Quickest Ever? Bye Sol!!!!!

Just watched the highlights of his only game on the Beeb, and dear god, he was terrible in those alone. Not really at fault for either goal, but every other chance Morecambe had, he was flat-footed, lethargic, and pretty uninspiring. Probably best off being shot of him really.
 
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I know a few County fans who were buzzing about his signing; though one savvy fan said it'd end in tears. I thought it'd be other players disgrunted at his massive wages, but clearly Sol couldn't get his head around his move. Plonker really.
 
160 grand for 1 game which he lost isnt bad, even i could lose a game for 160k, i might even win it at league 2 level
 
They should really only agree to release his registration if he pays back what he's been paid so far, and to be honest, he's still worth a punt as a cheap transfer for lots of clubs so they can easily have someone pay a half mil or something for him in Jan.

He is a complete twit, I can understand the game is maybe very different in lower leagues and the actual style of football could simply be nothing he's used to, though having lost all his pace and not being in great fitness won't help. But not realising where the club where and what other teams he'd be playing, makes him a moron.

THe problem being, no real team will take him seriously anymore, but the way world football seems to work, what with Vassell getting fairly highly paid to pretend to be a footballer in Turkey, Sol will end up in Greece, Turkey or somewhere desparate for old stars, hmm, MLS maybe?

Speaking of which, has Vassell played at all yet or scored any goals?
 
He was supposedly very close to a move to Fenerbache iirc back in 2006. They were going to pay £8m for him in Jan but we let him go for £-1m in the summer (yeah, MINUS 1 million pounds, as in we had to pay him to leave!)
 
How could this transfer ever of seemed a good idea for either party?

35 years old, a spanking 5 years contract, and a div 2 team spunking £40k a week on someone who should have been shipped off to the glue factory 2
years ago.

Madness!

Correction.............................. SVEN!!
 
I read in the paper today that he left because the new owners of the club agreed to buy the BMW F1 team, and he was given the impression that a large chunk of the money earmarked for County had been spent on that.
 
Piers Morgan
I used to know Sol Campbell quite well. We weren't bosom pals but in my early days as a Fleet Street showbiz hack, I'd bump into him on the party circuit so beloved of footballers and he was always good fun to hang out with.
He used to smile a lot back then, crack jokes, have a bit of banter and generally give every impression of enjoying himself.
But the last time I saw him, something had changed. It was at the Grove hotel near Watford, he was on his own and had a face like thunder. I said hello but he just stared at me with dead eyes, shook my hand with what seemed like severe reluctance, muffled a response and walked on.


I remember feeling really surprised by his reaction. Even Jeremy Clarkson greets me warmer than that and he occasionally punches me in the head.
But then I spoke to a delightful lady friend of mine who dated Sol Campbell for a while and she painted an extraordinary portrait of the man.
'He'd be absolutely fine for a few weeks, then suddenly disappear,' she said. 'And I mean disappear. He'd vanish, refuse to answer any calls and never explain himself when he finally got back in touch. It was weird.'
Perhaps we should all be kind and understanding before jumping to too harsh a verdict on Sol's behaviour towards Notts County last week.
But I'm not, to be perfectly honest, in the mood to be overly forgiving. Because I think the sad truth is that Sol Campbell is one of the most selfish men in Britain.
Think about his track record for a minute. This was the guy who was captain of Tottenham when he signed for 4rsen4l.
I remember the day well because I was editor of the Daily Mirror at the time and the moment I heard the news I ordered a picture desk executive to get a taxi to 4rsen4l's club shop and buy me the first CAMPBELL 23 shirt off the presses.
I wore it all afternoon in the newsroom. Then I rang my dad and Andy Coulson, David Cameron's spin doctor - both lifelong Spurs fans - and laughed so hard down the phone I thought my spleen would burst.


So we Gooners were thrilled, of course we were. But imagine being a Spurs supporter. Could there possibly be a more selfish act than your skipper waltzing off to the arch-enemy?
Well, possibly, yes. What about the day Sol was substituted at half-time after letting West Ham run riot over 4rsen4l at Highbury and reacted by throwing his toys out of the pram and marching off home, not playing again for a couple of months?
A spineless, pathetic reaction. But what Campbell did to Notts County made what he did to Spurs and 4rsen4l seem almost heroic by comparison.
Let's get one thing absolutely straight here. He signed for such a lowly League Two club for money. They offered him a deal worth £40,000 a week for five years and, at 35 years old, he couldn't believe his luck.
Rather like David Beckham defecting to LA Galaxy, Campbell decided, with calm calculation, to put his wallet before his serious football career.
He came out with all this guff about a 'new challenge', just as Beckham did, but we all knew the score. He'd landed a nice little earner for himself.


But then, as with Beckham again, Campbell began reading how this would end any chance he had of playing for England again and panicked. And he did what he's always done when that selfish gene kicks in, he walked.
A livid Sven Goran Eriksson, who had expended a lot of personal effort to land Campbell, talked of feeling 'let down' by the player.
He said: 'I don't know the real reason he left but he didn't like the training ground or the dressing room and things like that.'
Oh really? What exactly were you expecting, Sol? A state-of-the-art Dallas Cowboysstyle stadium with underfloor heating in the gym and 50ft Jacuzzis? No, my old mate, you knew exactly what to expect because Sven showed you everything before you signed.
What you didn't like was everyone laughing at you and saying your remaining England prospects had just gone pear-shaped faster than Kerry Katona's backside.
Arsene Wenger says Campbell is a 'strong man' and that's why he tore up his County contract. With the greatest of respect, Arsene, he's not.
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Piers is a **** but he's just gone up a little in my estimation....
 
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