Gabby

[PaulWinch again]

Excellent good to see the club taking a hardline. It sends out the message that there will be no more taking the piss.

[The Laughing Policeman]

[rob_bridge]

He's a ******.

[rob_bridge]

Ah yes

[Jon Crofts]

Fine by me.  What irks is the fact this fat chancer like so many others has gotten away with it for so long.  There's been a complete lack of shits given for far too long, along comes Hollis and Co and all of a sudden incompetents are fired, fat shits are disciplined.  It's all far too little, far too late, Lerner, if he isn't already should be hanging his head in shame at what he's allowed and overseen for the past few years.

[dave shelley]

 

If we could get rid for under a million it would be great business

I'd even go as high as the million.   

[CJ]

Brilliant to get up to that news this morning - though I was a bit mindful of the date at first, and a bit disappointed as I won't be able to give him pelters tomorrow.  Wonder who took the decision?

[rob_bridge]

Agbonlahor's last day at the club will be 5 years too late.

[The Laughing Policeman]

They should hold the inquiry in the centre circle before kick off on Saturday with the fans as the jury.

[Chris Jameson]

At last some good news.

Hope they discover Richards took the rest of the squad to a crack den and brothel as part of a team building exercise.

[Dante Lavelli]

Interesting/odd that they only suspended Gabby.  What has he done, that the club would be aware of, that Richards did not?

I bet they're praying that there was an illegal substance in the shisha pipe.  Alternatively the Dubai trip is not the main topic of the investigation.

[MillerBall]

I think almost all of us are totally perplexed at how anybody could have been so stupid as to offer Gobby Agnes a four year contract (truly foolish in the extreme). The players limited contribution in what has been an awful season for the club has been such that we are all looking to pounce on any potential loop hole that may exist that we can use to try and reduce the contract period, the salary or invoke a termination clause (if we were sensible enough to put one in the contract).

Given some of the goals the player has scored against arch rivals in local derbies you would expect that our supporters would be regarding the player with fond memories and positive comments but "actions" as they say speak louder than words and the perceived lack of effort and contribution is now such that the player is viewed as a liability rather than an asset. The game at Manchester City on March 5th being a good example of how to appear to be running around without actually doing much at all.

I imagine that when the contract was offered to Agnes that such was the rampant administrative lunacy at the club that is was perceived by officials that Agnes was a totemic figure who was respected by the fans and that offering him a long term contract would keep an increasingly disgruntled bunch of supporters on side.

If we can move him on without financial loss to the club then that would be good news for our finances; I suspect that this may not be as straight forward as we would all hope.

To be blunt the longer the player is away from the club then the better for us; there is a maximum in terms of the fines that can normally be imposed (I thinks it may be 2 weeks wages), If Agnes wants to keep jetting off then that's fine by me (forgive the pun) as long as we can keep fining him accordingly.

A very sad state of affairs involving what used to be regarding as a local and loyal Villa player.

[dicedlam]

Fined a couple of weeks wages. He will release a public apology through his lawyer and carry on being paid £50,000 a week for the next two and a half years.

Kent

[Des Little]

Just pay him up and get rid.  He's become a parasite.

[dicedlam]

I imagine that when the contract was offered to Agnes that such was the rampant administrative lunacy at the club that is was perceived by officials that Agnes was a totemic figure who was respected by the fans and that offering him a long term contract would keep an increasingly disgruntled bunch of supporters on side.

IIRC, wasn't there an uproar at Agbonlahor being given a new contract when it was first made public, only to be put on the back burner until it could be re-introduced the following season?