We’ve seen Jan Vertonghen try to play at left-back this season with no legs, but there was a time when Tottenham’s left-back apparently had three…
We all know the story by now, detailed again recently by Clive Allen in The Mirror. Benoit Assou-Ekotto wanted to go into pornography after he hung up his boots, and his former manager at Spurs, Harry Redknapp, has joked in an interview with talkSPORT that the Cameroonian was “equipped” for his potential career switch. Watch the laughter ensue in the video below:
“He was quite off the wall, wasn’t he?”
— talkSPORT (@talkSPORT) March 13, 2020
“He did an article, and they asked him what he wanted to be, and he wanted to be a porn star!” ⭐️
“He definitely was equipped for it!” 🙈@Redknapp on the one and only, @AssouEkotto.
🤝 With @Coral pic.twitter.com/JqSX565q8Z
According to transfermarkt, the 35-year-old has been without a club since leaving Metz in 2018. So, what has he been up to the last 18 months?
I’ll volunteer to do the research on this one…
Are you saying he was the only one? I would say he was rare in being honest enough to admit it.
Mediocre player. This sums him up he was always playing just for the money. It showed in his drab performances… As Shankly once said “football is not life or death…. It is far more important than that”
“I have never bought into the hypocrisy of football but perhaps I’m more strident in my views now. I’m lucky and appreciate what I have, but football is just a job, a means to an end… there are more important things in life than kicking a ball around… Yes, I play for the money but then doesn’t everybody who gets up in the morning and goes to work? They do it to provide for their family. It infuriates me when footballers go on about playing for the shirt. I think they should be held accountable for it when they kiss the badge and six months later clear off for a better pay day.”
— Benoit Assou-Ekotto
Good left sider.
He always looked a bit lazy, but he could cross the ball and he had some moments of magic, I liked Benny at Spurs