Tiago Mendes Definitely Didn’t Want to Play for Everton
By: Daryl | September 2nd, 2008
This truly is the age of player power. Not just because players can demand high wages and pretty much force transfers whenever they feel like it, but because apparently players can now lock club presidents in the toilet and get away with it.
That’s what happened at Juventus recently. The club had set up a deal to loan Portuguese midfielder Tiago Mendes out to Everton for a year, but Thiago very much didn’t want to go. And so, as revenge for the club attempting to offload him, Thiago locked Juventus club president Giovanni Cobolli Gigli in the toilet.
“The story of me being locked in the toilet by Tiago is true,” Gigli told Sky Italia this week. “Alessandro Del Piero responded to the noise of me punching the door and offered to break it down. I told him it was better if someone else did it, as he needed to keep his shoulders in good shape for the Fiorentina game.”
(I guess that’s why Alessandro Del Piero is a club legend, and Tiago Mendes isn’t.)
I still don’t understand the physics of this. How do you lock someone inside a toilet from the outside? Answers on a postcard please. And is this a blow to Everton fans? To think that a player would take such drastic measures in response to nearly ending up at Goodison Park is pretty worrying, though Tiago’s problem was apparently more that Everton aren’t in the Champions League, which is where he wants to be.
Which makes it extra amazing that Juve didn’t end Tiago’s reign of toilet terror by selling him in the transfer window. And extra extra amazing that he’s been included in Juve’s Champions League squad. Giovanni Cobolli Gigli must be a very forgiving man.
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He sounds like a headcase! The Toffees are much better off without him!
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Honestly, how did he lock him in from the outside? That doesn’t make any sense
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Your author has the morals of a tabloid hack. He takes a story published elsewhere and, in order to make an angle, omits the bits that don’t fit what he wants to write – in this case the fact that Tiago didn’t want to go to MONACO or Everton, as he wanted to fight for his place at Juventus. Quite how this is a blow to Everton fans, only Dick Daryl will know….
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He does sound like a headcase but it would be worth it if he locked Blue Bill in a cupboard forever!
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You can lock/ unlock the toilet door from outside with a coin just think about it if someone collapsed inside
Thank god you lot didnt organize the transfers !COYBPosted from
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Thats so awesome. Who wouldn’t want to do that to their boss?!
Oh you want the TPS reports on your desk by the end of the day? Are you sure about that? **click**Posted from
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Maybe, just maybe it wasn’t the actual cubicle but the TOILET instead!!! COYB!!!
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“You can lock/ unlock the toilet door from outside with a coin.”
I think we need directions here. Perhaps a YouTube do-it-yourself video.
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“You can lock/ unlock the toilet door from outside with a coin ” ……..Hmm are you sure you haven’t been taking sneaky peaks at other men
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I don’t think it’s about the Champion’s League. We set him up with loan deals with Benfica and Atletico. And Newcastle. And a sale to Tottenham. Etc. It’s two things, I guess. There’s either one squad he’s really holding out for and would rather sit in the stands then go elsewhere, or he really, really wants to win a spot at Juventus.
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Dear Everton Football Club:
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Cheers,
Stevie & JamiePosted from
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maybe he wasnt locked IN the toilet but in the bathroom, and maybe the bathroom works like the ones in dorm rooms where you can only lock it from the outside…
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