21-02-2019, 18:44
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.
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.