Quote Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE View Post
Leverkusen are about to lose Victor Boniface their main forward to a Saudi team for €60m. Apparently we've watched him a bit (like every other top name).

I think he's a great talent and would be a beast in the EPL . He's two footed, he's strong but I guess where he excels is his build up play and technical ability. I wouldn't say he's got the nose for goals like Gyokores....but if Arteta really insists on only recruiting players that can play in more than one position, then he should have taken a proven Boniface seriously instead of the baby he now wants to get on loan from Bayern.
If a player wants to move to the Saudi league you have to ask yourself are they really motivated to improve themselves on the pitch and win the major prizes. It’s for players to make more money than they could reasonably expect to make in European club football, to live a cosseted life in a goldfish bowl and indulge in every kind of vice known to man whilst the missus spends a lot of your money in the shopping malls.


The punitive lifestyle that the ordinary person has to put up with won’t apply to you, the fact that you’re a non Saudi and therefore you’re not legally entitled to own anything? There will be a workaround. Booze, whoring, drugs….that world won’t be closed off to you either. It’s the lifestyle of a playboy whilst you put in the minimum amount of effort to score a brace against defenders who wouldn’t be good enough to play for the dog and duck fc