Gabby - keep or let go

[edgysatsuma89]

It pisses me off seeing Gabby getting ridiculed.
Ok, so he is never going to be a Tekkers, mcinally or Yorke, but he has given myself plenty to cheer about wearing the claret and blue.
His pace would get everybody up off there seats, his games against the filth are always memorable.
I agree he isn't quite the player he was and also frustrated and feel he could of achieved much more.
But unlike Scumbag Delph, this lad loves the club and wears the badge with pride, I hope he stays on the bench for the next few seasons, I like seeing him about the place.

I think that is his own fault.

Yup. Also if it means not seeing him play for us again I might just shake their hands. I wouldn't do it personally but if you're on a public forum like twitter then haters gonna hate. I think that's what they say.

[footyskillz]

Gabby is a villa legend but, he still needs to keep himself fit.

How the fuck the Forrest Gump of villa a legend!!

Cowans, yorke , Taylor, McGrath , shaw , evans are legends

His not even lee Hendrie status

All time premier league scorer for villa . that's how.

And given better players and service would have got more goals. I take on agbonlahor has missed opportunities too so if he had actually finished he would be even higher up the premierr league scoring charts . I believe he has a 1:4 ratio goals to games.

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/players/profile.statistics.html/gabriel-agbonlahor

[passitsideways]

The ridicule isn't strictly down to his shitness, it's because he comes off as making little effort to try and be less shit despite all his alleged loyalty to the club (both during the game and in keeping himself in shape); and such apathy has persisted for about five years, save a couple of months for McLeish, a three month stretch under Lambert and a few games under Sherwood. I know it's a valid point to suggest that it's pointless to huff and puff if it doesn't get your anywhere, but that's clearly not so in his case: his natural athleticism means he'll get at least a few good opportunities a game to make an impact providing that he's sufficiently engaged, and what he's done during his good stretches attest to that. But that kind of consistent effort just hasn't been there since MON left, and it's come to a head now at the start of the season where we badly needed someone to step up in the absence of Benteke.

[Villa in Denmark]

what a daft topic, he'll retire playing for villa and go on to work at the club

There's an argument for saying he already has retired given how much he contributes on the pitch.

[richardhubbard]

Gabby is a villa legend but, he still needs to keep himself fit.

How the fuck the Forrest Gump of villa a legend!!

Cowans, yorke , Taylor, McGrath , shaw , evans are legends

His not even lee Hendrie status

All time premier league scorer for villa . that's how.

And given better players and service would have got more goals. I take on agbonlahor has missed opportunities too so if he had actually finished he would be even higher up the premierr league scoring charts . I believe he has a 1:4 ratio goals to games.

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/players/profile.statistics.html/gabriel-agbonlahor

Fucking ell 60 goals in ten years makes you a legend , Heskey must be a god then

[Villa in Denmark]

Gabby is a villa legend but, he still needs to keep himself fit.

How the fuck the Forrest Gump of villa a legend!!

Cowans, yorke , Taylor, McGrath , shaw , evans are legends

His not even lee Hendrie status

All time premier league scorer for villa . that's how.

And given better players and service would have got more goals. I take on agbonlahor has missed opportunities too so if he had actually finished he would be even higher up the premierr league scoring charts . I believe he has a 1:4 ratio goals to games.

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/players/profile.statistics.html/gabriel-agbonlahor

Fucking ell 60 goals in ten years makes you a legend , Heskey must be a god then

Well as a lot of people defend Gabby with we don't play to his strengths / play with wingers look at the last season where we did under Houllier with Young, Albrighton and Downing.

Heskey outscored him with 6 in 25 games compared to 5 in 36.

Basically he's done f##k all since O'Neill flounced off.

10 seasons where for large parts of it he's been a fixture in the team and then he's nowhere near 100 goals is terrible.

That he's way out in front says more about our inability to hold onto a player like Benteke, or the utter gash we've had as alternatives than extolling the virtues of Gabby.

And as a closing point can we please stop the bollocks of " in the PL era" or "since 1992" when talking about records.

Do the job properly and he doesn't even get close to the top 10.

And his ratio is way on the wrong side of 1 in 4 and starting to approach 4.25.

