And get paid very handsomely for the ordeal. Don't forget this chance of a lifetime came after Middlesbrough.
I'm gutted for him, the fans and the club. Imagine how gutted Tony Bloom must feel.
There was a small part of me that hoped, even believed perhaps, that he would count his blessings at finding himself in the impossibly beautiful setting of Venice, get his head down, concentrate on his training, follow orders and achieve a good report.
He's not going to make it, is he?
What a result. He's landed on his feet there. A year in Venice? Not only will he get well paid honing his footballing skills in the Serie B, but he can develop expert knowledge of Venetian Renaissance painters Titian and Tintoretto.
Chance of a lifetime. Will he make the most of it?
Then the tabloids must have been broadcasting subliminal messages on here, telling us all* that he's shitehouse.
*Apart from Swanny, who knows about these things, and takes precautionary counter measures of the bacofoil variety.