Now We Know Who the Premier League’s Greediest Footballer is

This time last year a certain Australian defender named Lucas Neill left Blackburn Rovers. He had the chance to sign with Liverpool and maybe win some silverware, but instead chose to get involved with West Ham’s fight against relegation. He promised, promised, promised at the time that his decision to sign for a team further down the league than his current team had absolutely nothing to do with money. Nothing. And the fact that he turned down Liverpool? Nothing do with West Ham ponying up £55,000 a week, roughly twice the more realistic amount on offer at Anfield. Nothing. I honestly wanted to believe him. But now the Aussie money-grabber has made that impossible by asking West Ham for an even bigger pay packet.

Only in the upside down crazy world that was West Ham United last season is Lucas Neill actually worth £55,000 a week. This is a world where Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano signed for the club but belonged to someone else, and then couldn’t get in the team ahead of Marlon Harewood and Hayden Mullins.

But for some reason, this very average, very much overpaid defender now thinks he’s worth the same £70,000+ a week wage packet as Freddie Ljungberg, a player with Premier League winners medals and Champions League experience and whose talents extend beyond kicking opposition players really hard and into the realm of kicking the actual ball.

The good news is that Neill is very unlikely to get his extra money. West Ham recently announced poor financial results for 2007 (wonder why?) leading the board to recommend some belt-tightening at the club and a more sensible approach to wages.

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