Spanish Club Wants To Get Paid, Drops Pants.

Without a single fact to back this up at the moment, it seems the financial crisis has hit Spanish football the hardest – mainly because so many clubs were on rocky financial footing to begin with. Levante couldn’t even scrape up enough cash in the couch for a pizza last year (and are still struggling in the Segunda – insult/injury), much less pay their players, Athletic Bilbao was forced to sell their star striker to pay for the bills – only for the club to which they sold him, Mallorca, to bounce the first check because they’re also looking up at the black – while Valencia, a veritable giant in Spanish football, currently can’t afford to pay their players and are getting closer and closer to the inevitable day where they have to ask David Villa to make his greatest contribution to the shirt by allowing them to sell him for Bill Gates money.

And with these bigger clubs in trouble, it’s also a certainty that smaller clubs are in trouble as well, if not more so. Like third-division Galactico Pegaso (yes, dripping with irony), who went the creative route by protesting their lack of pay by dropping their pantaloons for the first 30 seconds of their recent match against Real Madrid’s Castilla. A strange choice, because I’m not sure dropping one’s pants is the best way to get most men to give you money – at least outside of an airport restroom stall or a highway rest stop.

But then, that’s not really my thing. To each their own, I suppose…

So where does it escalate from here? Don’t be surprised if Valencia put on the full production of The Full Monty at halftime of their weekend fixture against Malaga. After all, the lads have to get paid somehow.

[Spotted on 101 Great Goals]

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