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“It could be one of the worst deals in the history of the Premier League, but I don’t care.”
Winston Bogard – Chelsea defender 2000-2004
In soccer, the third goalkeeper of the team is always very fascinated because he is the player whose role has been specifically designed not to play for his team.
But he did Winston bogard With Chelsea, he skipped the role of the third goalkeeper who sits alone on the bench, does not participate and collects regularly from his club.
The Dutch defender who joined Chelsea in 2000 from Barcelona has one of the strangest stories in football. Especially since he only played blues a few times.
The name emerged Winston bogard In the mid-nineties with Ajax Amsterdam and the Netherlands team, together with a group of stars such as goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, Frank Rijkaard, Frank de Boer and Clarence Siderov, and won the Champions League title with the Dutch team League in 1995 against Milan, Italy.
Although he did not participate in the final match, Bogard played every game for the Netherlands national team at the 1996 Euro Cup in England.
Bogard joined the ranks of Milan in 1997, but did not appear with Milan only 3 times, later moving to Barcelona, Spain.
Bogard played two seasons with Barcelona, during which he won the Spanish League twice, the Spanish Cup once and the European Super Cup once.
He was also close to participating in the 1998 World Cup semi-final with the Netherlands against Brazil, but suffered a serious injury in training before the match.
All of the above occurs naturally in football with many players, But the following rarely happens in soccer.
In 2000, Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli was looking for an agreement to strengthen his team’s defense and decided to sign Bogard, whom Barcelona decided to cancel his contract a season before its end.
In fact, the 29-year-old defender signed a 4-year contract with Chelsea, with a weekly salary of £ 40,000.
Bogard announced on his personal website at the time that “His dream came true to play in the English Premier League, and he chose Chelsea despite receiving offers from other English clubs, because he sees in Chelsea the team that can win the League and that is what made him the option more attractive to him. “
40,000 pounds a week, or almost 8.5 million pounds in 4 seasons with Chelsea, which is equivalent to 15 million euros at that time.
The season started and Chelsea presented disappointing results with Gianluca Vialli, who was sacked after just 5 games when the blue team placed 17th in the Premier League table.
All this, Bogard did not participate in any game with the team and the coach he hired with him left.
Bogard made his debut for Chelsea in a loss to Leicester City in the sixth round with interim manager Graham Rex.
Claudio Ranieri took over as Chelsea manager and did not trust Bogard, and when he started as a starter against Sunderland and Everton, the blue team lost.
“I don’t want this player on the team.”
This was the request of the Chelsea manager, Ranieri, about Bogard, which he has not convinced.
Here begins the story of Bogard and Chelsea, considered one of the worst player stories in the history of the Premier League.
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Chelsea began to think of a way to get rid of Bogard and save the large salary he receives in light of the club’s great suffering before the arrival of Roman Abramovich, the current owner of the club.
Chelsea: You will train with the club’s quarry and not with the first team
Bogard: OK
Chelsea: You will perform the exercises alone
Bogard: Well … no problem for me. I am receiving my salary regularly and will do what you ask me to do.
This is how Winston Bogard followed Chelsea.
He will implement everything the club asks of him, even if he requires early morning training, there is no problem for him as long as he gains 40,000 pounds every weekend.
Bogard says: “The contract is the contract … I signed the contract that Chelsea presented me and therefore Chelsea is obliged to pay the salary they offered me.”
Bogard played only 12 games for Chelsea over 4 seasons, with a total of 548 minutes, that is, only 6 full games.
11 games in his first season and one game in his third season, while he did not appear once during the second and fourth seasons.
Despite this, he was the most committed player on the Chelsea squad for 4 seasons.
He never missed training, unless he was injured and after getting permission from the medical device.
Bogard gave Chelsea no opportunity to impose financial penalties on him or even attempt to complain about his lack of commitment and then terminate his contract.
It is the long-term policy that Bogard followed with Chelsea.
Roman Abramovich came to Chelsea and became the club’s owner in 2003, and in early 2004 he felt powerless because of Bogard’s position in the team.
Abramovi believed that having a player on the team did not play for 4 seasons, but receiving £ 40,000 each week was nothing more than a disastrous situation.
And that this player makes money illegally as if he was robbing the club.
And now Bogard has reached his last trip with Chelsea, with only two months left on his contract with the club, after which he will save Chelsea £ 40,000 a week.
Five days left, Bogard’s contract with Chelsea expires and the club saves £ 40,000 a week
4 days left and Bogard’s contract with Chelsea ends
3 days left and Bogard’s contract with Chelsea ends
Two days to go, Bogard’s contract with Chelsea expires
The day remains and Bogard’s contract with Chelsea expires
The English press was closely following this case at the time and put it on a countdown to the end of his days with Chelsea, because after that the Blue Club would not be obliged to pay him £ 40,000 every week.
Bogard also denied returning to the Netherlands once a week, rumors that were made about him while he was at Chelsea to show that he was not committed to the team.
The Dutch defender was willing to do what Chelsea asked him, he would always be committed to the decisions of his club so as not to lose a pound of his weekly salary.
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“What helps the player in these kinds of situations is to be ready to participate at any time and play for the first team, so I was training hard to be ready when the coach asked me to participate.”
“Why should I get rid of 15 million euros when they are already mine? I asked this question once and nobody answered me, this world is about money, so when they offer you these millions, you must accept it.”
“And you have to understand my story. If I hadn’t been successful as a footballer, I would have become a criminal.”
The statement that angered the English press and made them describe him as a mercenary player.
But Bogard believed that the press in England was attacking him in an exaggerated way, rather than attacking Chelsea, in crisis.
Bogard explains “As with many crimes, the main suspects in the case point to the wrong person. Viale claimed he knew nothing about signing Chelsea with me, while club manager Colin Hutchinson claimed he supervised the play with knowledge and authority. coach’s complete “.
In 2015, Bogard told The Guardian: “They had to reduce my salary, but they did not come up with a solution that satisfied me, either by lending or selling. In the end, this did not work.”
Bogard retired at the end of his contract with Chelsea and attempted to obtain a manager’s license to take the coach’s path.
However, he was unable to obtain European Union A, which is the second highest license after the Professional Trainers license.
He was not accepted to coach Motherwell and Oldham, considering that his experience with Chelsea was terrifying and could be repeated in one form or another with them.
So Bogard decided to go into a private business and open a project for a game club.
This club was closed in 2016 after a murder there.
“It still haunts me and maybe it will continue my whole life. We all make mistakes and I learned from my mistakes, but you have to get on with life.”
Winston Bogad – 2016
In 2017, Bogard assumed the position of assistant coach to the technical director of the Ajax youth team.
Among the players he introduced to the first team was Justin Kluivert, who moved to Rome, Italy, for close to 20 million euros.
Although Bogard’s history with Chelsea has passed almost twenty years ago, it has been repeated more than once in recent years, but in a different way with Mesut Ozil and Arsenal, as well as with Gareth Bale and Real Madrid.
From being mocked and reprimanded and continuing with Chelsea without the desire of the club and charging him a large weekly salary, to being an assistant coach in the Ajax youth team, which is one of the best youth academies in Europe. Bon voyage from Dutch defender Winston Bogard.
Sources:
dailymail.co.uk
www.football365.com
