[Arcane Astral Aeons]

the guy is a twat
enough said

[4evaabaggie]

The decent human being in me feels sorry for him ...... he came from nothing, father killed, fled for his life, given chance in Blighty, does well, gets academy place with a family club, a decent club, career goes from strength to strength, verge of playing for your adopted countries first team, greedy football money men and unscrupulous chairman of a sly underhand club set about unsettling him, leaking stories of moves, big money wages etc etc, head gets turned, who wouldn't, we all would feel the same, unscrupulous club then make their move in an under valued attempt, have turned his head try to bully his employers to let him go cheap .... Albion stand firm, deal does not go thorough and his head is all messed up, dreams smashed, goes off the rails, can't get back on them.

The Albion fan in me says HAHA HAHA HAHA.

[Kennyg]

Apparently he got into the car and drove off because he was mugged by a gang of youths who stole his watch. This doesn't add up! He has never used a watch! That's why he frequently turned up to training late and turned up to matches on the wrong day!

[talkSAFT]

Apparently he got into the car and drove off because he was mugged by a gang of youths who stole his watch. This doesn't add up! He has never used a watch! That's why he frequently turned up to training late and turned up to matches on the wrong day!

No Kenny! He'll have had the World's most expensive watch - no doubt about it. But he's never quite mastered the "telling the time" bit.

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

The decent human being in me feels sorry for him ...... he came from nothing, father killed, fled for his life, given chance in Blighty, does well, gets academy place with a family club, a decent club, career goes from strength to strength, verge of playing for your adopted countries first team, greedy football money men and unscrupulous chairman of a sly underhand club set about unsettling him, leaking stories of moves, big money wages etc etc, head gets turned, who wouldn't, we all would feel the same, unscrupulous club then make their move in an under valued attempt, have turned his head try to bully his employers to let him go cheap .... Albion stand firm, deal does not go thorough and his head is all messed up, dreams smashed, goes off the rails, can't get back on them.

I feel sorry for him for the things that happened in the first ten words of your description. The rest of it? Nah. What happened to Saido is not having your "dreams smashed". Being told you have to play professional football for West Bromwich Albion instead of Tottenham Hotspur is the very definition of a first world problem (and then some).

In last year's documentary, Adrian Chiles interviewed an ex-Albion player from the Regis era who had his career finished by a knee injury before it even began, went to work on the bins and struggled with alcoholism. *That's* having your dreams smashed. For more recent and less drastic examples, you have to wonder how the likes of Romaine Sawyers and Kemar Roofe felt when they were told they weren't good enough for the Prem and got sold down the leagues. But they worked hard and have built themselves respectable careers in spite of the disappointment.

Saido's troubles are, at this stage, 90% of his own making.

[aries22]

Kemar Roofe - and Chris Wood - are doing well at Leeds and Burnley, and in Albion’s 1-1 draw at home to Brentford before Christmas, Romaine Sawyers ran the Bees’ midfield very well. My mate sitting next to me at that game didn’t even recognise the name.

[4evaabaggie]

Ska'd, very good post, and yes playing football for our great club is most of ours and should've been his dream, but with media coverage saying your the greatest, your to good for Albion, you should be on 200k a week, you should be playing also ran league football, you should be winning the world cup with England alongside your club teammate Harry Kane, then you dare to dream bigger .... these were the dreams being smashed I was referring to .... Don't agree with them but the spuds and media poison messed up his head, a head that was probably unstable due to his traumatic childhood. Decent guy in me again.

Albion fan in me ..... he is a greedy fat lazy scumbag.

The choice of view is yours to pick .....

[drewks]

To me, I'm sad to say that he comes across as a typical PL player - thinks he's God's gift to everyone and everything.
Sad to say, as I think he's got, or had, tremendous talent, and he was OURS!

As Mr Drury once said, "What a Waste".

[BaggieMan]

Berahino will be formally removed from the first team squad and his No: 19 shirt be made available.
He will not play or be involved in a senior game for Stoke again,  certainly not this season and possibly not at any level.  
Reap what you sow, Saddo Berahino

[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

At 27, Berahino is probably about halfway through his career as a useful striker, and at best, he's got three or four years before what pace he's got starts to go and the downhill slope gets even steeper. At this point, my advice to him would be as follows (and, like my previous post, I say this very much as a fellow human being, not as an Albion fan):

1. When Stoke sell you this summer, take whatever you can get. Even if it's Accrington Stanley. Even if it's Vauxhall Motors. Even if it's Tobermory Caledonian Thistle. Your club is not your status symbol, it's your employer and your gateway to better things.

2. Delete Twitter. Delete Facebook. Delete every contact off your phone except your mother. If you want friends, make them among your new teammates. If you walk into the dressing room on day one and start bragging about your sports car, then you've f**ked up again, and another year will be gone down the drain as you wait for a new club at which to make a first impression.

3. You're only as good as your last performance. If you turn in a stinker, then it's on you to do better next week. Someone should really have told you this five years ago, but better late than never.

4. If demons from the past are plaguing you, then seek help. They do have therapists in Stoke, and they've probably got them in Tobermory too. You won't even have to sit on an NHS mental health waiting list like 99% of people in the same boat; you can afford private care. Take it.

5. If you do the above, you might yet make a Spurs or Man Utd player at some point in what's left of your career. But even if you don't, your name will be in the newspapers for something other than drink driving or bankruptcy, and you might be able to forge a post-football career as something other than a washed-up man-child.