10 Things Sepp Blatter Wants You To Forget

Then again perhaps Sepp Blatter doesn’t fully comprehend the concept of slavery and what exactly it entails. His comments on the Cristiano Ronaldo transfer imbroglio certainly suggest as much. At the time, Ronaldo was locked in a tug of war between then-present team Manchester United and would-be suitors Real Madrid. Ronaldo would eventually leave for a world record £80m fee, but not before a lot of wrangling between all parties. Sepp been Sepp felt obliged to involve himself in the fiasco, comparing Ronaldo’s apparent plight and the transfer market in general to that of the slave trade.

Needless to say, Sepp’s comments weren’t warmly appreciated, and not just for trivialising a subject as horrible as slavery. The population at large aren’t very receptive to the notion of footballer discontent. At the time Ronaldo was already a multimillionaire, paid handsomely for what most people consider a dream job. Blatter’s comments were nonsensical and ill-advised and did little but add fuel to the fires of resentment.

Interestingly enough, on an occasion when a footballer was imprisoned in actual servitude, Blatter felt less obliged to speak out on the matter.