Gabby

[SheffieldVillain]

Surely you can't sack someone for going on holiday when he had a weekend off. I know he's past it and runs around like a sloth these days but he's not the cause of Aston Villa's dreadful decline over the last 6 years.

He's 29. He should be in his prime as a striker. The reason he's past it and runs around like a sloth is because he hasn't bothered keeping himself in a condition reasonably expected of a top level athlete. That's his responsibility and he's failed to take reasonable steps to do it. The same as if I walked into a classroom having been out on the drink to a couple of hours before - a condition which makes me unfit to perform my duties to full capacity.

That would be my argument. Obviously it'll never happen, but I'd love Villa to try it. No, he's not the cause, but him and plenty of others like him - N'Zogbia, Dunne, Collins, Richards et al have played a sizeable (no pun intended) part in it through their unprofessionalism.

[CJ]

Maybe as club captain, appearing on the front of the redtops smoking a shisha pipe as well as other pictures smoking a cigar constitutes bringing the club into disrepute and we can sack him.

[john e]

hopefully in the championship we can just get him back to playing like we know he can and start bagging loads of goals

















 

[brian green]

There were large numbers of Brits in Dubai for the horse racing.  Perhaps Gabby was spotted doing some hanky panky.

[Boz]

hopefully in the championship we can just get him back to playing like we know he can and start bagging loads of goals

He's never been a scorer of loads of goals and it's been too long for him to regain his former peak, whatever that peak was. Remember when Gabby and Walcott were the fastest in the Premiership, he'd be amongst the slowest now


















 

[ASHTONVILLA]

Surely you can't sack someone for going on holiday when he had a weekend off.
I know he's past it and runs around like a sloth these days but he's not the cause of Aston Villa's dreadful decline over the last 6 years.

I would like to think that his contract covers not smoking and looking after his fitness. If it doesn't then it should do, as he is a professional athlete.

Also he has not been behaving in a way fitting of club captain and a role model.

I want him paid off anyway, it's worth trying to get rid for free.

[Toronto Villa]

I don't think he will be sacked in the true sense of the word, but they will find a way to release him from his contract where he gets paid out a large chunk of what he's owed. He'll be told he has no future at the club and it's not just because of he recent events. Gabby has become a poisonous element at the club and he clearly has influence over others that are easily led. For any new manager he will be a potentially unwanted distraction. We are better off as a club without him.

[peter w]

Come on gabby son, prove the sugarbags wrong.

[Ads]

I'd prefer him to leave rather than be given yet another chance. He's woeful.

[brian green]

In one player he epitomises everything we do not want to see in our players in the Championship.

[Villafirst]

Surely you can't sack someone for going on holiday when he had a weekend off.
I know he's past it and runs around like a sloth these days but he's not the cause of Aston Villa's dreadful decline over the last 6 years.

Maybe not the entire cause, but certainly a contributor to the decline. Sad really yhat at 29 he should still be danger to the opposition - look at Defoe at Sunderland, still a major threat but older than Gabby.

[Ian.]

I'd prefer him to leave rather than be given yet another chance. He's woeful.

Me too. Every summer I always hope Gabby will start the season well and perform more consistently. Every year now he's worse than the previous season. It's now time for him to move on.

[Olof's Beard]

I have every faith that he will return next weekend and fire us to safety. He's brilliant.

[edgysatsuma89]

I mentioned before about the cost of his contract being brought out would reduce due to relegation (30% to 50% seems to be the rough guesses). May be a really stupid question but with it being 2 years left could he claim that the 2nd year could potentially be back in the top flight and therefore the 2nd year being paid full whack? I'm intrigued with this paying off contract malarkey as you just don't see it often.

[kippaxvilla2]

If anyone thinks it's a)easy to pay off a contract or b) thinks the club has an appetite to pay someone off then please see N'zogbia, C. Still picking up handsome rewards and no one is even sure which part of our country or France he is currently in.