Football moves fast these days.
Usually at your first press conference as a new signing, you praise your new manager, talk up a couple of teammates, set dizzy goals and say how much you are looking forward to playing in front of such passionate fans.
If you do well at your new club, a bigger fish may come along after a season or two.
Max Gradel is 27-years-old. He has no time to be messing around.
No sooner was the Ivory Coast striker introduced to the press than he was asked about the praise he received, on Sky Sports, from Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho.
‘The thing I like about England is that you go where you deserve to go. When you are good enough to go to Chelsea, you go to Chelsea… in England, they give you the opportunity to go to where you can go.’
‘If I’m doing good,’ Gradel added, ‘and the club here are happy – if everybody is happy – then we move on.’
Not beating around the bush.
