I've just come back from working at a Trade Show in Germany, working on our stand were a plethora of Sales folk from across the Globe, boys being boys Football gets folks talking. Sunday morning one of my Dutch colleagues says "hey John see your new player scored within minutes of coming on yesterday" - "Good luck with him for the rest of the season - he looked f****** s*** with us at Feyenoord last year!". (Dutch have a certain way with the F word)
On another of our players, Damion Downs, my Hamburg supporting mate came on the stand begging again for us to take him back as "he stinks the place out".
This was even more amusing when I shared the chat about him the previous night in the bar with a German colleague. There is a joke in the Bundesliga 2 that if you score a goal on Saturday afternoon, you could be playing in the Premier League by the following weekend having been sold for over 10 million. I said its not a joke we bought such a player Damion Downs, German born USA International allegedly, "nope never heard of him". Played for Koln in Bundesliga 2 last season, looks like someone who has been dragged from the crowd to play for us so far, we had a quick Google - Played for Koln II the previous season ............"in the Regionalliga" - "I played in the Regionalliga - and still did my day job" ..............."So maybe its not such a joke, he scored 10 goals in the Bundesliga 2 and got sold to the English Championship for £6m - sounds relative".