Bloody hell, what a pile of sweaty scrotums being talked in here.
Sly? Rafa? Ashley was the one trying to con him into signing a new deal with this fake Sheikh takeover talk - a deal that would have tragically fallen through the minute he put pen to paper.
Yeah, he's gone because they offered a shit ton of money - show me somebody here who'd turn that down? A quarter of it down? After years of being at logger heads with owners, dealing with player power, disrespect both on and off the pitch, especially in the media, and always having to work on a fucking shoe string, who honestly gives a fuck that he's decided to try his hand at something new?
He'll face his own challenges over there I'm sure, but as I said in the Newcastle thread, this is a busman's holiday for Rafa. Maybe when he comes back he'll have another crack at the Spanish league, or perhaps in Germany, but good luck to him I say.
Sometimes the money is just incidental. Yeah it's a shed load but Rafa is no mercenary.
