.....that serial toe-rag Harry Kewell still can't find a Premiership/Championship club to give him a two-year deal to spend in the treatment room.
This, remember, is the little prick who spent FIVE seasons at Liverpool and roused himself to play in 81 out of 190 league games in that period and who spent most of his last three years at Leeds "injured" and then forced the bankrupt club to pay him a 2 million pound leaving bonus - which him and his scumbag agent Bernie Mandic gloated about to the press.
He spent last year here in the A-League but his team mates detested him and he decided to go back to the UK to find one last big pay day.....but nobody wants him! I can't think why.
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Annoying, but a definite 'yes' on a Wouldya.
He can't help being injured can he? If he was entitled to a pay off why should he waive it just because those running Leeds had spunked millions up the wall they didn't have?
I, personally, don't see what he's done wrong, except for being injured. If any one of us were off sick and our contract entitled us to full pay would we offer the money back to our employers?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-229608/Leeds-furious-collect-just-Pounds-3m-sale-Kewell.html
....nice isn't it? Stitching up the club that discovered you and brought you to England as a 15 year-old and supported you when you were out injured for the best part of two seasons.
When he left Galatasary he lowered himself to come down to the A-League - currently struggling for survival in an anti-football market and losing about A$20 million per year.
The already hugely wealthy Kewell - the richest footballer Australia has ever produced - demanded that he personally get 70% of the gate takings from away games!!!
That's right, when Harry came to town he wanted to take all the cash from the fans for himself, after all he needs it much more than those footballing giants Newcastle Jets and Adelaide United who are battling to stay afloat.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/the-man-behind-harry-kewell-who-is-bernie-mandic-20110705-1h06e.html
Look at his quote from that story: "Mate, you can go beat your wife, beat your kids, root prostitutes, rob a bank or even commit murder - but if you score the winning goal on the weekend, it doesn't f...in' matter." He said that when 18 years old.
My good friend worked for the YEP in the early 2000's and got to know all of the Leeds players very well, he said that most were great, especially Mark Viduka but said that Kewell was the most arrogant, obnoxious player he had ever met.
Kewell had one season at Melbourne Victory and it was a disaster, he insisted on having his own personal trainer and training away from the rest of the group.
I saw him play twice up here in Brisbane and he warmed up by himself with his team mates barely acknowledging him. He played about half the games and his team finished near the bottom of the table.
At the end of the season Melbourne got a new coach, the double Title winning Ange Postecoglou - the best football coach in the country and a hard bastard - who told the club he did not want a bar of Harry Kewell.
Kewell left with his tail between his legs, supposedly to spend time with his wife's ill mother, but the reality was that he had been released by the club.
Maybe some on here might think he is an allright bloke and entirely justified in his behaviour, for me he goes firmly in the Ashley Cole basket as a prize twat and a perfect example of all that ails modern football.
For the likes of Kewell too much can never be enough - and now he wonders why people won't go near him with a bargepole.
As for the Leeds deal, they wanted to sell him and he agreed to go if he got some of the benefit he would have got if he'd stayed for a further 12 months and left for free.
I just don't see why this is so bad. The sums of money make it look excessively greedy, but he was only taking advantage of his talent and it's value.
We, none of us, know what happens as specific clubs when players are injured. I'm led to believe, from things I've read, that injured players are treated very badly, so he might not have felt that he owed Leeds anything.
Either way we have seen many clubs, and Leeds are included in this, treat players as commodities. They made decisions that are in their best interests and not in the best interests of the player (Beckford being kept on £1,500 a week when he was clearly being offed ten times that elsewhere in recent seasons). Clubs can't have it both ways. They can't restrict their players from advancing their careers when it suits and then expect other players to do exactly what they are told at other times.
The article suggests that Leeds agreed to something like this when they tried to get Kewell to agree to stay when he had much bettere offers. Presumably they said they wouldn't match the other wages but they would use him a loyalty bonus if he left later. Then, amazingly, the club renaged on the deal when the player's contract was running out and made a press statement to slag off the player when he demanded what they had prmissed him.
Clearly I have no specific insid information of what I've said above but Leeds do have some previous.
On the same subject we probably cost Dale Stephens a huge pay increase last month. This was our right, he signed a contract with us and he has to stick to it. However, we can't complain if he refuses to sign another deal and leaves on a free in two years time.