Bassong: 'I want to leave for my career and my future'

[nobby_solano]

if he wants to go, then fair does ... provided we get top dollar for him.

[Oakie Doke]

it has also emerged that Bassong was deeply upset by the attitude of some of his team-mates in the dressing room at Villa Park on the final day of the season.

 

The source said: “Sebastien was suspended and gutted about having to sit in the stands.“But after the game he was mortified by some of the scenes in the dressing room. He said that only three or four of the players looked genuinely upset about the club’s relegation.

 

“More worryingly, while the fans were still chanting outside, some players were talking about their holidays.

 

does not suprise me one bit

I would give anything to have been in that dressing room, with a baseball bat.  

 

not surprised he wants to go, he's hardly experienced the best our club has to offer. Good luck to him.

[Skirge]

f*** off then you little c***, no loyalty but to blame the mess is pathetic, even had we stayed up and the Gooners came knocking he would have wanted to go.

 

he has only been here a year and you expect him to die for the club..  dont blame him one bit!  good luck to the lad.

 

Die for us no but come on man makes me sick, he would want to go even if we had stayed up, would he be so leen if it was Holl or Stoke after him? cours enot but Spurs and Arsenal showing interest so he blames the mess here as the reason he wnats to leave, at least be fkn honest over it.

[gray]

I love how they go on about £5k a week as if he's almost homeless. Football is mental.

[Guest toonlass]

Bassong is one of the few players who I can say I thought did their best last year. From seeing him play at Doncaster and Hartlepool and no-one even knowing who he was, we were all just chanting his number, to player of the season. I wish the lad would stay but if he wants away I don't wish him any bad.

[TRon]

At the moment you couldn't blame any player for wanting out, there is absolutely no clue to the future of this club. If we would appoint a manager he would be in a position to sit Bassong down and say, "you are under contract and unless we get a stupid offer you will be playing here next season. If you want to commit we'll give you a new contract on 5 times what you are currently getting. How does that sound?"

 

What are the chances of that happening though?

 

 

 

 

[Skirge]

The long the sale of the club takes the more chance there is of him going, if the sale jappends fast I am sure any new manager will tell the new owners he is one we must keep.

[Dinho lad]

it has also emerged that Bassong was deeply upset by the attitude of some of his team-mates in the dressing room at Villa Park on the final day of the season.

 

The source said: “Sebastien was suspended and gutted about having to sit in the stands.“But after the game he was mortified by some of the scenes in the dressing room. He said that only three or four of the players looked genuinely upset about the club’s relegation.

 

“More worryingly, while the fans were still chanting outside, some players were talking about their holidays.

 

 

Die you fuckers!!!! DIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! :angry: :angry: :tickedoff: :tickedoff: MOTHERFUKCING DICKHEADS!!  :angry: :tickedoff: I just fucking hate them!!! wankers dieeeeeee!!!! :tickedoff:

[Alberto2005]

it has also emerged that Bassong was deeply upset by the attitude of some of his team-mates in the dressing room at Villa Park on the final day of the season.

 

The source said: “Sebastien was suspended and gutted about having to sit in the stands.“But after the game he was mortified by some of the scenes in the dressing room. He said that only three or four of the players looked genuinely upset about the club’s relegation.

 

“More worryingly, while the fans were still chanting outside, some players were talking about their holidays.

 

 

Die you fuckers!!!! DIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! :angry: :angry: :tickedoff: :tickedoff: MOTHERFUKCING DICKHEADS!!  :angry: :tickedoff: I just fucking hate them!!! wankers dieeeeeee!!!! :tickedoff:

I'm sensing you're angry about the situation.

[Guest Magpiecn]

if he wants to go, then fair does ... provided we get top dollar for him.

Yes.But I'm afraid the money will go into Ashley's account.

[Skirge]

it has also emerged that Bassong was deeply upset by the attitude of some of his team-mates in the dressing room at Villa Park on the final day of the season.

 

The source said: “Sebastien was suspended and gutted about having to sit in the stands.“But after the game he was mortified by some of the scenes in the dressing room. He said that only three or four of the players looked genuinely upset about the club’s relegation.

