The Chinese owner of English club Aston Villa, Dr. Tony Xia, recently slammed the act of defiance by the team's former captain Gabby Agbonlahor, posting in his social media account that the striker should show that he is a "real man" by following regulations.

Agbonlahor, who is the Villans' longest-tenured player at 11 seasons with the squad so far, had refused to leave the Villa Park following the club's transfer deal with fellow Football League Championship squad Reading FC during the summer transfer window deadline day.

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The 29-year-old's unethical act is just the latest of many that he already committed in the past, which made team officials and new owner Xia "fuming" and also making a vow that the forward will not lodge a single minute for the team again, as per The Sun.

Xia took his resentment to social media as he tweeted that "I was disappointed with this. I said 2 gabby that going somewhere even he unlikes playing convince us a real man".

Villa fans had mixed reactions regarding the tweet, but an inside source disclosed that Agbonlahor may never see the pitch again in an Aston Villa uniform.

"Gabby has condemned himself to spending the next four months in exile, training with the kids," the source said, according to Caught Offside. "It's fair to say the new owner was not impressed by his lack of ambition."

"He is one of the club's highest-paid players and seems content with that. Now he must be resigned to never playing for Aston Villa again," the source added.

Agbonlahor had been notorious to the fans last season when Villa stunk in the Premier League and eventually relegated to the second tier with only three wins all term. His off-pitch antics had done little to improve the squad and so the fans and team officials were highly-disappointed of their club's captain.

Last April, he was suspended by the team for being photographed holding shisha pipe and banned for a second time after being pictured again with canisters of laughing gas.

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