Players that wasted careers.


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Always thought he played more - Just a quick google search bought up this -

During his period at Chelsea, the club attempted to sell Bogarde due to his large salary, and demoted him to the reserve and youth teams in an effort to force him to leave. In response to press criticism, he responded: 'This world is about money, so when you are offered those millions you take them. Few people will ever earn so many. I am one of the few fortunates who do. I may be one of the worst buys in the history of the Premiership but I don't care.

Those last few lines :lol:


It's spot on tbh. He made 40 grand a week for 2 years so that's what £4m?
 
Always thought he played more - Just a quick google search bought up this -

During his period at Chelsea, the club attempted to sell Bogarde due to his large salary, and demoted him to the reserve and youth teams in an effort to force him to leave. In response to press criticism, he responded: 'This world is about money, so when you are offered those millions you take them. Few people will ever earn so many. I am one of the few fortunates who do. I may be one of the worst buys in the history of the Premiership but I don't care.

Those last few lines :lol:

Had a spell where he even used to commute into Heathrow from his Netherlands home each day for training such was his commitment to still earning his wage despite residing elsewhere.

Absolute lad :cool:
 
Fletcher?? Maybe not an obvious shout but out of our recent PL players I think if he'd had the discipline when he joined us of England's MOTM today he could have got better and better.

I'm not saying he could've gone on to get FIFA World Player of the Year or anything, but I always thought he had a lovely first touch, he (initially) was no slouch in a sprint, did some of the ugly stuff and was properly talented in the air.

Plus - I've just seen that it's 30th birthday today so (a) Happy Birthday Stephen and (b) it's a shame you hadn't kept on developing.

(Obviously I know he's not going to read that like, but I'd be dead interested to find out what he thought)
 

In February 2004, Pennant was given a sixteen-month ban from driving after being seen driving in the wrong lane in Paddington, West London.[77] On 23 January 2005, Pennant was arrested and charged with drink-driving after crashing his Mercedes into a lamp-post in Aylesbury, while serving a sixteen-month driving ban and uninsured. During questioning, Pennant initially identified himself as his friend Ashley Cole.[77] Pennant pleaded guilty to drink-driving and driving while disqualified, and he was sentenced to ninety days in prison on 1 March.[78] He was released on parole after 30 days and immediately returned to playing for Birmingham, although he had to wear anelectronic tag at all times, including while on the pitch.[79] It emerged during the trial that he was illiterate.[80]

In January 2011 Pennant's Porsche Turbo with his personal number plate was found abandoned at a railway station in Zaragozawith five months' worth of parking tickets. He was reported to have forgotten he owned the car.[81] In April 2012 Pennant was arrested fordrink driving, driving while disqualified and without insurance after being involved in atraffic collision. The following month he was banned from driving for three years and given an eight-week jail sentence, suspended for a year.[82]

In 2007, Pennant began dating glamour modelAmii Grove. Following a domestic disturbance in July 2007, Pennant was arrested for a Section 5 public order offence – using words or behaviour likely to cause distress – for which he had to pay a fixed penalty fine.[83]According to Grove, she ended the relationship upon finding CCTV footage of Pennant cheating, and "took revenge by destroying £200,000 of his designer gear".[84]In December 2008 Pennant's front gates at his home in Cheshire was ram-raided by burglars in an attempted robbery.[85]

Until January 2008, Pennant was datingHollyoaks actress Jennifer Metcalfe.[86] In October 2008, he reunited with former girlfriend Amii Grove following the death of her brother and became engaged.[87] Soon afterwards, Pennant's father Gary was convicted on drug dealing charges and sentenced to four years imprisonment.[88][89]In early 2009, Pennant and Grove broke up and Pennant began dating Metcalfe again.[90]Following his move to Spain, Pennant broke up with Metcalfe but the pair remain friends.

In May 2010 Pennant became engaged to Lara Murphy.[91] and they have a son named Trey who was born in August 2010.[92] The relationship with Murphy ended when his son was a year old, when Pennant left her for glamour model Alice Goodwin.[93] He married Goodwin in May 2014.[94]

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Royston Drenthe is up there, was a beast at the under 21 Euros, got his move to Real Madrid, dicked about there then went to us on loan and was upto all sorts including building a nightclub under his house and breaking into our training grounds medical room with prostitutes.

Has now hung up his boots to become a 'rapper'. Wasted talent.
 
Royston Drenthe.

Just signed for newly promoted team as some kind of saviour but ended up getting relegated about half a dozen times in his career. He was initially good enough to be picked up by Real Madrid as a youth protege but I think they paid for his weed for life and he couldn't be arsed anymore.

Royston Drenthe is up there, was a beast at the under 21 Euros, got his move to Real Madrid, dicked about there then went to us on loan and was upto all sorts including building a nightclub under his house and breaking into our training grounds medical room with prostitutes.

Has now hung up his boots to become a 'rapper'. Wasted talent.

Spooky.
 
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