World's most "hardworking" footballer retires.

• CoolMyth

  8 Nov 05, 21:01

  Some non-Liverpool related news for a while:
  
  http://www.football365.com/news/story_168151.shtml
  
  

  Exhausted Bogarde retires
  
  08/11/05
  In news that nobody will have noticed, Winston Bogarde has retired from football.
  
  In news that nobody will have noticed, Winston Bogarde has retired from football.
  
  The Dutch left-back, who has been without a club since he left Chelsea in the summer of 2004, made only four starts in four years for the Blues. He has since trained with Ajax, but was unable to impress enough to gain a contract.
  
  The former Milan and Barcelona ace, reportedly on £40,000 a week while at Stamford Bridge, has now decided the time is right to hang up his boots and concentrate on 'other commitments'.
  
  At the end of his time at Chelsea, during which he repeatedly refused a transfer away from the Blues, Bogarde said:
  
  "After four long years of being frozen out by the Chelsea manager I am finally free, after spending such a long period in the wilderness. My time at Chelsea has been extremely unhappy. Throughout my ordeal I have always behaved correctly to the club.
  
  "I haven't caused any problems for anyone and I have served my time in a professional way. It would have been easy to have been disruptive but I didn't want to behave that way. I've been counting down the days for a long time, so I'm pleased that the final few days flashed by like they were seconds.
  
  'In my own mind as I left Harlington for the last time, I was very, very happy. Four hard years were behind me. I was so glad it was over.'

  Won't you ever wish to be like him?
• @theKopEnd

  9 Nov 05, 08:29

  I guess playing regular football wasn't top of his agenda during his time at Chelsea. Most players would have moved by the 2nd year. Bogarde just stayed on.
  
  He may have gotten a huge paycheck at the end of it all, but was it really worth it going through all that unhappiness? For his standards, he could have been playing and getting a decent enough wage elsewhere.
• chong-ster

  11 Nov 05, 13:04

  any other footballer would've left for first team football.
  
  but he chose to stay on. why?
  
  obviously because of his huge huge wages.
  
  now he's talking about how unhappy he was during the 4 years etc. if he was really unhappy, why did he reject transfers out?
  
  simply because he was enticed by the wages he was earning, and he was'nt interested in football anymore