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Selling to Survive

Denys E. W. Jones

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Selling to survive is an art.
Some clubs do it exceptionally well.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 They flog their star player for a princely sum,
Then unearth two nuggets that make their Ground hum.
Two young, bright prospects who cost next to nowt.
One bungs ’em in, and one keeps ’em out.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 But GCFC have never excelled
At the wheel and the deal
Of the buy and the sell.

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 Three good ‘uns were let go
To balance the books:
Keeper Martinez, Retegui and “Gud”.

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 As oft-times before, we sold to survive.
But now we’re in trouble, gone into nose-dive.
Seven games played and points only five.

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 Sell to survive if you’ve mastered the art.
If not, keep best players,
Don’t let them depart.

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 10/10/2024
Denys E. W. Jones

Notes

Genoa’s current owners 777 Partners are in financial trouble, so in the summer they sold Martinez, Retegui and Gudmundsson. On Saturday 5th October Genoa lost 5-1 away to Atalanta, with Retegui scoring a hattrick, owch! The first two lines of this poem echo Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus, in case you had not noticed.

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Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/selling-to-survive/