The Guardian footballer of the year 2017: Juan Mata

Manchester United midfielder’s Common Goal project, in which players and managers donate 1% of their salary to charity, makes him a worthy recipient

https://www.theguardian.com/football...2017-juan-mata



Absolute don.

Distasteful that not a single of his United colleagues have signed up to his initiative. Says perhaps something about the characters in our squad? Obviously they will have heard of common goal. Do they expect Mata to come and beg for them to join?

Should concentrate more on his football and less on helping random tramps.

Top red

I imagine some lads like Rooney have their own foundations, but agreed. 35 players across Europe is pitiful.

Genuinely never heard of almost any of those players. Are they even real? Sounds like some kind of tax evasion scheme to me

Originally Posted by Ethers

Genuinely never heard of almost any of those players. Are they even real? Sounds like some kind of tax evasion scheme to me

Seriously? Even I've heard of Hummels, Chiellini and Kagawa and I don't know anything about football

Originally Posted by Ethers

Genuinely never heard of almost any of those players. Are they even real? Sounds like some kind of tax evasion scheme to me

Some of them aren’t real....

Originally Posted by jaffo

Seriously? Even I've heard of Hummels, Chiellini and Kagawa and I don't know anything about football

A up, Statto’s in...

Originally Posted by jaffo

Seriously? Even I've heard of Hummels, Chiellini and Kagawa and I don't know anything about football

Haffo

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

A up, Statto’s in...

Going for SOTY in 2018 no doubt

Had a look to see who else had won this prestigious honour and it only started last year when it was won by Fabio Pisacane.

Originally Posted by TheFatGoth

Had a look to see who else had won this prestigious honour and it only started last year when it was won by Fabio Pisacane.

Big Fabs The Pisscan. Used to play for us along with his brother. Nice lad, liked a drink though