Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread




I thought contracts finished June 30th.
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Benoit Assou-Ekotto "I don't understand why everybody lies. The president of my former club Lens, Gervais Martel, said I left because I got more money in England, that I didn't care about the shirt. I said: 'Is there one player in the world who signs for a club and says, Oh, I love your shirt?' Your shirt is red. I love it. He doesn't care. The first thing that you speak about is the money.

"Martel said I go to England for the money but why do players come to his club? Because they look nice? All people, everyone, when they go to a job, it's for the money. So I don't understand why, when I said I play for the money, people were shocked. Oh, he's a mercenary. Every player is like that."
I admired Assou-Ekotto a great deal after he said all of that. It's verboten for players to talk like that, for some reason, despite the fact that everyone except the most moronic of fans know that it's true. The idea that some lad who grew up in Denmark/Cameroon/South Korea/wherever and signs for a club in his mid twenties that he had no prior attachment or affiliation with should have some deep emotional attachment to this new club and demonstrate their loyalty on the daily is patently absurd. And yet we see the pages of this forum littered with that very sentiment, often by the same posters who show zero loyalty to those exact same players when they lose their form or decide to run down their contracts. Absolute hypocrites. Good for Benoit.
 

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