I’m sure many of us have happily forgotten Mark Gonzalez. Who is he? you ask. Well, a certain Premiership club paid £4.5 million for the privilege of signing him in 2005. When, after signing him, the club were denied in their application for a work permit, the manager of this famous club said:
Only if you know nothing about football could you say he [Gonzalez] is not good enough to play in the Premiership.
Gonzalez was loaned out, and the same club re-applied for a work permit the following year. It’s obvious in hindsight that the Committee that gradually came to know more than nothing about football.
Gonzalez played for Liverpool for one season, at the end of which Rafa “Fat Spanish Waiter” Benítez decided that Gonzalez was indeed not quite good enough.
(Thanks to The Guardian)
