV]

My calculator suggests....

Heskey - £3.5mil + 3.5 years of a reported £65,000 a week = £15,330,000.
Cuellar - £7.8mil + 4 years of a reported £40,000 a week = £16,120,000.
Guzan - £600,000 + 4 years of a reported £20,000 a week = £4,760,000.
Beye - £2.5mil + 2.5 years of a reported £40,000 a week = £7,700,000.

Total £43.9mil...

Thanks, Martin, thanks a lot.