Look let's be honest shall we?
Craig Bellamy is a loathsome specimen of both a man and a footballer. You know it, I know it. His only reedeming feature is that he is extremely fast and....errrr....well, that's about it really.
Look let's be honest shall we?
Craig Bellamy is a loathsome specimen of both a man and a footballer. You know it, I know it. His only reedeming feature is that he is extremely fast and....errrr....well, that's about it really.
The problem is what do you do when your club signs him and he sprints pasts a few defenders, scores and turns to you kissing the badge? You cheer, of course; you can do nothing else. But deep down you feel really uncomfortable because you know that at sometime in the future this idiot is going to up and away without any 'by your leave', and your only hope is he doesn't brain one of your other players, the Manager or Doris the tea lady on his way out.
Gianfranco Zola has done good business with Bellamy. He has sold a known troublemaker for twice what he was bought for and three times what he is worth. The Welsh striker is likely to be injured and, as soon as he loses his speed, he will become an ordinary player as he doesn't score regularly enough and doesn't have a poacher's instinct in front of goal.
For £14m, Zola and Clarke - I am assuming they will get most if not all of the money as is currently being claimed - can buy a better player and one who, perhaps, won't spend months on the treatment table only to get off and kick you in the balls as soon as his leg has healed.
I'm not sorry to see the back of either Bellamy or Bowyer and I view their leaving as a good thing for the club.
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Posted by Mike Fine on 01/30/2009
Completely agree with you. Bellamy is a fine player but a worthless teammate. He focuses on Bellamy and that is it. His completely transient history and lack of health made his short stay very predictable. I think the club was smart to dump him.
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