Gabby Agbonlahor in crisis – Head spinning and can’t compute this at Newcastle United | OneFootball

Here’s hoping Gabby Agbonlahor can pull through this crisis.

Our thoughts are with him.

I hope all other Newcastle United fans are sending their love to Gabby Agbonlahor at this terrible time.

His head spinning and simply can’t compute this at Newcastle United.

Gabby Agbonlahor is clearly not the brightest anyway, but presented with this reality, you really worry if his very small brain can cope.

Firstly, let me take you back 46 months…

Gabby Agbonlahor speaking to Talksport – 28 November 2021:

“Players will go there [Newcastle United, only] for the money.

“Let’s be honest.

“When I was playing, Newcastle was the place where you were thinking (twisting his face…) ‘Mmmmm, not sure, I don’t really want to go, that far north, the weather. I’m not sure…’

“Players want to be close to London.

“You know, closer to London was an attraction.

“You’d have to pay more…

“If you offered now, a player, forty thousand pounds a week at Newcastle, or thirty thousand pounds a week at Brentford, he would go to Brentford.

“Even on less money.

“(With a big snide smile on his face) Players don’t want to live in Newcastle, let’s be honest.”

Secondly, back to the present day, 46 months on from Gabby Agbonlahor and that particular bit of attention seeking goading of Newcastle United fans.

Gabby Agbonlahor was speaking before the very first transfer window we would enjoy under Eddie Howe, after the sacking of Agbonlahor’s mate Steve Bruce.

In that January 2022 window, we saw players choosing to play for Newcastle United and prefer to live in Newcastle Upon Tyne (on Tyneside), in preference over Madrid (Trippier), Lyon (Bruno), Brighton (Burn), Burnley (Wood) and Birmingham (Targett).

Moving up to the present day and players choosing to play for Newcastle United and live on Tyneside, in preference to Nottingham (Elanga), Southampton (Ramsdale), Milan (Thiaw), Stuttgart (Woltemade), Birmingham (Ramsey) and London – Brentford!!! (Wissa).

Yoane Wissa desperate to move to Newcastle Upon Tyne and swap Brentford for Newcastle United. I think we have come a full circle with Gabby Agbonlahor, taking Brentford’s best player and goalscorer away from them.

Of course, the whole Gabby Agbonlahor trolling was total nonsense. We all knew it, though still doesn’t make it any less annoying when somebody is being so disrespectful.

The whole irony of course always was, anybody who has ever been to Villa Park, knows for sure that it is located in the biggest dump imaginable. A place nobody would choose to live. Gabby Agbonlahor’s home, his football club.

We are confident enough in ourselves to know what a class place Newcastle Upon Tyne is to live and to visit. In real life, any poll of Premier League travelling fans will have Newcastle United/Tyneside as the favourite away trip, especially when making a weekend of it, as opposed to at the other end of the scale, Villa and Birmingham.

Attracting players is of course all about setting out an attractive proposition. To get the right signings you do of course need to be competitive on wages, however, the most important thing is having an ambitious project on the go.