END OF THE ROAD FOR ARGENTINE STARS?

The following story is dramatized but the events are based on a real life experience. The names of some of the characters have been withheld out of respect.
‘The sun is shining on what must be a glorious summer day. In less than twelve hours the transfer window will be shut for at least five months. Managers are nervously looking through their team sheets, some are seeking to make last minute additions. One manager has had a particularly ‘constipated’ summer in terms of signing players. He has been sternly warned off Bayern Munich’s Hagreaves and Athletico Madrid’s Fernando Torres. Aware of the fans at home growing ever-impatient, he is eager to ease anxiety by signing two Argentines. When he gets to the bargaining table he is glad to hear that the usual suspects Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Real Madrid are no longer pursing the players. Before any kind of agreement is reached, a man walks in and pays the asking price for both players. The manager is lost for words. It gets even more confusing when the destination of the players is revealed.’ A coup in football doesn’t get better than West Ham’s surprise last minute signing of Tevez and Mascerano.
The two lads arrived in London amidst whispers of ‘where did the money come from?’ The summer talk of a take over at West Ham became even louder. No surprise that a club like West Ham attracts investors. Last season, it was a decent team, very hard to beat, with so many youngsters. Adding the Argentine midfield maestro and the ‘Rooney’ of South America was supposed to propel them to champions league. But after the duo’s arrival, West Ham went on an eight game loosing run. Significant their recent win has was registered minus them. So what went wrong?
I think what is happening at Upton park is not their own doing. There is something that is not easy to find that they needed to buy. Pastors call it a ‘blessing’ lets call it ‘luck’ for purposes of this article. In a sport such as football where the line between success and failure is so thin, you need lots of it. Man united sold twenty goals last season and bought none. Liverpool sold none and bought several in Kuyt and Bellamy. How else would you explain united’s free scoring and Liverpool’s apparent difficulty to do so except for luck? If you still doubt the necessity of luck, ask a striker whose offside goal is allowed and another whose legitimate one is disallowed. In a world where confidence disappears without warning, you need all the luck to get the right things going at the right time.
Sometimes all you need to do is to just hang in there and do things the way you know how until your day comes, but is this is never easy. If the stall for luck was known, it, not Milan, would have been Abromavich’s stop last summer. West Ham would never have had to make the long trip to South America. I do not know the where luck is sold but I have a clue: There is a man purring with pride as his side proves all the cynics wrong. Retrace his summer moves. Life’s lottery smiles on Ferguson and company!