CONTROVERSIAL FORMER FRANCE international Nicolas Anelka accused his ex-boss at Liverpool Gerard Houllier of racism on Saturday.
Speaking in a video posted on YouTube, the much travelled Anelka, currently the player-manager of Mumbai City FC in the Indian Super League, accused Houllier of racism over something in the latter’s book ‘I Will Never Walk Alone’, which came out on Thursday.
In it, Houllier accuses Anelka of being ungrateful and moans about the sultry striker’s brothers and agents, saying: “His two brothers did the round of clubs to try to sell Nicolas to whoever put the most money on the table.”
Houllier claims that when he asked the brothers for an explanation it was “the first and only time I saw blacks go red”.
That angered Anelka, who said of Houllier on YouTube: “Racist in character, but it’s not the first time.”
Houllier accused Anelka in his book of being ungrateful to the former France coach who tried to resurrect his faltering career after an unsuccessful return to his first club, Paris Saint-Germain, only to see the player walk out of Liverpool after just one season on loan to join Manchester City.
Does that mean ‘white men can’t jump’ is a really racist movie, or does that kind of thing only applied if you are not white? Typical Anelka, regardless of colour, a terrible person….. Could have won a lot with Arsenal, but showed how horrible a person could be…..
in fairness arsenal sold him for an awful lot of money and pretty much built a brand new training ground with the proceeds.
It’s not what Arsenal got for him, it’s the way he and his brother went about it. To be honest, I would expect the race card to be used by these guys all the time….
Don’t think anyone cares what Anelka says or does. Never be loved by fans of any club he was at.
All he wanted was more money. Never seemed fully committed to a club
Total waste of talent.
He seemed to go downhill after Arsenal. As a Utd supporter I found him a quality player for the Gunners ’till he turned into a half-wit afterwards with subsequent clubs!
It was his idiot advisors
True, being an idiot is compounded when you have idiot advisors.
Pot kettle…did you not celebrate with a racist anti-Semitic gesture before nicolas?
anelka was very good with chelsea but refused to take the 5th penalty in the 2008 champions league final as he was only on pitch a few minutes, but was ok to take the 6th which he missed!
His brothers were money driven and didn’t really give a dame about his career or where he played as long as they were getting the cut of his sign on fee.
how is that comment racist?he wasn’t called le sulk for nothing,huge talent but huge attitude problem with it.
A wasted talent. Is he related to Mario Balotelli by any chance?
It was never about the football for him all about the money,greedy player