 

“More worryingly, while the fans were still chanting outside, some players were talking about their holidays.

 

 

Die you fuckers!!!! DIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! :angry: :angry: :tickedoff: :tickedoff: MOTHERFUKCING DICKHEADS!!  :angry: :tickedoff: I just f***ing hate them!!! wankers dieeeeeee!!!! :tickedoff:

I'm sensing you're angry about the situation.

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[Guest Magpiecn]

it has also emerged that Bassong was deeply upset by the attitude of some of his team-mates in the dressing room at Villa Park on the final day of the season.

 

The source said: “Sebastien was suspended and gutted about having to sit in the stands.“But after the game he was mortified by some of the scenes in the dressing room. He said that only three or four of the players looked genuinely upset about the club’s relegation.

 

“More worryingly, while the fans were still chanting outside, some players were talking about their holidays.

 

does not suprise me one bit

I want to know which players were talking about holidays at that time while every fan was devastated.

[relámpago blanco]

it has also emerged that Bassong was deeply upset by the attitude of some of his team-mates in the dressing room at Villa Park on the final day of the season.

 

The source said: Sebastien was suspended and gutted about having to sit in the stands.But after the game he was mortified by some of the scenes in the dressing room. He said that only three or four of the players looked genuinely upset about the clubs relegation.

 

More worryingly, while the fans were still chanting outside, some players were talking about their holidays.

 

does not suprise me one bit

I want to know which players were talking about holidays at that time while every fan was devastated.

Owen,Viduka, Duff for starters

[Oakie Doke]

I bet the only players who looked upset were Taylor, Harper, Butt and Ameobi. The one's who didn't care are just complete wankers.

[Newcastle Fan]

He's decent but he's not a world-beater by any means, won't be too gutted if he leaves.

[afar]

He's decent but he's not a world-beater by any means, won't be too gutted if he leaves.

 

I agree, if the reported 12 million bidding war is true between Arsenal and Spuds, then we are getting a good deal.

[olliemort]

I bet the only players who looked upset were Taylor, Harper, Butt and Ameobi. The one's who didn't care are just complete wankers.

Shola?I doubt it,he didnt look like he cared when he played so god knows what hes like when he doesnt play

[Skirge]

Kna Duff looked crushed at the end of the game..

[Dave]

He's decent but he's not a world-beater by any means, won't be too gutted if he leaves.

 

I agree, if the reported 12 million bidding war is true between Arsenal and Spuds, then we are getting a good deal.

 

Who said he was a world beater? Fact is right now he's one of our best players, and young too. Selling him is a fucking stupid idea.

 

Have you learnt nothing from Ashley's tenure?

[Skirge]

He's decent but he's not a world-beater by any means, won't be too gutted if he leaves.

 

I agree, if the reported 12 million bidding war is true between Arsenal and Spuds, then we are getting a good deal.

 

Who said he was a world beater? Fact is right now he's one of our best players, and young too. Selling him is a f***ing stupid idea.

 

Have you learnt nothing from Ashley's tenure?

Spot on Dave, fact is if Ashley was not selling and Al was manager there would be no thought of selling Bassong.

[ChezGiven]

He's decent but he's not a world-beater by any means, won't be too gutted if he leaves.

 

I agree, if the reported 12 million bidding war is true between Arsenal and Spuds, then we are getting a good deal.

 

Who said he was a world beater? Fact is right now he's one of our best players, and young too. Selling him is a fucking stupid idea.

 

Have you learnt nothing from Ashley's tenure?

 

Thats not the decision that is being reported, he wants away and i dont blame him.

[Skirge]

He's decent but he's not a world-beater by any means, won't be too gutted if he leaves.

 

I agree, if the reported 12 million bidding war is true between Arsenal and Spuds, then we are getting a good deal.

 

Who said he was a world beater? Fact is right now he's one of our best players, and young too. Selling him is a f***ing stupid idea.

 

Have you learnt nothing from Ashley's tenure?

