Jerzy Dudek, Liverpool’s reserve goalkeeper, was quoted in The Sun today as saying he planned to quit Liverpool as he is pissed off being treated like ‘a slave’. The Polish keeper was reported to have said: ‘I have to finally tell Rafa I’m leaving because maybe he’s not aware of it… I will remember Liverpool fondly as a success but not the situation I’ve found myself in… When a player knows he is a slave, he’ll never give his employer his heart.’
Maybe something was lost in translation, but you can’t have too much sympathy with any Premiership footballer’s plight, especially when that plight involves having to play in the reserves (and still get paid loads to do it) because you’re clearly not as good as the No.1 at your club.