Gabby

[Risso]

An open letter to Agbonlahor

Dear Gabby

You fat, bone idle, unprofessional disgrace. Fuck off.

Yours

Villa fans (most of)

 

[Dave]

An open letter to Agbonlahor

Dear Gabby

You fat, bone idle, unprofessional disgrace. Fuck off.

Yours

Villa fans (most of)

Needs more hashtags.

[Chris Harte]

An open letter to Agbonlahor

Dear Gabby

You fat, bone idle, unprofessional disgrace. Fuck off.

Yours

Villa fans (most of)

Needs more hashbrowns.

Corrected.

[MelbourneVillain]

So he's missing for the next two weeks because he isn't up to the required fitness levels of the premier league? It's the middle of April, not pre-fucking season! This is getting ridiculous. He dodged getting any abuse from fans last week because of a "virus" and now this.

 By stipulating that this fitness programme is only two weeks, they'll need to complete the hat-trick with another bullshit excuse to get him out of playing against Watford, Newcastle and Arsenal. And he's our captain...Jesus wept.

[achilles]

This has to be tantamount to not being 'fit for purpose', so sack him then!

[Gareth]

Sure Gordon Taylor & his mob will be watching this closely, they'll soon be accusing the club of bullying him

[Villa in Denmark]

Now being 'outed' by the club I feel. Eric Black has just said he's on a 2 week fitness programme, no where near fit and training with the u21's

I've found footage of his first day under the new regime.  Apparently the new fitness coach is another French guy called Luc.

Take it away Glacial Agbonlahor.  He's too cool to score.

[Oscar Arce]

A total shambles, Agbonlahor has not trained properly for the past five seasons, coasting along and just taking the money, or the piss whichever way you want to put it.
How you can not be 'up to the levels of Premier League fitness' at this point of the season, it is a deriliction of duties from the fitness 'team' whoever the hell they are and the sucsession of useless coaches/managers who have just let him get away with it for so long that have been employed by our joke of a football club.
It just gets worse.

[Villa in Denmark]

Sure Gordon Taylor & his mob will be watching this closely, they'll soon be accusing the club of bullying him

If the club wish to plead an "Oh no it isn't" defence, I'm willing to cross the North Sea to show the Mr. G.I. Agbonlahor and the esteemed members of the PFA what bullying really is.

[Villa in Denmark]

A total shambles, Agbonlahor has not trained properly for the past five seasons, coasting along and just taking the money, or the piss whichever way you want to put it.
How you can not be 'up to the levels of Premier League fitness' at this point of the season, it is a deriliction of duties from the fitness 'team' whoever the hell they are and the sucsession of useless coaches/managers who have just let him get away with it for so long that have been employed by our joke of a football club.
It just gets worse.

I think it's the Garde v Richards/Agbonlahor/Guzan etc. in a microcosm.  Do the absolute bare minimum to avoid any chance of proper disciplinary action.

People are like that are difficult enough to deal with in the real world where you can actually work towards sacking them.  Someone in his position? Short of enticing him to hit you, you're struggling to find any sanction over him, as the usual one, "you're not playing on Saturday", is one he obviously couldn't give a flying f##k about.

[Ads]

I hope he plays at least once more for us this season so I can book the fuck out of him.

He's an utter thundercunt.

[villasjf]

Now being 'outed' by the club I feel. Eric Black has just said he's on a 2 week fitness programme, no where near fit and training with the u21's

I think Black is doing a great job at identifying the big problem players in the squad, its a pity they cannot dock his wages, its one thing being injured and unable to play but being unfit to play due to fitness levels during the season is another.

[AVH87]

Now being 'outed' by the club I feel. Eric Black has just said he's on a 2 week fitness programme, no where near fit and training with the u21's

I think Black is doing a great job at identifying the big problem players in the squad, its a pity they cannot dock his wages, its one thing being injured and unable to play but being unfit to play due to fitness levels during the season is another.

Not the most difficult identifying them though is it, Garde did the same, dealing with the lazy shites or finding someone to take them off our hands is the hard part.

[eamonn]

He's going to die on the bog like Elvis when compacted Big Macs and Shisha destroy his innards.

[FatSam]

From the Guardian:

The Aston Villa captain Gabriel Agbonlahor has been ruled out for two weeks as he undergoes a personal fitness programme.

The forward will train partly with the Under-21s as the club, who could be relegated from the Premier League at Manchester United on Saturday, try to get him fit.

He was ruled out of Saturday’s 2-1 defeat to Bournemouth after calling in sick with a virus 24 hours before the game.

It was the second straight match he missed after the caretaker manager Eric Black left him out of the 4-0 defeat to Chelsea as the club investigated his conduct during a holiday to Dubai last month before taking no further action.

Agbonlahor, who was pictured apparently smoking a shisha pipe, is Villa’s longest-serving current player. He signed a four-year contract in 2014 but has scored only once this season.

Black said: “After last week I sat down with Gabby on Monday and we agreed to put in place a fitness regime to get him up to speed. I can only control the elements I can control. I have to try to get the best out of the squad I have got and we agreed he wasn’t in a condition to be involved.

“I can only assess people in training and in matches, I can only control those elements. I can’t do the running, that’ll be up to Gabby, it’s his responsibility. In the last 10 days I have identified various things and that’s one of them.

“When I’m in this position I’m going to treat it the way I want to, if they don’t want to train properly, be part of the group or be ready to perform that’s the only sanction I’ve got.

“We’ve come to the conclusion we need to move forward with it and he’s not at the level to contribute the way he should.”

Rock bottom Villa go to Old Trafford 15 points from safety with just five games left and will be down before they kick off if Norwich avoid defeat at home to Sunderland in the earlier game. The club have lost their last eight games and have won just three times in the league all season.

Black added: “The preparation won’t change. Our preparation is to beat Manchester United. This has been a slow thing. This won’t be a fall off the cliff – ‘Oh my, Aston Villa have been relegated’ moment – this has been happening for some time.”

Jack Grealish (ankle) is a doubt after suffering an injury in the Under-21s game on Monday while Jordan Amavi (knee) is out but Alan Hutton is available after suspension.