According to him anyway :- Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan has made a staggering revelation indicating he was persuaded by English Club Sunderland to join UAE side Al Ain. Gyan came under immense criticism after making the shock move to the Gulf League having hit the limelight in England. The Black Stars captain joined Sunderland in a Club record fee of £13 million from French Ligue 1 side Stade Rennes. Many football enthusiasts described the Ghanaian international as “money conscious” after his move from the English Premier League in 2012. The 30-year-old has however revealed that he was influenced by his former Club (Sunderland) to join Al Ain. “They convinced me to go. They persuaded me to go so when they said that I said ok is because of the money,” he told GTV. “I didn’t understand the businesswise. They told me when I came there publicity was very good, they were making a lot of money in selling my shirts, so in businesswise it was going well for the Club. “So after they persuaded me I have to call my family, I called my brother, my Dad, my mom, and they told me if that is what Sunderland is saying and I think is a good deal then I can go for the loan.” The former Udinese striker won the footballer of the year in Asia on two consecutive occasions scoring over 100 goals for Al Ain in his three-year stint at the Club.
I was about to say I found that difficult to believe but on thinking about the boardroom ****wits I`m not so sure.
There's something stinks about this. I believe Asamoah was sh*t on ... but not directly. Think about it - SAFC had just lost Bent six months earlier. There's no way in this world they wanted rid of Gyan as well. So, if there was an internal problem, they might well have asked him to go out on loan until it was sorted. By the time that loan was up though, Bruce had gone, O'Neill had been appointed, and we were getting two different stories. Or were they different? SAFC said "From what we hear, Gyan doesn't want to come back". At the same time, Gyan was saying "According to my agent, Sunderland don't want me back". Put those two statements together - "From what we hear", "According to my agent" - there is no mention on either side of a single direct conversation between O'Neill and his own player! And if we can believe O'Neill didn't once pick up the phone to Gyan, we can also ask if he ever bothered to pick up the phone to another World Cup quarter-finalist we then had out on loan - Christian Riveros. I now believe Martin O'Neill has an awful lot to answer for. Just how much did he receive from agents? And is that why Randy Lerner drummed him out of Villa?
I'd be pointing the finger at the agents, not the club. Always! They're the root of all evil in the game! In the game... in society.... the world... everywhere! I bet ISIS use football agents!!!!!!
Player misses an open goal, promptly runs back to the centre spot and explodes. Where`s me meds, I`m starting think in cartoons again. Back to topic. Didn`t the club receive a considerable fee for the loan? £6m seems to ring a bell. If that`s the case the boardroom ****wits wouldn`t be able to resist.
Not sure why you`re implicating O`Neill mate tbh. If the bloke was out on loan and the club told him there was every likelihood he would be sold at the end of it, why would O`Neill be talking to him?
Probably was short-sighted directors seeing the money and ignoring what was best for the team! Buggers!!!
Why would the club tell O'Neill there was every likelihood Gyan would be sold? They'd just lost Bent! They couldn't afford to lose two strikers of that calibre inside six months. Just look at the sequence of events for a minute. (1) Around the time of the England v. Ghana game (March) Gyan tells the Ghanaian press "It's a bit disorganized, and I'm none too happy there". (2) In summer, SAFC refuse to sell Gyan, but within a week, agree to loan him for £6.5m. So we buy a World Cup star for £13m from Lille, there's a bit of an internal problem, and we get £6.5m for a one-year loan. It buys us time to sort the problem. What we end up with is a World Cup star to replace Bent for £6.5m. Ok pops, you see ****wits in our boardroom which I don't see, I know. But your ****wits hadn't ****ed up much, had they? - a World Cup quarter final star striker for £6.5m? Nobody was at loggerheads over that (3) Until one man arrived - O'Neill. Then Gyan was out, Riveros was out, Graham was in ... I'm sorry, mate, but it's not adding up. It just isn't.
And Gyan is Ghanaian - a race not particularly known for their veracity. Don't have a clue why he should be trotting out this lot now, unless it is a slow day in the UAE.
Jack the Ripper is ancient history too. Are you saying what he did's forgiveable? Asamoah Gyan has said not one thing yet that doesn't tally. I'm sorry, but it stinks.
I loved Gyan. Crazy as a loon, but so fun to watch. He and Bolo dancing at Stamford Bridge, was it ever any better?
