Gabby

[PeterWithe]

He was sitting just behind me and celebrated the goals in the same manner as everyone else.

I’d still loved him to be wheeled on to knock the third/fourth in.

[Bad English]

That's lovely! He'll be celebrating trousering another large pay packet next week too. Bless!

[PeterWithesShin]

For £40K a week i'll celebrate any goals small heath score. Standing up once a month would be a hard life.

[myf]

For £40K a week i'll celebrate any goals small heath score. Standing up once a month would be a hard life.

This. He's a big contributor to our FFP issues. Played his part under MON but has rinsed the club for too long. Will be pleased to see the back of him

[PeterWithe]

I agree, a waste of money. He should have been on the pitch earning it.

[The Left Side]

Just seen this on twitter...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/03/27/gabby-agbonlahor-end-17-year-aston-villa-stay-end-season-regardless/

[sickbeggar]

Can't wait. It's like Christmas, Easter and my birthday all rolled into one Walsall for 12 months and then retirement is my guess.

[in exile]

With the timber he's carried lately, surely he will end up in MLS with Portland

[remy]

Good fucking riddance! Hate the player. Like a leech sucked on the blood of the club, his very face is a reminder of the bad times of the club and doing nothing about it. Could have been a legend, now won't be so much as a footnote, just another twat we paid handsomely for doing fuck all.

[paul_e]

The gabby of his first 3-4 seasons would be a loss but 6-7 years of shit with flashes of what could've been means most fans will be glad to see the back of him.  Watching him throw it all away so dramatically has been one of the worst parts of the collapse at the club because seeing a fellow fan kick us on the way down was hard to stomach.

[London Villan]

He can go to Stoke on a four year deal.

[Toronto Villa]

Gabby has come to represent in every way the decline of Aston Villa over the past 8 years. Back in 2009 his career and the trajectory of the club were almost perfectly aligned. Headed in a very positive direction. Then as Lerner lost interest in Aston Villa, so did Gabby and very publicly he became on the pitch (when he was there) what was wrong off it. He became fat, wasteful, complacent and free of really caring. Gabby leaving Aston Villa, and if we do shift a few others like Micah it will be a turning of a page that is much needed at the club.

[Bad English]

I was very pleased when he wasn't on the teamsheet against the Rags:

a) because he didn't deserve to be on it.
b) because the team were able to go on and funeral SHA, thereby shutting the gobs of people on social surveillance websites calling for the fat waster to be picked.

Anyway, I say 'no fucking shit Sherlock!' to the Torygraph journo who wrote that article.

[KevinGage]

With the passage of time, we'll hopefully remember Gabby at his best.

He was here the last time we had something approximating a decent side in the top flight, and he was a key component of that.  In full flight, he was as exciting as anything in the country. Even if he actual technique was a little off, even back then.

But he was clearly no leader.  And when we lost a core of players who could reasonably described as that, he couldn't step up.  Like in all work environments, some people are totally self sufficient, and some need a good, solid attitude adjuster from time to time. Having a John Terry-type from about 2011-15 would
have benefitted him and the club, and ensured standards weren't allowed to slide to the extent they did.

[CT]

Good fucking riddance! Hate the player. Like a leech sucked on the blood of the club, his very face is a reminder of the bad times of the club and doing nothing about it. Could have been a legend, now won't be so much as a footnote, just another twat we paid handsomely for doing fuck all.

This.

What annoys me is when someone says "he's been poor for a couple of seasons". No, he's been a lazy fuck for six seasons at least. Unfit and unavailable and robbing a wage from the club. He's a reminder of the culture that has put us where we are.

Good. Fucking. Riddance.