Bellamy obviously thought that because he scored a goal against Italy a couple of years ago, that most of Serie A would be clamouring to sign him. He forgets that in the return leg of that year's qualifying matches, Wales were trounced and in Italy, the previous match was all but forgotten.
Footballers are overpaid, we all know that, but some of them are simply too thick to realise just how unbelievably lucky they are, and cannot even shut up and get on with their overpaid job.
Bellamy is getting his just desserts because his public row was designed to get him a transfer to another club, but so far, no other club has really expressed any serious interest in him. And why would they want to pay so much money to get a liablilty like that?
Souness has effectively ended Bellamy's chances of playing again for Newcastle, and has sent him to Coventry. Not literally, because Coventry City is Bellamy's former club, and they certainly don't want him back after the relief of getting rid of him in the first place.
Norwich were rumoured to be interested, but why would they want to buy a petulant, shortarsed striker with absolutely terrible hair when they've already got Darren Huckerby? Birmingham were also apparently interested, but Bellamy is reported to have turned them down. If true, it's a bad decision, because I don't think he's going to get a better offer. Meanwhile Newcastle have a the largest number of badly behaved idiots of all the clubs, and it's all of their own doing. In fact, which of Newcastle's "stars" would actually generate any interest from any other clubs? I mean football clubs. Obviously, there's a lot of nightclubs where many of their players are most welcome, three or four nights a week. Perhaps Bellamy and Newcastle deserve each other.
Bellamy is only one of a growing number of premiership players, whose greed, disloyalty and sense of their own ability far outstrips the reality of their talent. Talent which has shown promising signs, but of which there is still much to prove. Perhaps they could be worth what they think, but they have to earn it first. Strikers need to play a couple of good full seasons, consistently scoring, before they can make the sort of wage demands that these players seems to think they deserve after a only handful of games. The odd run of form, such as six goals in five games, is not the same thing. Are you listening Jermaine Defoe?