Basically we appear to be paying him somewhere between £40K and £60K per week to be some sort of club mascot.

[PeterWithesShin]

Sinclair has shown that you don't need to be played as a striker to be able to score a few. 5 in 5 days. We're lucky if Gabby gets 5 in a season.

[Louzie0]

Gabby is a villa legend but, he still needs to keep himself fit.

How the fuck the Forrest Gump of villa a legend!!

Cowans, yorke , Taylor, McGrath , shaw , evans are legends

His not even lee Hendrie status

All time premier league scorer for villa . that's how.

And given better players and service would have got more goals. I take on agbonlahor has missed opportunities too so if he had actually finished he would be even higher up the premierr league scoring charts . I believe he has a 1:4 ratio goals to games.

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/players/profile.statistics.html/gabriel-agbonlahor

Fucking ell 60 goals in ten years makes you a legend , Heskey must be a god then

Emile has attained that status amongst his cognoscenti, true.

[pauliewalnuts]

Gabby is a villa legend but, he still needs to keep himself fit.

How the fuck the Forrest Gump of villa a legend!!

Cowans, yorke , Taylor, McGrath , shaw , evans are legends

His not even lee Hendrie status

All time premier league scorer for villa . that's how.

And given better players and service would have got more goals. I take on agbonlahor has missed opportunities too so if he had actually finished he would be even higher up the premierr league scoring charts . I believe he has a 1:4 ratio goals to games.

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/players/profile.statistics.html/gabriel-agbonlahor

Fucking ell 60 goals in ten years makes you a legend , Heskey must be a god then

Well as a lot of people defend Gabby with we don't play to his strengths / play with wingers look at the last season where we did under Houllier with Young, Albrighton and Downing.

Heskey outscored him with 6 in 25 games compared to 5 in 36.

Basically he's done f##k all since O'Neill flounced off.

10 seasons where for large parts of it he's been a fixture in the team and then he's nowhere near 100 goals is terrible.

That he's way out in front says more about our inability to hold onto a player like Benteke, or the utter gash we've had as alternatives than extolling the virtues of Gabby.

And as a closing point can we please stop the bollocks of " in the PL era" or "since 1992" when talking about records.

Do the job properly and he doesn't even get close to the top 10.

And his ratio is way on the wrong side of 1 in 4 and starting to approach 4.25.

Basically we appear to be paying him somewhere between £40K and £60K per week to be some sort of club mascot.

His ratio over the last five years in league games is absolutely nowhere near one in 4.

He has scored a total of 26 league goals in the last 5 years, and 9 of them were in one season, leaving a massive 16 spread over the other 4 years.

That's absolutely pathetic.

The fact we hear this "he's Villa through and through" and "he loves the club" bollocks really just shows how accustomed we have become to accepting the truly mediocre.

He'd have been shipped out of pretty much every other top flight club years ago with that sort of shit return, but here he gets contract after contract.

He's an absolute waste of space. Yeah, he'll score against Small Heath and we'll all love it and what not, and then he'll go months and months contributing absolutely nothing.

More than anything I'd love to move him on, it'd show we'd truly taken a break from the small time mentality of coveting players who deliver fuck all just because they're from the city we play in.

He is to us what Shola Ameobi is to Newcastle. The fact we make such massive allowances for him just marks us out as small time. Any club with real ambitions wouldn't put up with such rubbish year after year.

[PeterWithesShin]

1 in 5.6 over the previous 5 full seasons.

[Villa in Denmark]

I was being kind to him and taking it over his career, where even with his good years it comes out as shit.
Even in his earlier years where it looked like he might possibly be a player, he struggled to beat 1 in 3.

Completely agree with everything else you say.

If we sell him on Monday, it will be 4 years too late.

[ez]

Interested to know how Sherwood is going to fit Gabby into the next games starting line up now that Sinclair can't be dropped.

[SoccerHQ]

He'll be a sub perhaps.

Where's this opinion come from that he's an automatic starter under Sherwood, if so why didn't he start the cup final?

[Matt Collins]

Can't see gabby starting the next match unless it's for Gestede

[N'ZMAV]

Charlie Austin will start the next match.