Assou-Ekotto rips into "dirty prositute shagger" Rooney

Assou-Ekotto: Rooney is a "prostitute shagger"

Spurs' Cameroon defender Benoit Assou-Ekotto has launched an astonishing attack on his Premiership peers by basically saying what an ever-increasing number of people are thinking...that many of today's players are "greedy, arrogant, two-faced and take themselves too seriously."

And, in his interview with French soccer magazine So Foot, Assou-Ekotto had some forthright views on Wayne Rooney: “The tendency in football at the moment is that as long as you’re not a prostitute shagger then it’s OK, it’s no big deal," he said. "Wayne’s not very well and it’s a dirty thing for his wife to know he had relations with a prostitute. He was seeing the same bird for seven months.”

Assou-Ekotto, 26, a £3million buy from Lens four years ago, has a history of speaking his mind and was in no mood to hold back when it came to his fellow professionals, saying: "The whole problem with football players is that they really take themselves seriously.

“We kick a ball around and we earn 100,000, 200,000 or even 300,000 euros a week. We don't improve the world. It's not like we invented hot water. We just kick a ball. 

“But sometimes when these guys go out, you'd think they were rock stars. 

“I could understand that you wear dark glasses at night time when you do open-heart surgery and save lives, but not if you're a footballer.

“I'm not in the same world as most of the people in football. I really don't like this world.” Despite his criticisms, Assou-Ekotto concedes that he is only in the game for the money himself: “I understood from a very early age that it didn't interest me to work in an office for 1,000 euros a month, see the same faces every day and work 45 years to buy a house. That's a rather sad life.”
He added: “I was gifted at sports and quickly tried to find a cushy number. And today I have a great job. I work a maximum of two hours a day and I do it to make money, like anybody else in the world.”