No, I wouldn't...no need to project. I don't care about him anymore now that he doesn't play for Villa. He could score a hattrick and I wouldn't care. The only recent former Villa players I care about are Benteke and Albrighton and Benteke only because he's my favorite player currently playing. Everyone else, it's like they were never here.
Edit: I see that you mean if other people praised him. In that case, that's another false equivalency. What would people even say apart from maybe 'he could still do a job here'?