Remember Nicklas Helenius? Well the Dane’s contract is set to be terminated, allowing the young Dane to leave Aston Villa on a free transfer at the end of the season. The 24 year old joined Aston Villa last season (2013-14) for a fee of £1.3 million made roughly 6 appearances for Aston Villa and scored a goal in Villa’s FA Cup game against Sheffield United. Helenius still has two years left on his contract but it’s believed that Aston Villa and his agent are discussing a pay-off.
“My future will be a subject for the close season and I leave it to my agent to handle this matter.
“Villa have had scouts present at a couple of matches this season but at this point it is unclear to me what they want. And I don’t know what I want to do.” – Helenius
Aston Villa scouts did look at Helenius’s performances while on loan at his former club Aalborg but have decided against keeping him at the club. He will most likely rejoin his former club.
I wouldn’t consider Helenius a massive flop, I understand he made very few appearances but he still has a decent scoring record, considering the fact he came off the bench most of the time. He also had a wicked pre-season scoring a handful of goals. Unfortunately for Helenius he failed to make many appearances and had an addiction to pain killers to battle through. Helenius will be best remembered as the player who had his pants pulled down for Vertonghen when Villa faced Tottenham. But in the grand scheme of things, I think it’s best if Helenius left Aston Villa.
Good luck to the guy; agree best all round if he moves back to Denmark
some people need to be near family and taken them away from that can lead to all sorts of trouble ie drink or drug abuse ,depression . at the end of the day he is still a young player and the move to villa just came to soon for him and maybe he just needed to stay at his home town club another few years and grow as a player with family and friends around him for support. hope it all works out well for the lad and he goes on to have a decent career .
Best of luck dude. Shame he never really got a chance to settle in. It’d be just our luck for him to excel elsewhere and end up at Barca in three years!