This didn't make as large a wave in the Twitterocean as I thought it would, perhaps because Charles N'Zogbia wisely erased it from his timeline not long after he posted it. But check out the bar tab Zog ran up Sunday night at the Cameo nightclub in Miami Beach, pictured at right: $11,932.80, including tax and a $1,457.44 tip at 16 percent. THANK YOU! PLEASE COME AGAIN!
To Miami, maybe. But please, not to Newcastle.
I don't care if Zog hangs out at a club owned by The Opium Group, promising "the dark and dirty side of the disco era." (?) I wouldn't have cared if he'd been there on one of their signature "Lapdance Tuesdays." Nor do I care too much that he was able, somehow, to blow 12 large there in one sitting.
What gigs me is that he would brag about it worldwide on the Internet. A week ago I posted a piece saying unless you're behind the scenes it's hard to spot the mercenary-type player who puts money first. Well, we're behind the scenes now. And this is how.
All that stuff Tom and I have posted about how Zog should be Newcastle's number-one target, and how touched we were by his recent nostalgic tweets about Newcastle, and how we'd prefer him to unknown French quantities like Gervinho...just, forget it. N'Zogbia has apparently not matured from his untamed younger day in black-and-white. And while we don't know if anyone at our favorite soccer club happens to have come across this little postcard from Miami, note that the day after it posted, word came that Newcastle United had lost interest in Zog too, due to "reservations about the player's attitude" and his "mercenary" approach.
"Vegas, NYC, Miami...living la Vida Rapido" proclaims Zog's signature line on Twitter. Well, Chucky Z, we're thinking your vida is about to get a little less rapido. Vegas, NYC, Miami...Sunderland.
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