While some players can’t get enough of the moment and are sad that
the year has reached its final destination, others are just grateful it
has finally passed and they are now planning a trip to the prayer
grounds on Lagos – Ibadan express road for special prayers and
deliverance.
For the latter category of players, things have gone south for them
and they can only but hope 2016 is a momentary blip, not an indication
that their careers is now going the path of Pep Guardiola and Arjen
Robben’s hairline.
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| Memphis Depay |
Memphis Depay
No year has been a good year for this lad since he joined
Manchester United but 2016 has to be the worst. While a change of
manager gave a number of players at the club a chance to project
themselves in good light, things remained the same for Depay. The guy
who used to do wonders at PSV now spends so much time on United’s bench
that it has been rumored that he has become the ‘go to’ guy anytime
anyone wants to buy new seats for their bench. He may have forgotten how
to kick the ball, but he sure knows a good seat the moment he sits on
it.
Odion Ighalo
If Depay’s spectacular fall from grace to grass is surprising, then
we don’t even know how to qualify that of Odion Ighalo. This month last
year, this guy had 13 league goals to his name and won the Premier
League player of the month but fast forward to 2016, he has just three
goals to account for in the entire year. He was rumored to be wanted by
the money bags in China but with this kind of form, we are not even sure
Enugu Rangers will want him for free. 2016 clearly isn’t his year. He
needs to refresh things.
Saido Berahino
Even though he left Bujumbura for England at the age of ten, those
witches and wizards in Burundi located his glory early in life and they
are really bent in dimming it. While the witches and wizards were still
prowling the entire world in search for him, he came alive in the
2014/2015 season where his goals and terrific display earned him an
award as West Brom’s player of the season. But the minute someone got
the witches and wizards a functioning GPS tracker device and they zeroed
in on him, the cookie crumbled. His account for 2016? One (as in, ONE)
league goal and two miskicked pee-kays (shout-out to Bob Bradley)
against Watford in April.
Matthieu Debuchy
When Arsenal replaced Bacary Sagna with Matthieu Debuchy, Arsenal
fans threw a party and invited Don Jazzy. They had, after all, laid
their hands on a Dorobucci. Although the Frenchman began his
Arsenal sojourn decently in the 2014/2015 season but his decision to
take the no. 2 shirt once worn by Abou Diaby came to haunt him. Injuries
struck. And with him injured, Hector Bellerin refused to have a look at
Uche’s face and without a single chill in the world, the young Spaniard
took his place in the team. Since then, Debuchy has been so irrelevant
that Wenger’s zipper gets more action and attention than he does. In the
whole of 2016, he registered just one league appearance. One. O N E.
Stefan Jovetic
In case you have forgotten, there is a footballer called Stevan
Jovetic. He plays for Inter Milan now after scamming Manchester City. In
the whole of 20016, he scored just two league goals. Even though he
spent a lot of the time on treatment table ensuring the doctors work for
their money, he was horrible in the occasional period he stepped on the
pitch.
So guys, look out for any of these footballers in your church
during the cross-over night prayers. They will sure attend to cast out
the demons of 2016 and pray for a better 2017.
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