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(21-02-2019, 15:29)Ska\dForLife-WBA Wrote: 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.
Tobermory?.....was that not a Womble?
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Stoke have exiled Saido Berahino from the first-team after drink-driving arrest and are exploring the option of possibly sacking the striker #scfc https://t.co/wirNrGDeIR via @telefootball
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If they sack him that's bad news for us is it not.
Isn't there a sell on clause ..... if he's sacked and not sold no pennies for us.
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21-02-2019, 18:26
(This post was last modified: 21-02-2019, 18:31 by WBA-Josh.)
I said a couple of years ago that he'd probably end up in League One eventually. If Stoke sack him then that's where he'll be going. He could have been a star with us for a couple more years and then got a big move but he believed his own hype and wanted too much too soon.
Good luck to him..
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I'd like to say how sorry I am to see this - but I am not.
He might have had a tough start to life but so have many of us - he had turned it around and had become a football star, loved by fans and heading towards being a full international. Then he just allowed greed and the greed of a bad agent to destroy the dream.
He has had lots of shots across the bow and took no notice. So you have to be pretty thick not to have read the writing on the wall.
He will sacked by Stoke if found guilty, he certainly as a minimum will not play first team football again this season. A club will take a punt on a cheap deal and escape clauses etc and so he will play again (if he ever gets fit) but hopefully all the clubs will be creating a case study of this and showing it to their youth players.
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Maybe we could use this case study to jockey young Mr Harper and his agent along and get pen to paper.
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You’ve hit the nail squarely on the head Stairs....
He is thick, not only thick but very thick, in fact I would call him super thick.
Stoke have removed thicko’s name from their official squad list and made thicko’s number 19 shirt available.
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(21-02-2019, 19:30)4evaabaggie Wrote: Maybe we could use this case study to jockey young Mr Harper and his agent along and get pen to paper. I would have also included Izzy Brown on that list of case studies.................... IF he would not probably be starting against us on Friday after being loaned to Leeds by Chelsea.
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Has he played much for Leeds, for anybody for that matter, I had forgotten he was there.
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(24-02-2019, 13:53)4evaabaggie Wrote: Has he played much for Leeds, for anybody for that matter, I had forgotten he was there.
He actually went there last August, but he has been out injured for a year and has been on the bench for their last two games so must be close to making his comeback, so at the moment Leeds have Izzy Brown, Kemar Roofe and Tyler Roberts, no wonder they are doing OK. Since leaving us for Chelski Brown has been on loan at: Leeds United, Brighton & Hove Albion, Huddersfield Town, Rotherham United and Vitesse Arnhem.
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