Gabby - keep or let go

[oswald funkletrumpet]

gabby has 3 years left on his contract so is going nowhere unless a pl team match it which is highly unlikely

Spot on
I don't think I've ever heard even a whisper of a rumour about Gabby leaving either outright or loan in all the time he's been with us

much as i dont rate gabby anymore i wouldnt blame him one iota for not moving. we as a club were fools to have given him a new contract when really i would have let it run down and let him go on a free

[robbo1874]

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.

solid stats and argument - you have to take the figures over his whole villa career. One in 3 would be OK. One in 4+ is not that great for a striker. Shame as there's hardly a player over the last 10 yrs you'd want to succeed more than gabby.

[Clark W Griswold]

Club Mascot :-)

We should at least have him touring around with Hercules before the game, I must admit I could see him in that role, you might be on to something.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Poor Gabby. https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/639186537893138432

[Villa in Denmark]

Poor Gabby. https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/639186537893138432

I can't find it again, but I saw one yesterday about when (if) Albion's league goals tally would overtake their official statements this season.

Apparently at the moment statements are winning 4-3.

[edgysatsuma89]

Poor Gabby. https://twitter.com/paddypower/status/639186537893138432

That's funny. I like paddy power and their piss taking.

[Lastfootstamper]

That is funny.

[McGraths Dry Cleaning]

Whilst his more recent form has been poor he is not alone is he? We've had plenty of below average players in a below average team for what - 5 years?

[MorrisNielson]

A bit of number crunching for you to digest. Its only statistics.........

[PeterWithesShin]

Most telling statistic is that the only player with a worse ratio in those lists is Dickie York, who spent his career as a winger. Or the equivalent in the 1920s.

[Matt Collins]

Is that grealish' grand dad at no 9?

[PeterWithesShin]

Great-great grandad I think.

[in exile]

Most telling statistic is that the only player with a worse ratio in those lists is Dickie York, who spent his career as a winger. Or the equivalent in the 1920s.

I would have thought that Yorke DE was Dwight and York RE was Dickie

[PeterWithesShin]

Which is correct and Dickie is the only player with a worse ratio.

[Percy McCarthy]

Most telling statistic is that the only player with a worse ratio in those lists is Dickie York, who spent his career as a winger. Or the equivalent in the 1920s.

Yeah, he's the worst one in our top twenty all-time goal scorers (and played, mostly as a winger, for five years in a worse team than any of them except Hately). Carry on with the abuse folks, he deserves it, the thick c***.