Troy Deeney has touch of the Gabby Agbonlahors about him – Disrespecting Newcastle Upon Tyne | OneFootball

I have to say, I think it is a positive when somebody like Troy Deeney is so disrespectful to Newcastle United and Newcastle Upon Tyne.

If he was some intelligent brilliant bloke, full of integrity, who everybody looked up to and admired, then it would be different.

However, when it is Troy Deeney, who is as thick as the proverbial Whale sandwich and a woeful character that is seen as a joke by most people, then why get upset with his clueless patter?

However, I do think what he has said about Newcastle United and Newcastle Upon Tyne, has to be challenged.

Troy Deeney talking to CBS Sports Golazo about Newcastle United ahead of the Brentford cup match – 18 December 2024:

“It is right at the top of the country.

“I don’t want to be disrespectful, but it’s not a desirable place to go and live, because you’re so far away from London.

“It’s like four or five hours.

“It is difficult to get people there, to get investment there.

“But they [the Newcastle United owners] are going to have to do it.

“They must have known it before they bought it because these guys are not stupid people.”

Firstly, whenever somebody says ‘I don’t want to be disrespectful’, then we can be absolutely sure of one thing. They absolutely are intending to be disrespectful.

Secondly, Troy Deeney played for Walsall, Birmingham, Forest Green and Watford. If he had been given the chance to play for Newcastle United, he would have walked here, never mind pretending whether or not he’d have had to think about if he’d sign for NUFC.

Thirdly, it is hilarious that somebody from Birmingham has the nerve to question why anybody would choose to live in Newcastle Upon Tyne. I don’t know a single person from Newcastle, who has visited Birmingham and said what a dream it would be to go and live there. Indeed, I have never met anybody who lives anywhere else, who has said they’d love to live in Birmingham. Yet that is where Troy Deeney is from and where he lives. Amazingly, Troy Deeney has never lived on Tyneside, no idea if he has even visited, apart from odd time when playing at St James’ Park.

Fourthly, the idea that every talented football player, or anybody else, judges everything/everywhere by its proximity to London, is laughable. The overwhelming majority of football players are amazingly, more bothered about making the most of their short playing careers, not whether they can pop into Harrods every day for a loaf of bread. Players don’t choose to sign for clubs in Manchester, Liverpool and yes… even Birmingham, due to how accessible London is.

Fifthly, quite amusing that Troy Deeney is spinning this nonsense to a United States audience. Considering the vast distances involved in travelling even state to state in America, I’m pretty sure that any American who finds out that a ‘huge’ 280 miles by road (less than 250 miles in the air) separates Newcastle and London, will then quickly realise just what a clown Troy Deeney is. In the unlikely event they hadn’t already, just by listening to his patter.

Sixthly, it is actually very funny when Deeney talks about ‘four or five hours’ to get from Newcastle to London. Are we time travelling here, are we back in the early 1970s and if you were a top player playing for Newcastle United and wanted to visit London, you had to pile the family into your Ford Cortina??? Deeney is so clueless and it doesn’t even make any sense what he is claiming. When Newcastle United players get a bit of time off, we then see social media stuff of they and their families having flown off to the likes of Paris, Barcelona, Rome, New York and so on. If they were choosing to go down to London for two or three days, does Deeney honestly think Bruno, Sandro or whoever, would be driving four or five hours there? At worst they’d jump on the train which (when the train system is working normally…) can take just two and a half hours, though the reality is that pretty much all the NUFC players live north of the city centre and only ten minutes or so to Newcastle Airport. With the money they are on now, they can pay for a private plane, helicopter, or whatever to take them to any destination in the UK or overseas, just like those players playing for clubs in Manchester, Liverpool and… London.

There must be something in the air in Birmingham, as Troy Deeney definitely seems to have a touch of the Gabby Agbonlahors about himself. Two clueless Brummies who have little/no experience except playing for Watford and clubs in the Birmingham area.

Both Agbonlahor and Deeney are attention seekers and not the brightest, three years ago we had this just after the Newcastle United takeover, ironically/coincidentally Brentford getting a big shout out from Gobby, sorry… Gabby.

Gabby Agbonlahor speaking to Talksport – 28 November 2021:

“Players will go there [Newcastle United, only] for the money.

“Let’s be honest.

“When I was playing, Newcastle was the place where you were thinking (twisting his face…) ‘Mmmmm, not sure, I don’t really want to go, that far north, the weather. I’m not sure…’

“Players want to be close to London.

“You know, closer to London was an attraction.

“You’d have to pay more…

“If you offered now, a player, forty thousand pounds a week at Newcastle, or thirty thousand pounds a week at Brentford, he would go to Brentford.

“Even on less money.

I don’t need to list any of the countless reasons why Newcastle Upon Tyne is such a class place to live and indeed visit. You know them already.

Indeed, every Premier League fanbase will say the same when asked what is the best away trip to stay over for the weekend.

Once again, I have never ever heard anybody name Aston Villa or Birmingham City.

However, amazingly, Newcastle United and Newcastle Upon Tyne seems a little bit popular…