 

Thats not the decision that is being reported, he wants away and i dont blame him.

Aye but if the club was not in a state he would have been told "you are staying here!"

[Guest Magpiecn]

Kna Duff looked crushed at the end of the game..

Talking about Duff ,I remember I read an article from independent.ie

Wanted: The old Duff in full flight

Time for blond bomber to reassert himself in the green jersey, writes David Kelly

By David Kelly

 

 

Thursday June 04 2009

 

Football -- somebody once said it was a funny old game. It ain't meant to be. It's meant to be thrilling, exciting, exasperating, controversial, electric, invigorating; all that and more, but never, ever funny. Damien Duff isn't laughing. Those of us who love football in this country have rarely seen Damien Duff smile in the past few years, rarely seen the tousle-haired, blonde bomber eject a laugh from his limpid, unfettered persona.

 

 

Mention his name now and sepia-tinted memories are almost irretrievable, his career slump defined by relegation in an ill-fitting left-back's garb, a swinging knee casting him so ironically from the limelight he both craves and dreads.

 

A conversation with a colleague elucidates a worryingly hazy recollection of his brief, hip-swinging sorties home to Croke Park, thence to embrace the more sincere warmth of a loving crowd, soothing balm from the toils of a black and white comic strip.

 

He played well against Brazil, you insist. A counter riposte; only first-half, two years ago. Or was it three?

 

instinct

 

But what of Cyprus? Such intelligence to realise he wasn't tightly marked! The instinct to spin inside Lambrou and Garpozis! The intuition to spot the unmarked Keane with a pinpoint cross!

 

A shrug, shared communally, it seems. What of it? Many more see in Duff a football supernova.

 

But can he be, at just 30, a story whose pages resemble a tattered scrapbook of fading memories? Are there no more chapters of unfulfilled glories to write?

 

Circumstantial evidence seems to dictate, sadly, that this is so. Championship football beckons. His days as a dancing winger, one of the world's best earlier this decade, supplanted by dreary shifts as an emergency left-back.

 

And more, emergency shifts at left-back in which he excels, as if to mournfully confirm that the once proud poacher has now irrevocably turned grim game-keeper, so incapable of performing creative feats that once made fans leap from the seats and catch their breath, he now seeks to destroy those who now inhabit his former guise.

 

How is it possible to smile in the light of such sadness? Especially when all one has ever wanted to do is play football?

 

His pay still wings its way home to the foothills of the Dublin mountains where his parents call home. The money is obscene.

 

"It's the job I'm in, it's not my fault," he once said. "I didn't ask for the game to be like this. I play because I love the game. That, and the fact that it's the only thing I'm good at."

 

And yet in the public's eyes, he deserves centre stage in a line-up of Newcastle United failures that embrace such dubious fellow travellers as convicted thug Joey Barton, reluctant international Mark Viduka and cash-guzzler Michael Owen.

 

He pleads loyalty to the club and is smacked in the face. At more than £1m a goal, perhaps the best fans in the world -- even better than the Irish, we are told! -- may have a point.

 

Isn't there room for at least one lone voice of reason in football's nuthouse?

 

A local football writer, Stuart Raynor from the Newcastle Chronicle demurs to this newspaper.

 

"Not only has he failed to produce the sort of form he was capable of when he was younger, but for much of his time here it looked like he didn't care," is his toxic summation.

 

"Granted, his attitude seemed to change towards the end of this season, but it was too little too late. Duff isn't the most ostentatious here, but he isn't exactly shouting from the roof-tops about how he loves Newcastle."

 

There is also a common perception that the neglect has been self-inflicted. Even though he cried himself to sleep at the thoughts of the foot injury which almost permanently scarred him two years ago, the alleged wanton lust for higher wages at Newcastle has invited Karmic debts, ridiculing his refusal to join Liverpool, Manchester United or (cough) Spurs.

 

"Damien has slowly let his career slide away," is the opinion of sports agent Johnny O'Shea. "It's hard not to think that he's contented to have two league medals in his back pocket and that big pay cheque.

