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Fenerbahce Betray Stephen Appiah

January 30th, 2008 | By: Inara | 13 Comments »

Stephen Appiah is pissed off.

He’s so pissed that not only is he thinking about leaving his club, but he’s gone public with his complaints. And as we all know, Appiah isn’t the complaining type. He’s the sort of guy who will smile through an earthquake, he’s that composed.

Remember a few weeks ago when there was all that confusion about Appiah’s contract? Well, it turns out that there is more to that story than a simple misunderstanding. While Fenerbahce don’t in fact want to suspend Appiah’s contract, they’ve been doing evil in several other ways.

In the winter of 2007, Appiah sustained an injury to his knee, but at the request of his club, held off his surgery until the end of the season. Instead, he continued playing with the aid of painkillers and injections. He finally got his surgery that May. However, two months after that, he again started feeling pain in his knee, this time accompanied by breathing difficulties.

Fenerbahce diagnosed this as asthma.

The club continued treating him for asthma for the next several months though the treatments were having no affect. Appiah continued playing during this time. But in December, going to Italian doctors this time, Appiah discovered the real reason for his pain: after his surgery last May, he had developed blood clots in his left leg, which later became microembolisms. Appiah immediately switched his medical care out of the club and into the hands of Italian doctors.

That’s pretty evil, right? It is for this reason that Appiah missed out on the chance to captain his national team in his homeland during the most prestigious football tournament for Africans. If Appiah had gotten treatment for this last summer, he would have been perfectly fine by now. But it’s not just about the football. Fenerbahce’s woeful misdiagnosis not only endangered Appiah’s playing career but his life. Blood clots are very serious and have results in many deaths.

But wait. Fenerbahce wasn’t done with screwing up Appiah’s life. So while Appiah was in Ghana for the ACN, his club tried to freeze his contract, revealed private medical information to the press, and attempted to exercise an extension option on his current contract without his consent.

WHAT??

Talk about stabbing a guy in the back. Appiah got injured on Fenerbahce’s behalf, played through his pain, led them to the title last year. And this is how his club is rewarding him?

Though the healing process is going well, Appiah hasn’t decided what his response to Fenerbahce will be though it seems very unlikely that he will renew his contract. While he adores the club and the fans, he no longer trusts the management. He also hasn’t ruled out legal action in relation to the misdiagnosis.

Tags: Evil, Fenerbahce, Player News and Rumors, Stephen Appiah, Stupidity

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By Daily Dose 1.31.08 - World Cup Blog - African Cup of Nations 2008 | January 31st, 2008 at 8:42 am

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By Erinti | January 31st, 2008 at 3:01 pm

O_o And Fenerbahçe seemed like such a nice club.

By Pierce | February 2nd, 2008 at 1:03 pm

I think Appiah should sue them bastard for putting his life and career in danger. I think they did what they did on purpose just to fuck an African player’s life. After all if Appiah leaves them they can get another African player to replace him.

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By Brad | February 2nd, 2008 at 1:28 pm

Here’s hoping Appiah gets out of there. I’d love to see him playing in England.

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By Medionsaturn | February 2nd, 2008 at 1:33 pm

Appiah should definitely sue them, it sounds like he has reasonable grounds and Fenerbache have completely screwed him over. That is absoloutely unbelieveable, after he sacrificed so much for that club.

I haven’t seen him play, but from the sound of it, he would have been crucial to Ghana in this hopes, and being crucial in a team with the likes of Essien and Muntari makes him pretty important. And leading Fenerbache to the title also means that he can cut it, so he should certainly be able to find work elsewhere.

Good luck to you, Mr. Appiah.

By Musab | February 2nd, 2008 at 3:28 pm

As a Galatasaray fan who has been following this case for a long time have a couple of comments myself.

The whole problem with Appiah started a year ago after the departure of Anelka. You see Fenerbahce has many Brazilians who only care about their own kind. Therefore they began to shun Anelka and Appiah. After Anelka got into a fight with the Brazilians, he left. Appiah decided to stay. Big mistake.

Last year while Fenerbahce was trying to become champions, they lost to lowly Denizlispor a week before the Besiktas derby. In the dressing room Appiah tried to raise morale before the president of the club, the bastard Aziz Yildirim came into the room and told Appiah to shut up and proceeded to yell at the players. Appiah was not seen again for a long time.

Finally Fenerbahce decided to get Claudio Maldonado, another foreginer. However in Turkey, club are allowed only a maximum of 7 foreigners. Fenerbahce has 7 foreingers as well as 5 foreingers who have Turkish passports. So to get Maldonado they had to get rid of a foreinger. The Brazilian swore that of on them left, the others would lead a strike. So when Appiah left to the cup of nations, Fenerbahce decided to cut him off.

This is yet another example of why Fenerbahce deserve to crash and burn.

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By Inara | February 2nd, 2008 at 3:44 pm

Oh man, that’s so wrong. Cliques are a really dangerous thing to have in the dressing room, and it just shows that the management had no control over their players. No word yet on whether Appiah will sue, but I would hope that he at least threatens to.

I’m pretty sure Appiah will be asking for a transfer this summer. He’s made it clear he doesn’t want to stay at Fenerbahce any longer, and frankly, he should be someplace that he’s appreciated. He’s only 27, so he has quite a few years left in him.

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By sinan | February 12th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

hallo abi

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By Essien | February 26th, 2008 at 7:43 pm

Appiah, God will see u through all ur problem.
God bless u so much.

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By FENER_FAN | April 18th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

Ur all idiots!!! who believe what they hear in the press!!! The lot of YOU!!!!!!

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By FENER_FAN | April 18th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

“I am comfortable with arrangments made to ensure that I recover fully,” Appiah told MTNfootball.com.
“I have not been sacked by Fenerbahce and they will continue to pay me my salaries.”

Now all you rude people withdraw what you said about a wonderfull club

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By FENER_FAN | April 18th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

One other thing when has appaih said he wants to leave??? If you lot knew anything then you wouldnt make up lies. And by the way he was at stanford bridge supporting Fnerbahce when they lost to Chelsea. I saw him personally in the crowd. This isnt signs of a footballer who wants to leave the club!

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