http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33475702 Moved to China, getting in excess of $250,000. A wasted talent, but jeez he's got to be ****ing loaded at this stage. Criminal that someone like him, who is far from world class can earn such a large amount of money. How many years after retirement till he blows it? Definitely a shame he chose to earn as much as he can instead of actually pushing himself and testing his talents. That's how the greats are remembered, he won't be remembered at all and if he is it will be because he's a money grabber.
He's good enough, and was liked enough to still warrant hurt feelings four years after he left here. If he was really "far from world class" people would have forgotten him years ago. He's a good player, and we still miss him - that's the truth of it.
Bollocks mate sorry. I had forgotton about him until I saw the story on bbc sport homepage. Also not sure how we miss him? He had 1 half decent season and then started the next one overweight and uninterested.
Gyan scored eleven goals in a season that he didn't start till October - our top striker last season scored six in a full season. That's how we miss him, o.k?
Even then its only remembered because of zenden. Selling out to play in the desert and being nothing other than OK is why I forgot about him. Neither bad enough to be remembered with disdain or comedy nor good enough to remembered fondly or for what could have been. Run of the mill player signed off the back of a good team world cup performance
So do the t.v. companies. Gyan will raise any club's profile, and that's why they pay him such high wages.
Then was fat and uninterested in the 4 games he played the next season and forced through a move to UAE. I don't think we miss him at all
There'll always be bad feeling towards potential fans' favourites who bugger all previously generated goodwill up the wall and **** off for more money. Step forward D. Bent & A. Gyan...
I think you've almost summed it up perfectly mate. But "fans's favourites" please - it wasn't "potential" when they were here and we were all jumping up and down when the net bulged (Gyan only danced when he scored, so how come you remember him more for his dancing without remembering the goals that prompted it?). And I never believed Bent went for money anyway - I've never forgiven Capello for his disgraceful decision in favour of p*ss-pot Defoe and p*ss-pot Crouch. Bent earned the right to go to South Africa - we all said it then - and he was f***ing robbed.
Seems like hatred is clouding footballing judgement. The bloke is clearly a class act, the sort of class we attract by gaining safety early. Hence why he's better than all four of our strikers put together. Who were all signed off the back of relegation battles and are all either rubbish or at the wrong end of their career who's only going to get worse. We don't miss a 10 a season striker aparantly, when the ones we have now can barely hit 5.
Agree with this was a really good player almost unplayable when he wanted to be but at the time he left I'd say he was more of a marketable asset than one to keep he was over-weight and uninterested he'd had his turned over the summer for those reasons I don't miss him as I don't think he'd of sustained his 1st season form
Plus wasn't Gyan's best period the one when we had a very attacking front three of Bent, Gyan and Welbeck? I don't think Gyan would still have got anything like ten goals if he'd played for us every match last season, even if he did pull his head out of his arse to actually make an effort for ninety minutes.
Anyone who's happy to play in that piss-pot league in the desert for mountains of cash isn't worthy of playing for this great club in my opinion.
Money talks. I do find it odd that someone with his quality has chosen the career path he has done. I don't know if its an over-influentual agent, a desperately impoverished childhood or something else thats influencing him. It just seems odd. He could have had a so many trophies in his cabinet to look back on. Sad really.