 

"I think it's too late for him to be considered one of our greatest ever sports figures. Damien hasn't had enough big-time opportunities to show what he can do, and unfortunately for him his legacy will be one of what might have been."

 

So this is it, then. Duff has relinquished the very gifts bestowed upon him from such an early age. It is the tale of Dorian Grey in reverse; in our innocent minds, he retains the brio of old yet in reality, his is a talent slowly withering on the vine.

 

differs

 

Brian Kerr is one who differs violently, although he acknowledges that the violent rancour which has seeped through the fog on the Tyne this year has deeply affected him.

 

"I met him recently and at the time he was very intent on doing his bit with Newcastle. He has a much more bigger view of the world than many other players. He may like to see something outside Britain in the future, possibly playing abroad at some time.

 

"But now he wants to be part of Newcastle getting back up. I didn't see much change in him as a person, he's been upset with the injury problems and all the instability at Newcastle compared to Chelsea when he was winning league medals and all that.

 

"But he's aware of what's going on in the wider world. I get the impression from him that he probably feels more than other players that he contributed to the fact that they had a poor season. He didn't get going last season at all, and it didn't go very well for him even when he did play.

 

"This season, while he has played, he is aware the players have to take some responsibility despite all the madness going on around the club. He's prepared to dig in and get the club back out, whether he has a say in that who knows, but I don't think there'd be a shortage of people willing to take them on whether in England or outside."

 

And while the Padre Pio medal Duff conceals about his footwear may not have bestowed upon him much good grace of late, Kerr feels his innate decency deserves to ride out his current slump.

 

"There are plenty of players who have been paid for not playing and not worried, but he loves playing, the matches, everything around the football," adds Kerr.

 

UPSET

 

Duff followed Ireland to Slovakia in the last campaign, even when injured. "Much more so than other players he'd feel upset at not playing his part. He does have a conscience, he feels guilty and because not many others feel that way, it seems strange. It makes him a little different."

 

So much for now, what of the future? "There's plenty left in him," says Kerr. "He'd be fresher after missing so much with injury and the responsibility of playing at left-back will have helped his game. Playing there wasn't about him, it was about Newcastle and it won't have eroded his ability to get on the ball.

 

"There's an attitude Ireland don't need him because Aiden McGeady is there and Andy Keogh can do something. I still think we need him, he has that spark that can light up that game. That bit of magic, in terms of opposition, they're still scared of him when he can do his stuff."

 

The stuff of dreams. We yearn for their return on Saturday in Sofia. To see Duff, as was once Kerr's sole pre-match prompt, "just enjoy it." To see a happy Duff make us happy. It has been too sad otherwise. Sad to see him play at left-back, sad to commit himself to a Championship team, sad to stand accused of moral thievery.

 

Football is not a funny old game. But neither is it a sad one. This child of Italia '90 is too young to join O'Leary in Irish football's grave. Romantic Ireland, with its 'schema' and systems and 7-3-1 formations, may be dead and gone. But surely not Duffer too? Say it ain't so, Damo.

 

- David Kelly

 

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/wanted-the-old-duff-in-full-flight-1761042.html

[Dave]

He's decent but he's not a world-beater by any means, won't be too gutted if he leaves.

 

I agree, if the reported 12 million bidding war is true between Arsenal and Spuds, then we are getting a good deal.

 

Who said he was a world beater? Fact is right now he's one of our best players, and young too. Selling him is a fucking stupid idea.

 

Have you learnt nothing from Ashley's tenure?

 

Thats not the decision that is being reported, he wants away and i dont blame him.

 

Neither do I, it's just the attitude that he's not all that and we'd be getting a good deal that I disagree with. A good deal is keeping hold of a good player. If we sold him right now that money would just go straight in Ashley's pocket anyway because I can't see him reducing the price of the club by £12m.

 

As Skirge says, if the report is true then it's of the clubs own doing by being a total fucking mess.

[Yorkie]

Thought as much. Enjoy your career cos you won't have one if you stay here as things stand.

 

Soul-destroying.