Posts Tagged ‘Andreas Christensen’
Chelsea Balls: The Daily Mail’s Attack On Andreas Christensen Is Based On A Hunch
HOW football reporting works: The Daily Mail obliges its promise to feature one story a day on the big clubs. It tweets: “On £20,000 a week…and he plays for Chelsea’s youth team.”
He’s Chelsea’s Andreas Christensen, signed from Danish club Brondby in 2012.
The Mail writes:
“Meet Andreas Christensen, the 18-Year-Old Chelsea defender who is on £1million a year but has never played for the first team. Andreas Christensen, described as a ‘gazelle’ by pretty much anyone who has ever watched him play, turned 18 on April 10. He earns £20,000 a week and has not made a first team appearance. Something, somewhere, is going wrong when youth team players are walking around with that kind of money.”
Read the rest of this entry »