Gabby

[N'ZMAV]

He scores once in 12 months and he thinks that's enough to shut the haters up. Thick.

[montague]

Was trying to think of the notable club captains in my time supporting the villa came up with:
Charlie Aitken
Ian Ross
Chris Nicholl
Dennis Mortimer
Allan Evans
Kevin Richardson
Andy Townsend
Gareth Southgate
Gareth Barry
Olaf Mellberg
Stan Petrov

Now we have this chancer. Should never have played again after Spurs away but since then we have had him strolling round the Etihad and faking injury against Liverpool (vertigo my arse), and now this. Can you imagine a worse role model at the club when we have been crying out for proper leadership.

[aj2k77]

Fuck this bell end off in the Summer even if we have to pay his contract up.

[Edvard Remberg]

Please Daz - start trending #flabbyonegoalayear on twitter. I respect your copyright.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Was trying to think of the notable club captains in my time supporting the villa came up with:
Charlie Aitken
Ian Ross
Chris Nicholl
Dennis Mortimer
Allan Evans
Kevin Richardson
Andy Townsend
Gareth Southgate
Gareth Barry
Olaf Mellberg
Stan Petrov

Now we have this chancer. Should never have played again after Spurs away but since then we have had him strolling round the Etihad and faking injury against Liverpool (vertigo my arse), and now this. Can you imagine a worse role model at the club when we have been crying out for proper leadership.

agree with all of that

if you made a list of the attributes that you want foqg a captain he would be at the bottom

what bothers me most is the fact that even early in his career there were limitations to his game and over the years both he and the club have done absolutely nothing about it

[Villa in Denmark]

The ultimate poster boy for the last 5 years.

Amateurish, self indulgent, wasted money, wasted potential, waste of time. Started off settling for a mediocrity which has since disappeared over the horizon and is now distressingly out of reach.

[Locko]

The ultimate poster boy for the last 5 years.

Amateurish, self indulgent, wasted money, wasted potential, waste of time. Started off settling for a mediocrity which has since disappeared over the horizon and is now distressingly out of reach.

This is true.

[oldtimernow]

I think we will be laughing when we read the stories of how he's bankrupt after he loses all his cash through stupid actions and bad investments

[passport1]

I wonder if things might have turned out differently had we built on the team he played for under MON, rather then employ a succession of appalling managers and signed inferior players season after season while selling our better ones.

At the same time as the day to day running of the club was placed in the hands of one incompetent after another.

[Jimbo]

Arrogant, complacent, stupid, can't be arsed. Gabby is Aston Villa, 2010-2016.

[TopDeck113]

I wonder if things might have turned out differently had we built on the team he played for under MON, rather then employ a succession of appalling managers and signed inferior players season after season while selling our better ones.

At the same time as the day to day running of the club was placed in the hands of one incompetent after another.

Whilst I understand the point you are making, I'd counter it by saying that if Gabby had any ambition and desire to make the best of his career, he'd have looked around him many times over the recent past, cited the "lack of ambition" and would now be mentioned in the same breath as Barry/Milner/Young/Benteke/Delph/et al as those we've loved and lost.  Instead he has chosen the easy option of staying, going through the motions, living off a couple of goals at St Andrew's scored years ago and been perfectly content playing the Big-I-am at a failing club.  He's not a symptom of the malaise, but part of the cause. 

[Risso]

Of all the idiotic decisions the club has made, the one to give that turd Agbonlahor a new contract is right up there with the worst of them.

[pbavfckuwait]

Oswald, you state the following
"what bothers me most is the fact that even early in his career there were limitations to his game and over the years both he and the club have done absolutely nothing about it"

From the facts we know about him, that statement is totally incorrect, I should imagine the club have tried with manager after manager being the main instigator of trying to get improvement out of Gabby, someone stated earlier about his diet being set up for him when he was receiving treatment in America and he then totally ignores it and comes back with excess weight, what Gabby lacks in the normal mental capacity, he makes up for in being the type of character to bleed and exploit any opportunity that makes his life easier, as a country we are quite lucky that Aston Villa have been paying this person for the last god knows how many years and from that the state has received tax and NI, because if not the British Tax Payer would have been paying him, because if there is not a clearer example of made for Benefit Street than Gabby I am yet to see it.

[Des Little]

Fuck this bell end off in the Summer even if we have to pay his contract up.

Absolutely this.  He epitomises everything that's bad about our beloved club right now.  Get rid, in whichever way we can please.

[rob_bridge]

Wanker!