In 2010, a crack football unit was sent to prison by a FIFA for a crime against football. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Premier League underground. Today, still wanted by the FA, they survive as soldiers of fortune.
If you have a shit team and lots of cash, and if you can find them in their mansions, maybe you can hire... The $-Team.
The Premier League, a haven for today’s soldiers of fortune, they no longer carry guns but kick a football for 90 minutes. Emanuel Adebayor, Gareth Barry, David Silva, Joe Cole would all struggle to fit in the faithful GMC A-Team van, not just because the size of their egos, but for the size of their wallets.
Joe Cole is a prime example of player who chooses cash over trophies, if he had stayed at Chelsea he would have been almost guaranteed silverware, Arsenal, Champions league football, Spurs, Champions league football, yet he chose to play for Liverpool. They have had a shocking season, turmoil at every level, their best players wanting to jump ship and more than enough average players to shake a stick at. Why bother flippin’ burgers at Mcdonalds when you can create masterpieces at Claridges, right? Not for Joe, he likes a Big Mac.
Joe Cole would rather line up with David N’gog in the Europa League facing the likes of SC Tavriya Simferopol than play alongside Didier Drogba, Cesc Fabregas, Luka Modric with the chance to face Barcelona, Real Madrid, Inter Milan, all for a few more quid.
David Silva is another player who’s choice baffles me, World Cup winner, extremely talented, could go to pretty much any club of his choice, but decides that the Europa League would be the best place to test his talents.
Not all footballers are money grabbers, some still play for the love of the game. A rare breed, these men have values and morals, traits that your average working man respects. Oguchi Onyewu from AC Milan, missed all but one match last season with a knee injury, decides that he didn’t earn his money, so offers to play for free for a season.
Gary Cook said that Kaka ‘bottled it’ when he chose not to come to Manchester City, I don’t think so. Kaka chose his club for football reasons (I’m sure he doesn’t earn peanuts at Madrid) because he knew he stood a great chance of winning trophies, creating history, playing alongside the best players in the world, not chasing miss placed passes from Shaun Wright-Phillips. That’s a real footballer who plays for the love of the game and not for the size of his wallet. Stick that up your arse Gary.
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