High-level players appear to believe that they are hybrid ballers/agents at present. Alternatively consider themselves managers or even recruitment chiefs these days. And this practice or manoeuvring is as transparent as it is self-serving and disrespectful to their existing clubs.
If the actual qualified and amoral and occasionally underhand football negotiators want to constantly call managers and bang on closed doors in private seeking to offer their 'clients' to new teams - that is their prerogative. But players shouldn't be doing any salesperson work.
Why do I say all this? Well, Leicester City Football Club have had one or two of these self-righteous and self-absorbed contemporary professionals at King Power Stadium in the not too distant past. Riyad Mahrez and Wesley Fofana are the immediate pair of ungrateful, ungracious and apparently classless footballers I can point to there.
Though LCFC have another one of these very talented yet troublesome people on their books right now. Irrespective of Bilal El Khannouss being on loan at VfB Stuttgart, he remains a contracted Fox. This means he shouldn't mention the East Midlands organisation in any negative way whatsoever.
When he leaves, he can do so. But for now, he is just making himself seem immature, overhyped and self-centred. He may even jeopardise one of the transfers he appears to have cultivated for himself.
Leicester City player Bilal El Khannouss should wind his neck in a bit - or a lot
I am entirely unconvinced that Eddie Howe would desire a petulant, overrated and attention-seeking star on his squad. The Magpies gaffer already has ridiculously over-prominent assistant manager Jason Tindall ticking most of those boxes!
"We managed to find a deal with Stuttgart. And I’m happy even if things haven’t been easy this summer to be honest. It was difficult to find a way out with Leicester that didn’t make it easy."Bilal El Khannouss
If El Khannouss continues in the manner that he has, he will even burn his makeshift and rickety bridge back to Leicestershire; one that he already viciously rocked. Evidently the loaned Leicester star may ruin his chances of joining Newcastle United or Crystal Palace too, if he carries on in this silly vein.