An honest opinion from Troy
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Troy Deeney is talking about the transition from Premier League to League Two and, as ever, does not hold back.
“I spent a bit of time in Dubai in the summer and I saw a few lads (footballers), I won’t name names, who can’t get a club, who have been out for two years because, in my opinion, of their ignorance,” he explains.
“They are used to earning a certain amount of money; used to playing at a certain level. Everyone thinks they have quit. They have been offered to clubs and thought, ‘I am too good for that’. But it’s ignorance. Ignorance. We are just so up our own a----- now, footballers.
People think we are entitled. We are not entitled. I think we have just got so comfortable with the luxuries that are Prem and now Championship that it’s like, ‘Oh, I am not going to League Two’. Well, think about when you started? It was your dream. You would have done anything to say football was your job.”
Deeney is living the dream. An outstanding 11-year career at Watford, largely as captain, largely in the Premier League, was followed by two campaigns at his beloved Birmingham City and – now – the player-coach at Forest Green Rovers and the start of his “journey” towards, one day, hopefully being a top-flight or even an England manager.”
Think he’s got a lot of players 100% right
They think they are too good
They were happy to play L2 on the way up in their career’s